December 11, 2024 • 40 mins
Today, Doug Pike interviews Dr. Claudio Soto about Parkinson's Disease. Pike also speaks with Dr. Andrew Doe of Alate Health.
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Speaker 2 (00:50):
All right, here we go. Wednesday edition of the program
starts right now. Thank you all for letting us come
in here and hang out with you a little bit.
First morning of this season on which I could actually
see my breath when I exhaled as I walked out
the door this morning, A couple of almost days, a
week or two ago, but this was the real deal.
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One more frosty night tonight, and then we're gonna just
get back to more moderate temperature ranges. Highs in the
high sixties, lows in the low sixties for a pretty
steady run with increased chances for rain though, so and
that's not the end of the world. We could use
a little bit more rain than we got in this
past week. I think it wouldn't it certainly wouldn't hurt.
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The grass is going mostly dormant, and everything's kind of
put itself to bed for winter outside. But you know,
it doesn't hurt to have a little bit of moisture,
keep the slab good and all that. It's all perfectly normal.
Two interesting things I observed this morning and observe every
winter around this time, same things every year, probably been
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this way since time began. On the way out of
the neighborhood this morning, every week day morning, really, I
passed by a couple of bus stops, and this morning
there were I don't know one of them that's a
high school school bus stop. They're probably six or eight
kids standing around there, got their backpacks on or at
their feet whatever, waiting on the bus. And it's thirty
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nine degrees maybe forty somewhere in there, and two of
the boys were in just casual lightweight slacks and golf shirts,
polo shirts, no long sleeves, no jackets, and appearing to
be perfectly comfortable. Which they probably were. Actually, there was
a time in my life when I was at tolerant
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of cool weather tempts in the thirties, but things to
do outside that I really enjoyed doing, and I wasn't
gonna let cold air get in away. You can't do
that at my age, though, blood's a little thinner metabolism,
furnace not quite burning so brightly. I'm all about layers now,
and thanks to modern materials, actually those layers don't have
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to be as a pillow to keep us warm. Hat
maybe in those handwarmer packets. I'm good to go. I
need to get more of those things too, before people
start hoarding them again. This last real pop of cool
weather is gonna gonna send the people who know they'll
be glad to have them later on rushing to the
store to get a bunch that Back when that big
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winter storm was coming a few years ago, I went
into I want into Dick's Sporting Goods actually to try
to find some, and they were gone. They just had
none left. And again this is this is way too
early to be in there hoarding them, and they do
last quite a while. There's no rush, so let me
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go get mine first. And then y'all can go get
yours quickly. The other thing that tells me it's winter
around here, Uh, well, how many times you let me
ask you this first? No, I won't ask I'll just
tell you what I see people driving in their cars,
cruising down the freeway, bundled up as though they're riding
in a chariot. They got their coat on, they got
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their gloves on, they got the hat on, they got
all that stuff inside the car. Do you do that? No?
Absolutely not. All that does is just make the air
feel colder when you finally get out of the car again.
Your car has a heater, use it to keep you
warm while you drive. And also, if you're that bundled up,
that would encumber you, I think, and possibly make it
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in a timely situation, a time sensitive situation, maybe more
awkward trying to drive. I don't know. I just don't
do that. I take the coat off, take gloves off.
Take well. Sometimes if I'm wearing a baseball cap or
something like that, or a golf cap, I'll leave it on.
That's no big deal. But I'm not going to be
sitting in there in that pass or in the driver's
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seat in a big old fuzzy coat. No way. Here's
one more little tip, by the way, for people our
age and a lot of you. You may or may
not know. When you take your coat off as you
get in the car and toss it into another seat,
what do you do with yours? Well, you get in
the car, you got the coat. Coat, take it off
as you get in, and what do you do with
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that coat? If anything, you just in the other seat.
I will probably put it in the back seat. Okay.
So here's what I'm gonna advise you do, especially on
legitimately cold days, instead of just tossing it back there,
open it up, okay, and maybe even stand it on
the front seat next to you, because that way, all
that warm air in the car gets inside the jacket inside,
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and so when you get out and you put it on,
it's already toasty warm. It's not cold from sitting in
the back seat all scrunched up and not being able
to absorb that heat. Do you know that I did not?
Is that a fun fun thing to know?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I don't know if it was a fun thing to know,
but it's a thing to know.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's helpful. It's helpful. It's been working for me for years. Man, Really,
you get it. It's like putting on a toasty little
blanket that's been sitting near the fireplace at a safe distance.
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Are you ready? Will? I am time for winter clothes,
which are the same as summer clothes with coat on standby.
Just when a.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Whole segment talking about coats and warming up and you're
saying it's on standby.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, if it's on standby, you got to keep it
in the car.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I just feel like they're all contradicting each other. Dug Okay, well,
I feel like I've been kind of harsh on you
these past couple of days.
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So yeah, I'm gonna give you a pity score. I
don't want pity points. It's a pity score. It's a
six point eight. It's not even I wouldn't give it
to that, and I wrote it. Oh well, Off to
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to explain why gold is up thirty six bucks a
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five hundred then, and Bred said, man, it's pretty good
time to sell. And really, and to his credit, this
is how he makes his money. He buys it, and
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do I.
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Speaker 1 (09:46):
What's life without a neat If I suggest you go
to bed, sleep it off, just wait until the show's over,
sleeping Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Right, Welcome back on this Wednesday edition to fifty plus.
Thanks for listening. I sort to appreciate it. Thanks again,
by the way, for welcoming, willing me into your lunch
or your drive around town or whatever on this beautiful day.
We'll talk in this segment about Parkinson's disease, which impacts
roughly a million Americans. I did a duck hunt recently,
(10:27):
matter of fact, with a man who's wrestling with this
condition to talk about the latest developments in Parkinson's. I'm
going to bring into the conversation doctor Claudio Soto, Professor
in the Department of Neurology at McGovern Medical School and
director of the George and Cynthia Mitchell Center for Alzheimer's
Disease and Other Brain Related Issues. Welcome to fifty plus.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Doc, Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
I'm happy to we hear it, and I hope that
we can have you a you know, with introduction about
Parkinson disease.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
We are going to do exactly that. I like to
start with definitions. So in your world, how is Parkinson's
disease defined?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Well, Parkinson's disease is one of the main.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Brain disorders that generate over time, they degenerate, so so
you you start with the symptoms and then they progress
gradually until the person basically die.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
So it's an incredible disease. At this stage.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
It's many characterized by movement problems like slow movement or tremors,
or difficult things im balance. So that's mostly what we
call the clinical definition of parkinson disease.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I see the word prion sprinkled into the recipe pretty
often in discussions of this condition. What is that? What
are we talking about there?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Yeah, we're talking about that.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
You know, Parkinson as well as Alzheimer's and most of
the other brain degenerative disorders involved the process that was
first uncovered when we start the prion diseases, you know,
with another study prion diseases for a very long time.
These are these are rare diseases in humans, like Crystal
jackob disease, which is you know, uh, fatal, very dramatic disease.
