July 29, 2025 • 36 mins
This week on Good Day Health, host Doug Stephan teams up with Dr. Ken Kronhaus of Lake Cardiology ((352) 735-1400) to break down the latest in health and medical news. First up, encouraging new research shows that eating two whole eggs a day — with a low saturated fat diet — may actually improve LDL (bad) cholesterol.
They also discuss the importance of consistent sleep schedules and how catching up on missed sleep over the weekend may still benefit heart health.
Other hot topics: how co-sleeping with pets affects sleep quality, the impact of early smartphone use on mental health, the surprising link between insomnia and ADHD, and the cognitive fallout of pandemic-related stress.
Plus, an incredible discovery: dogs trained to detect Parkinson’s and a breakthrough brain circuit that could change how we manage chronic pain conditions like fibromyalgia and PTSD.
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They also discuss the importance of consistent sleep schedules and how catching up on missed sleep over the weekend may still benefit heart health.
Other hot topics: how co-sleeping with pets affects sleep quality, the impact of early smartphone use on mental health, the surprising link between insomnia and ADHD, and the cognitive fallout of pandemic-related stress.
Plus, an incredible discovery: dogs trained to detect Parkinson’s and a breakthrough brain circuit that could change how we manage chronic pain conditions like fibromyalgia and PTSD.
Website: GoodDayHealthrShow.com
Social Media: @GoodDayNetworks
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is the week.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
When we talk a lot about your brains and how
your brain activity patterns. This, that and the other thing.
Lots of brain news this week, but we start first
with some good news about eggs because for a long
time what Ken is going to dispel has been on
your mind and my mind. I'm not much of an
egg eater, although I don't mind having it and things
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that I eat, but I don't go out of my
way to have eggs by my cellphone and whether it
be fried or boiled or whatever. But the news has
to do with you and your cholesterol level. So those
of you who like eggs but have stayed away from them,
you might want to listen to what Ken has to say.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hi, Doug, great to be with you again.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Everything that I'm going to talk about now about eggs
was published this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrients,
and this is a very good study and it deals
with our eggs hard healthy or not. And the way
to understand this is you have to think about both
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cholesterol and saturated fat. And they're a different item measured
in all foods. And what has led us to recommend
that you minimize especially your yolks and eggs, is because
the egg yolk itself has about two hundred and fifty
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milligrams of cholesterol, and most dietitians will recommend trying to
keep your cholesterol total daily intake to about two hundred
and fifty milligrams of cholesterol. So commonly it's been recommended
to take three to four eggs per week, no.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
More than one per day.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
And now we're talking about yolks, and you can eat
essentially as much egg white as you want because egg
white is almost all protein, and it's not saturated fat,
it's not cholesterol, it's the yolk where all of the
cholesterol resides.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Groundbreaking study American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. They gave people
in this study two full eggs, egg white, and egg
yolks a day, and they broke the samples in the
study down to two eggs with very low saturated fat,
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normal saturated fat, and high saturated fat diet. You know,
now we're talking about the bacon and the sausage dug,
the high saturated fat foods and lo and behold. What
they discovered in this well controlled, well performed study is
that if you have two eggs that's egg white and
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egg yolks per day and minimal saturated fat, you actually
have a lower bad cholesterol LDL than the people who
ate the two eggs, or the people who with the
high saturated fat, or even people who did not eat
any eggs. So the take home message from this is
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it seems to be safe to eat two egg yolks
and whites per day as long as your saturated fat
intake is very low. And again the important thing in
this study is it may not apply to everybody. Because
they took people in this study with an LDL cholesterol
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of about one hundred. It averaged about one oh five
with the goal for this group of under one hundred. Now,
there are many of us who need our LDL much lower,
and these are people who have plaque in their coronaries.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
These are people who have elevated life of protein.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
A maybe if you have a history of diabetes, so
the study doesn't apply to everybody, But if you have
normal corneries, no diabetes, minimal risk factors for heart disease,
and UH, your target for your l D l which
probably only your doctor can tell you is under one hundred.
Enjoy your two eggs per day if you'd like, but
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just very much limit the saturated fat. Things like holding
the bacon and the sausage with the rest of breakfast.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Just special.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Those don't have saturated fat in them. Just limit the
saturated fat. But good news about those who love eggs.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Do you like eggs? I do like like.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Eggs, and I've been but I've been limiting my yolks
to one a day, three to four days a week,
and I I might have two egg whites a day.
But and yes, I like eggs, and but that's been
the customary safe love. And am I going to be
comfortable to put two egg yolks.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
In my mouth a day? Boy? Can you teach a
dog new tricks?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't know, not me.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I just think the gooiness of them. Just when I
think about a chicken growing in that yoke, it just
turns me off completely.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
So, I mean, there are proteins and eggs. I mean
they're extremely healthy, just hard hard boil it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I boil them and give my dog one every day,
and I take a bite out of the one I
give to the dog.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Very slowly so you don't damage the protein.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yes, exactly, all right.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Because doctor Ken is a well known cardiologist, I'm going
to go to another area here, uh for his expertise
and a related story, the sleep quality target. If you
want to have good cardiovascular health, this is an important
and that should mean all of us, right, we should
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all be interested in having good cardiovascular health.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Why would you not?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So what's the American Heart Association saying about sleep and
cardiovascular health?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Can well?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
The American Heart Association made a statement this week that
emphasizes DOUG the importance of multi dimensional sleep health beyond
just the duration, signaling a growing recognition of sleep's critical
role DUG in cardiovascular well being. And this is a
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significant shift in clinical focus for US cardiologists. So the
key is that you need both quantity about seven hours
per night of sleep, and you need high quality sleep.
