August 19, 2025 • 36 mins
On this week’s Good Day Health, host Doug Stephan and Dr. Ken Kronhaus of Lake Cardiology (352-735-1400) break down the biggest headlines in medicine and what they mean for your health.
They start with cardiology, highlighting a new non-invasive micro-valve repair procedure and research linking stalking stress to cardiovascular risks in women. The conversation expands to children’s screen time and its surprising connection to cardio-metabolic disease, plus a new gel treatment offering hope for diabetic wound care.
Doug and Dr. Ken also unpack everyday lifestyle choices—why eating French fries three times a week could increase your risk of Type 2 Diabetes by 20%, how too much Vitamin D can strain your kidneys, and why moderation is key.
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They start with cardiology, highlighting a new non-invasive micro-valve repair procedure and research linking stalking stress to cardiovascular risks in women. The conversation expands to children’s screen time and its surprising connection to cardio-metabolic disease, plus a new gel treatment offering hope for diabetic wound care.
Doug and Dr. Ken also unpack everyday lifestyle choices—why eating French fries three times a week could increase your risk of Type 2 Diabetes by 20%, how too much Vitamin D can strain your kidneys, and why moderation is key.
Other topics include:
- Conch shell blowing as a potential therapy for sleep apnea
- How GLP-1 medications may help overweight patients before surgery
- The critical link between hearing aids and dementia prevention
- The push for healthier, freshly cooked school lunches under the Make America Healthy Again initiative
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Good Day Health podcast with Doctor Ken Cronhouse, sponsored
in part by Calendron, The safe, proven way to lose
weight and keep it off. You're listening to Good Day
Health with Doctor Ken Crownhouse. I'm Doug Stephen to go
through a lot of the reports that have been entered
into print, shall we say, or online from the various
(00:22):
the really good journals of medicine. Ken looks at them
each week. Then he sort of takes his research background
and translates the information so that we know the impact
and how it helps you and you and you and you.
Doctor Ken runs late Cardiology down in Monduro, Florida, which
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is a kind of an apex the top of the
hill when it comes to the kinds of cardiological information
you need to know. And his expertise is not just
in that, although that's what he practices, cardiology, but there
are so many different things going on in all of
our bodies and he's done lots of research. So we
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listen to him and take his advice, and you can
do that listening to this program. You can listen to
the podcast wherever you get your podcasts Good Day healthshow
dot com, or you can go visit doctor Ken even
better at late cardiology. You can have the telemedicine connection
either or both of those things. Three five two seven,
(01:23):
three five one four zero zero is the introductory call
into Ken's world. Three five two seven three five fourteen hundred.
You got him here in his world. Let's talk about
the things this weekend that you have research that have
to do with your expertise as a cardiologist. Starting with
this new mitro valve repair. This looks like something that
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has Is this something new or something that's being researched
or can we take advantage of what this repair is
all about?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, big picture, Doug, cardiology just keeps getting more and
more non invasive. I'm not feeling sorry for my heart
surgery colleagues. They still have enough to do, but the
use of bypass surgery has really been diminished greatly by angioplasty,
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and now the cardiologists are creeping more into the surgeon's.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Venue with valves.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
A few years back, we were doing very well with
the aortic valve, one of the four valves, the exit
door of the heart. You know, this has been around
now about ten years or more plus or minus. But
the frontier now is the mitral valve and the ability
to repair even replace through the catheter, not actually opening
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up the chest. There's a tremendous breakthrough and the good
heart doctors at Mount Sinai Medical School, New York City,
excellent outstanding Heart research place reports that trans catheter mitel
valve repair that's actually not opening up the chest, but
through the catheter, the tube that we put in either
through the groin or the wrist. In heart failure patients
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with mitral regurgitation, that means the heart and as we
were talking about earlier, we have a heart to pump
five quarts of blood per minute, and we have these
four to one way doors that make sure that the
blood moves forward inside the heart, not back. And when
one of the very important ones, the mitral valve, leaks,
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the blood doesn't go forward, but it goes back and
you go into heart failure because you don't pump out
enough blood. These valves can wear out, they can get infected,
they can not work for many many reasons. They kind
of the mitel valve looks like the flippers that we
used to play with as kids, At least I did, and.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
My ball would always go right through the middle.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
And that's what happens when the nitra valve doesn't close properly,
so in.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Its bill Buckner ahead.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So what we know is that in heart failure patients
with mitro regurgitation, the transcatheter approach now can reduce long
term hospitalizations by nearly fifty percent and death by almost
thirty percent. This is the recent update report at a
Mount sign A Medical Center. This is a major breakthrough
in medicine.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
There, you go, nothing wrong with that, All right, Let's
look at some of the other things that you have
researched this week to have to do with your expertise.
For example, a study on the cardiovascular risks of women
who are being stocked. This is a really who would
have thought someone would do a study on something this
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specific exactly?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
This was an understudy unknown item DOUG. It was reported
this week in Circulation, this is a most important clinical
journal for all cardiologists out of the American Heart Association.
This new study has established THUG a link between the
experience of stalking and the onset of cardiovascular events in
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women DOUG. This research highlights a previously underrecognized psychosocial risk
factor for heart disease and DOUG. It emphasizes the importance
of considering a patient's personal history of trauma and harassment
in their health assessments. So, Doug, women who have been stalked,
who have obtained a restraining order. There it's a significant
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increased risk for developing heart problems later in life.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Who would have thought that there would be something like
that that could be studied and you could find some
concrete results. Pretty amazing, doctor Ken Crore.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, it's the interaction between the brain and the heart
that we talk about so much.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Well you've got to have one. You can't have one
without the other. That's for dog one shore all right,
more on cardiovascular connections and a lot of great stuff
that's been researched this week, Doctor Ken cronhous is here
at your service on Good Day Health. I'm Doug Stefan
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we got one more of these cardiological things to discuss.