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People get diagnosed and die within a few months.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
So but this is this is.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
On the brain, similar to to what happened in some
of the other brain diseases. The symptoms might be very different,
but what's going on in the brain is very simile.
And what is going on is that accumulation of a
protein that adopt an abnormal shape and then start to
clamp and form like you know dust type of deposits
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in the brain all over the brain.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Right.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
And so this is what we call a prion. It's
it's a protein that is able to do that. And
not only that, but also what we call what we
say is self propagate, so that spread the damage. So
when you have just say one of these dusks, what's
gonna do is that it's going to spread the damage
to others cells or areas of.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
The brain, uh and make more of those.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
So everything starts normally in the disease in a very
sysmscribed a small area, no normal reason to be worded.
The problem is that it's spread over time and the
decise become worse and worse and worse.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And right there in your lab, I understand you've developed
something that enables you to detect these preons, right, and
then I guess do something about them.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Right, absolutely, yes, So we we came out with the
with the idea of how can we mimic in vitro
in the lab, in the lab, in the in the test,
the process of this protein to replicate, this pre on
replication process that makes the protein to transfer the information
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to other molecules of the protein and expand the problem. So,
because this is a you know, the best way to detect.
Because let's say when you get the biological fluids, say
the cerever spinal fluid or blood or urine, you probably
have very very very small quantities of this protein, a
normal protein. But if we use their pre on behavior
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the ability to expand, then we can actually generate millions
and millions and millions of the molecules that become very
easy to detect. So basically what we have done is
to use the biology of the disease to come out
with a new procedure to detect the earliest step of
the disease.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
In you know, biological fluids in living patients, and this
can be done.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
This is a platform technology that means that it can
be applied to many different diseases. So we have already
done this for the pre on diseases like crosstal jagle disease.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
It's being used worldwide.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Our test for detecting you know, the protein associated to
pre on diseases. We are now have also the tests
for parkings On disease that recently became commercially available and
it's been used buy patients and also for the pharmaceutical
companies to you know, to make the clinical trials to
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test drugs.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
So these tests.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Are available and we're working on tests for Alzheimer's and
some of the other you know, rain diseases involving this process.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That's fantastic not Claudio Soro on fifty plus talk briefly
about the earliest symptoms of Parkinson's. I mean we might
be watching for in ourselves or somebody we know.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Yes, yes, I mean the early symptoms are usually you know,
movement program then suddenly you cannot you have become very stiff,
or you know, start to experience some tremors in the
in the hands, or But I should point out that
the disease starts many many many years, if not decades
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before Wow, you see any symptoms. So this process is
going on in the rain. This process I was telling
you that the this this abnormal protein that spread all
over the rain start maybe two three decades before for
the people develop the clinical symptoms. So they so what
And the problem is that when when the people start
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to show up the clinical symptoms, a large part of
the brain cells are already dead. For this point, it's
very difficult to treat at that stage because there's so
much brain damage already. So so the best way is
to detect early non symptomatic tests. And this is what
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we are trying to do with our with our tests
to be able to detect because what we text is
not the symptoms. It will take the biology that is
going on in the brain. I mean the changes that
are going in the brain. Right, so if these changes,
since these changes start years of decades before, we think
at some point we will be able to have a
test that can detect the people on the way to
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the blow. These is at the moment, that treatment should
be much easier.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
How effective are the current treatments we have for this?
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Yeah, at this point with unfortunately for partisan, we don't
have good treatments. The treatments what we call symptomatics. So
these are these are these are madicines that makes people
to feel less the symptoms.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
So but like control the movement.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Problems, but they don't really treat the underlying cause of
the disease.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You can stop you can stop the tremor, but you
can't stop the progression.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Up to now. Right.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
But that's that's what I think most of the pharmaceutical
budget companies in the world are working on, is to
come out with now treatments that can stop the disease.
So that and hopefully, I mean this is my dream
to be able to stop the disease before even show
up a clinical disease, right, and this is I think
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the final treatment for for this devastating diseases.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I certainly hope you can get that done and sooner
the better, doctor, Claudia. So I'm afraid we're out of time,
my friend, Thank you so very much.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Hi, thanks so you uh h bye bye bye.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
All right, we got to take a little break here
speaking of what he does and where he is. UT's
Institute on Aging is a collaborative effort of people such
as doctor Soto, who are in addition to the training
they had to get to get the diploma on the
wall in the office, whatever that may say, they've gone
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back and got an additional education, additional training in how
to apply that knowledge, specifically to seniors, because we are different.
We're very different, and we need that help. Most of
these providers who are part of this Institute on Aging
work in the med center, but many of them also
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work outside in outlying areas and communities, at hospitals and
clinics and wherever else they're needed and can help seniors
so that we don't have to drive long distances to
be seen by somebody who knows what makes us tick.
Go to the website. You're gonna find a tremendous a
tremendous amount of resources there that are very helpful to
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those of us who have put fifty and fifty five
and sixty even in the rear view mirror, it's all
there for you. It's not gonna cost you a dime.
You just go in there and learn about how to
keep yourself healthier and who can help you do that?
Uth dot edu slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging.
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Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Fluids, and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Alli, welcome back to fix a plus. Thank you listening
certainly to appreciate it. In this segment we're gonna bring in.
I guess you would call yourself a prostate expert, would
you not? I guess so to some degree. Yeah, we
would have to qualify that. Yeah, you know, we're outside
of the realm of.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Prostate cancer now for now for a little while, but
definitely dealing with the large prostates.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Well that and this would be doctor Andrew Do from
a late health talking over there into that microphone. I
didn't get a chance to I didn't address him by
name first, so now we know. And thanks for coming
back in. By the way, it's been a while.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Huh, yeah, it's been a little bit. Thank you for
having me there.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
We are for another prostate Awareness month and I haven't
done anything about mine yet. May need it, may not,
I'm not so sure, right sometimes it seems okay, sometimes
not so okay. Is that about normal?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
That's very typical. Once it gets enlarge, to'll have times
where it's, you know, status quo, everything's good, and then
you'll have periods where it gets a little bit more challenging.
You'll back and forth, and then eventually you get to
a point where it doesn't seem to have as many
good days as bad days, and then you want to
get something done.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
So and getting something done is that prostate artery embolization
that I try to explain every time I talk about
you guys, And I'm gonna let you go ahead and
give a far more qualified answer as to what exactly
that procedure is.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
So, what we're able to do is to go into
the artery in the leg, and because everything connects within
the body, we can go through that artery in the
leg and go to either side of the pro state
and plug up the arteries that feed the prostate, which
causes some of the cells and the prostate to die
and the prostate itself to shrink down, which kind of
undoes that enlargement that we get as we age.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And just quite recently I said I wasn't sure whether
how you plugged it, whether it was with sand or
silly putty? Was I close at all? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Probably you're not closely. It's a specialized plastic or really
is what it is called PVA.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, also known as silly potty? Close? Maybe not? Well,
whatever it is, it works though, right, Yes, that works
very well. Yeah, that's why you use that, not anything else.