And if you're not sure whether you have both, just
talk to a doctor. And fortunately we now have a
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sleep specialist who can help. But not having high quality,
not having seven to eight hours a night of sleep,
can lead to cardiology havoc.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
All right, so let's ask a clarification. We'll question here
those of us. The years and years and years of
almost six decades of me doing radio in the morning
led me to not get as much sleep as I
might even though I had naps and stuff I might
not have I might have gotten four hours, five hours
at the most six hours a night. And then I thought, okay,
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well I can catch up. And now that I'm not
having to do a daily morning radio program. Some nights
I work until one or two o'clock in the morning,
and then.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I get up at eight.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Some nights I go to bed at ten or eleven
o'clock and still wake up at eight.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Is that balancing it out?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Well, I'll tell you what the sleep specialist tell me,
and I try my best. Am I perfect here?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I am not.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
But the sleep specialists who study this do the research.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
We'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
For the highest quality of sleep, you want to go
to bed and wake up approximately the same time each day. Now,
if you can't do that, make up sleep. It's been
a little controversial, but the latest research shows that make
up sleep is good. It's not quite as good as
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the original mode that I suggested. But for those of
us like myself and you, who can't always go to
sleep at the same time wake up at the same time.
Just getting those seven to eight hours at other portions
of the clock is almost as good.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But if you can't.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Even get enough sleep one night, what I'll do when
I can't get enough sleep on the weekends, I won't
set an alarm and I will just allow my body
to take what it wants and make it up. And
that is not quite as good is doing it the
way I suggested the first way, but that is a
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good alternative if you don't have any choices, it's better
than leaving that sleep deficit alone. So filling it up
when you can without an alarm and just letting your
body let you know when it needs to wake up
is a good, healthy alternative.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I have an alarm and the four legged one who is.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Right next to me getting me out of.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Well, that's that's been studied, and that you know, I
don't mean you know, I know how much you love
your four legged but that will interfere with the quality
of sleep, and that's been identified by sleep by sleep
researchers as something that needs to be watched, because you know,
having a dog or cat sleep in the bed with
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you will lower the quality of your sleep.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
And if there are some issues comfortable.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, I will tell you though.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It depends on the animal.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, I think that's probably that's it. What they were,
the nudges.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
She's pretty good about being on her side, if you will,
and me beyond my side. And one of the things
that interferes with me is getting up a couple of
times during the night to go have a pee. I
think that you wonder whether that interferes enough to make
it not a good night's sleep.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
But I have to our age do.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
That well, well, that can definitely interfere with the quality
of sleep. And now we're getting into into the details
of quality, not quantity, and what it means in a
guy your age is do I need to talk to
the urologist and see if there's a prostate issue. And
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then the other thing is balancing. And then the other
item is balancing the amount of fluid that you take
close to bedtime. If you don't take enough, you'll wake
up with muscle cramps. If you take too much, you'll
wake up too much. You have that you have to
figure out for yourself so you can thread that needle.
If you're waking up too much to urinate, make sure
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the urologist checks you out and there's no prostate issue
because that is correctable.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Doctor Ken from Lake Cardiology and how Dua, Florida is
here with our usual get together Good Day Health. Goodday
Healthshow dot Com is where you can get you can
unload lots of these great conversations. We have hundreds and
hundreds of hours of them. Most recently we had a
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Speaker 2 (11:55):
Three five two seven three five.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Fourteen fourteen hundred coming up a discussion of your brain,
rather extensive conversation about that, and we also have some
smartphone info coming right up as well.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You're on Good Day Health.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Hi, Doug Stephan Here, I'm with doctor Ken Cronhaus on
Good Day Health. You know, one of the things though
that I have taken pride in over the years that
you have encouraged me to do. This is to be
cognizant of my own health, to be aware, to find
out what the truth is about what's going on in
my body.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
That's what I prefer. Some people don't want to know.
I want to know. So that's why we're here to
discuss the.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Things that have come out during the course of the week,
some of the journals of medicine that Ken reads and
then he.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Interprets how it affects you and your life.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And so let's talk about smartphones and how horrible they are.
This is something I guess it's an age. I want
to know about the ages because it looks like it
might help sometimes with developing minds, depending on what you're
doing with it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I guess, sir, is.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That is there a qualifier here or is it just
keep the heck away from the smartphones and the screens?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Well more to let's go over this because mom and
dad get close to the speaker because this is so important.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Every mother and father needs to know.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
About the results just published this week Journal of Human
Development and Capabilities. So in this study, kids given a
smartphone when they are younger than thirteen, Doug tend to
have poorer mental health and well being. Specifically, people between
eighteen and twenty four who got their first smartphone at
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twelve or younger have higher odds of suicidal thoughts, aggression,
detachment from reality, poorer emotional regulation, and low self worth.
Early exposure to toxic social media explains much of the
link between young smartphone access and poorer mental health DOUG,
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but I think other contributing factors may also include cyber bullying,
disrupted sleep, which we just talked about, and poor family relationships.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You know how many of us now eat.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Over the dinner table as a family versus watching our
phones and eating alone. So just I think that the
take home from this is to keep the smartphone away
from the kids younger than thirteen if you can.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Good luck, but.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Try Yeah, right exactly. Some parents have straw.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
My daughter and my son don't necessarily agree on that,
although my grandsons neither of them will have a personal
cell phone anywhere near close to being twelve or thirteen.
But it's interesting as to screen time even and how
that affects which you're doing what you want to do
with your time. Let's go back for a minute to
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something we were talking about sleep quality and what you
need to do to make sure your heart is strong.
There's a study about insomnia and how that may be
a link between ADHD and other things in life that
are important.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So do you want to stretch this out for us Ken.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Yeah, sure, Doug. There's some new research that suggest that
insomnia could be the reason why adults with ADHD traits
report a lower quality of life. Addressing sleep issues could
be a vital component, Doug, of improving overall well being
for individuals with ADHD. So if you have this, and
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it's unfortunately common, just talk to the doctor about improving
your sleep quality.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It's just it's it's I think it's the most important thing.
