October 31, 2024 • 30 mins
Dr.. Barry Prystowsky updates us on Covid, Bird Flu, Obama Care.
Some topics covered in detail:
Covid increasing but, not like it was.
Long Covid.
NJ has one of the highest Healthcare costs.
Fluoride in water.
NJ top 5 in Women's and Children's Healthcare.
Recalls.
Health and Safety Tips.
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Some topics covered in detail:
Covid increasing but, not like it was.
Long Covid.
NJ has one of the highest Healthcare costs.
Fluoride in water.
NJ top 5 in Women's and Children's Healthcare.
Recalls.
Health and Safety Tips.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/courageous-doctors-pioneers-and-heroes--4488438/support.
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Courageous Doctors is a newscast about healthcare topics of concern
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(00:22):
and medical news. Here's your host, doctor Barry Pristoski.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Good afternoon, Hello, and welcome back again to Courageous Doctors,
the new show for you and your doctor. As always,
we will cover epidemics like COVID and birth flu. We'll
look into government regulations like Obamacare. We'll look at general
(00:52):
healthcare and health and safety tips. So let's begin on
the issues of COVID and birth flu. Star Ledger has
said that COVID is definitely increasing, but not to these
scary levels with people overwhelmingly dying in hospitals. That's not
happening yet. So a lot of people are getting COVID.
(01:15):
We're seeing some of it here in our pediatric office.
Patients are calling me they have it, they're not they're
uncomfortable covid is a very strong virus. They're uncomfortable, but
they're not going to the hospital most of them. And
the CDC says that our quarantine now is only with
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twenty four hours with no fever and the symptoms of
the covid seems to be going away, then you're back
in business. Let's see New York Times mentioned that the
new covid vaccines, the pisor Maderna is for six months
in older. We're giving that here in the office. The
(01:57):
nova vax is for twelve years in old. Sure, and
it's the KP point two variant, which you know includes
all it's a single variant, whereas last year we included
the initial plus the new one that year, and now
we're just doing the new one. This past year, the
BBC gave a scary story, you know that's over in
(02:22):
UK in Britain. Somebody who had a booster vaccine and
it just destroyed its body chronic nerve pame screaming in
pain all night, debilitated. So you can get reactions, I
can tell you it's a very strong shot. I just
had mine a couple months ago and I was useless
(02:44):
for the weekend. I mean, I couldn't even move. I
felt like a wall hit me. It's a very strong shot. Fortunately,
after a couple of days, I was able to go
back to work. Let's see NBC talks about long COVID
and for the six to eleven year old, they're looking
at headaches, sleep disturbances, trouble with memory and focusing. And
(03:08):
for the twelve to seventeen year old, they're looking at fatigue,
low energy, muscle and joint pain, trouble with memory, trouble focusing.
It's a strong virus, you guys. I mean it's COVID.
Don't play around. I tell you. When I had that shot,
I just said to myself, oh man, I'm glad I
(03:29):
don't have the disease again, because you know, I still
don't feel myself from my COVID in twenty twenty, I
still don't feel one hundred percent. And every time I
get that shot, boy, I can't do anything for two days.
It's a strong virus. Let's see what's the Journal of
American Medical Association have to say. They said, oh, oh,
(03:51):
you guys, listen to this. The CDC. If you get
bird flu, which is the scary h five in one
that will kill a million people just if it spreads,
just like COVID did. So they say it's not spreading
so far, so don't let me scare you. But they
(04:12):
said if you get it and end up in the hospital,
they want ten days of tammy flu instead of five.
You know tammy flu would give for influenza infection. CNN
says that the CDC that one Missouri case they had
had no exposure like most of the other cases. You know,
(04:35):
it's being reported in all the animals, like cow's dairy animals,
and I even think there was a pig reported today.
It's in all the birds, but usually it was people.
They worked with these animals. This person, they have no
idea where they got it from, but they said it's
not spreading, so that's good. Independent Nisho said that the
(04:59):
COVID CC strain, the COVID x SEC has those case strains.
KS and KP. All right, let's move on to some
government stuff. CBS. Americans have to now choose between buying food,
(05:21):
paying rent, or paying energy bills, many of them, and
as a result, they're getting very sick. In fact, with
this extreme temperature we've been having, CBS reported that that
caused a lot of their illnesses and they don't have
the money to see the doctor. That's terrible in America,
Isn't that terrible? Star Ledger goes on to say that
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New Jersey has a higher healthcare cost, paying fifteen more
on somebody's employee insurance at six one hundred and fifty
nine dollars a month versus another state average it's paying
five seventy five. So Jersey six point fifty nine versus
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five seventy five. That's coming out of your pocket, out
of your paycheck with your boss, well not with him
with the insurance. But that's really terrible. And this was
an outer room survey done a couple of years ago
in which half had delayed care and one third were
struggling with the bill and a lot you know, out
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of pocket costs. That's why I was really delighted that
Governor Murphy again in the Star Ledger, he signed the
law to keep charges off your credit record from you
know collection, So if you can't pay your medical charge.