Ken that I think is very important, and that's the
connection between the time you spend watching television or just
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your screen time, computer time, your device time, and what
that does for children.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Doug.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
There's a link between excessive screen time and an increased
risk of cardiometabolic diseases in children and teenagers.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Doug.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Ten and eighteen year olds who spend more time on
devices they have a higher risk for condition is like
high blood pressure and high cholesterol. The study, which was
published this week in the Journal of the American Heart
Association reinforces the importance of monitoring screen time for pediatric health.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So children they This is one of the things that
I think is bothering a lot of people. I look
at my two grandchildren, how active they are, and I'm
not pounding my chest say oh, dark it's such a
great grandfather, or your children are such great parents. But
they are aware of common sense and the more activities
that their children are involved in.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Not that some.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Parents overdo it. I think that there's that the helicopter
thing where you want to have the kids busy doing
something day in and day out, all day and into
the night.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
But you know, keeping them active.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
My daughter's son is tall and thin. He's like a
bean pole, and it's amazing because he's almost up to
he's ten years old. He's almost up to my neck
in terms of his height. And this kid runs all
the time.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
He's involved in.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Lots of different things, but he just keeps moving. Maybe
that's inherent in his connection to me, because that's what
I do. People say to me, how do you keep
yourself fit? How do you look the way you look?
How does your life work?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
In my life is simple. They just keep moving every
minute of the day.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I'm actually involved busily doing things for pretty much twelve
thirteen hours a day. And I think if you start
that with children without it being not being obsessive about it,
because that's the difference, isn't it, ken the obsession of
having children keep moving. You know, it's easy for the
children to become obsessed with the screen time and just
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sit there like bumps on logs. You can see it
with the kids that have come out of this last generation,
you know, big fat blobs that don't do anything and
don't seem to care about doing anything. They don't seem
to know or care about their own health and well being,
which shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Be our business, I suppose, but it does.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It seems bothersome anyway. Enough for me, it's just to
you know, it just seems so obvious.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Maybe that is that the way to put it. It's
so obvious.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Hello, everything in moderation.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah right, Well, I mean professionally, you have to spend
a lot of time. I have to spend a lot
of time. Most of us have to spend a lot
of time in front of a computer. I got three
screens in front of me right now that I'm looking at.
As we have our conversations and you do at your office,
and we use the computers for all the diagnostics. That's
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different than games or am I kidding myself? Time in
front of the screen is time in front of the screen.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Right, it's work time and I think there's a difference
between work time and play time.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Okay, and how the body reacts to it. Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Up next, we're going to talk about diabetes and some
of the things that are good to help you if
you have some of the diabetic wounds. That's our focus
diabetes up next here on Good Day Health. Here we
are back on Good Day Health. So let's I promise
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we talk about diabetes. There's a new gel for diabetic wounds.
How does the diabetic wound present itself?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Diabetics just get everything worse than everybody else, and they
just don't heal as well as everyone else goes. The
circulation to the tissue is not as good and this
comes out of burns and trauma. Anyone who's a significant
diabetic knows this, and this is great hope for all
the diabetics. It's a new gel based treatment, DOUG combining
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tiny healing messengers with a special hydrogel has shown promise
in restoring blood flow and healing diabetic wounds in days.
This could represent that a major shift in the way
chronic wounds are treated. You know these wound healing centers.
They're set up because especially diabetics just don't heal.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Will mm hmm, all right, And is that that's interesting?
I see something else connected to diabetes, and that's potato
eating potatoes. Why would eating potatoes impact a diabetic.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
British Medical Journal this week DOUG research has been published
exploring the connection between potato intake and the.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Risk of type two diabetes.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
This study suggests that, while boiled, baked, or mashed potatoes
do not appear to increase the risk, consuming French fries
three times a week could raise the risk of type
two diabetes.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
You ready by twenty percent?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Wow? Why? Why? What's the explanation for that?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Well, just the calories, the saturated fat easily the calories
just adds to it.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Is that all potato chips, because there are some of
the potato chips that are made today are differently French.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
This was French fries.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
French fries, well we all know, although there's different kinds
of depending on what restaurant you go to. They cook
them in different oils. Right, there's some oils that are
friendly we like them and other oils that we don't like.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
They didn't study potato chips, I think, which is what
you thought you heard. Yes, in the study, they studied
French fries and it was French fries that three times
a week raised the risk of type two diabetes by
twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Who has French fries three times a week?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
You just don't have young kids anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And no, Well, my grandson, the one I was talking
about before, is a pizza love. I remember as a
kid he was exposed to all kinds of veggies and
would eat them up.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And then when he.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Went to school, it all changed, the right, the impact
of pizza and uh you know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Just wait till middle school.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, what happens in middle school? As laws, they don't.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
You'll find out in a few years.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, that's right. Well, actually it goes to middle school
next year. Amazing.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It is amazing how and the kids growing today. There
is there's so much information around about what's good and
parents who are conscious about what they feed their children.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
You know, there's a.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
There's I had a lady we did a podcast on
a lady that is trying to help people who have worms,
and that one question I didn't ask her is whether
or not children had worms. I guess depends on the
part of the world that you're in. But it's as
freaky as it sounds. We all are likely to have
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worms at some point in time in our life. And
that's you know, if you're growing, you don't want to
have worms, but it's part of the it seems to
be part of the landscape.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
You ever getting a little clinical, You're getting a little
clinical there.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
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Doctor Ken has his licenses, and we'll go back to
surveying things that are important. Vitamin D links between vitamin
D and kidney problems. Up next to you are on
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Here we are back on good day health. Back to
the matters at hand, like a link between too much
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vitamin D and what's going on your kidneys. So this
is one of the things we talk about a lot,
because most people don't have enough vitamin D right.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Or some don't, but some over medicate themselves because you
can get this over the counter in very high doses.
This comes out of the British Medical Journal again this week.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
DOUG a new report.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It's highlighted cases of otherwise healthy individuals experience severe hyper calcemia,
too much calcium in the blood and kidney injury. Associated
with this elevated calcium in the blood, it's due to
an excessive unsupervised vitamin D supplementation DOUG. This raises concerns
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about the potential toxicity of high dose vitamin D and
the importance of professional guidance. My general recommendation is don't
exceed two thousand units a day of vitamin D without
talking to a doctor. I think most of us consider
it up to two thousand units a day is safe.