I can feel it when I don't have like it
used to be a measure. And Bob Kay, who's our
producer on this program, has heard me say this one
hundred times. You've heard me say it once when I
was getting up everyone and we talk about sleep on
the air. I knew at six hours and thirteen minutes
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that I'd had enough sleep. Isn't that interesting If I
it was like six hours and ten minutes I fell groggy.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It was six hours and twenty minutes. I felt fine.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
So however that adds into her goes into the quirkiness
of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and to
talk about all right, lots of brain conversations coming up
here In the next segment of Good Day Health, doctor
Ken Cronhaus is here.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I'm Doug Stephan. Twenty eight after the Hour. Elizabeth Miller
is here.
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Speaker 2 (17:43):
That there is.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Last week I said we did an update on COVID nineteen,
and so this week we have even more on how
it may be that pandemic, that those years of us
living a different life, what they may have done to
your brain, Doug.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
I think this is a story that you will find interesting.
There's a new study out this week that suggests that
the COVID nineteen pandemic, Doug, may have accelerated brain aging,
but even in individuals who are never infected with the virus.
This highlights a broader public health concern regarding the pandemic's
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long term neurologic impact. This finding emphasizes the need for
continued research into the indirect effects DOUG of widespread public
health crisis and on cognitive health how well we can think, remember,
and it could prompt new strategies for mitigating stress and
promoting brain health in the general population, because the question is,
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how are people who are not even infected with the
virus having aging problems with the brain, accelerated aging of
the brain, which is definitely what none of us want.
And my read on this is just the overwhelming mental
stress that occurred during COVID has now accelerated the brains
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of many, if not all, of us.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
So stress once again rears its ugly head. One of
the things that I like or appreciate or try to
understand in that watch that you the wearables that doctor
I was gonna say, doctor Kennedy, mister Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Talks about it. You certainly do. You've been fixing your patients.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Up with these wearables, This watch that monitors all kinds
of things regarding your cardiovascular health, stress, that sort of thing.
So I look at mine, and it really is there's
a wild Then you may have seen some of the
stuff when I put the watch on and watch it.
I watch the watch as it measures some of these things,
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and I can go from a twelve on the stress
scale to a forty three, and I don't think I'm
doing anything different. So whether you think you are, maybe
your brain is whatever is measured, Your brain may be
off on a different tangent, and then you are physically.
It depends on how I think a lot of things,
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like how you slept, what was your what gear was
your brain in while you were asleep, all of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
And then everybody's.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Different, their chemistry is different, and wouldn't that play into
how your brain ages as well.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Ken Absolutely all of the above. But just to explain
to people what you're talking about, medicare especially a big
study a few years ago showing that when we monitor
outside of the office certain parameters, we can keep you
out of the hospital, we can keep you out of
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the emergency room. And for certain patients, even the enlightened
insurers are covering these wearables or these monitors outside of
the office, and we can provide much better care. What
Doug's talking about is this high tech watch that we
give our patients. Certain patients, especially people have high blood pressure,
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high cholesterol, have mental stress, issues, have heart rhythm issues,
have inadequate blood flow to the heart issues. And this
amazing work that was done at Mount Sinai Medical School
during COVID in New York City in twenty twenty, when
the mental stress level was incredibly.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
High, proved this theory.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
In cardiology, an item called heart rate variability the time
from beat to beat which you normally have a little
bit of difference in time from beat to beat called
heart rate variability. This heart rate variability goes away when
you get mentally stressed. And that's what the watch measuring
your pulse right by your wrist measures as well as
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heart rate acceleration. It easily puts your heart your mental
silk stress on a scale from one to one hundred.
Less than fifty is your goal. And we're not built
with this feedback of how our mental stress level is.
And that's why so much illness occurs because of excessive
mental stress, which leads to inflammation of the body, which
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just destroys the body from head to toe. So keeping
the mental stress under control is a fantastic way, especially
in the heart in the coronaries, to keep the inflammation down,
to keep the organs healthy, and we can now measure this,
and as Doug fantastically tells us, all of us, we
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often don't know how mentally stressed we are. And that's
where this monitor around your wrist. It looks like a watch.
It is a watch. It has time, a date, an alarm.
It looks like an Apple watch, but because a Hippi,
it does everything on an Apple watch does, but much more.
Except it can't be a phone because of Hippo. But
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it does give immediate response to Doug his blood pressure,
his heart rate, his oxygenation, his mental stress, even many
more items. And this is bluetooth to his phone and
over the internet. It comes right to my phone immediately,
so I can see how he's doing.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
There, you go, all right, let's talk about your brain
in a different way. There's an interesting overview of your
of what goes on in your brain microscopically by using
and the MRI that goes for anything in your body, though,
doesn't it if you have an MRI of your like
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I'm having one of my heart next week, the brain
joints to whatever part of your body needs attention. So
is this pretty much the same thing we're talking about
the brain? But isn't the MRI usable for all kinds
of things that are microscopic.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Not so much.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
This is a true medical breakthrough. It's new technology, and
it's a breakthrough in a new MRI DOUG that actually
is the next generation MRI system. It's capable of non
invasively imaging tiny nerve structures that are disrupted in various
brain disorders. And this could actually revolutionize the diagnosis and
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understanding of neurologic conditions. This comes out of a National
Institutes of Health news event. This advancement could offer unprecedented
detail and brain imaging DOUG, potentially leading to early and
more precise diagnoses for conditions like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other neurodigestion.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
We all have this screening.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Well, it's when it comes to locally, you know, these
breakthrough technologies they start at the big institutions, the research institutions,
and eventually make their way to the corner drug store.
And it will and this will open new avenues for
studying the brain's intricate kind of activity. It gives us
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new hope for major break through in Alzheimer's, which everybody's
on the edge of their seat waiting for.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
All Right, some more information about your brain and brain activity.
Coming up here are Good Day Health doctor Ken Cronhaus
here as usual this week. Goodday Healthshow dot Com is
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there are for those of us who pretty much are optimistic,
we belong to the optimist club. It looks like we
benefit from that in lots of different ways, including how
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your brain works.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Right exactly, Doug. This comes out of the medical journals
this week. Optimistic individuals. They exhibit similar patterns of brain
activity when imagining future events, particularly in distinguishing positive from
negative scenarios. This neural convergence, Doug, may explain why optimists
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experience greater emotional clarity and social connection. This neuroscientific insight
into optimism could have implications for mental health interventions, potentially
leading to new approaches Doug to foster positive thinking and
improve well being. And you know, you intuitively have felt this.