I think it was I don't know, under five hundred dollars,
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I'm sorry. If it was over five hundred dollars, I
forget under over, but anyway, it was trying to keep
it off your your credit card. And the governor also
had almost a million dollars that he had from leftover
COVID money. He was going to try to pay off
some people's medical bills. So that was nice of them.
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Let's see healthcare finance news. Oh okay, we always like
to see where the ACA is, you know, the Obamacare.
Now this was disappointing. Most people only had access to
forty percent of their doctors near their home. And in fact,
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a quarter of the people had access to less than
a quarter of their doctors and only four percent less
than like close to one out of twenty five. One
person in the classroom, you can say had most of
their doctors seventy five percent. So I don't know what's
(07:53):
going on. Maybe doctors aren't signing up. We take all
the ACA plans, but the people aren't getting their doctors.
But see New York Times says that the Federal Trade
Commission is still pursuing the pharmacy benefit managers on the
cost of insulin. You know, the big ones like CVS
(08:15):
Care with care Mark signal would express scripts and United
Health without the them. But Medicare already has a captive
thirty five dollars a month. So insolent is pretty scary.
You don't want to be without it. It's life saving.
And the apparently they're still playing games on the private
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side with trying to raise the cost technician target. I
don't know if I've ever used that new service yet. Anyway,
they said Congress passed the Healthcare Cybersecurity Act to protect
your data. And on TV I listened to a lot
(08:56):
of c SPAN and congressional hearings and they often refer
to CIS CISA. That is the organization set up that's
CISA stands for Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
Security Agency, Critical Infrastructure. This ends very well because I
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spent time on the Homeland Security early on decades ago
setting up critical infrastructures for healthcare, and so this is
from the cyber point of view, Like when we're hacked
and our healthcare system goes down and the SISA is
working with the Department of Health and other private firms,
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let's see CBC, what do they have to say, Oh, oh,
this is interesting. The judge sides with an anti FLORAD group.
You know how some states put floorat in their water
we don't have much Jersey. That's why we have to
get fluoride vitamins. But some states put fluoride in their
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water and it's okay by the Environmental Protection Agency. But
the judge cited with a private group against the government
Environmental Protection Agency, citing studies where fluoride hurt children and
lower their IQ. So that's very interesting. I honestly never
(10:29):
heard that before. Independent News said that the Environmental Protection
Agency is now banning d d CPA. D c PA.
That's that we'd test a side thing, you know, like
you used for broccoli and cabbage to keep the pests off,
(10:51):
because they said that the workers had damaged had damaged
babies they were born with. Let's see Reuters the FDA
you now need a photo ID to buy tobacco if
you're less than thirty years old. I did not know
that in PR. In the future, you may see warning
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labels on Guest Stokes and lastly, star Ledger. New Jersey
is now ranked by the United Health Foundation. It's one
of the top five states for women and children's health.
That is always good to know.
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Okay, let's move on to other healthcare news. As always,
we start with recalls, and my disclaimer is that I'm
doing this new show one or two months later. Some
of these things may have already been recalled, so just
in case, if you have it in your freezer or whatever,
(13:36):
just check with wherever you purchased it and make sure
that what you have is now the safe one. So
that's my disclaimer. Okay, let's go through these fairly quickly.
The big one everybody knows about McDonald's people died from
the quarter pounder and they think it was due to
the Tailor Farms onions and many other chains that sell
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these fast foods have removed onions from their thing. USA
adds that the green onions also had salmonella and that
one was Church Brothers Farm, Imperial Fresh and Green Onion iceless.
So the McDonald's was Tailor Farms, and this I think
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with the E coli and the green onions had sal
manila from Church Brothers Farm, Imperial Fresh and Green Onions iceless. Well,
that was pretty scary. Now Costco's lyesteria in smoked salmon
Achemy Smoked Fish Corporation, Acime Smoked Fish Corporation. WKRG is
(14:45):
reporting that Costco's also has chicken products from Bruce Pack.
Bruce Pack had that lysteria scare and also ready to
eat wies, red uds, al Monterey and Reina. So just
check with the Costco products with their chicken and salmon
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and make sure they're okay. Star Ledger back on this
Bruce Pack that it's not only in ready tea chicken,
it's chicken, salad, wraps, sandwiches, burritos, pasta. So the Spruce
pack was contaminated. It may not be anymore. Remember that's
my disclaimer. Eggs having salmonilla, Milo Poultry Farm, Tori's Fresh
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Market Duck eggs from Happy Quakers Farm have salmonilla. Fox
reports that Cantaloupe melons have salmonella, and that's from Eco
Produce with a brand name called Candy Candy with a
qu usa. Make sure your apple cider is pasteurized. I
(15:55):
did not know that you can get apple cider that's
not pasteurized because it can be contaminated. Fox increase arsenic
in apple juice at Walmart's. I did not know that
either apple juice Walmarts. It's the Refresco Beverages. Okay, guys,
a lot of names here. This is the arsenic and
(16:17):
apple juice. You're ready great value market basket wise Urban Meadow,
Gale Vita, Nature's Nectar, Clover Valley and Wellesley Farms Arsenic
and apple juice. HP said that hood lactate milk has almonds.