The general recommendation is for everyone to get about one
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thousand a day. If you take two thousand, okay, but
don't go beyond that without talking to a physician or provider.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
So is there a link between vitamin C and vitamin
D because there of calcium and the things that we're
talking about here. Having kidney problems come from having too
much of various things, right, because the kidney can't process strain. Basically,
the kidney's a strainer.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah, well, too much vitamin C can do other things
to the kidneys, and yes, it can cause stones and
the kidneys and essentially, yes, a strainer everything filters out
through them. But these are vitamins that, especially vitamin D
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is stored in the fat. You can have toxicity. It
just doesn't get excreted and you have to be careful.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Well, gotta be careful about anything.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
As the next conversation would lend us to believe the
connection between your gut bacteria and the ability you have
to get a good night's rest.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
What's that, scoop?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yeah, isn't this interesting?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Doug?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
This is a published article this week in General Psychiatry, Doug.
There appears to be a two way link between certain
groups of gut bacteria and the risk of insomnia. This
research highlight it's the growing understanding of the gut brain
access and could lead to new strategies for managing sleep disorders.
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So imagine treating problems with sleep with your gut bacteria.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So how would that present make your stomach upsets so
you can't go to sleep?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
But what is the what's what are you feeling.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Well?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Your the symptom is insomnia inability to sleep. But the
point being that the association one of the causes may
be in a place you didn't expect.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
The biome.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
The you know, our intestines are amazingly alive with organisms
and more discussed. Yes, being discovered. And here's another link
between the gut bacteria which is only beginning to be understood,
and it is a risk for insomnia.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I just think it's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
All right, let's talk as we're into insomnia. There's a
research paper out this week suggesting that conch shell blowing
as a sleep apnea treatments. I'm sorry, I'm chuckling about this,
but if you ever blown, I want to everybody raise
your hands please, those people around the country who have
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blown into a conch shell.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Please, I'd like to see how many people have done that.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Well, if you're from if you're from India, you may
have done it. It's a common cultural item in India.
And this is a study originating in India and it's
exciting because sleep apnea is so common and so many
don't like using CEPAP. And this was published in the
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ERJ Open Research Medical Journal to European journal. And what
they discovered was a real study in India is that
regularly blowing through a con shell for six months significantly
improves sleep among people with sleep app patients. Blowing through
a constant sleep better feel more alert during the day
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and have fewer breathing interruptions at night. Doug, conch blowing
may be helping by exercising the muscles of the airway.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Really.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Humhm, that's very I'm thinking about that as you're going through.
That's what I do once in a while. It's supposed
to be a talk program. All I just don't talk
and let people think about let the reverberation of what
you just said settle in to their minds, because this
is you know, you don't have to keep I don't
have to keep filling your head, nor to you people listening.
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Sometimes if we go too fast, the nuance of what
we're talking about doesn't settle in.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
And so there think about that for a moment or two.
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Next item of interest is an antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning.
How would one get carbon monoxide poisoning not deliberately. We
all know the stories of people who off themselves sitting
in a car and it closed garage. But what's the
story here with somebody who accidentally gets carbon monoxide poisoning?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Doug.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
This is out of PNAS Medical Journal this week. Researchers
at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. They've engineered
a promising new molecule that may serve as a rapid
and effective antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning with fewer side
effects than other molecules currently and testing. You know, it's
advised for many households to have these carbon monoxide monitors.
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People get in trouble with them, you know, with the
when the electricity goes off, and they have their own
devices for generating electricity generators improperly used. There are such
a common cause of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
All right, Well, there you go that.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
One also have to read Verberate for a few moments.
There's a there's a study on hearing aids that I
do want to talk about because I have somebody in
my life who has gotten dementia and I went to
the doctor with him to get hearing aids and he's
fussy about wearing them. So we need to talk about
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this as we all progress into our senior years. We
want to keep dementia and related problems away from us,
and there are lots of.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Different it's sometimes pretty simple solutions.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
So we get to that a few moments, plus some
more discussion about weight loss and weight reduction, et cetera,
et cetera. And I don't have to spend too much
time on this because I know how you kind of
put pieces together and I want you to power up
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items I want to get into before we get lost
in this discussion of dementia, the pre surgery use of
a g LP one receptor. That's all Greek to me.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
What is this all about?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Well, this is another use of these weight loss drugs
you know, you know them as o zempic will go
be zep bound, Manjaro. What we learn out of e
clinical Medicine, DOUG, is that overweight patients waiting for operations
could safely use these GLP one receptor agonists to reduce
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weight and consequently the risks of surgical complications linked to obesity.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Doug.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
This finding, while not a new drug, provides valuable clinical
guidance for a specific patient population, and it could be
highly impactful in surgical care going forward.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Impactful in that you don't have to have it.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Impactful in patients who are obese going on these drugs
before surgery and dramatically lowering the risk of the surgery.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
All right, so the surgery still takes place. It doesn't
eliminate the surgery. It just makes it easy.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
The complications, got it, all right?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
So Eli Lilly has a new oral weight loss drug.
How's that fitting into the picture.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Well, Doug.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
A new weight loss pill made by Eli Lilly helped
people lose a significant amount of weight in a recent
study reported just this week, taking it to the highest dose.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Here's the name.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Hopefully they'll come up with an easier name or for glapron.
It help patients lose an average twelve point four percent
of their body weight over seventy two weeks. In a
previous study, zet Bound help people lose twenty point two
percent of their weight, and what GOBI led to thirteen
point two percent weight loss over seventy two weeks. Those
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are the two GLP one agonists that most people are
familiar with, so and those are injected self injected just
a click. And although the oral pill did not show
quite as good an effect, especially as the zet bound,
you know, we're talking about twelve point four percent versus
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twenty point two percent, the difference was that it's oral,
it'll be cheaper, and it will have its use when
the goal is not as high as it is when
you use the zetbound.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
All right, so the injection method in order to receive
drugs seems to become very popular because it looks like
all kinds of things are now available for you to
inject into yourself. Is that the new Is it less expensive?
Is it more effective? Does it work faster?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
All of the objections? Well, I don't know about the cost.