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It's been now proven, and I think this is going
to help us to better understand the brain going forward.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
It sure, it sounds like it sounds so natural and
so smart.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Okay, here's a focus on a brain circuit it made
fuel fibromyalgia.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
How would that be? How does that work?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
What would this is something that we could probably find
by looking at that MRI scanner you were talking about.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Probably Doug Science at the Salk Institute have just uncovered
a hidden brain circuit that intensifies the emotional component of pain,
potentially explaining why pain can feel unbearable in conditions like fibromyalgia, migraine,
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and PTSD. Targeting this circuit could lead to new pain
management strategies. You know, this is so exciting because they're
you know, I take taking care of people like this
for decades, and you'll notice, any of the caretakers, there's
a subset of people who get just overwhelmed by these issues,
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and there's many of the rest of us who barely
notice it. Now, folks who are in this group, you're
not crazy. It's actually been determined that there are structural differences.
So those of you with fibromyalgia, migraines, and PTSD who
get overwhelmed so much more than the rest of the population,
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you're not crazy.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
This is real.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yep, all this stuff is real.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Coming up questions for doctor Ken, including something that those
of you who have dogs may be interested to hear.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
There are lots of stories.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I have a website and I also have a Facebook
page that's connected to lots of animal news because I
love to see the dogs and their friends, other dogs
and people and all that good stuff and how wonderful
that is for your heart health and everything else in
your body. So let's talk about I have a good
(30:39):
question about dogs, and we'll get to that in a
matter of moments. As we get started with questions for
doctor Ken Hi Doug Stephan Here, I'm with doctor Ken
Cronhous on Good Day Health. Dogs are trained to do
all kinds. I think they sniff out answer. I guess
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you can train a dog to do almost anything when
it comes to health.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Right, Is that sort of where we're going.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Well, I think it just demonstrates how powerful the nose
of a dog is their ability to smell. And this
is in the Ripley's believe it or not category, but
it's real science.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Doug.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
There's this new study, as you're suggesting, has actually demonstrated
that trained dogs can reliably detect the odor associated with
Parkinson's disease from skin swaps. This unique diagnostic approach, Doug,
could lead to earlier detection and intervention for Parkinson's disease.
So this is an exciting way to diagnose Parkinson's.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
So let's say you think you have a problem, and
you have it, you go to a doctor and he
sends you a mixer of referral to somebody specializes in Parkinson's.
Is that doctor going to know is he going to
be aware or is she going to be aware of
this thing with dog to help figure out whether you've
got it or not?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Maybe if you're at a major research center, because this
is cutting edge and it takes a while for these
things to get to the local corner doctor. So if
you go to the local corner doctor, you may not.
But if you're going to a medical school where they're
doing research, you might see something like this. And it
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doesn't necessarily mean you get the right care the wrong care,
but usually you'll get referred to the medical school when
you have an unusual case. They can't figure it out
what the current methods we have. So it doesn't mean
that everybody who needs a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease will
need to have a dog smell their skin. It means
that there are often patients that we see as physicians
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and we can't figure out the diagnosis, and these patients
are the ones who often get referred to the medical
school where they're have these select tools for uniquely diagnosing problems,
and that's where you may get it. You know, the
Male Clinic is famous for this kind of care. You
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know the medical schools like where I went to Penn
and Duke and you see San Francisco, you.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Know where you are in Harvard.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
This is the kind of procedure where patients who are
just undiagnosed because they either have an unusual presentation of
a common problem or a very very rare problem, and
they need unconventional methods for diagnosing.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
And this is where this will occur.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
So if you have an issue that the doctor, your
local neurologist says, I can't figure out the diagnosis. This
might be Parkinson's. But with the tools we have for
diagnosing Parkinson's, then do a little research and find a
research center that's using this technique and it may confirm
the diagnosis. But this is not needed for for most
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patients with Parkinson's. It just gives us an extra tool
for those who can't be diagnosed, and that each doctor,
all of us, are challenged by a few patients in
our practice trying to make the diagnosis well.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
One of the things that I find compelling when talking
about things like this are just really pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
How I don't know how pieces fit together. And that's
why the research.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
I find myself more and more talking to doctors in
my world that have been trained at Toughs. I'm using
the tough system, and now because I like it, I do.
If I need to go to mass General, I do.
But I like Toughs as well. And more and more
people say that they've gone to Toughts for this, that
and the other thing. So there's another there are good
(34:51):
memory is good, I think when you know, talk about
good schools from medicine, right, don't you think that Emory?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I'm trying to think of some of the other.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Sure, if I was in Atlanta and I was wondering
whether I had Parkinson's disease, and the local neurologists could
not figure me out, probably refer me over to Hamory.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah right, Well, as they said more and more of
these Now I wonder how many of these schools are
in danger of having funds cut because of the activity
in Washington. I have not asked that question, frankly, as
there are a lot of things that you and I
agree on that are going on in the world of
medicine and medical care under mister Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
That are good.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I'm not sure that some of the things we've heard
about this particular study or these studies being cut, I'm
not you know, maybe it's too early to tell, frankly,
to make a decision, but I know a lot of
doctors are questioning what's going on, and so that's what
we all do.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Frankly, we should all.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Be questioning what's going on, asking questions and getting answers.
That's what doctor Ken is all about. From Lake Cardiology
down in Mondua, Florida. Thank you, thank you for joining
as Ken.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
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Speaker 2 (00:08):
This is the week.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
When we talk a lot about your brains and how
your brain activity patterns. This, that and the other thing.
Lots of brain news this week, but we start first
with some good news about eggs because for a long
time what Ken is going to dispel has been on
your mind and my mind. I'm not much of an
egg eater, although I don't mind having it and things
(00:31):
that I eat, but I don't go out of my
way to have eggs by my cellphone and whether it
be fried or boiled or whatever. But the news has
to do with you and your cholesterol level. So those
of you who like eggs but have stayed away from them,
you might want to listen to what Ken has to say.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Hi, Doug, great to be with you again.