(16:38):
Nothing wrong with it. If you're not allergic to amens,
I drink. I drink almond milk myself. But this is
lactaid milk. It's not supposed to have nuts in it.
Oh boy, we're still seeing lead and cinnamon, cinnamon and
spice blends, multi splice powders, cinnamon powders. You're ready for
(16:59):
this year? Let me read them all. Paraz bgn, Mimi Shopwright,
Rannie Zara, three rivers, u Ye belly fang, spicy King Bodia,
and deep cinnamon lead. You get lead poison. Just a
(17:24):
few more of these, you guys. Fox says that Simbalta,
you know, the antiicepressant also known as duloxetine. Simbalta very
popular drug. I didn't realize has some cancer closing toxic
chemicals and it was recalled. Let should check with your
psychiatrist on that. Readers die chest, Oh boy, let's get
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to the dogs now. This is going to the dogs.
This is bad salmonella and lysteria and dog food. Have
you heard about this? Answers Pet, Answers Pet, and Darwin's
Natural pet products. Okay, those were the recalls. Let's move
on to other healthcare news. CNN. We are beginning to
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see some acute plascid myelitis. That's the polio like virus
from our typical summer flues. We call introvirus type sixty eight.
It's you know this is I'm still seeing it. Rhino
into virus. It goes right through the fall, all through
the summer, but this particular one can paralyze the kids.
(18:32):
I haven't seen it myself, you guys, I've seen some
that were suspicious, but apparently it's starting to rise, and
star Ledger reminds us that the hooping cough is going up.
I've been using a lot of xytromax citromycin chloritromycin because
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both the mycoplasma and pneumonia going around and the hooping
cough are sensitive to it. The mycoplasma is a walking pneumonia,
so you can get both protessis and micoplasma zithromax and
we're seeing a lot of that now. Mosquito viruses. It's
starting to get warm again, even though it's starting to
(19:14):
get cold. Eastern equine encephalitis very rare, but it's a killer.
West Nile more common. It can kill two. It has
in New Jersey Dengey, usually from the south, but it
can be here. That Beisia, which is a malaria like parasite,
and the red cells is also here now. The ticks
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er Lichiosis anaplacia palastin virus, lime disease, so ticks, mosquitoes
whooping called mycoplasma polio like virus ecoli is in cyanob
Ecoli and cyanobacteria are polluting beach lakes and rivers. Oh,
(19:59):
let's see, this is overseas reuters. In case you guys
are traveling, there's a drug resistant IMPOS. You have been
reading about this every day. They've been reporting for a
couple months. You know, IMPOS, that monkey pox thing. They
call it IMPOS. They have some resistance to the drugs,
(20:19):
but they have a vaccine for it, and they suggest
to get vaccinated, like if be going to Africa or
one of those countries. Let's see, drug resistance has been reported,
so both with the IMPOS and with typhoid. In Pakistan
there's been some typhoid resistance to drugs. What's this morning
(20:44):
Rounds newsletter. That's the first time I'm using that one.
The oral pouch virus in Cuba and South America. You
remember we reported on that. That's similar to that one
that zekav iris a couple of years ago giving babies
re born with small heads and all, and they get
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it damages the babies and oral pass virus is similar.
Let's see Independent News UK. Oh this is nice. UK
has a rapid prostate cancer test and that was from
Aston University in Britain. Now you know, I just have
my prostate checked. I get the prostate PSA prostate amagen test,
(21:32):
but that's before you get cancer to see if you're
if it's going up. This is a rapid test saying
if you have cancer. And that's really interesting. Star Ledger
reminds us the IV fluids are hard to come by
because Baxter plant in North Carolina was hit by remember
Hurricane Milton and Helene that took down the plant. So
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a lot of hospitals are cutting down on elective surgeries
because they can't get intravenous fluids. Oh, this is exciting.
There's an islet cell transfer. You know, with diabetes and
the pancreas or islet cells that make insulin are destroyed.
The body destroys them, it thinks it attacks them, and
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they can now take somebody's islet cells, put it in
your liver and cure your diabetes. It's being done in
a few places. I don't know how common it is,
but that's very exciting. There's an ebola light virus called
lass of fever. They killed somebody in Iowa. They came
back from West Africa. You know, we get these ebola
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likee viruses in Africa. Lass of fever. It has different
different names and they're all really scary. Last thing on
the other healthcare news would be about somebody that almost
died of a toxic shock syndrome. That's with staff using
a tampon for eight hours and they I don't know
(23:00):
if you guys remember this, but I'm going back decades
and decades. I've been doing this forty years. The big
scare of that took tampons, Women's tampon monthly protection off
the market was they were infected with staff and I
guess they're coming back now decades later. But here this
(23:20):
lady almost died, so you know, vote your conscience on
that one. Let's move on to the last topic. So
we're wrapping up pretty good, not too much more of
you guys. On health and safety tips, Fox says that
Fisher Price is recalling two million infant swings, five dieds
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sleeping in them. Oh man, these are always heartbreaking stories.