Let's eliminate the costs from your list. But everything else
you said is true, and we should come up with
a new name for injection, because you know, when you
use the word injection in your mind, you see this gigantic,
long needle going into your arm. And this is just
a little click you know, you do it every two
weeks and most people aren't even aware of it. Sometimes
(28:40):
a little bit, but it's nothing like getting a true
needle injection.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
And it's just a little click book.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
And that's it. And you can comment yourself. You know
what you feel each time you do it now other weeks.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
This is something that I didn't want to do, and
over the last.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Couple of years want to do it.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You've talked me into it.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And so just as I sort of a side note here,
Ken wanted me to have an MRI my heart, and
I always give up my hipo stuff because I think
there are things that we all can experience from somebody
else's work that may end up affecting what we're doing it.
So I'm happy to talk about the reason that you
wanted to have it done as healthy as I am.
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This is I went to see the heart specialist, the
guy who runs the cardiology unit of Toughs University, because
you wanted me to have a cardiologist up here as
well as you down in Florida, and so I went
to see him, and he looked at the MRI that
you suggested about to be done, and he came up
with a lot of interesting conclusions as you have, as
(29:47):
to why things existed that did. But the one thing
we talked about was because he said to me, he
looked at me. He says, you're a guy at this
age and you're not in any meds. I said, well,
I'm taking the rapatha.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
But he's Bill thought.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You know, I have had alliances with other drugs here
and there for special stuff, and I don't like them.
I don't can tend to keep using them.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
In our paths.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
A self injected drug dramatically lowers LDL cholesterol, bad cues.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
And it is it's a click. The first time I
did it, I didn't like it because a little punch, But.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Nah, it's it really is.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
It's very effective and it doesn't feel as bad as
as you think it might. Again, using the long and
the short needle. That's the that's kind of the the precursor. Hi,
Doug Stephan. Here, I'm with doctor ken Kronhaus on Good
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Day Health. What is the connection between hearing aids and dementia.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Well, let's talk about it, and you know, I'll just
mention that I understand and most of my patients have
no trouble wearing glasses.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
They're seeing aids.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
But when you talk to people about hearing aids, boy.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
The firewalls go up.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
This is a study from the American Journal of Geriatric
Psychiatry out this week, Doug. It's a new study. It
suggests that the use of hearing aids can lead to
a reduction in neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia. This is an
important finding as it offers a non pharmacologic intervention for
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managing a distressing aspect of dementia. It highlights the crucial
connection between sensory input, cognitive function, and mental health in
the aging population. So if there's any concern about hearing
loss of ability to think, remember get that hearing checked.
(31:46):
And nowadays it is miniaturized. It's so much more inexpensive
these hearing aids.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Don't fight them. Use them. Your brain will work much
later into life.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
All right.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Questions about the Making America Healthy Again movement. This time
the focus is on school lunches and people have questions
about what is going on. Are we going to have
better food? Mister Kennedy wants these schools to do something different.
They say it's too expensive. They use frozen meals, and
(32:23):
he wants things to change so that the meals served
in schools are freshly cooked. And so what about this?
Is this something that will affect him? It looks like
if they make it happen, it'll affect all the schools
across the country. No, I guess the question here is
how much difference is there between the frozen meals and
(32:44):
the fresh cooked meals? That would be the question, ken,
I mean, would seem that would be obvious.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
But hello, maybe he just.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Everybody Unless things have changed since when I was in
public school, there could be a great impact on improving
the quality of the lunches and have a huge impact
on the health of our kids.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, well, I think it's a good There's a lot
of good things happening.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
You and I both agree with that.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I think I alluded earlier in the program to me
having a conversation with a lady who's an expert in
worms and people having worms, and I started the podcast
out with a question, did you know you probably have worms?
And have you ever encountered people in your practice at
Lake Cardiology? I mean, it's not exactly the connection isn't
(33:34):
direct between worms and heart disease.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Or is it. I don't know the answer.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Worms can do a number on your system for sure, right.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Well, yeah, anytime you have diarrhea that doesn't go way easily,
you have to think about over parasite worms and it's
in the possibilities. People don't come to me, Doug with
chronic diarrhea diarrhea for over two months, you know, they
usually go to their gas seronrologists, their GI doctor if
(34:05):
they're a primary care physician, can figure it out. If
it comes up in our discussion. I'll often ask questions
head to toe. If it comes up, you know, I'll
just suggest that course. But cardiologists don't get into the
specific treatment of worms. But again, if you're having diarrhea
that hasn't gone away, chronic diarrhea, you know more than
(34:26):
a couple of months, you have to think about worms
as the possibility mm hmm easily easily diagnosed with getting
a stool sample and running the right test.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Right exactly what should be done is a part of
a physical every year. You have everybody should have been
physical every year, and that you should have your poop checked.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Look at looking for looking for blood. But if you're
not having symptoms, I don't think you have to check
for worms, you know, I don't think when you were
at the primary care doctor they checked for worms.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
No, they didn't.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
But after listening to this woman talk about worms in
our bodies.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
But I'm sure she had symptoms, right, she was having
diarrhea blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, and that's what brought her around to coming up
with this way of fixing the problem. I remember having
a tapeworm once when I was a kid, and it
was pretty gross.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Actually.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
But if you have worms, you know you're gonna have symptoms.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah right, it's going to show up in the poop.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
All right, Well, there you're having, folks, another exciting adventure
with doctor Ken from Lake Cardiology. You know, if forget
reach out to him to make the connection. Let's get
the best health possible, best care. Talk to doctor Ken
three five two seven three five fourteen hundred. I'm Doug Stephan.
This program was produced at bob k Sound and Recording.
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Please visit bobksound dot com. This good day health Doug
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through a lot of the reports that have been entered
into print, shall we say, or online from the various
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the really good journals of medicine. Ken looks at them
each week. Then he sort of takes his research background
and translates the information so that we know the impact
and how it helps you and you and you and you.