And let's talk about how long it takes the recovery
after this most of what you do, understand taste a
couple of hours in the office, and then after that,
(22:03):
what's the recovery? When am I going to be able
to run five minute miles again?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
So the only real limitation is because we punctured the
artery in your legs. So we want you to take
at least three days off and let the puncture site heal.
After that, you know, probably not more than a week,
and you can get back to running five miles.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Oh that'd be great because I haven't run five miles
in a long time. I have talked about that procedure.
I've talked about fibroids and a couple of other things
you do at a late health But what are some
of the procedures you don't do terribly often, but really
do help the people who.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Get them well. I guess one of those would be
a new treatment called WHY ninety. That's something we're starting
to really get involved with, and that is for patients
with kind of end stage cancer. They used to have
to go to these huge medical centers to get it done,
but now they can do it as an outpatient and
it definitely improves the quality of their life.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Is this like an IV something or what is it exactly?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
It's actually kind of similar to the prostate embolization, except
we use a different substance. We use this Y ninety stuff,
but it's very effective, and again you're in and out
in a few hours. Recovery is very little, you know,
same three days and then you're back.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
To Yeah, And with the recovery part of it, I
talk about being able to recover at home as opposed
to be in a hospital where you might you might
drag something home that you didn't have when you got there,
which I think is very important as well.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Absolutely saying in medicine is the hospital is the last
place you want to be when you're sick. And that's because,
like you said, there's so many other you know, sicknesses
and illnesses going around through the hospital. You don't want
to bring anything home.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
And when I'm imagining this recovery at home in the spots,
I kind of fantasize about how I'm going to be
pampered by my family members and just catered to. Every
Every wish I have is going to be catered to immediately,
And it's so I hope I never have to really experience.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
We can put that on the discharge instructions for you.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oh, I like that idea very much. Doctor Andrew do
helped me out here talk a little bit about the
history of vascular surgery. When did doctors figure out they
could manipulate arteries like this?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
So actually I had a great poster that I can
no longer find, but it said interventional radiology to diagnose,
not to treat. And after that, when they couldn't initially
get in the artery to take all the pictures, they
would use bigger and bigger catheters, and then they found out, hey,
those bigger and bigger catheters kind of opened up those blockages.
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And that was really in the mid to late seventies
that we realized, hey, we could fix stuff from inside
the artery. We don't have to be cutting patients wide open.
And it just kind of ballooned from there, and that
was what got the ball rolling.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
And you talk about the bigger and bigger things. You also,
I remember from an earlier interview, used some very very
tiny instruments, don't you.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Yes, we can go in and we can actually affect
therapy from pretty much anywhere the body, and we can
do it through these catheters that are anything down to
zero point one eight inches.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
It's not very big. That's pretty small. What's the human hair? Yeah,
you got me, there's too.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Sure, probably probably a little bit bigger than a human hair.
But even some of the wires we use that those
catheters actually go over are pretty close to that size.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Oh my word, that's amazing. It really is just all
of modern medicine, I think, with things that are done
with the eyes, with the veins, like you're doing it.
Just when I read some of these stories that I
use in fifty plus, I'm just fascinated by it. And
I hope I live long enough to need some of it,
or at least it'll be there when I need it. Everybody,
I guess, who gets any medical procedure, wonders about recuperation
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and pain and whatnot, and probably not in that order,
talk about recovery from generally from your procedures.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
So usually it's very a very rapid recovery. Maybe some
tenderness where we go in if we're going into the artery,
maybe in the groin, sometimes in the areas we've treated,
you know, in the leg, you may have a little
bit of some dull aching pain, but it tends to
be very mild and minimal. Versus that great, big, long
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incision from an open surgery where you've got to wait
for the stitches to set in and you've got to
wait for the wound to heal. You know, you're looking
at weeks, if not months, to being completely healed.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
The whole thing is just so much easier, so much
more because you're not having to make big incisions anywhere.
You're just poking little holes and running that. I don't
know how it all works. I'm not even gonna begin
to try to describe it, Doctor Andrew Doe from a
late health set that thank you so very much for
popping in here and getting this interview for me. I
really do appreciate it. Thank you for having me my pleasure.
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That was doctor Andrew Doe. Seven one three, five eight
eight thirty eight eighty eight is the number over there
to a late Health latehealth dot com ala te seven
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plus with Doug Pike. I wasn't back. Fourth and vile
segment of fifty plus starts. Now, thank you for listening,
certainly do appreciate it. Well, I'm gonna bring you in.
(29:21):
We'll go over a little fun stuff. I don't need
to get into all this. There's such a mess going
on with that man who's accused of killing the CEO
of United Healthcare, Brian Thompson. I will real quickly. I
can't let this get away, and I can't let the
Left get away with celebrating a premeditated killing of a
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husband and a father. I don't care what his job
was in corporate America. I'm no fan of healthcare prices either,
and I know it's difficult for a lot of people
to get the care they need at a price they
can afford, unless they're here illegally, which gives him free
medical care. That's a different story, though. We have a
system through which people can express themselves non violently on
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any issue they want. It's called free speech, and it
still works here if enough people exercise it peacefully. And patiently.
This guy, the alleged killer, said he was frustrated with
our healthcare system. Millions of us share that view, dude,
but we don't execute people over it, and we don't
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cheer it when it happens. There is actually a line
of merchandise online now that is really It's just it's
disturbing to see some of the stuff that's out there
for sale that champions this. To hear people on the
far left talking about joy over the murder of anyone,
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and it's happened repeatedly in this case. To hear anybody
champion execution is just a clear indicator of how far
we've allowed this country to slide. He here's Morgan interviewed.
I can't remember her name. She's a newsperson, I believe, Anyway,
asked her in an interview. She used that word, by
the way, joy to express her feelings over Thompson's killing. Okay,
(31:10):
and Pierre's Morgan said, so would killing more corporate executive
executives make you more joyful? This has to stop, and
it will thankfully not become late January. Sometime in late January,
that's when all of this nonsense, I hope will be
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turned turned the other way, very frustrating. All right, well,
I'm gonna bring you in. I'll get some of this
other stuff tomorrow. And it's just more and more crazy
goofy stuff. All right, here we go. Um, that's no,
I've already told you about that and it's not that interesting.
I was gonna say that's heavy. But all I did
I told will earlier. Every element heavier than iron. This
(31:52):
is for the nerd convention. If it gets kind of
quiet and you when you to drop something in, every
element heavier than iron had to be created by a
super nova. Okay, that's enough of that. Uh, here we go.
Will flip side betting on intangibles and show me some
(32:14):
proof betting on intangibles. According to according to a tender report,
you on tender will, No, isn't that one that's kind
of a one of the one of those? Isn't that's
a dating Yeah? But it's more than just a dating app,
isn't it? What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (32:32):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
It just encourages random encounters? Yeah, what do you think
people were doing before dating apps?