You know, I'm a pediatrician, you guys, I hear stuff
like this. You just want to cry. It's horrible. Put
your baby to sleep and it dies in one of
these things. Consumer Report is calling for a ban on
baby walkers, and the American Academy of Pediatrics agrees with that. Yeah,
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this has been tossed around for the forty years since
I've been practicing, and even before that. You know, is
it okay to have a baby walker? Is it okay
to happen? I've been swing, so I guess some babies die,
so they gotta be careful. Let's see CNN. The George
Institute Global Health in Australia. Oh, this is scary, you guys.
(24:27):
They found that sixty percent six to oh, sixty percent
of six hundred and fifty one tested baby foods do
not meet nutrient guidelines. Man, you can't trust the baby foods.
What's next? Okay? CNN Swiss study, this is not good.
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Two hundred chemicals that are found in women with breast
cancer came from or are are also found. You can't
say it came from all. I also found in food packaging,
plastic tableware, paper, and cardboard containers. So the same chemicals
that we're eating out of somehow contributed or were found
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in the women with breast cancer. So I don't know
if it caused it or it was just happened to
be there, But who wants to take a chance. So
I and I think it affects the rest of us too,
So we probably should be careful about what we're eating
our food out of pfas, benzene, taliudene, PCB, and fact tissue.
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You know, all these chemicals. It's scary. So they're basically
saying if you microwave used glass, because I guess if
you microwave food packaging. I used to just take the
food package I got it, you know, the store. I
picked out the food I wanted and I put it
in a microwave in the store. I didn't know I
was releasing chemicals. And I've been using plastic spoons know forever,
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So who knows what's in my body? But okay, good
to know. Here's one you probably don't think of very often.
Avoid bread made with potassium bromide, potassium bromide, fructose corn syrup,
and hydrogenated oils. So I don't know. I never think
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about that in bread, but I guess it's there. NPR
talks about the fathalates. That's in hair and skin care products.
That's poisoning our children, the pathalates. So I guess you
got to look in what you put on your hair
and cover your skin for your children and probably yourself.
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This was reported by the Journal of Environmental Health Perspectives Perspectives,
and it's affecting children. They looked in children four to
eight years old. Let's see, I've got some One of
my favorite people I follow, what's Jill Kubala have. He
warns that the red yeast imrice can increase side effects
(27:12):
of statins because both inhibit cholesterol production. I did not
know that. I know people say that the red yeast
and rice can lower your cholesterol. I didn't know it
works it the same way as a statin, so that
you can actually get side effects of a statin. You
know some people got muscle legs from statins and things
(27:34):
by using both. I didn't know. Well, I guess you
just have to ask your cardiologists about that, or your
your internest. Let's see. Laura Schober warns of medicine that
can decrease your magnesium levels. You guys, I did not
know this. This phosphonates we take for low for weak bones.
A lot of us with weak bones. The phosphinates PPIs
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have been on that for decades, you know, for the
acid and zinc. All of that. If you're on zinc
can also lower magnesium. Well, just do like me, take
magnesium too. That's what I do. Daily meal, daily meal.
The blue label on a tuna can means there's good
fishing practices. Oh good, you got something positive. Okay, listen
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with a few other positive things. Karen Ansel breakfast foods
to relieve constipation. I think you know most of these
whole grain cereal, kiweeds, blackberries, cheese, seeds, and chema helps
keep your regular. Synthia SaaS talks about pumpkin seeds. They
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have antioxidants, fiber, magnesium, zinc, iron, protein, All the good
stuff even comes as pumpkin seed butter. But she warns
that too much of it can put on calories because
there are one hundred and sixty three calories per ounce,
and with all the fiber can give you gas. So
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pumpkins seeds are good. It's that time of year. Happy Halloween,
by the way, you guys, but just be careful how
many you eat? Two more, you guys, almost done? Jessica Ball.
Jessica Ball on high protein veggies. You guys know all
these green peas, spinach, artichokes with corn, avocado, brussels, sprouce, mushroom,
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kale and potatoes. And lastly, Emily Laktrup. She mentioned a
whole bunch of high protein meals. I only picked out
a few because we're short on time. Cranberry almond energy balls.
I had never heard of that before. Cranberry almond energy balls.
How about this one black bean brown rice stuffed pepper
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that sounds yummy? Seared halibut fish taco. I love halibate
grilled chicken and veggie salad with chicken, sea and sweet potato,
like being taco. All Right, you guys, it was fun
being with you. Happy Halloween, Enjoy a very safe fall,
and we'll hopefully be back to you, if not before Christmas.