Doctor Ken runs late Cardiology down in Monduro, Florida, which
(00:42):
is a kind of an apex the top of the
hill when it comes to the kinds of cardiological information
you need to know. And his expertise is not just
in that, although that's what he practices, cardiology, but there
are so many different things going on in all of
our bodies and he's done lots of research. So we
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listen to him and take his advice, and you can
do that listening to this program. You can listen to
the podcast wherever you get your podcasts Good Day healthshow
dot com, or you can go visit doctor Ken even
better at late cardiology. You can have the telemedicine connection
either or both of those things. Three five two seven,
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three five one four zero zero is the introductory call
into Ken's world. Three five two seven three five fourteen hundred.
You got him here in his world. Let's talk about
the things this weekend that you have research that have
to do with your expertise as a cardiologist. Starting with
this new mitro valve repair. This looks like something that
(01:49):
has Is this something new or something that's being researched
or can we take advantage of what this repair is
all about?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Now?
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Well, big picture, Doug, cardiology just keeps getting more and
more non invasive. I'm not feeling sorry for my heart
surgery colleagues. They still have enough to do, but the
use of bypass surgery has really been diminished greatly by angioplasty,
(02:21):
and now the cardiologists are creeping more into the surgeon's.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Venue with valves.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
A few years back, we were doing very well with
the aortic valve, one of the four valves, the exit
door of the heart. You know, this has been around
now about ten years or more plus or minus. But
the frontier now is the mitral valve and the ability
to repair even replace through the catheter, not actually opening
(02:52):
up the chest. There's a tremendous breakthrough and the good
heart doctors at Mount Sinai Medical School, New York City,
excellent outstanding Heart research place reports that trans catheter mitel
valve repair that's actually not opening up the chest, but
through the catheter, the tube that we put in either
through the groin or the wrist. In heart failure patients
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with mitral regurgitation, that means the heart and as we
were talking about earlier, we have a heart to pump
five quarts of blood per minute, and we have these
four to one way doors that make sure that the
blood moves forward inside the heart, not back. And when
one of the very important ones, the mitral valve, leaks,
(03:37):
the blood doesn't go forward, but it goes back and
you go into heart failure because you don't pump out
enough blood. These valves can wear out, they can get infected,
they can not work for many many reasons. They kind
of the mitel valve looks like the flippers that we
used to play with as kids, At least I did, and.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
My ball would always go right through the middle.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
And that's what happens when the nitra valve doesn't close properly,
so in.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Its bill Buckner ahead.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
So what we know is that in heart failure patients
with mitro regurgitation, the transcatheter approach now can reduce long
term hospitalizations by nearly fifty percent and death by almost
thirty percent. This is the recent update report at a
Mount sign A Medical Center. This is a major breakthrough
in medicine.
Speaker 1 (04:29):
There, you go, nothing wrong with that, All right, Let's
look at some of the other things that you have
researched this week to have to do with your expertise.
For example, a study on the cardiovascular risks of women
who are being stocked. This is a really who would
have thought someone would do a study on something this
(04:50):
specific exactly?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
This was an understudy unknown item DOUG. It was reported
this week in Circulation, this is a most important clinical
journal for all cardiologists out of the American Heart Association.
This new study has established THUG a link between the
experience of stalking and the onset of cardiovascular events in
(05:13):
women DOUG. This research highlights a previously underrecognized psychosocial risk
factor for heart disease and DOUG. It emphasizes the importance
of considering a patient's personal history of trauma and harassment
in their health assessments. So, Doug, women who have been stalked,
who have obtained a restraining order. There it's a significant
(05:37):
increased risk for developing heart problems later in life.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Who would have thought that there would be something like
that that could be studied and you could find some
concrete results. Pretty amazing, doctor Ken Crore.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
Yeah, it's the interaction between the brain and the heart
that we talk about so much.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Yep.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
Well you've got to have one. You can't have one
without the other. That's for dog one shore all right,
more on cardiovascular connections and a lot of great stuff
that's been researched this week, Doctor Ken cronhous is here
at your service on Good Day Health. I'm Doug Stefan
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we got one more of these cardiological things to discuss.
Ken that I think is very important, and that's the
connection between the time you spend watching television or just
(08:37):
your screen time, computer time, your device time, and what
that does for children.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
Doug.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
There's a link between excessive screen time and an increased
risk of cardiometabolic diseases in children and teenagers.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Doug.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Ten and eighteen year olds who spend more time on
devices they have a higher risk for condition is like
high blood pressure and high cholesterol. The study, which was
published this week in the Journal of the American Heart
Association reinforces the importance of monitoring screen time for pediatric health.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
So children they This is one of the things that
I think is bothering a lot of people. I look
at my two grandchildren, how active they are, and I'm
not pounding my chest say oh, dark it's such a
great grandfather, or your children are such great parents. But
they are aware of common sense and the more activities
that their children are involved in.
Speaker 2 (09:34):
Not that some.
Speaker 1 (09:35):
Parents overdo it. I think that there's that the helicopter
thing where you want to have the kids busy doing
something day in and day out, all day and into
the night.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
But you know, keeping them active.
Speaker 1 (09:47):
My daughter's son is tall and thin. He's like a
bean pole, and it's amazing because he's almost up to
he's ten years old. He's almost up to my neck
in terms of his height. And this kid runs all
the time.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
He's involved in.
Speaker 1 (10:03):
Lots of different things, but he just keeps moving. Maybe
that's inherent in his connection to me, because that's what
I do. People say to me, how do you keep
yourself fit? How do you look the way you look?
How does your life work?
Speaker 2 (10:17):
In my life is simple. They just keep moving every
minute of the day.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
I'm actually involved busily doing things for pretty much twelve
thirteen hours a day. And I think if you start
that with children without it being not being obsessive about it,
because that's the difference, isn't it, ken the obsession of
having children keep moving. You know, it's easy for the
children to become obsessed with the screen time and just
(10:45):
sit there like bumps on logs. You can see it
with the kids that have come out of this last generation,
you know, big fat blobs that don't do anything and
don't seem to care about doing anything. They don't seem
to know or care about their own health and well being,
which shouldn't.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Be our business, I suppose, but it does.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
It seems bothersome anyway. Enough for me, it's just to
you know, it just seems so obvious.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Maybe that is that the way to put it. It's
so obvious.