Speaker 4 (00:52):
Everything that I'm going to talk about now about eggs
was published this week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrients,
and this is a very good study and it deals
with our eggs hard healthy or not. And the way
to understand this is you have to think about both
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cholesterol and saturated fat. And they're a different item measured
in all foods. And what has led us to recommend
that you minimize especially your yolks and eggs, is because
the egg yolk itself has about two hundred and fifty
(01:33):
milligrams of cholesterol, and most dietitians will recommend trying to
keep your cholesterol total daily intake to about two hundred
and fifty milligrams of cholesterol. So commonly it's been recommended
to take three to four eggs per week, no.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
More than one per day.
Speaker 4 (01:55):
And now we're talking about yolks, and you can eat
essentially as much egg white as you want because egg
white is almost all protein, and it's not saturated fat,
it's not cholesterol, it's the yolk where all of the
cholesterol resides.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Well.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Groundbreaking study American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. They gave people
in this study two full eggs, egg white, and egg
yolks a day, and they broke the samples in the
study down to two eggs with very low saturated fat,
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normal saturated fat, and high saturated fat diet. You know,
now we're talking about the bacon and the sausage dug,
the high saturated fat foods and lo and behold. What
they discovered in this well controlled, well performed study is
that if you have two eggs that's egg white and
(02:54):
egg yolks per day and minimal saturated fat, you actually
have a lower bad cholesterol LDL than the people who
ate the two eggs, or the people who with the
high saturated fat, or even people who did not eat
any eggs. So the take home message from this is
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it seems to be safe to eat two egg yolks
and whites per day as long as your saturated fat
intake is very low. And again the important thing in
this study is it may not apply to everybody. Because
they took people in this study with an LDL cholesterol
(03:39):
of about one hundred. It averaged about one oh five
with the goal for this group of under one hundred. Now,
there are many of us who need our LDL much lower,
and these are people who have plaque in their coronaries.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
These are people who have elevated life of protein.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
A maybe if you have a history of diabetes, so
the study doesn't apply to everybody, But if you have
normal corneries, no diabetes, minimal risk factors for heart disease,
and UH, your target for your l D l which
probably only your doctor can tell you is under one hundred.
Enjoy your two eggs per day if you'd like, but
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just very much limit the saturated fat. Things like holding
the bacon and the sausage with the rest of breakfast.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
Just special.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Those don't have saturated fat in them. Just limit the
saturated fat. But good news about those who love eggs.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Do you like eggs? I do like like.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Eggs, and I've been but I've been limiting my yolks
to one a day, three to four days a week,
and I I might have two egg whites a day.
But and yes, I like eggs, and but that's been
the customary safe love. And am I going to be
comfortable to put two egg yolks.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
In my mouth a day? Boy? Can you teach a
dog new tricks?
Speaker 2 (05:10):
I don't know, not me.
Speaker 1 (05:11):
I just think the gooiness of them. Just when I
think about a chicken growing in that yoke, it just
turns me off completely.
Speaker 4 (05:21):
So, I mean, there are proteins and eggs. I mean
they're extremely healthy, just hard hard boil it.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
I boil them and give my dog one every day,
and I take a bite out of the one I
give to the dog.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Very slowly so you don't damage the protein.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Yes, exactly, all right.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Because doctor Ken is a well known cardiologist, I'm going
to go to another area here, uh for his expertise
and a related story, the sleep quality target. If you
want to have good cardiovascular health, this is an important
and that should mean all of us, right, we should
(06:02):
all be interested in having good cardiovascular health.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Why would you not?
Speaker 1 (06:07):
So what's the American Heart Association saying about sleep and
cardiovascular health?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Can well?
Speaker 4 (06:15):
The American Heart Association made a statement this week that
emphasizes DOUG the importance of multi dimensional sleep health beyond
just the duration, signaling a growing recognition of sleep's critical
role DUG in cardiovascular well being. And this is a
(06:36):
significant shift in clinical focus for US cardiologists. So the
key is that you need both quantity about seven hours
per night of sleep, and you need high quality sleep.
And if you're not sure whether you have both, just
talk to a doctor. And fortunately we now have a
(06:57):
sleep specialist who can help. But not having high quality,
not having seven to eight hours a night of sleep,
can lead to cardiology havoc.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
All right, so let's ask a clarification. We'll question here
those of us. The years and years and years of
almost six decades of me doing radio in the morning
led me to not get as much sleep as I
might even though I had naps and stuff I might
not have I might have gotten four hours, five hours
at the most six hours a night. And then I thought, okay,
(07:32):
well I can catch up. And now that I'm not
having to do a daily morning radio program. Some nights
I work until one or two o'clock in the morning,
and then.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
I get up at eight.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
Some nights I go to bed at ten or eleven
o'clock and still wake up at eight.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Is that balancing it out?
Speaker 4 (07:50):
Well, I'll tell you what the sleep specialist tell me,
and I try my best. Am I perfect here?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I am not.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
But the sleep specialists who study this do the research.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
We'll tell you.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
For the highest quality of sleep, you want to go
to bed and wake up approximately the same time each day. Now,
if you can't do that, make up sleep. It's been
a little controversial, but the latest research shows that make
up sleep is good. It's not quite as good as
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the original mode that I suggested. But for those of
us like myself and you, who can't always go to
sleep at the same time wake up at the same time.
Just getting those seven to eight hours at other portions
of the clock is almost as good.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
But if you can't.
Speaker 4 (08:42):
Even get enough sleep one night, what I'll do when
I can't get enough sleep on the weekends, I won't
set an alarm and I will just allow my body
to take what it wants and make it up. And
that is not quite as good is doing it the
way I suggested the first way, but that is a
(09:04):
good alternative if you don't have any choices, it's better
than leaving that sleep deficit alone. So filling it up
when you can without an alarm and just letting your
body let you know when it needs to wake up
is a good, healthy alternative.