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Enjoy your holidays, Honiquan, Christmas and New Year. But maybe
I'll catch you before that. Okay, you all take care
of that.
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Good afternoon, Hello, and welcome back again to Courageous Doctors,
the new show for you and your doctor. As always,
we will cover epidemics like COVID and birth flu. We'll
look into government regulations like Obamacare. We'll look at general
(00:52):
healthcare and health and safety tips. So let's begin on
the issues of COVID and birth flu. Star Ledger has
said that COVID is definitely increasing, but not to these
scary levels with people overwhelmingly dying in hospitals. That's not
happening yet. So a lot of people are getting COVID.
(01:15):
We're seeing some of it here in our pediatric office.
Patients are calling me they have it, they're not they're
uncomfortable covid is a very strong virus. They're uncomfortable, but
they're not going to the hospital most of them. And
the CDC says that our quarantine now is only with
(01:36):
twenty four hours with no fever and the symptoms of
the covid seems to be going away, then you're back
in business. Let's see New York Times mentioned that the
new covid vaccines, the pisor Maderna is for six months
in older. We're giving that here in the office. The
(01:57):
nova vax is for twelve years in old. Sure, and
it's the KP point two variant, which you know includes
all it's a single variant, whereas last year we included
the initial plus the new one that year, and now
we're just doing the new one. This past year, the
BBC gave a scary story, you know that's over in
(02:22):
UK in Britain. Somebody who had a booster vaccine and
it just destroyed its body chronic nerve pame screaming in
pain all night, debilitated. So you can get reactions, I
can tell you it's a very strong shot. I just
had mine a couple months ago and I was useless
(02:44):
for the weekend. I mean, I couldn't even move. I
felt like a wall hit me. It's a very strong shot. Fortunately,
after a couple of days, I was able to go
back to work. Let's see NBC talks about long COVID
and for the six to eleven year old, they're looking
at headaches, sleep disturbances, trouble with memory and focusing. And
(03:08):
for the twelve to seventeen year old, they're looking at fatigue,
low energy, muscle and joint pain, trouble with memory, trouble focusing.
It's a strong virus, you guys. I mean it's COVID.
Don't play around. I tell you. When I had that shot,
I just said to myself, oh man, I'm glad I
(03:29):
don't have the disease again, because you know, I still
don't feel myself from my COVID in twenty twenty, I
still don't feel one hundred percent. And every time I
get that shot, boy, I can't do anything for two days.
It's a strong virus. Let's see what's the Journal of
American Medical Association have to say. They said, oh, oh,
(03:51):
you guys, listen to this. The CDC. If you get
bird flu, which is the scary h five in one
that will kill a million people just if it spreads,
just like COVID did. So they say it's not spreading
so far, so don't let me scare you. But they
(04:12):
said if you get it and end up in the hospital,
they want ten days of tammy flu instead of five.
You know tammy flu would give for influenza infection. CNN
says that the CDC that one Missouri case they had
had no exposure like most of the other cases. You know,
(04:35):
it's being reported in all the animals, like cow's dairy animals,
and I even think there was a pig reported today.
It's in all the birds, but usually it was people.
They worked with these animals. This person, they have no
idea where they got it from, but they said it's
not spreading, so that's good. Independent Nisho said that the
(04:59):
COVID CC strain, the COVID x SEC has those case strains.
KS and KP. All right, let's move on to some
government stuff. CBS. Americans have to now choose between buying food,
(05:21):
paying rent, or paying energy bills, many of them, and
as a result, they're getting very sick. In fact, with
this extreme temperature we've been having, CBS reported that that
caused a lot of their illnesses and they don't have
the money to see the doctor. That's terrible in America,
Isn't that terrible? Star Ledger goes on to say that
(05:44):
New Jersey has a higher healthcare cost, paying fifteen more
on somebody's employee insurance at six one hundred and fifty
nine dollars a month versus another state average it's paying
five seventy five. So Jersey six point fifty nine versus
(06:04):
five seventy five. That's coming out of your pocket, out
of your paycheck with your boss, well not with him
with the insurance. But that's really terrible. And this was
an outer room survey done a couple of years ago
in which half had delayed care and one third were
struggling with the bill and a lot you know, out
(06:26):
of pocket costs. That's why I was really delighted that
Governor Murphy again in the Star Ledger, he signed the
law to keep charges off your credit record from you
know collection, So if you can't pay your medical charge.
I think it was I don't know, under five hundred dollars,
(06:47):
I'm sorry. If it was over five hundred dollars, I
forget under over, but anyway, it was trying to keep
it off your your credit card. And the governor also
had almost a million dollars that he had from leftover
COVID money. He was going to try to pay off
some people's medical bills. So that was nice of them.
