August 5, 2025 • 36 mins
Host Doug Stephan and cardiologist Dr. Ken Kronhaus (of Lake Cardiology in Mount Dora, FL – 352.735.1400) unpack the latest headlines in medical science — from heart health and sleep habits to food, supplements, and breaking research on cancer, dementia, and more.
Highlights from This Episode:
Exercise & Heart Health
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Highlights from This Episode:
Exercise & Heart Health
- New research shows cardiac rehab-style physical activity can reduce the frequency and severity of Atrial Fibrillation (A-Fib).
- Just 15 minutes of fast-paced walking per day could lower the risk of dying from heart disease — a small change with a big impact.
- A study warns about the negative impact of processed foods on long-term health.
- Dr. Ken also flags a rise in skin problems linked to fad diets and unregulated supplements promoted online.
- New evidence links air pollution to increased dementia risk.
- The popular medication Gabapentin, used for nerve pain and restless leg syndrome, may also raise dementia concerns.
- Irregular sleep patterns, untreated sleep apnea, and lack of sleep all contribute to serious physical and mental health issues.
- A study from UC San Diego finds that people with cannabis use disorder are nearly 4x more likely to develop oral cancer within five years.
- Encouraging developments in the treatment and understanding of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS).
- Mercury preservative removed from all flu shots, following action signed by RFK Jr.
- How intense grief can lead to early death within 10 years after a major loss.
- The return of severe strep throat, and a genetic mutation found by Japanese researchers that may explain why it’s so deadly for some.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Good Day Health podcast with doctor Ken Cronhouse, sponsored
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weight and keep it off. Hi, Doug Stefan here on
Good Day Health. I'm with doctor Ken Cronhouse at Lake
Cardiology and I'm outdoorra Florida. He's here with us for
the hour as he has been for decades, to go
(00:20):
through much of the information that's been published this past
week in the various journals of medicine, things that can
be interpreted in various ways, but the interpretation is his
because he has lots.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Of common sense and certainly all the experience.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So we're going to get going, doctor Ken with some
good news about exercise. Actually a couple of things regarding
exercise that we should tie together here. The first has
to do with the exercise that's based on cardiac rehab.
So this is connected to that feeling in your heart
(00:57):
that you love to describe as a bag of worms
beating like a bag of worms that is atrial fibrillation.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
All right, So, have I had done enough to confuse people?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I hope not? Well, Dug.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
The news this week is that exercise based cardiac rehabilitation.
As you're suggesting does significantly lessen the severity, frequency, and
recurrence of atrial fibrillation. This is the most common form
of an irregular heart rhythm, when the top of the
heart beats like a bag of worms. It's a lot
(01:30):
of a problem of aging. It leads to strokes. It's
not good, doesn't make you feel well. But this publication
provides strong evidence in the British Journal of Sports Medicine
this week for the non pharmacological management of atrial fibrillation,
highlighting the importance of exercise dug in improving cardiovascular health
(01:51):
outcomes for these patients. So talk to your doctor if
you have atrial fibrillation about getting into an exercise program
provised if possible cardiac rehab and this seems to dramatically
lower the risk of having this recur.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So this would be you'd get into this program if
you have had atriofibrillation.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Well, that's that was the study that was done here.
But also we know that people who do regularly exercise
lower their risk of getting atrial fibrillation.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
We're all at risk of this.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
There's both a genetic component, there's an aging component, sometimes
a structural disease, a structural change in the heart that
leads to this. But it's such a common problem. I
bet everyone listening to me knows somebody somewhere in their
family or friends that has dealt with atrial fibrillation.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Right, Okay, So I'm going to like fast forward this
to another study. And this sort of describes me in
a manner of speaking, because I want walk a lot
every day, and I walk fast most of the time.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So I see there is something here.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Didn't know it until I saw this that fast walking,
if you do it, even for a quarter of an
hour every day, has significant impact on the positive side exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And this is great news for those of you who say,
you know, I just don't have enough time, doctor can
to exercise. Well, here's the great news this week in
Science Daily that this large study has found that walking
fast ug for just fifteen minutes per day, yes, fifteen
minutes per day, does significantly reduce the risk of death,
(03:41):
especially from heart disease. And this reinforces the profound benefits
DOUG of even moderate physical activity, making a strong case
for integrating short, brisk walks into daily routines for improved
longevity and cardiovascular health. When time for exercises limited. So
if you can't exercise for a lot each day, at
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least if the doctor said it's okay, get a brisk
walk for just fifteen minutes, you're going to be on
planet Earth even longer.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
All right, So then let's go to the next step
part in the pun on this and turn it around
to report on what happens to your body if you
don't have enough leisure time physical activity where it brings you,
and it's not to a good place.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Exactly, Doug, insufficient leisure time. That's aerobic physical activity, which
we were just talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Are you ready for this?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
It contributes to one hundred and ninety two billion, that's
with a b annually to American health care costs. That's
representing twelve point six percent of total national health care spending.