Speaker 4 (11:12):
Hello, everything in moderation.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah right, Well, I mean professionally, you have to spend
a lot of time. I have to spend a lot
of time. Most of us have to spend a lot
of time in front of a computer. I got three
screens in front of me right now that I'm looking at.
As we have our conversations and you do at your office,
and we use the computers for all the diagnostics. That's
(11:38):
different than games or am I kidding myself? Time in
front of the screen is time in front of the screen.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Right, it's work time and I think there's a difference
between work time and play time.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
Okay, and how the body reacts to it. Okay.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
Up next, we're going to talk about diabetes and some
of the things that are good to help you if
you have some of the diabetic wounds. That's our focus
diabetes up next here on Good Day Health. Here we
are back on Good Day Health. So let's I promise
(12:16):
we talk about diabetes. There's a new gel for diabetic wounds.
How does the diabetic wound present itself?
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Diabetics just get everything worse than everybody else, and they
just don't heal as well as everyone else goes. The
circulation to the tissue is not as good and this
comes out of burns and trauma. Anyone who's a significant
diabetic knows this, and this is great hope for all
the diabetics. It's a new gel based treatment, DOUG combining
(12:49):
tiny healing messengers with a special hydrogel has shown promise
in restoring blood flow and healing diabetic wounds in days.
This could represent that a major shift in the way
chronic wounds are treated. You know these wound healing centers.
They're set up because especially diabetics just don't heal.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
Will mm hmm, all right, And is that that's interesting?
I see something else connected to diabetes, and that's potato
eating potatoes. Why would eating potatoes impact a diabetic.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
British Medical Journal this week DOUG research has been published
exploring the connection between potato intake and the.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Risk of type two diabetes.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
This study suggests that, while boiled, baked, or mashed potatoes
do not appear to increase the risk, consuming French fries
three times a week could raise the risk of type
two diabetes.
Speaker 4 (13:46):
You ready by twenty percent?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Wow? Why? Why? What's the explanation for that?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Well, just the calories, the saturated fat easily the calories
just adds to it.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
Is that all potato chips, because there are some of
the potato chips that are made today are differently French.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
This was French fries.
Speaker 1 (14:12):
French fries, well we all know, although there's different kinds
of depending on what restaurant you go to. They cook
them in different oils. Right, there's some oils that are
friendly we like them and other oils that we don't like.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
They didn't study potato chips, I think, which is what
you thought you heard. Yes, in the study, they studied
French fries and it was French fries that three times
a week raised the risk of type two diabetes by
twenty percent.
Speaker 1 (14:42):
Who has French fries three times a week?
Speaker 4 (14:45):
You just don't have young kids anymore.
Speaker 1 (14:47):
And no, Well, my grandson, the one I was talking
about before, is a pizza love. I remember as a
kid he was exposed to all kinds of veggies and
would eat them up.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And then when he.
Speaker 1 (14:59):
Went to school, it all changed, the right, the impact
of pizza and uh you know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 4 (15:08):
Just wait till middle school.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Yeah, what happens in middle school? As laws, they don't.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
You'll find out in a few years.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
Yeah, that's right. Well, actually it goes to middle school
next year. Amazing.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
It is amazing how and the kids growing today. There
is there's so much information around about what's good and
parents who are conscious about what they feed their children.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
You know, there's a.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
There's I had a lady we did a podcast on
a lady that is trying to help people who have worms,
and that one question I didn't ask her is whether
or not children had worms. I guess depends on the
part of the world that you're in. But it's as
freaky as it sounds. We all are likely to have
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worms at some point in time in our life. And
that's you know, if you're growing, you don't want to
have worms, but it's part of the it seems to
be part of the landscape.
Speaker 3 (16:05):
You ever getting a little clinical, You're getting a little
clinical there.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Doctor Doug practicing without a lessons on good to health.
Doctor Ken has his licenses, and we'll go back to
surveying things that are important. Vitamin D links between vitamin
D and kidney problems. Up next to you are on
Good Day Health. Elizabeth Miller is here one of the
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Here we are back on good day health. Back to
the matters at hand, like a link between too much
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vitamin D and what's going on your kidneys. So this
is one of the things we talk about a lot,
because most people don't have enough vitamin D right.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Or some don't, but some over medicate themselves because you
can get this over the counter in very high doses.
This comes out of the British Medical Journal again this week.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
DOUG a new report.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It's highlighted cases of otherwise healthy individuals experience severe hyper calcemia,
too much calcium in the blood and kidney injury. Associated
with this elevated calcium in the blood, it's due to
an excessive unsupervised vitamin D supplementation DOUG. This raises concerns
(18:13):
about the potential toxicity of high dose vitamin D and
the importance of professional guidance. My general recommendation is don't
exceed two thousand units a day of vitamin D without
talking to a doctor. I think most of us consider
it up to two thousand units a day is safe.
The general recommendation is for everyone to get about one
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thousand a day. If you take two thousand, okay, but
don't go beyond that without talking to a physician or provider.
Speaker 1 (18:42):
So is there a link between vitamin C and vitamin
D because there of calcium and the things that we're
talking about here. Having kidney problems come from having too
much of various things, right, because the kidney can't process strain. Basically,
the kidney's a strainer.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Yeah, well, too much vitamin C can do other things
to the kidneys, and yes, it can cause stones and
the kidneys and essentially, yes, a strainer everything filters out
through them. But these are vitamins that, especially vitamin D
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is stored in the fat. You can have toxicity. It
just doesn't get excreted and you have to be careful.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Well, gotta be careful about anything.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
As the next conversation would lend us to believe the
connection between your gut bacteria and the ability you have
to get a good night's rest.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
What's that, scoop?
Speaker 4 (19:45):
Yeah, isn't this interesting?
Speaker 2 (19:47):
Doug?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
This is a published article this week in General Psychiatry, Doug.
There appears to be a two way link between certain
groups of gut bacteria and the risk of insomnia. This
research highlight it's the growing understanding of the gut brain
access and could lead to new strategies for managing sleep disorders.
(20:08):
So imagine treating problems with sleep with your gut bacteria.
Speaker 1 (20:15):
So how would that present make your stomach upsets so
you can't go to sleep?
Speaker 2 (20:21):
But what is the what's what are you feeling.