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Well you don't think that people are having random encounters? Yeah,
they just didn't have a method of doing it.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah. So anyway, let's just move on. According to a
tender report, daters are valuing optimism and embracing hopecore, whatever
the hell that is. Uh, apparently it's it's a mindset
that focuses on positivity and joy. How how about honest
work and productivity? How about focusing some of that This
(33:13):
whole hope and joy thing. That's that's what Costure the election.
There's it's not tangible. You can't you can't deposit hope
and joy in the bank. You can't go to the
bank and say, hey, I need to withdraw some joy. Now,
there's no such thing. It's just it's just a concept.
It's not a thing. And this, this country of ours,
(33:34):
runs on things, not concepts. Very frustrating when I hear that,
and when I think that this is a country of ideas.
Oh absolutely, it's a country concept. But you don't get
anywhere with that idea unless you act upon it and
make it become something tangible. Yep, But it's gotta be
an idea first. Yeah, well, so do hope and joy?
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What are you What are you gonna make they starts?
What are you gonna make them into the America? Another question?
He answer the question what what okay? Not with a
question either.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
If you have let's say a positive, a hopeful mindset,
you don't think that that could translate into a productive
work environment.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
So if I if I open a restaurant, will and
you come in and you look at the menu and
it says we hope to have food in a minute,
that's what though.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
If you open a restaurant, then I think you hope
that people will enjoy it now.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
But hope and positivity, yeah, you could be as positive
as you want. But unless you apply that to something
that becomes a tangible thing, a thing.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Nobody is saying that hope and joy is a physical object.
They can't pick up this cup and say that that's
open joy. But maybe the feeling inside of picking it
up and taking a sip.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I know somebody who was saying, I hope we don't
lose a billion and a half dollars. I know somebody
who was saying that a month or two ago. All right, well,
let's move on from that one. Candy says Candy Striper.
I almost added another p in there. That would have
been a totally different thing, wouldn't it, Candy Striper, a
cup of Joe or working the system. Ah, a cup
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of Joe, Cup of Joe. That's kind of an easy one.
Good news for coffee drinkers. My hands in the air.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Well.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You don't drink coffee, do you? But do you talk?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
I've never seen you drink every day? Yeah, but you
don't drink it here early enough for me to see
you do it? Sure? That correct? Okay? So anyway, a
cup of coffee, uh, regular coffee consumption, it says here
could extend your lifespan by nearly two years. We talked
about this the other day, did we? Yeah? You sure? Yeah,
(35:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Remember I remember yearing it begin Here's because I went,
I've been drinking coffee for a long time.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
So have I already gotten the benefits that will give
me the extra two years? Or if I keep drinking it,
can I just keep kicking that can down the down
the street farther and farther and get more like three
years or four years? Probably it's probably already. What if
I drink twice as much, do I get four years?
I think that's a way to an early grade. That's
what they did. A fine line between. That's a great thing.
(36:29):
That's a great idea, and no, that's just hope and
joy spitting a barrel. You'll you'll fill that barrel up
faster than you will with hope and joy. I guarantee you,
uh flip side, will I'll go back? Show me some
proof or not much better? Mmm, show me some proof. Yeah,
(36:49):
I like this one. The guy who won half of
a three hundred and ninety five million dollar lottery Jackport
Jack Pott in California is suing the state because he
claims he's entitled to the other half, which is at
present unclaimed. You know why he thinks he should get
(37:09):
it all. Take a guess, will You'll never get this?
Speaker 4 (37:13):
So why?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
He says that he bought both tickets, but he lost one.
He lost one, so he's entitled to all the money.
So that's why I wrote in front of this, show
me the proof.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Show me.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
By the way, California, that's just a lend of knuckleheads
and weirdos, and that's not the state it used to be.
And as proof of that, in a California story, that's
the only way that related. Really. Some woman at a
fast food restaurant got so angry over her order of
(37:51):
French fries being wrong that she whipped out a gun
and threatened to shoot the employees over French fries. I
don't understand that, Well, yes I do, Yes, I do.
You do? You've done it before? No, I know, I
didn't say. I can personally understand it. I can understand
(38:12):
why somebody who has to live in California might be
that upset and take it out on poor old minimum
wage kids working in a fast food But well, no,
not out there. They're making like twenty thirty bucks an
hour working at McDonald's, So maybe not the candy striper thing. Now,
that's boring. Never mind h flying carpet from the desk
(38:35):
of Captain obvious. Or I could do that. I could
do that. Women in China recently won one thousand, three
hundred and eighty dollars not paid in US dollars, I
would presume for being without her smartphone for How long
will she was able to give it up? As part
(38:55):
of a public welfare challenge which tested people's addiction into
their phones. How long did she have to give up
that phone of hers to win thirteen hundred and eighty
dollars one week? No, eight hours, eight hours? She was
She's the one who gave it up the longest, and
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she won thirteen hundred and eighty dollars for doing that.
I could do that standing on my head. Well, there's
just nothing because I grew up in a time when
there were no cell phones, so I know what it's
like to be without my cell phone for a day.
I know what it's like to not be able to
let my wife know I'm on my way home from
the office, except to call her from the office right
before I leave and then just say I'm headed home
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and I'll get there when I get there.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
That was.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
It was a much easier time, really, will it's a
much easier time. I'm gonna go to the desk of
Captain Obvious as we walk into the final forty seconds
of the program. You invited any holiday parties yet? Will
my families? HR expert, I don't know that we have
one here or not this year. I'm not sure. An
(40:06):
HR expert listed the top five things you shouldn't do
at your office holiday party, and they're all obvious. Don't overshare,
don't mix business with romance, don't ignore the dress code
this is new. Don't post photos without consent, and boy,
they do that all the time. Huh? And first and
foremost will what's the number one thing not to do
(40:27):
at the Christmas party? Get too drunk, get hammered. We're
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All right, here we go. Wednesday edition of the program
starts right now. Thank you all for letting us come
in here and hang out with you a little bit.
First morning of this season on which I could actually
see my breath when I exhaled as I walked out
the door this morning, A couple of almost days, a
week or two ago, but this was the real deal.
(01:11):
One more frosty night tonight, and then we're gonna just
get back to more moderate temperature ranges. Highs in the
high sixties, lows in the low sixties for a pretty
steady run with increased chances for rain though, so and
that's not the end of the world. We could use
a little bit more rain than we got in this
past week. I think it wouldn't it certainly wouldn't hurt.
(01:34):
The grass is going mostly dormant, and everything's kind of
put itself to bed for winter outside. But you know,
it doesn't hurt to have a little bit of moisture,
keep the slab good and all that. It's all perfectly normal.
