@BillHandelShow – ‘Medical News’ with Dr. Jim Keany

Dr. Jim Keany, Co-Director of the Emergency Room at Mission Hospital in Mission Viejo, joins The Bill Handel Show for 'Medical News'! Dr. Keany talks with Bill about· PTSD after wildfires, medications that increase risk of falling, and why fitness matters more than weight loss.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Doctor Jim Keeney, who we hear every Wednesday, is with
US Chief Medical Officers for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center
in Long Beach.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Jim, good morning, Good morning Bill.

Speaker 1 (00:11):
So we talked a little bit about the ers and
what's going on and your er, and you worked at
mission for a million years. Has that slowed down in
terms of people coming in with respiratory problems or does
that continue on just as time goes on.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
No. I heard in meetings yesterday it slowed down a
bit and they were not seeing as many. Of course,
whenever sant Ana wind blows, even if there's not a fire,
we do see a lot of people with asthma, emphasema
and respiratory related on this coming to the er, all right, you.

Speaker 1 (00:47):
Know, I want to switch gears and just have fun
for a moment, because we've been talking about some pretty
serious stuff. There is is Whacker, a whacko, a real
rich guy who and we did a story on him
and I forget I forget his name right now, and
he's talking about anti juging. Pardon Brian Johnson, Yes, talking

(01:08):
about his anti aging protocol and how he's going to
extend his life. And I mean this whole program he has.
I love the fact that he is shortening his life
with that. It doesn't get more delicious than that. So
would you dive into that for a moment.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
I knew you would love that, right, So yeah, Brian
Johnson's forty six years old. He's a multi millionaire from
you know, tech, and he decided to very publicly try
and extend his life. Now I think, you know, I
give him credit because there are probably lots of multimillionaires
out there trying to extend their lives, but they're keeping

(01:44):
everything they're doing quiet, they're not doing it in the
public eye. And so I give him credit for saying,
all right, I'm going to do this out in the
open and people can watch as I proceed. So he
calls it his blueprint, and a lot of it is
just the basics, right. The stuff that we always talked
about is, you know, he doesn't drink at all, doesn't

(02:05):
smoke at all, but you know, limit limit drinking, don't smoke.
He gets exercised regularly, and he eats a healthy diet,
you know, with low saturated fats, good you know, high
in omega three, fatty acids, all the kind of stuff
that we basically talk about, and then he adds some
experimental stuff. Now, on the other hand, he's doing things

(02:26):
to his skin to make him appear younger, you know,
such as the Morpheus or Mobius. There's this radio frequency
stimulation of the skin that can make it tighter. He's
laser treatments across his entire body. Most people can't afford that.
They can't even afford it on their face. So he

(02:47):
does admit it's funny that he looks he's looking more
and more like a vampire as time goes on. But
to me, I mean, he looks forty six years old.
And so the latest though, is why this story came up,
is that he did announced that rhapamyacin, which is an immunosuppressant,
and it had some studies showed some early preliminary studies

(03:08):
showed maybe promise for reversing certain epigenic markers of aging.
So he started taking that at a very high dose.
It turns out that all it did was suppresses immune system,
It created soft tissue skin infections, It elevated his blood sugar,
his resting heart rate, his cholesterol, and so now he's

(03:31):
comes to the conclusion that he may actually for the
last five years have been shortening his life by taking
this medicine.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
Doesn't get better than that. There was a story we
did about a guy or several people who were looking
at the studies of mice and almost starving mice, and
that is bringing their caloric intake down to just barely
above substances. Substance, their lifespan increased. And I think he

(03:59):
was eating three hundred calories a day or something, again
anti aging and lifespan. And I think he died of malnutrition.
I hope he did because he was completely out of
his mind.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
Is that going in? I'm sorry this guy. The other
I almost forgot to mention that the most interesting parts
of this guy is number one. Remember he's the one
that was in the news for transfusing himself with his
teenage son's blood. Oh yes, he thought somehow that would
confer youth on him, and it turned out it didn't
change any of his markers. And he also, I mean again,

(04:34):
he puts this out in the public, so he's either
crazy or you know, I love him for it. But
he he was shocking his penis and testicles electric electric,
shocking them to see if they would it would de
age his genitals, and you know we don't I don't
have any you know, feedback on whether that worked or not.

Speaker 1 (04:56):
Now I used to pay for that, and it doesn't
it work. We're not talking about aging anything. But you
know at twelve volt battery, you know there's train transformer
batteries that you can control the voltage that really works
from zero to twelve volts. But you know that's for
another time. Jim. Okay, Yeah, thanks for bringing that one up.

(05:17):
You knew I was gonna take it there. Doctor Jim Keeney,
chief medical officer for Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in
Long Beach. Jim will be in touch, thank you. Catching
next Wednesday, all right. You know he puts out that
stuff just so I comment on that. You know that
we've now reached the point Jim and I have been
doing this for so long that he searches for this

(05:37):
crazy stuff as I do.