Speaker 4 (20:25):
Well?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Your the symptom is insomnia inability to sleep. But the
point being that the association one of the causes may
be in a place you didn't expect.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
The biome.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
The you know, our intestines are amazingly alive with organisms
and more discussed. Yes, being discovered. And here's another link
between the gut bacteria which is only beginning to be understood,
and it is a risk for insomnia.
Speaker 4 (20:55):
I just think it's fascinating.
Speaker 1 (20:57):
All right, let's talk as we're into insomnia. There's a
research paper out this week suggesting that conch shell blowing
as a sleep apnea treatments. I'm sorry, I'm chuckling about this,
but if you ever blown, I want to everybody raise
your hands please, those people around the country who have
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blown into a conch shell.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
Please, I'd like to see how many people have done that.
Speaker 3 (21:24):
Well, if you're from if you're from India, you may
have done it. It's a common cultural item in India.
And this is a study originating in India and it's
exciting because sleep apnea is so common and so many
don't like using CEPAP. And this was published in the
(21:45):
ERJ Open Research Medical Journal to European journal. And what
they discovered was a real study in India is that
regularly blowing through a con shell for six months significantly
improves sleep among people with sleep app patients. Blowing through
a constant sleep better feel more alert during the day
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and have fewer breathing interruptions at night. Doug, conch blowing
may be helping by exercising the muscles of the airway.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Really.
Speaker 1 (22:18):
Humhm, that's very I'm thinking about that as you're going through.
That's what I do once in a while. It's supposed
to be a talk program. All I just don't talk
and let people think about let the reverberation of what
you just said settle in to their minds, because this
is you know, you don't have to keep I don't
have to keep filling your head, nor to you people listening.
(22:40):
Sometimes if we go too fast, the nuance of what
we're talking about doesn't settle in.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
And so there think about that for a moment or two.
All right.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
Next item of interest is an antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning.
How would one get carbon monoxide poisoning not deliberately. We
all know the stories of people who off themselves sitting
in a car and it closed garage. But what's the
story here with somebody who accidentally gets carbon monoxide poisoning?
Speaker 4 (23:13):
Doug.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
This is out of PNAS Medical Journal this week. Researchers
at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. They've engineered
a promising new molecule that may serve as a rapid
and effective antidote for carbon monoxide poisoning with fewer side
effects than other molecules currently and testing. You know, it's
advised for many households to have these carbon monoxide monitors.
(23:38):
People get in trouble with them, you know, with the
when the electricity goes off, and they have their own
devices for generating electricity generators improperly used. There are such
a common cause of carbon monoxide poisoning.
Speaker 2 (23:56):
All right, Well, there you go that.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
One also have to read Verberate for a few moments.
There's a there's a study on hearing aids that I
do want to talk about because I have somebody in
my life who has gotten dementia and I went to
the doctor with him to get hearing aids and he's
fussy about wearing them. So we need to talk about
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this as we all progress into our senior years. We
want to keep dementia and related problems away from us,
and there are lots of.
Speaker 2 (24:30):
Different it's sometimes pretty simple solutions.
Speaker 1 (24:32):
So we get to that a few moments, plus some
more discussion about weight loss and weight reduction, et cetera,
et cetera. And I don't have to spend too much
time on this because I know how you kind of
put pieces together and I want you to power up
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items I want to get into before we get lost
in this discussion of dementia, the pre surgery use of
a g LP one receptor. That's all Greek to me.
Speaker 2 (25:36):
What is this all about?
Speaker 3 (25:40):
Well, this is another use of these weight loss drugs
you know, you know them as o zempic will go
be zep bound, Manjaro. What we learn out of e
clinical Medicine, DOUG, is that overweight patients waiting for operations
could safely use these GLP one receptor agonists to reduce
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weight and consequently the risks of surgical complications linked to obesity.
Speaker 4 (26:09):
Doug.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
This finding, while not a new drug, provides valuable clinical
guidance for a specific patient population, and it could be
highly impactful in surgical care going forward.
Speaker 1 (26:23):
Impactful in that you don't have to have it.
Speaker 3 (26:27):
Impactful in patients who are obese going on these drugs
before surgery and dramatically lowering the risk of the surgery.
Speaker 1 (26:35):
All right, so the surgery still takes place. It doesn't
eliminate the surgery. It just makes it easy.
Speaker 4 (26:39):
The complications, got it, all right?
Speaker 1 (26:42):
So Eli Lilly has a new oral weight loss drug.
How's that fitting into the picture.
Speaker 4 (26:48):
Well, Doug.
Speaker 3 (26:49):
A new weight loss pill made by Eli Lilly helped
people lose a significant amount of weight in a recent
study reported just this week, taking it to the highest dose.
Speaker 4 (26:59):
Here's the name.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Hopefully they'll come up with an easier name or for glapron.
It help patients lose an average twelve point four percent
of their body weight over seventy two weeks. In a
previous study, zet Bound help people lose twenty point two
percent of their weight, and what GOBI led to thirteen
point two percent weight loss over seventy two weeks. Those
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are the two GLP one agonists that most people are
familiar with, so and those are injected self injected just
a click. And although the oral pill did not show
quite as good an effect, especially as the zet bound,
you know, we're talking about twelve point four percent versus
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twenty point two percent, the difference was that it's oral,
it'll be cheaper, and it will have its use when
the goal is not as high as it is when
you use the zetbound.
Speaker 1 (27:56):
All right, so the injection method in order to receive
drugs seems to become very popular because it looks like
all kinds of things are now available for you to
inject into yourself. Is that the new Is it less expensive?
Is it more effective? Does it work faster?
Speaker 3 (28:15):
All of the objections? Well, I don't know about the cost.
Let's eliminate the costs from your list. But everything else
you said is true, and we should come up with
a new name for injection, because you know, when you
use the word injection in your mind, you see this gigantic,
long needle going into your arm. And this is just
a little click you know, you do it every two
weeks and most people aren't even aware of it. Sometimes
(28:40):
a little bit, but it's nothing like getting a true
needle injection.
Speaker 4 (28:45):
And it's just a little click book.