Two interesting things I observed this morning and observe every
winter around this time, same things every year, probably been
(01:55):
this way since time began. On the way out of
the neighborhood this morning, every week day morning, really, I
passed by a couple of bus stops, and this morning
there were I don't know one of them that's a
high school school bus stop. They're probably six or eight
kids standing around there, got their backpacks on or at
their feet whatever, waiting on the bus. And it's thirty
(02:17):
nine degrees maybe forty somewhere in there, and two of
the boys were in just casual lightweight slacks and golf shirts,
polo shirts, no long sleeves, no jackets, and appearing to
be perfectly comfortable. Which they probably were. Actually, there was
a time in my life when I was at tolerant
(02:38):
of cool weather tempts in the thirties, but things to
do outside that I really enjoyed doing, and I wasn't
gonna let cold air get in away. You can't do
that at my age, though, blood's a little thinner metabolism,
furnace not quite burning so brightly. I'm all about layers now,
and thanks to modern materials, actually those layers don't have
(02:59):
to be as a pillow to keep us warm. Hat
maybe in those handwarmer packets. I'm good to go. I
need to get more of those things too, before people
start hoarding them again. This last real pop of cool
weather is gonna gonna send the people who know they'll
be glad to have them later on rushing to the
store to get a bunch that Back when that big
(03:21):
winter storm was coming a few years ago, I went
into I want into Dick's Sporting Goods actually to try
to find some, and they were gone. They just had
none left. And again this is this is way too
early to be in there hoarding them, and they do
last quite a while. There's no rush, so let me
(03:42):
go get mine first. And then y'all can go get
yours quickly. The other thing that tells me it's winter
around here, Uh, well, how many times you let me
ask you this first? No, I won't ask I'll just
tell you what I see people driving in their cars,
cruising down the freeway, bundled up as though they're riding
in a chariot. They got their coat on, they got
(04:03):
their gloves on, they got the hat on, they got
all that stuff inside the car. Do you do that? No?
Absolutely not. All that does is just make the air
feel colder when you finally get out of the car again.
Your car has a heater, use it to keep you
warm while you drive. And also, if you're that bundled up,
that would encumber you, I think, and possibly make it
(04:28):
in a timely situation, a time sensitive situation, maybe more
awkward trying to drive. I don't know. I just don't
do that. I take the coat off, take gloves off.
Take well. Sometimes if I'm wearing a baseball cap or
something like that, or a golf cap, I'll leave it on.
That's no big deal. But I'm not going to be
sitting in there in that pass or in the driver's
(04:49):
seat in a big old fuzzy coat. No way. Here's
one more little tip, by the way, for people our
age and a lot of you. You may or may
not know. When you take your coat off as you
get in the car and toss it into another seat,
what do you do with yours? Well, you get in
the car, you got the coat. Coat, take it off
as you get in, and what do you do with
(05:10):
that coat? If anything, you just in the other seat.
I will probably put it in the back seat. Okay.
So here's what I'm gonna advise you do, especially on
legitimately cold days, instead of just tossing it back there,
open it up, okay, and maybe even stand it on
the front seat next to you, because that way, all
that warm air in the car gets inside the jacket inside,
(05:34):
and so when you get out and you put it on,
it's already toasty warm. It's not cold from sitting in
the back seat all scrunched up and not being able
to absorb that heat. Do you know that I did not?
Is that a fun fun thing to know?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
I don't know if it was a fun thing to know,
but it's a thing to know.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
It's helpful. It's helpful. It's been working for me for years. Man, Really,
you get it. It's like putting on a toasty little
blanket that's been sitting near the fireplace at a safe distance.
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Are you ready? Will? I am time for winter clothes,
which are the same as summer clothes with coat on standby.
Just when a.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Whole segment talking about coats and warming up and you're
saying it's on standby.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Yeah, if it's on standby, you got to keep it
in the car.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I just feel like they're all contradicting each other. Dug Okay, well,
I feel like I've been kind of harsh on you
these past couple of days.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
So yeah, I'm gonna give you a pity score. I
don't want pity points. It's a pity score. It's a
six point eight. It's not even I wouldn't give it
to that, and I wrote it. Oh well, Off to
market we go. Thanks to Houston Goldexchange dot com, where
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everything was green and just getting greener about I don't know,
hour hour and a half ago. I've actually sent Brad
Schweiss a text message, hoping I could get him on
later in the program, maybe for a minute or two,
to explain why gold is up thirty six bucks a
little while ago and north now of twenty seven fifty
(07:38):
an ounce. That's ten percent higher than it was when
I sold mine. I had some old scrap gold laying
around the house, not like I have a bushel basket
of it. It was everything I had would fit in
the palm on my hand. But it was about twenty
five hundred then, and Bred said, man, it's pretty good
time to sell. And really, and to his credit, this
is how he makes his money. He buys it, and
(07:59):
it goes up, and he probably sells some off, and
then he waits for another trend to go. When it's
going down, he tries to buy bye bye because he
knows it's going to go up again. Oil up again,
flirting with seventy dollars last time I looked. Unfortunately, oh
do I.
Speaker 4 (08:17):
Have to go?
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Speaker 1 (09:46):
What's life without a neat If I suggest you go
to bed, sleep it off, just wait until the show's over,
sleeping Back to Doug Pike as fifty plus continues.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Right, Welcome back on this Wednesday edition to fifty plus.
Thanks for listening. I sort to appreciate it. Thanks again,
by the way, for welcoming, willing me into your lunch
or your drive around town or whatever on this beautiful day.
We'll talk in this segment about Parkinson's disease, which impacts
roughly a million Americans. I did a duck hunt recently,
(10:27):
matter of fact, with a man who's wrestling with this
condition to talk about the latest developments in Parkinson's. I'm
going to bring into the conversation doctor Claudio Soto, Professor
in the Department of Neurology at McGovern Medical School and
director of the George and Cynthia Mitchell Center for Alzheimer's
Disease and Other Brain Related Issues. Welcome to fifty plus.
Speaker 5 (10:47):
Doc, Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
I'm happy to we hear it, and I hope that
we can have you a you know, with introduction about
Parkinson disease.
Speaker 2 (10:58):
We are going to do exactly that. I like to
start with definitions. So in your world, how is Parkinson's
disease defined?
Speaker 5 (11:06):
Well, Parkinson's disease is one of the main.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Brain disorders that generate over time, they degenerate, so so
you you start with the symptoms and then they progress
gradually until the person basically die.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
So it's an incredible disease. At this stage.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
It's many characterized by movement problems like slow movement or tremors,
or difficult things im balance. So that's mostly what we
call the clinical definition of parkinson disease.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
I see the word prion sprinkled into the recipe pretty
often in discussions of this condition. What is that? What
are we talking about there?
Speaker 5 (11:47):
Yeah, we're talking about that.
Speaker 6 (11:49):
You know, Parkinson as well as Alzheimer's and most of
the other brain degenerative disorders involved the process that was
first uncovered when we start the prion diseases, you know,
with another study prion diseases for a very long time.
These are these are rare diseases in humans, like Crystal
jackob disease, which is you know, uh, fatal, very dramatic disease.
(12:13):
People get diagnosed and die within a few months.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
So but this is this is.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
On the brain, similar to to what happened in some
of the other brain diseases. The symptoms might be very different,
but what's going on in the brain is very simile.