(07:11):
Let's see healthcare finance news. Oh okay, we always like
to see where the ACA is, you know, the Obamacare.
Now this was disappointing. Most people only had access to
forty percent of their doctors near their home. And in fact,
(07:32):
a quarter of the people had access to less than
a quarter of their doctors and only four percent less
than like close to one out of twenty five. One
person in the classroom, you can say had most of
their doctors seventy five percent. So I don't know what's
(07:53):
going on. Maybe doctors aren't signing up. We take all
the ACA plans, but the people aren't getting their doctors.
But see New York Times says that the Federal Trade
Commission is still pursuing the pharmacy benefit managers on the
cost of insulin. You know, the big ones like CVS
(08:15):
Care with care Mark signal would express scripts and United
Health without the them. But Medicare already has a captive
thirty five dollars a month. So insolent is pretty scary.
You don't want to be without it. It's life saving.
And the apparently they're still playing games on the private
(08:36):
side with trying to raise the cost technician target. I
don't know if I've ever used that new service yet. Anyway,
they said Congress passed the Healthcare Cybersecurity Act to protect
your data. And on TV I listened to a lot
(08:56):
of c SPAN and congressional hearings and they often refer
to CIS CISA. That is the organization set up that's
CISA stands for Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure
Security Agency, Critical Infrastructure. This ends very well because I
(09:21):
spent time on the Homeland Security early on decades ago
setting up critical infrastructures for healthcare, and so this is
from the cyber point of view, Like when we're hacked
and our healthcare system goes down and the SISA is
working with the Department of Health and other private firms,
(09:45):
let's see CBC, what do they have to say, Oh, oh,
this is interesting. The judge sides with an anti FLORAD group.
You know how some states put floorat in their water
we don't have much Jersey. That's why we have to
get fluoride vitamins. But some states put fluoride in their
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water and it's okay by the Environmental Protection Agency. But
the judge cited with a private group against the government
Environmental Protection Agency, citing studies where fluoride hurt children and
lower their IQ. So that's very interesting. I honestly never
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heard that before. Independent News said that the Environmental Protection
Agency is now banning d d CPA. D c PA.
That's that we'd test a side thing, you know, like
you used for broccoli and cabbage to keep the pests off,
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babies they were born with. Let's see Reuters the FDA
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you're less than thirty years old. I did not know
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is now ranked by the United Health Foundation. It's one
of the top five states for women and children's health.
That is always good to know.
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Okay, let's move on to other healthcare news. As always,
we start with recalls, and my disclaimer is that I'm
doing this new show one or two months later. Some
of these things may have already been recalled, so just
in case, if you have it in your freezer or whatever,
(13:36):
just check with wherever you purchased it and make sure
that what you have is now the safe one. So
that's my disclaimer. Okay, let's go through these fairly quickly.
The big one everybody knows about McDonald's people died from
the quarter pounder and they think it was due to
the Tailor Farms onions and many other chains that sell
(13:58):
these fast foods have removed onions from their thing. USA
adds that the green onions also had salmonella and that
one was Church Brothers Farm, Imperial Fresh and Green Onion iceless.
So the McDonald's was Tailor Farms, and this I think
(14:19):
with the E coli and the green onions had sal
manila from Church Brothers Farm, Imperial Fresh and Green Onions iceless. Well,
that was pretty scary. Now Costco's lyesteria in smoked salmon
Achemy Smoked Fish Corporation, Acime Smoked Fish Corporation. WKRG is
(14:45):
reporting that Costco's also has chicken products from Bruce Pack.
Bruce Pack had that lysteria scare and also ready to
eat wies, red uds, al Monterey and Reina. So just
check with the Costco products with their chicken and salmon
(15:07):
and make sure they're okay. Star Ledger back on this
Bruce Pack that it's not only in ready tea chicken,
it's chicken, salad, wraps, sandwiches, burritos, pasta. So the Spruce
pack was contaminated. It may not be anymore. Remember that's
my disclaimer. Eggs having salmonilla, Milo Poultry Farm, Tori's Fresh
(15:33):
Market Duck eggs from Happy Quakers Farm have salmonilla. Fox
reports that Cantaloupe melons have salmonella, and that's from Eco
Produce with a brand name called Candy Candy with a
qu usa. Make sure your apple cider is pasteurized. I
(15:55):
did not know that you can get apple cider that's
not pasteurized because it can be contaminated. Fox increase arsenic
in apple juice at Walmart's. I did not know that
either apple juice Walmarts. It's the Refresco Beverages. Okay, guys,
a lot of names here. This is the arsenic and
(16:17):
apple juice. You're ready great value market basket wise Urban Meadow,
Gale Vita, Nature's Nectar, Clover Valley and Wellesley Farms Arsenic
and apple juice. HP said that hood lactate milk has almonds.
(16:38):
Nothing wrong with it. If you're not allergic to amens,
I drink. I drink almond milk myself. But this is
lactaid milk. It's not supposed to have nuts in it.