Speaker 3 (28:46):
And that's it. And you can comment yourself. You know
what you feel each time you do it now other weeks.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
This is something that I didn't want to do, and
over the last.
Speaker 4 (28:58):
Couple of years want to do it.
Speaker 2 (29:00):
You've talked me into it.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
And so just as I sort of a side note here,
Ken wanted me to have an MRI my heart, and
I always give up my hipo stuff because I think
there are things that we all can experience from somebody
else's work that may end up affecting what we're doing it.
So I'm happy to talk about the reason that you
wanted to have it done as healthy as I am.
(29:24):
This is I went to see the heart specialist, the
guy who runs the cardiology unit of Toughs University, because
you wanted me to have a cardiologist up here as
well as you down in Florida, and so I went
to see him, and he looked at the MRI that
you suggested about to be done, and he came up
with a lot of interesting conclusions as you have, as
(29:47):
to why things existed that did. But the one thing
we talked about was because he said to me, he
looked at me. He says, you're a guy at this
age and you're not in any meds. I said, well,
I'm taking the rapatha.
Speaker 2 (29:59):
But he's Bill thought.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
You know, I have had alliances with other drugs here
and there for special stuff, and I don't like them.
I don't can tend to keep using them.
Speaker 2 (30:09):
In our paths.
Speaker 3 (30:10):
A self injected drug dramatically lowers LDL cholesterol, bad cues.
Speaker 1 (30:15):
And it is it's a click. The first time I
did it, I didn't like it because a little punch, But.
Speaker 2 (30:20):
Nah, it's it really is.
Speaker 1 (30:21):
It's very effective and it doesn't feel as bad as
as you think it might. Again, using the long and
the short needle. That's the that's kind of the the precursor. Hi,
Doug Stephan. Here, I'm with doctor ken Kronhaus on Good
(30:43):
Day Health. What is the connection between hearing aids and dementia.
Speaker 3 (30:48):
Well, let's talk about it, and you know, I'll just
mention that I understand and most of my patients have
no trouble wearing glasses.
Speaker 4 (30:58):
They're seeing aids.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
But when you talk to people about hearing aids, boy.
Speaker 4 (31:03):
The firewalls go up.
Speaker 3 (31:05):
This is a study from the American Journal of Geriatric
Psychiatry out this week, Doug. It's a new study. It
suggests that the use of hearing aids can lead to
a reduction in neuropsychiatric symptoms of dementia. This is an
important finding as it offers a non pharmacologic intervention for
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managing a distressing aspect of dementia. It highlights the crucial
connection between sensory input, cognitive function, and mental health in
the aging population. So if there's any concern about hearing
loss of ability to think, remember get that hearing checked.
(31:46):
And nowadays it is miniaturized. It's so much more inexpensive
these hearing aids.
Speaker 4 (31:53):
Don't fight them. Use them. Your brain will work much
later into life.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
All right.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Questions about the Making America Healthy Again movement. This time
the focus is on school lunches and people have questions
about what is going on. Are we going to have
better food? Mister Kennedy wants these schools to do something different.
They say it's too expensive. They use frozen meals, and
(32:23):
he wants things to change so that the meals served
in schools are freshly cooked. And so what about this?
Is this something that will affect him? It looks like
if they make it happen, it'll affect all the schools
across the country. No, I guess the question here is
how much difference is there between the frozen meals and
(32:44):
the fresh cooked meals? That would be the question, ken,
I mean, would seem that would be obvious.
Speaker 2 (32:48):
But hello, maybe he just.
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Everybody Unless things have changed since when I was in
public school, there could be a great impact on improving
the quality of the lunches and have a huge impact
on the health of our kids.
Speaker 1 (33:05):
Yeah, well, I think it's a good There's a lot
of good things happening.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
You and I both agree with that.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
I think I alluded earlier in the program to me
having a conversation with a lady who's an expert in
worms and people having worms, and I started the podcast
out with a question, did you know you probably have worms?
And have you ever encountered people in your practice at
Lake Cardiology? I mean, it's not exactly the connection isn't
(33:34):
direct between worms and heart disease.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Or is it. I don't know the answer.
Speaker 1 (33:40):
Worms can do a number on your system for sure, right.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Well, yeah, anytime you have diarrhea that doesn't go way easily,
you have to think about over parasite worms and it's
in the possibilities. People don't come to me, Doug with
chronic diarrhea diarrhea for over two months, you know, they
usually go to their gas seronrologists, their GI doctor if
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they're a primary care physician, can figure it out. If
it comes up in our discussion. I'll often ask questions
head to toe. If it comes up, you know, I'll
just suggest that course. But cardiologists don't get into the
specific treatment of worms. But again, if you're having diarrhea
that hasn't gone away, chronic diarrhea, you know more than
(34:26):
a couple of months, you have to think about worms
as the possibility mm hmm easily easily diagnosed with getting
a stool sample and running the right test.
Speaker 1 (34:38):
Right exactly what should be done is a part of
a physical every year. You have everybody should have been
physical every year, and that you should have your poop checked.
Speaker 3 (34:48):
Look at looking for looking for blood. But if you're
not having symptoms, I don't think you have to check
for worms, you know, I don't think when you were
at the primary care doctor they checked for worms.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
No, they didn't.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
But after listening to this woman talk about worms in
our bodies.
Speaker 3 (35:06):
But I'm sure she had symptoms, right, she was having
diarrhea blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
Yeah, and that's what brought her around to coming up
with this way of fixing the problem. I remember having
a tapeworm once when I was a kid, and it
was pretty gross.
Speaker 2 (35:20):
Actually.
Speaker 4 (35:20):
But if you have worms, you know you're gonna have symptoms.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Yeah right, it's going to show up in the poop.
Speaker 1 (35:26):
All right, Well, there you're having, folks, another exciting adventure
with doctor Ken from Lake Cardiology. You know, if forget
reach out to him to make the connection. Let's get
the best health possible, best care. Talk to doctor Ken
three five two seven three five fourteen hundred. I'm Doug Stephan.
This program was produced at bob k Sound and Recording.
(35:48):
Please visit bobksound dot com. This good day health Doug
Stefan with doctor Kenkronhaus, sponsored in part by Caldron. Which
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