And what is going on is that accumulation of a
protein that adopt an abnormal shape and then start to
clamp and form like you know dust type of deposits
(12:39):
in the brain all over the brain.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Right.
Speaker 6 (12:41):
And so this is what we call a prion. It's
it's a protein that is able to do that. And
not only that, but also what we call what we
say is self propagate, so that spread the damage. So
when you have just say one of these dusks, what's
gonna do is that it's going to spread the damage
to others cells or areas of.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
The brain, uh and make more of those.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
So everything starts normally in the disease in a very
sysmscribed a small area, no normal reason to be worded.
The problem is that it's spread over time and the
decise become worse and worse and worse.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
And right there in your lab, I understand you've developed
something that enables you to detect these preons, right, and
then I guess do something about them.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
Right, absolutely, yes, So we we came out with the
with the idea of how can we mimic in vitro
in the lab, in the lab, in the in the test,
the process of this protein to replicate, this pre on
replication process that makes the protein to transfer the information
(13:44):
to other molecules of the protein and expand the problem. So,
because this is a you know, the best way to detect.
Because let's say when you get the biological fluids, say
the cerever spinal fluid or blood or urine, you probably
have very very very small quantities of this protein, a
normal protein. But if we use their pre on behavior
(14:06):
the ability to expand, then we can actually generate millions
and millions and millions of the molecules that become very
easy to detect. So basically what we have done is
to use the biology of the disease to come out
with a new procedure to detect the earliest step of
the disease.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
In you know, biological fluids in living patients, and this
can be done.
Speaker 6 (14:28):
This is a platform technology that means that it can
be applied to many different diseases. So we have already
done this for the pre on diseases like crosstal jagle disease.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
It's being used worldwide.
Speaker 6 (14:41):
Our test for detecting you know, the protein associated to
pre on diseases. We are now have also the tests
for parkings On disease that recently became commercially available and
it's been used buy patients and also for the pharmaceutical
companies to you know, to make the clinical trials to
(15:03):
test drugs.
Speaker 5 (15:04):
So these tests.
Speaker 6 (15:06):
Are available and we're working on tests for Alzheimer's and
some of the other you know, rain diseases involving this process.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
That's fantastic not Claudio Soro on fifty plus talk briefly
about the earliest symptoms of Parkinson's. I mean we might
be watching for in ourselves or somebody we know.
Speaker 6 (15:24):
Yes, yes, I mean the early symptoms are usually you know,
movement program then suddenly you cannot you have become very stiff,
or you know, start to experience some tremors in the
in the hands, or But I should point out that
the disease starts many many many years, if not decades
(15:45):
before Wow, you see any symptoms. So this process is
going on in the rain. This process I was telling
you that the this this abnormal protein that spread all
over the rain start maybe two three decades before for
the people develop the clinical symptoms. So they so what
And the problem is that when when the people start
(16:05):
to show up the clinical symptoms, a large part of
the brain cells are already dead. For this point, it's
very difficult to treat at that stage because there's so
much brain damage already. So so the best way is
to detect early non symptomatic tests. And this is what
(16:26):
we are trying to do with our with our tests
to be able to detect because what we text is
not the symptoms. It will take the biology that is
going on in the brain. I mean the changes that
are going in the brain. Right, so if these changes,
since these changes start years of decades before, we think
at some point we will be able to have a
test that can detect the people on the way to
(16:47):
the blow. These is at the moment, that treatment should
be much easier.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
How effective are the current treatments we have for this?
Speaker 6 (16:56):
Yeah, at this point with unfortunately for partisan, we don't
have good treatments. The treatments what we call symptomatics. So
these are these are these are madicines that makes people
to feel less the symptoms.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
So but like control the movement.
Speaker 6 (17:16):
Problems, but they don't really treat the underlying cause of
the disease.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
You can stop you can stop the tremor, but you
can't stop the progression.
Speaker 5 (17:28):
Up to now. Right.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
But that's that's what I think most of the pharmaceutical
budget companies in the world are working on, is to
come out with now treatments that can stop the disease.
So that and hopefully, I mean this is my dream
to be able to stop the disease before even show
up a clinical disease, right, and this is I think
(17:50):
the final treatment for for this devastating diseases.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
I certainly hope you can get that done and sooner
the better, doctor, Claudia. So I'm afraid we're out of time,
my friend, Thank you so very much.
Speaker 5 (18:03):
Hi, thanks so you uh h bye bye bye.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
All right, we got to take a little break here
speaking of what he does and where he is. UT's
Institute on Aging is a collaborative effort of people such
as doctor Soto, who are in addition to the training
they had to get to get the diploma on the
wall in the office, whatever that may say, they've gone
(18:27):
back and got an additional education, additional training in how
to apply that knowledge, specifically to seniors, because we are different.
We're very different, and we need that help. Most of
these providers who are part of this Institute on Aging
work in the med center, but many of them also
(18:48):
work outside in outlying areas and communities, at hospitals and
clinics and wherever else they're needed and can help seniors
so that we don't have to drive long distances to
be seen by somebody who knows what makes us tick.
Go to the website. You're gonna find a tremendous a
tremendous amount of resources there that are very helpful to
(19:10):
those of us who have put fifty and fifty five
and sixty even in the rear view mirror, it's all
there for you. It's not gonna cost you a dime.
You just go in there and learn about how to
keep yourself healthier and who can help you do that?
Uth dot edu slash aging, uth dot edu slash aging.
(19:30):
Now they sure don't make them like they used to.
That's why every few months we wash them, check his.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Fluids, and spring on a fresh coat of wax. This
is fifty plus with Doug Pike.
Speaker 2 (19:45):
Alli, welcome back to fix a plus. Thank you listening
certainly to appreciate it. In this segment we're gonna bring in.
I guess you would call yourself a prostate expert, would
you not? I guess so to some degree. Yeah, we
would have to qualify that. Yeah, you know, we're outside
of the realm of.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Prostate cancer now for now for a little while, but
definitely dealing with the large prostates.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
Well that and this would be doctor Andrew Do from
a late health talking over there into that microphone. I
didn't get a chance to I didn't address him by
name first, so now we know. And thanks for coming
back in. By the way, it's been a while.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Huh, yeah, it's been a little bit. Thank you for
having me there.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
We are for another prostate Awareness month and I haven't
done anything about mine yet. May need it, may not,
I'm not so sure, right sometimes it seems okay, sometimes
not so okay. Is that about normal?
Speaker 4 (20:35):
That's very typical. Once it gets enlarge, to'll have times
where it's, you know, status quo, everything's good, and then
you'll have periods where it gets a little bit more challenging.
You'll back and forth, and then eventually you get to
a point where it doesn't seem to have as many
good days as bad days, and then you want to
get something done.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
So and getting something done is that prostate artery embolization
that I try to explain every time I talk about
you guys, And I'm gonna let you go ahead and
give a far more qualified answer as to what exactly
that procedure is.