Oh boy, we're still seeing lead and cinnamon, cinnamon and
spice blends, multi splice powders, cinnamon powders. You're ready for
(16:59):
this year? Let me read them all. Paraz bgn, Mimi Shopwright,
Rannie Zara, three rivers, u Ye belly fang, spicy King Bodia,
and deep cinnamon lead. You get lead poison. Just a
(17:24):
few more of these, you guys. Fox says that Simbalta,
you know, the antiicepressant also known as duloxetine. Simbalta very
popular drug. I didn't realize has some cancer closing toxic
chemicals and it was recalled. Let should check with your
psychiatrist on that. Readers die chest, Oh boy, let's get
(17:47):
to the dogs now. This is going to the dogs.
This is bad salmonella and lysteria and dog food. Have
you heard about this? Answers Pet, Answers Pet, and Darwin's
Natural pet products. Okay, those were the recalls. Let's move
on to other healthcare news. CNN. We are beginning to
(18:11):
see some acute plascid myelitis. That's the polio like virus
from our typical summer flues. We call introvirus type sixty eight.
It's you know this is I'm still seeing it. Rhino
into virus. It goes right through the fall, all through
the summer, but this particular one can paralyze the kids.
(18:32):
I haven't seen it myself, you guys, I've seen some
that were suspicious, but apparently it's starting to rise, and
star Ledger reminds us that the hooping cough is going up.
I've been using a lot of xytromax citromycin chloritromycin because
(18:53):
both the mycoplasma and pneumonia going around and the hooping
cough are sensitive to it. The mycoplasma is a walking pneumonia,
so you can get both protessis and micoplasma zithromax and
we're seeing a lot of that now. Mosquito viruses. It's
starting to get warm again, even though it's starting to
(19:14):
get cold. Eastern equine encephalitis very rare, but it's a killer.
West Nile more common. It can kill two. It has
in New Jersey Dengey, usually from the south, but it
can be here. That Beisia, which is a malaria like parasite,
and the red cells is also here now. The ticks
(19:35):
er Lichiosis anaplacia palastin virus, lime disease, so ticks, mosquitoes
whooping called mycoplasma polio like virus ecoli is in cyanob
Ecoli and cyanobacteria are polluting beach lakes and rivers. Oh,
(19:59):
let's see, this is overseas reuters. In case you guys
are traveling, there's a drug resistant IMPOS. You have been
reading about this every day. They've been reporting for a
couple months. You know, IMPOS, that monkey pox thing. They
call it IMPOS. They have some resistance to the drugs,
(20:19):
but they have a vaccine for it, and they suggest
to get vaccinated, like if be going to Africa or
one of those countries. Let's see, drug resistance has been reported,
so both with the IMPOS and with typhoid. In Pakistan
there's been some typhoid resistance to drugs. What's this morning
(20:44):
Rounds newsletter. That's the first time I'm using that one.
The oral pouch virus in Cuba and South America. You
remember we reported on that. That's similar to that one
that zekav iris a couple of years ago giving babies
re born with small heads and all, and they get
(21:08):
it damages the babies and oral pass virus is similar.
Let's see Independent News UK. Oh this is nice. UK
has a rapid prostate cancer test and that was from
Aston University in Britain. Now you know, I just have
my prostate checked. I get the prostate PSA prostate amagen test,
(21:32):
but that's before you get cancer to see if you're
if it's going up. This is a rapid test saying
if you have cancer. And that's really interesting. Star Ledger
reminds us the IV fluids are hard to come by
because Baxter plant in North Carolina was hit by remember
Hurricane Milton and Helene that took down the plant. So
(21:55):
a lot of hospitals are cutting down on elective surgeries
because they can't get intravenous fluids. Oh, this is exciting.
There's an islet cell transfer. You know, with diabetes and
the pancreas or islet cells that make insulin are destroyed.
The body destroys them, it thinks it attacks them, and
(22:16):
they can now take somebody's islet cells, put it in
your liver and cure your diabetes. It's being done in
a few places. I don't know how common it is,
but that's very exciting. There's an ebola light virus called
lass of fever. They killed somebody in Iowa. They came
back from West Africa. You know, we get these ebola
(22:38):
likee viruses in Africa. Lass of fever. It has different
different names and they're all really scary. Last thing on
the other healthcare news would be about somebody that almost
died of a toxic shock syndrome. That's with staff using
a tampon for eight hours and they I don't know
(23:00):
if you guys remember this, but I'm going back decades
and decades. I've been doing this forty years. The big
scare of that took tampons, Women's tampon monthly protection off
the market was they were infected with staff and I
guess they're coming back now decades later. But here this
(23:20):
lady almost died, so you know, vote your conscience on
that one. Let's move on to the last topic. So
we're wrapping up pretty good, not too much more of
you guys. On health and safety tips, Fox says that
Fisher Price is recalling two million infant swings, five dieds
(23:43):
sleeping in them. Oh man, these are always heartbreaking stories.