Speaker 1 (09:21):
I have an alarm and the four legged one who is.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Right next to me getting me out of.
Speaker 4 (09:30):
Well, that's that's been studied, and that you know, I
don't mean you know, I know how much you love
your four legged but that will interfere with the quality
of sleep, and that's been identified by sleep by sleep
researchers as something that needs to be watched, because you know,
having a dog or cat sleep in the bed with
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you will lower the quality of your sleep.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
And if there are some issues comfortable.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Well, I will tell you though.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
It depends on the animal.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, I think that's probably that's it. What they were,
the nudges.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
She's pretty good about being on her side, if you will,
and me beyond my side. And one of the things
that interferes with me is getting up a couple of
times during the night to go have a pee. I
think that you wonder whether that interferes enough to make
it not a good night's sleep.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
But I have to our age do.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
That well, well, that can definitely interfere with the quality
of sleep. And now we're getting into into the details
of quality, not quantity, and what it means in a
guy your age is do I need to talk to
the urologist and see if there's a prostate issue. And
(10:48):
then the other thing is balancing. And then the other
item is balancing the amount of fluid that you take
close to bedtime. If you don't take enough, you'll wake
up with muscle cramps. If you take too much, you'll
wake up too much. You have that you have to
figure out for yourself so you can thread that needle.
If you're waking up too much to urinate, make sure
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the urologist checks you out and there's no prostate issue
because that is correctable.
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Doctor Ken from Lake Cardiology and how Dua, Florida is
here with our usual get together Good Day Health. Goodday
Healthshow dot Com is where you can get you can
unload lots of these great conversations. We have hundreds and
hundreds of hours of them. Most recently we had a
conversation about COVID nineteen. You want to get the latest
(11:35):
one that you can listen to the most recent podcast
Goodday Healthshow dot Com. Also, doctor Ken is that your
service and on your side every day all day three
five two seven three five fourteen hundred connects you with
his office at Lake Cardiology for you to get an
appointment to go see him, or you can do the
telemedicine routine.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Three five two seven three five.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
Fourteen fourteen hundred coming up a discussion of your brain,
rather extensive conversation about that, and we also have some
smartphone info coming right up as well.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
You're on Good Day Health.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Hi, Doug Stephan Here, I'm with doctor Ken Cronhaus on
Good Day Health. You know, one of the things though
that I have taken pride in over the years that
you have encouraged me to do. This is to be
cognizant of my own health, to be aware, to find
out what the truth is about what's going on in
my body.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
That's what I prefer. Some people don't want to know.
I want to know. So that's why we're here to
discuss the.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Things that have come out during the course of the week,
some of the journals of medicine that Ken reads and
then he.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Interprets how it affects you and your life.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
And so let's talk about smartphones and how horrible they are.
This is something I guess it's an age. I want
to know about the ages because it looks like it
might help sometimes with developing minds, depending on what you're
doing with it.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
I guess, sir, is.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
That is there a qualifier here or is it just
keep the heck away from the smartphones and the screens?
Speaker 4 (13:16):
Well more to let's go over this because mom and
dad get close to the speaker because this is so important.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
Every mother and father needs to know.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
About the results just published this week Journal of Human
Development and Capabilities. So in this study, kids given a
smartphone when they are younger than thirteen, Doug tend to
have poorer mental health and well being. Specifically, people between
eighteen and twenty four who got their first smartphone at
(13:49):
twelve or younger have higher odds of suicidal thoughts, aggression,
detachment from reality, poorer emotional regulation, and low self worth.
Early exposure to toxic social media explains much of the
link between young smartphone access and poorer mental health DOUG,
(14:10):
but I think other contributing factors may also include cyber bullying,
disrupted sleep, which we just talked about, and poor family relationships.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
You know how many of us now eat.
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Over the dinner table as a family versus watching our
phones and eating alone. So just I think that the
take home from this is to keep the smartphone away
from the kids younger than thirteen if you can.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Good luck, but.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Try Yeah, right exactly. Some parents have straw.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
My daughter and my son don't necessarily agree on that,
although my grandsons neither of them will have a personal
cell phone anywhere near close to being twelve or thirteen.
But it's interesting as to screen time even and how
that affects which you're doing what you want to do
with your time. Let's go back for a minute to
(15:03):
something we were talking about sleep quality and what you
need to do to make sure your heart is strong.
There's a study about insomnia and how that may be
a link between ADHD and other things in life that
are important.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
So do you want to stretch this out for us Ken.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
Yeah, sure, Doug. There's some new research that suggest that
insomnia could be the reason why adults with ADHD traits
report a lower quality of life. Addressing sleep issues could
be a vital component, Doug, of improving overall well being
for individuals with ADHD. So if you have this, and
(15:45):
it's unfortunately common, just talk to the doctor about improving
your sleep quality.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Yeah, it is.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
It's just it's it's I think it's the most important thing.
I can feel it when I don't have like it
used to be a measure. And Bob Kay, who's our
producer on this program, has heard me say this one
hundred times. You've heard me say it once when I
was getting up everyone and we talk about sleep on
the air. I knew at six hours and thirteen minutes
(16:12):
that I'd had enough sleep. Isn't that interesting If I
it was like six hours and ten minutes I fell groggy.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It was six hours and twenty minutes. I felt fine.
Speaker 1 (16:21):
So however that adds into her goes into the quirkiness
of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and to
talk about all right, lots of brain conversations coming up
here In the next segment of Good Day Health, doctor
Ken Cronhaus is here.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
I'm Doug Stephan. Twenty eight after the Hour. Elizabeth Miller
is here.
Speaker 1 (16:40):
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Speaker 2 (17:43):
That there is.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Last week I said we did an update on COVID nineteen,
and so this week we have even more on how
it may be that pandemic, that those years of us
living a different life, what they may have done to
your brain, Doug.
Speaker 4 (18:01):
I think this is a story that you will find interesting.
There's a new study out this week that suggests that
the COVID nineteen pandemic, Doug, may have accelerated brain aging,
but even in individuals who are never infected with the virus.