So this study, which was published in the American Journal
of Health Promotion, a very strong economic argument for promoting
(05:03):
physical activity, showing the immense financial burden of sedentary lifestyles
on the healthcare system. So let's save some money. Let's
get out there and exercise.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Why isn't that common sense?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Honestly, doesn't it seem like it ought to be common
sense that people lack in common sense that much.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Well, look around and I'd be home by three in
the afternoon every day if people didn't lack common sense.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I yes, that says it all. Thank you very much.
All right, So let's see here, foodies. This is food information.
A couple of things.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Let's talk about this study about ultraprocessed foods, which, if
Kennedy goes to the full extent of the law or
the full extent of his job, ought to be to
eliminate this stuff. But let's see that kind of there
it goes, Doug.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Go ahead, Doug.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
This was published this week in the medical journal Thorax.
And I'm going to do the medical end. I'll let
you expand on what exactly ultra processed foods is as
you being a wonderfully excellent farmer. So a higher intake
of ultra processed food we learned from this study, has
been linked to an increased risk of lung cancer. This publication,
(06:27):
thug It, adds to the growing body of evidence highlighting
the negative health impacts of ultra processed foods, emphasiety seeing
the importance of a whole food diet for cancer prevention.
So I want you to Doug expand on the difference
between an ultra processed food and a whole food.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Well, I would use a strainer as an example, maybe
a simple example.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Of the various degrees.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
There are strainers that have wide holes in them, and
you know, get rid of a lot of stuff. If
you're straining various foods and getting rid of the impurities,
and then it gets smaller and smaller, the screen can
get smaller and smaller. Ultra processed foods are foods that
have been filtered, that have been shall we say adjusted,
(07:19):
any number of times. The word ultra pretty much says
it all processed foods.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
We pretty much know.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Anybody who has studied this or been around longer than
five minutes knows that the processed foods are nowhere near
as good for you as the whole foods that come
from your local farmer, fresh frozen foods, much better than
stuff that's in the can. That's an example of one
degree or another of processed foods. But the processing is
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basically aimed at making the shelf life of whatever the
food is longer, so that you buy it and put
it on the shelf and you know it says you
know good Until twenty twenty nine on it, or whatever
nonsense it might.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Say to it.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And so the way the processing or the processing, the
process of processing takes the goodness and the nutrition out
of most of these foods. They may look okay, but
they aren't. And I understand it's interesting to connect the
business of cancers to the ultra processed foods because there's
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no nutritional value in them, and in fact, they put
ingredients into the stuff that would not be it's good
to to keep it, if you will, usable, but it
isn't good for the body. It's good for the food
or good for the shelf life, but it's not good
for your body under any circumstances. It is nothing like
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eating food fresh from the garden, fresh from a farm,
fresh from a whole food store, that sort of thing.
And if you buy the stuff that is on the shelf,
shall we say, that looks and you touch it and
there's a fresh carrot there, and there's a fresh onion there,
or there's it hasn't been packaged, it hasn't been frozen,
(09:08):
and that's what you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
That's what's going to do your body.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Has been said many times by many good doctors. Food
is medicine. Good food is great medicine.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You don't need medicine if you've been eating.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Good food for most of your life. So is that
that I go off on the deep end of it.
But it was that helpful.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
It was helpful. Moving right along.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Okay, So now let's connect that to a story excuse me,
about fad diets and supplements that have led to it
seems like a new wave of skin problems.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Why would that be.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I think you're referring to an article that was in
the British medical journal Yes DOUG last week, and this
is a new review. It highlights how fad diets and
unregulated supplements, often promoted online, can cause significant skin, hair
and nail problems, sometimes before other symptoms appear. And this
(10:15):
study urge clinicians to recognize these risks and address health misinformation.