Speaker 4 (21:07):
So, what we're able to do is to go into
the artery in the leg, and because everything connects within
the body, we can go through that artery in the
leg and go to either side of the pro state
and plug up the arteries that feed the prostate, which
causes some of the cells and the prostate to die
and the prostate itself to shrink down, which kind of
undoes that enlargement that we get as we age.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
And just quite recently I said I wasn't sure whether
how you plugged it, whether it was with sand or
silly putty? Was I close at all? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (21:36):
Probably you're not closely. It's a specialized plastic or really
is what it is called PVA.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Yeah, also known as silly potty? Close? Maybe not? Well,
whatever it is, it works though, right, Yes, that works
very well. Yeah, that's why you use that, not anything else.
And let's talk about how long it takes the recovery
after this most of what you do, understand taste a
couple of hours in the office, and then after that,
(22:03):
what's the recovery? When am I going to be able
to run five minute miles again?
Speaker 4 (22:06):
So the only real limitation is because we punctured the
artery in your legs. So we want you to take
at least three days off and let the puncture site heal.
After that, you know, probably not more than a week,
and you can get back to running five miles.
Speaker 2 (22:20):
Oh that'd be great because I haven't run five miles
in a long time. I have talked about that procedure.
I've talked about fibroids and a couple of other things
you do at a late health But what are some
of the procedures you don't do terribly often, but really
do help the people who.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Get them well. I guess one of those would be
a new treatment called WHY ninety. That's something we're starting
to really get involved with, and that is for patients
with kind of end stage cancer. They used to have
to go to these huge medical centers to get it done,
but now they can do it as an outpatient and
it definitely improves the quality of their life.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Is this like an IV something or what is it exactly?
Speaker 4 (23:01):
It's actually kind of similar to the prostate embolization, except
we use a different substance. We use this Y ninety stuff,
but it's very effective, and again you're in and out
in a few hours. Recovery is very little, you know,
same three days and then you're back.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
To Yeah, And with the recovery part of it, I
talk about being able to recover at home as opposed
to be in a hospital where you might you might
drag something home that you didn't have when you got there,
which I think is very important as well.
Speaker 4 (23:27):
Absolutely saying in medicine is the hospital is the last
place you want to be when you're sick. And that's because,
like you said, there's so many other you know, sicknesses
and illnesses going around through the hospital. You don't want
to bring anything home.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
And when I'm imagining this recovery at home in the spots,
I kind of fantasize about how I'm going to be
pampered by my family members and just catered to. Every
Every wish I have is going to be catered to immediately,
And it's so I hope I never have to really experience.
Speaker 4 (23:54):
We can put that on the discharge instructions for you.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Oh, I like that idea very much. Doctor Andrew do
helped me out here talk a little bit about the
history of vascular surgery. When did doctors figure out they
could manipulate arteries like this?
Speaker 4 (24:07):
So actually I had a great poster that I can
no longer find, but it said interventional radiology to diagnose,
not to treat. And after that, when they couldn't initially
get in the artery to take all the pictures, they
would use bigger and bigger catheters, and then they found out, hey,
those bigger and bigger catheters kind of opened up those blockages.
(24:30):
And that was really in the mid to late seventies
that we realized, hey, we could fix stuff from inside
the artery. We don't have to be cutting patients wide open.
And it just kind of ballooned from there, and that
was what got the ball rolling.
Speaker 2 (24:46):
And you talk about the bigger and bigger things. You also,
I remember from an earlier interview, used some very very
tiny instruments, don't you.
Speaker 4 (24:55):
Yes, we can go in and we can actually affect
therapy from pretty much anywhere the body, and we can
do it through these catheters that are anything down to
zero point one eight inches.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
It's not very big. That's pretty small. What's the human hair? Yeah,
you got me, there's too.
Speaker 4 (25:12):
Sure, probably probably a little bit bigger than a human hair.
But even some of the wires we use that those
catheters actually go over are pretty close to that size.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Oh my word, that's amazing. It really is just all
of modern medicine, I think, with things that are done
with the eyes, with the veins, like you're doing it.
Just when I read some of these stories that I
use in fifty plus, I'm just fascinated by it. And
I hope I live long enough to need some of it,
or at least it'll be there when I need it. Everybody,
I guess, who gets any medical procedure, wonders about recuperation
(25:43):
and pain and whatnot, and probably not in that order,
talk about recovery from generally from your procedures.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
So usually it's very a very rapid recovery. Maybe some
tenderness where we go in if we're going into the artery,
maybe in the groin, sometimes in the areas we've treated,
you know, in the leg, you may have a little
bit of some dull aching pain, but it tends to
be very mild and minimal. Versus that great, big, long
(26:13):
incision from an open surgery where you've got to wait
for the stitches to set in and you've got to
wait for the wound to heal. You know, you're looking
at weeks, if not months, to being completely healed.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
The whole thing is just so much easier, so much
more because you're not having to make big incisions anywhere.
You're just poking little holes and running that. I don't
know how it all works. I'm not even gonna begin
to try to describe it, Doctor Andrew Doe from a
late health set that thank you so very much for
popping in here and getting this interview for me. I
really do appreciate it. Thank you for having me my pleasure.
(26:47):
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(29:00):
plus with Doug Pike. I wasn't back. Fourth and vile
segment of fifty plus starts. Now, thank you for listening,
certainly do appreciate it. Well, I'm gonna bring you in.
(29:21):
We'll go over a little fun stuff. I don't need
to get into all this. There's such a mess going
on with that man who's accused of killing the CEO
of United Healthcare, Brian Thompson. I will real quickly. I
can't let this get away, and I can't let the
Left get away with celebrating a premeditated killing of a
(29:41):
husband and a father. I don't care what his job
was in corporate America. I'm no fan of healthcare prices either,
and I know it's difficult for a lot of people
to get the care they need at a price they
can afford, unless they're here illegally, which gives him free
medical care. That's a different story, though. We have a
system through which people can express themselves non violently on
(30:02):
any issue they want. It's called free speech, and it
still works here if enough people exercise it peacefully. And patiently.
This guy, the alleged killer, said he was frustrated with
our healthcare system. Millions of us share that view, dude,
but we don't execute people over it, and we don't
(30:23):
cheer it when it happens. There is actually a line
of merchandise online now that is really It's just it's
disturbing to see some of the stuff that's out there
for sale that champions this. To hear people on the
far left talking about joy over the murder of anyone,
(30:47):
and it's happened repeatedly in this case. To hear anybody
champion execution is just a clear indicator of how far
we've allowed this country to slide. He here's Morgan interviewed.
I can't remember her name. She's a newsperson, I believe, Anyway,
asked her in an interview. She used that word, by
the way, joy to express her feelings over Thompson's killing. Okay,
(31:10):
and Pierre's Morgan said, so would killing more corporate executive
executives make you more joyful? This has to stop, and
it will thankfully not become late January. Sometime in late January,
that's when all of this nonsense, I hope will be
(31:30):
turned turned the other way, very frustrating. All right, well,
I'm gonna bring you in. I'll get some of this
other stuff tomorrow. And it's just more and more crazy
goofy stuff. All right, here we go. Um, that's no,
I've already told you about that and it's not that interesting.