This highlights a broader public health concern regarding the pandemic's
(18:23):
long term neurologic impact. This finding emphasizes the need for
continued research into the indirect effects DOUG of widespread public
health crisis and on cognitive health how well we can think, remember,
and it could prompt new strategies for mitigating stress and
promoting brain health in the general population, because the question is,
(18:47):
how are people who are not even infected with the
virus having aging problems with the brain, accelerated aging of
the brain, which is definitely what none of us want.
And my read on this is just the overwhelming mental
stress that occurred during COVID has now accelerated the brains
(19:07):
of many, if not all, of us.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
So stress once again rears its ugly head. One of
the things that I like or appreciate or try to
understand in that watch that you the wearables that doctor
I was gonna say, doctor Kennedy, mister Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Talks about it. You certainly do. You've been fixing your patients.
Speaker 1 (19:29):
Up with these wearables, This watch that monitors all kinds
of things regarding your cardiovascular health, stress, that sort of thing.
So I look at mine, and it really is there's
a wild Then you may have seen some of the
stuff when I put the watch on and watch it.
I watch the watch as it measures some of these things,
(19:51):
and I can go from a twelve on the stress
scale to a forty three, and I don't think I'm
doing anything different. So whether you think you are, maybe
your brain is whatever is measured, Your brain may be
off on a different tangent, and then you are physically.
It depends on how I think a lot of things,
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like how you slept, what was your what gear was
your brain in while you were asleep, all of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
And then everybody's.
Speaker 1 (20:19):
Different, their chemistry is different, and wouldn't that play into
how your brain ages as well.
Speaker 4 (20:24):
Ken Absolutely all of the above. But just to explain
to people what you're talking about, medicare especially a big
study a few years ago showing that when we monitor
outside of the office certain parameters, we can keep you
out of the hospital, we can keep you out of
(20:46):
the emergency room. And for certain patients, even the enlightened
insurers are covering these wearables or these monitors outside of
the office, and we can provide much better care. What
Doug's talking about is this high tech watch that we
give our patients. Certain patients, especially people have high blood pressure,
(21:10):
high cholesterol, have mental stress, issues, have heart rhythm issues,
have inadequate blood flow to the heart issues. And this
amazing work that was done at Mount Sinai Medical School
during COVID in New York City in twenty twenty, when
the mental stress level was incredibly.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
High, proved this theory.
Speaker 4 (21:32):
In cardiology, an item called heart rate variability the time
from beat to beat which you normally have a little
bit of difference in time from beat to beat called
heart rate variability. This heart rate variability goes away when
you get mentally stressed. And that's what the watch measuring
your pulse right by your wrist measures as well as
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heart rate acceleration. It easily puts your heart your mental
silk stress on a scale from one to one hundred.
Less than fifty is your goal. And we're not built
with this feedback of how our mental stress level is.
And that's why so much illness occurs because of excessive
mental stress, which leads to inflammation of the body, which
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just destroys the body from head to toe. So keeping
the mental stress under control is a fantastic way, especially
in the heart in the coronaries, to keep the inflammation down,
to keep the organs healthy, and we can now measure this,
and as Doug fantastically tells us, all of us, we
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often don't know how mentally stressed we are. And that's
where this monitor around your wrist. It looks like a watch.
It is a watch. It has time, a date, an alarm.
It looks like an Apple watch, but because a Hippi,
it does everything on an Apple watch does, but much more.
Except it can't be a phone because of Hippo. But
(22:57):
it does give immediate response to Doug his blood pressure,
his heart rate, his oxygenation, his mental stress, even many
more items. And this is bluetooth to his phone and
over the internet. It comes right to my phone immediately,
so I can see how he's doing.
Speaker 1 (23:15):
There, you go, all right, let's talk about your brain
in a different way. There's an interesting overview of your
of what goes on in your brain microscopically by using
and the MRI that goes for anything in your body, though,
doesn't it if you have an MRI of your like
(23:35):
I'm having one of my heart next week, the brain
joints to whatever part of your body needs attention. So
is this pretty much the same thing we're talking about
the brain? But isn't the MRI usable for all kinds
of things that are microscopic.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
Not so much.
Speaker 4 (23:55):
This is a true medical breakthrough. It's new technology, and
it's a breakthrough in a new MRI DOUG that actually
is the next generation MRI system. It's capable of non
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brain disorders. And this could actually revolutionize the diagnosis and
(24:18):
understanding of neurologic conditions. This comes out of a National
Institutes of Health news event. This advancement could offer unprecedented
detail and brain imaging DOUG, potentially leading to early and
more precise diagnoses for conditions like Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other neurodigestion.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
We all have this screening.
Speaker 4 (24:40):
Well, it's when it comes to locally, you know, these
breakthrough technologies they start at the big institutions, the research institutions,
and eventually make their way to the corner drug store.
And it will and this will open new avenues for
studying the brain's intricate kind of activity. It gives us
(25:01):
new hope for major break through in Alzheimer's, which everybody's
on the edge of their seat waiting for.
Speaker 1 (25:07):
All Right, some more information about your brain and brain activity.
Coming up here are Good Day Health doctor Ken Cronhaus
here as usual this week. Goodday Healthshow dot Com is
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there are for those of us who pretty much are optimistic,
we belong to the optimist club. It looks like we
benefit from that in lots of different ways, including how
(27:47):
your brain works.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
Right exactly, Doug. This comes out of the medical journals
this week. Optimistic individuals. They exhibit similar patterns of brain
activity when imagining future events, particularly in distinguishing positive from
negative scenarios. This neural convergence, Doug, may explain why optimists
(28:11):
experience greater emotional clarity and social connection. This neuroscientific insight
into optimism could have implications for mental health interventions, potentially
leading to new approaches Doug to foster positive thinking and
improve well being. And you know, you intuitively have felt this.
(28:32):
It's been now proven, and I think this is going
to help us to better understand the brain going forward.
Speaker 2 (28:38):
It sure, it sounds like it sounds so natural and
so smart.