You know, I'm a pediatrician, you guys, I hear stuff
like this. You just want to cry. It's horrible. Put
your baby to sleep and it dies in one of
these things. Consumer Report is calling for a ban on
baby walkers, and the American Academy of Pediatrics agrees with that. Yeah,
(24:05):
this has been tossed around for the forty years since
I've been practicing, and even before that. You know, is
it okay to have a baby walker? Is it okay
to happen? I've been swing, so I guess some babies die,
so they gotta be careful. Let's see CNN. The George
Institute Global Health in Australia. Oh, this is scary, you guys.
(24:27):
They found that sixty percent six to oh, sixty percent
of six hundred and fifty one tested baby foods do
not meet nutrient guidelines. Man, you can't trust the baby foods.
What's next? Okay? CNN Swiss study, this is not good.
(24:48):
Two hundred chemicals that are found in women with breast
cancer came from or are are also found. You can't
say it came from all. I also found in food packaging,
plastic tableware, paper, and cardboard containers. So the same chemicals
that we're eating out of somehow contributed or were found
(25:13):
in the women with breast cancer. So I don't know
if it caused it or it was just happened to
be there, But who wants to take a chance. So
I and I think it affects the rest of us too,
So we probably should be careful about what we're eating
our food out of pfas, benzene, taliudene, PCB, and fact tissue.
(25:37):
You know, all these chemicals. It's scary. So they're basically
saying if you microwave used glass, because I guess if
you microwave food packaging. I used to just take the
food package I got it, you know, the store. I
picked out the food I wanted and I put it
in a microwave in the store. I didn't know I
was releasing chemicals. And I've been using plastic spoons know forever,
(26:01):
So who knows what's in my body? But okay, good
to know. Here's one you probably don't think of very often.
Avoid bread made with potassium bromide, potassium bromide, fructose corn syrup,
and hydrogenated oils. So I don't know. I never think
(26:22):
about that in bread, but I guess it's there. NPR
talks about the fathalates. That's in hair and skin care products.
That's poisoning our children, the pathalates. So I guess you
got to look in what you put on your hair
and cover your skin for your children and probably yourself.
(26:47):
This was reported by the Journal of Environmental Health Perspectives Perspectives,
and it's affecting children. They looked in children four to
eight years old. Let's see, I've got some One of
my favorite people I follow, what's Jill Kubala have. He
warns that the red yeast imrice can increase side effects
(27:12):
of statins because both inhibit cholesterol production. I did not
know that. I know people say that the red yeast
and rice can lower your cholesterol. I didn't know it
works it the same way as a statin, so that
you can actually get side effects of a statin. You
know some people got muscle legs from statins and things
(27:34):
by using both. I didn't know. Well, I guess you
just have to ask your cardiologists about that, or your
your internest. Let's see. Laura Schober warns of medicine that
can decrease your magnesium levels. You guys, I did not
know this. This phosphonates we take for low for weak bones.
A lot of us with weak bones. The phosphinates PPIs
(27:58):
have been on that for decades, you know, for the
acid and zinc. All of that. If you're on zinc
can also lower magnesium. Well, just do like me, take
magnesium too. That's what I do. Daily meal, daily meal.
The blue label on a tuna can means there's good
fishing practices. Oh good, you got something positive. Okay, listen
(28:21):
with a few other positive things. Karen Ansel breakfast foods
to relieve constipation. I think you know most of these
whole grain cereal, kiweeds, blackberries, cheese, seeds, and chema helps
keep your regular. Synthia SaaS talks about pumpkin seeds. They
(28:43):
have antioxidants, fiber, magnesium, zinc, iron, protein, All the good
stuff even comes as pumpkin seed butter. But she warns
that too much of it can put on calories because
there are one hundred and sixty three calories per ounce,
and with all the fiber can give you gas. So
(29:05):
pumpkins seeds are good. It's that time of year. Happy Halloween,
by the way, you guys, but just be careful how
many you eat? Two more, you guys, almost done? Jessica Ball.
Jessica Ball on high protein veggies. You guys know all
these green peas, spinach, artichokes with corn, avocado, brussels, sprouce, mushroom,
(29:28):
kale and potatoes. And lastly, Emily Laktrup. She mentioned a
whole bunch of high protein meals. I only picked out
a few because we're short on time. Cranberry almond energy balls.
I had never heard of that before. Cranberry almond energy balls.
How about this one black bean brown rice stuffed pepper
(29:52):
that sounds yummy? Seared halibut fish taco. I love halibate
grilled chicken and veggie salad with chicken, sea and sweet potato,
like being taco. All Right, you guys, it was fun
being with you. Happy Halloween, Enjoy a very safe fall,
and we'll hopefully be back to you, if not before Christmas.
(30:15):
Enjoy your holidays, Honiquan, Christmas and New Year. But maybe
I'll catch you before that. Okay, you all take care
of that.
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