I was gonna say that's heavy. But all I did
I told will earlier. Every element heavier than iron. This
(31:52):
is for the nerd convention. If it gets kind of
quiet and you when you to drop something in, every
element heavier than iron had to be created by a
super nova. Okay, that's enough of that. Uh, here we go.
Will flip side betting on intangibles and show me some
(32:14):
proof betting on intangibles. According to according to a tender report,
you on tender will, No, isn't that one that's kind
of a one of the one of those? Isn't that's
a dating Yeah? But it's more than just a dating app,
isn't it? What do you mean?
Speaker 4 (32:32):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (32:32):
It just encourages random encounters? Yeah, what do you think
people were doing before dating apps?
Speaker 3 (32:39):
Well you don't think that people are having random encounters? Yeah,
they just didn't have a method of doing it.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
Yeah. So anyway, let's just move on. According to a
tender report, daters are valuing optimism and embracing hopecore, whatever
the hell that is. Uh, apparently it's it's a mindset
that focuses on positivity and joy. How how about honest
work and productivity? How about focusing some of that This
(33:13):
whole hope and joy thing. That's that's what Costure the election.
There's it's not tangible. You can't you can't deposit hope
and joy in the bank. You can't go to the
bank and say, hey, I need to withdraw some joy. Now,
there's no such thing. It's just it's just a concept.
It's not a thing. And this, this country of ours,
(33:34):
runs on things, not concepts. Very frustrating when I hear that,
and when I think that this is a country of ideas.
Oh absolutely, it's a country concept. But you don't get
anywhere with that idea unless you act upon it and
make it become something tangible. Yep, But it's gotta be
an idea first. Yeah, well, so do hope and joy?
(33:56):
What are you What are you gonna make they starts?
What are you gonna make them into the America? Another question?
He answer the question what what okay? Not with a
question either.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
If you have let's say a positive, a hopeful mindset,
you don't think that that could translate into a productive
work environment.
Speaker 2 (34:21):
So if I if I open a restaurant, will and
you come in and you look at the menu and
it says we hope to have food in a minute,
that's what though.
Speaker 3 (34:31):
If you open a restaurant, then I think you hope
that people will enjoy it now.
Speaker 2 (34:37):
But hope and positivity, yeah, you could be as positive
as you want. But unless you apply that to something
that becomes a tangible thing, a thing.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
Nobody is saying that hope and joy is a physical object.
They can't pick up this cup and say that that's
open joy. But maybe the feeling inside of picking it
up and taking a sip.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
I know somebody who was saying, I hope we don't
lose a billion and a half dollars. I know somebody
who was saying that a month or two ago. All right, well,
let's move on from that one. Candy says Candy Striper.
I almost added another p in there. That would have
been a totally different thing, wouldn't it, Candy Striper, a
cup of Joe or working the system. Ah, a cup
(35:28):
of Joe, Cup of Joe. That's kind of an easy one.
Good news for coffee drinkers. My hands in the air.
Speaker 5 (35:33):
Well.
Speaker 2 (35:34):
You don't drink coffee, do you? But do you talk?
Speaker 3 (35:36):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (35:36):
I've never seen you drink every day? Yeah, but you
don't drink it here early enough for me to see
you do it? Sure? That correct? Okay? So anyway, a
cup of coffee, uh, regular coffee consumption, it says here
could extend your lifespan by nearly two years. We talked
about this the other day, did we? Yeah? You sure? Yeah,
(35:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (36:00):
Remember I remember yearing it begin Here's because I went,
I've been drinking coffee for a long time.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
So have I already gotten the benefits that will give
me the extra two years? Or if I keep drinking it,
can I just keep kicking that can down the down
the street farther and farther and get more like three
years or four years? Probably it's probably already. What if
I drink twice as much, do I get four years?
I think that's a way to an early grade. That's
what they did. A fine line between. That's a great thing.
(36:29):
That's a great idea, and no, that's just hope and
joy spitting a barrel. You'll you'll fill that barrel up
faster than you will with hope and joy. I guarantee you,
uh flip side, will I'll go back? Show me some
proof or not much better? Mmm, show me some proof. Yeah,
(36:49):
I like this one. The guy who won half of
a three hundred and ninety five million dollar lottery Jackport
Jack Pott in California is suing the state because he
claims he's entitled to the other half, which is at
present unclaimed. You know why he thinks he should get
(37:09):
it all. Take a guess, will You'll never get this?
Speaker 4 (37:13):
So why?
Speaker 2 (37:15):
He says that he bought both tickets, but he lost one.
He lost one, so he's entitled to all the money.
So that's why I wrote in front of this, show
me the proof.
Speaker 5 (37:29):
Show me.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
By the way, California, that's just a lend of knuckleheads
and weirdos, and that's not the state it used to be.
And as proof of that, in a California story, that's
the only way that related. Really. Some woman at a
fast food restaurant got so angry over her order of
(37:51):
French fries being wrong that she whipped out a gun
and threatened to shoot the employees over French fries. I
don't understand that, Well, yes I do, Yes, I do.
You do? You've done it before? No, I know, I
didn't say. I can personally understand it. I can understand
(38:12):
why somebody who has to live in California might be
that upset and take it out on poor old minimum
wage kids working in a fast food But well, no,
not out there. They're making like twenty thirty bucks an
hour working at McDonald's, So maybe not the candy striper thing. Now,
that's boring. Never mind h flying carpet from the desk
(38:35):
of Captain obvious. Or I could do that. I could
do that. Women in China recently won one thousand, three
hundred and eighty dollars not paid in US dollars, I
would presume for being without her smartphone for How long
will she was able to give it up? As part
(38:55):
of a public welfare challenge which tested people's addiction into
their phones. How long did she have to give up
that phone of hers to win thirteen hundred and eighty
dollars one week? No, eight hours, eight hours? She was
She's the one who gave it up the longest, and
(39:17):
she won thirteen hundred and eighty dollars for doing that.
I could do that standing on my head. Well, there's
just nothing because I grew up in a time when
there were no cell phones, so I know what it's
like to be without my cell phone for a day.
I know what it's like to not be able to
let my wife know I'm on my way home from
the office, except to call her from the office right
before I leave and then just say I'm headed home
(39:40):
and I'll get there when I get there.
Speaker 1 (39:43):
That was.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
It was a much easier time, really, will it's a
much easier time. I'm gonna go to the desk of
Captain Obvious as we walk into the final forty seconds
of the program. You invited any holiday parties yet? Will
my families? HR expert, I don't know that we have
one here or not this year. I'm not sure. An
(40:06):
HR expert listed the top five things you shouldn't do
at your office holiday party, and they're all obvious. Don't overshare,
don't mix business with romance, don't ignore the dress code
this is new. Don't post photos without consent, and boy,
they do that all the time. Huh? And first and
foremost will what's the number one thing not to do
(40:27):
at the Christmas party? Get too drunk, get hammered. We're
both hammered, aren't we see tomorrow Audios
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