Speaker 1 (28:42):
Okay, here's a focus on a brain circuit it made
fuel fibromyalgia.
Speaker 2 (28:49):
How would that be? How does that work?
Speaker 1 (28:51):
What would this is something that we could probably find
by looking at that MRI scanner you were talking about.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
Huh.
Speaker 4 (28:57):
Probably Doug Science at the Salk Institute have just uncovered
a hidden brain circuit that intensifies the emotional component of pain,
potentially explaining why pain can feel unbearable in conditions like fibromyalgia, migraine,
(29:17):
and PTSD. Targeting this circuit could lead to new pain
management strategies. You know, this is so exciting because they're
you know, I take taking care of people like this
for decades, and you'll notice, any of the caretakers, there's
a subset of people who get just overwhelmed by these issues,
(29:41):
and there's many of the rest of us who barely
notice it. Now, folks who are in this group, you're
not crazy. It's actually been determined that there are structural differences.
So those of you with fibromyalgia, migraines, and PTSD who
get overwhelmed so much more than the rest of the population,
(30:03):
you're not crazy.
Speaker 3 (30:04):
This is real.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
Yep, all this stuff is real.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Coming up questions for doctor Ken, including something that those
of you who have dogs may be interested to hear.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
There are lots of stories.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I have a website and I also have a Facebook
page that's connected to lots of animal news because I
love to see the dogs and their friends, other dogs
and people and all that good stuff and how wonderful
that is for your heart health and everything else in
your body. So let's talk about I have a good
(30:39):
question about dogs, and we'll get to that in a
matter of moments. As we get started with questions for
doctor Ken Hi Doug Stephan Here, I'm with doctor Ken
Cronhous on Good Day Health. Dogs are trained to do
all kinds. I think they sniff out answer. I guess
(31:01):
you can train a dog to do almost anything when
it comes to health.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Right, Is that sort of where we're going.
Speaker 4 (31:07):
Well, I think it just demonstrates how powerful the nose
of a dog is their ability to smell. And this
is in the Ripley's believe it or not category, but
it's real science.
Speaker 3 (31:21):
Doug.
Speaker 4 (31:21):
There's this new study, as you're suggesting, has actually demonstrated
that trained dogs can reliably detect the odor associated with
Parkinson's disease from skin swaps. This unique diagnostic approach, Doug,
could lead to earlier detection and intervention for Parkinson's disease.
So this is an exciting way to diagnose Parkinson's.
Speaker 1 (31:44):
So let's say you think you have a problem, and
you have it, you go to a doctor and he
sends you a mixer of referral to somebody specializes in Parkinson's.
Is that doctor going to know is he going to
be aware or is she going to be aware of
this thing with dog to help figure out whether you've
got it or not?
Speaker 4 (32:03):
Maybe if you're at a major research center, because this
is cutting edge and it takes a while for these
things to get to the local corner doctor. So if
you go to the local corner doctor, you may not.
But if you're going to a medical school where they're
doing research, you might see something like this. And it
(32:26):
doesn't necessarily mean you get the right care the wrong care,
but usually you'll get referred to the medical school when
you have an unusual case. They can't figure it out
what the current methods we have. So it doesn't mean
that everybody who needs a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease will
need to have a dog smell their skin. It means
that there are often patients that we see as physicians
(32:51):
and we can't figure out the diagnosis, and these patients
are the ones who often get referred to the medical
school where they're have these select tools for uniquely diagnosing problems,
and that's where you may get it. You know, the
Male Clinic is famous for this kind of care. You
(33:11):
know the medical schools like where I went to Penn
and Duke and you see San Francisco, you.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
Know where you are in Harvard.
Speaker 4 (33:19):
This is the kind of procedure where patients who are
just undiagnosed because they either have an unusual presentation of
a common problem or a very very rare problem, and
they need unconventional methods for diagnosing.
Speaker 3 (33:35):
And this is where this will occur.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
So if you have an issue that the doctor, your
local neurologist says, I can't figure out the diagnosis. This
might be Parkinson's. But with the tools we have for
diagnosing Parkinson's, then do a little research and find a
research center that's using this technique and it may confirm
the diagnosis. But this is not needed for for most
(34:00):
patients with Parkinson's. It just gives us an extra tool
for those who can't be diagnosed, and that each doctor,
all of us, are challenged by a few patients in
our practice trying to make the diagnosis well.
Speaker 1 (34:16):
One of the things that I find compelling when talking
about things like this are just really pretty amazing.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
How I don't know how pieces fit together. And that's
why the research.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
I find myself more and more talking to doctors in
my world that have been trained at Toughs. I'm using
the tough system, and now because I like it, I do.
If I need to go to mass General, I do.
But I like Toughs as well. And more and more
people say that they've gone to Toughts for this, that
and the other thing. So there's another there are good
(34:51):
memory is good, I think when you know, talk about
good schools from medicine, right, don't you think that Emory?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
I'm trying to think of some of the other.
Speaker 4 (35:00):
Sure, if I was in Atlanta and I was wondering
whether I had Parkinson's disease, and the local neurologists could
not figure me out, probably refer me over to Hamory.
Speaker 1 (35:12):
Yeah right, Well, as they said more and more of
these Now I wonder how many of these schools are
in danger of having funds cut because of the activity
in Washington. I have not asked that question, frankly, as
there are a lot of things that you and I
agree on that are going on in the world of
medicine and medical care under mister Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (35:31):
That are good.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
I'm not sure that some of the things we've heard
about this particular study or these studies being cut, I'm
not you know, maybe it's too early to tell, frankly,
to make a decision, but I know a lot of
doctors are questioning what's going on, and so that's what
we all do.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
Frankly, we should all.
Speaker 1 (35:51):
Be questioning what's going on, asking questions and getting answers.
That's what doctor Ken is all about. From Lake Cardiology
down in Mondua, Florida. Thank you, thank you for joining
as Ken.
Speaker 2 (36:01):
This program was produced at Bobksound and Recording.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
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