And this is a crucial public health warning, underscoring the
dangers of unvetted health trends and the importance of evidence
based dietary advice. It calls for greater awareness among both
(10:36):
the public and healthcare workers. It seems like restrictive eating
leads to nutrient deficiencies, as you pointed out earlier, specifically
In this article they talk about how overload of selenium, niosin,
and zinc all lead to big health problems too much.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You got to find out what the right combination is
because all of them, when taken properly.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Are good for you.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
But if you overdo it, it's kind of like anything else.
You overdo anything, it's going to take its toll. I
think that's a fair statement.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Don't you think.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Overloading will do it?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
The question is, and that's for the future, what's the
right those.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Well, that might be a question that we ask of
doctor Jack Stockwell, who is into that sort of thing.
All right, coming up, I want to go back to
the discussion of cancers. What's new this week in cancers.
There's some interesting, compelling info about liver cancer, and.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I don't think we talked that much about that. We
do talk a lot about.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Lung cancer and skin cancers and that sort of thing,
prostate cancer, But the liver problems that we have, as
they are brought about, I don't know why they are
brought about and what the impact is because your liver
is a very important part obviously of your whole system,
and it was not working. Probably not good. Doctor Ken Kronos.
(12:05):
I'm Doug Stephan. This is Good Day Health.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Here. We are back on Good Day Health.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Over the years, probably tens of thousands of people have
seen Ken and benefited from his extraordinary knowledge, his research,
the sort of thing that likes. Good doctors like to
be in his company, and he's in the company of
good doctors, a lot of great cardiologists around the country.
(12:35):
He's won a number of awards as a facilitator.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
He gives good advice. You can get some set.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Up an appointment either in the clinic or online by
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doctor Ken's office at Lake Cardiology three five two seven
three five one four double ow all Right, back to
the discussion this week of cancers, and I suggested we
(13:02):
would go down to focus on liver cancers because well,
apparently most of the problem people have with liver cancers
are preventable.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
So what's that scoop?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yes, this comes this week from the medical journal Lance.
It Doug that liver cancer, in most cases does not
have to happen. It seems that sixty percent of cases
of this often deadly disease are preventable by avoiding or
treating big risk factors. So what are these big risk factors?
(13:34):
They include viral hepatitis, infection, alcohol misuse, or a dangerous
obesity link build up of fat in the liver. So
very simply minimizing alcohol, minimizing obesity, and treating viral hepatitis,
we get rid of sixty percent of liver cancers.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Wow. Say that again, that's an important stat.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Treating treating, treating hepatitis, which we now can, minimizing alcohol
abuse and avoiding obesity, we get rid of sixty of
liver cancer.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Wow. All right, let's talk about dementia.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
We have old age maladies that we talk about pretty
much every week, dementia, Alzheimer's, that sort of thing. There
is evidence apparently this week that ties air pollution to
the dangers of dementia. Do you want to explain that
that seems Look out below for that one.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Doug doesn't experience that Doug.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
British study published this week in the Lancet Planetary Health.
It appears to strengthen the suspected link between long term exposure.
Key is long term exposure to air pollution and the
risk of dementia in the elderly. So simply try to
breathe as much clean air as you can.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, what about masks and things that seem to help
people purify what they breathe in? That is there significant
help there or is that just kind of fetish?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Again, that wasn't specifically tested in this study, but you
would think you would lower in really bad days when
the particulates are very high. It certainly couldn't hurt. It
would certainly diminish the amount of pollutants that you breathe in.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
All right, I want to start this conversation.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
There's a warning that's come out about gabba penton that
may be also tied to dementia.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
This is a widely used drug.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I took it because I had the hiccups for a
couple of days and you got rid of them.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
And it is isn't it? It's widely used, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
It Sure is? Doug.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
This comes out of Regional Anesthesian Pain Medicine July tenth
of this month. A drug used to treat seizures, nerve pain,
and restless legs syndrome might be linked with increased risk
of dementia. We're talking about what you just mentioned, gab
of penon. It's use that it seems to increase the
risk of dementia by twenty nine percent, in mild cognitive
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impairment by eighty five percent.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Good regular use.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
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We have fifteen, sixteen, seventeen hundred of these episodes. One
of the things last week that got the most attention
Ken was are discussing sleeping with your pets and the
effects on sleep quality. So that might be something that
people want to go back to if they haven't found
their way there yet. And speaking of that, one of
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the things that is out today and this week is
a focus on poor sleep habits and what happens and
can we describe what they are? Not sleeping enough or
not sleeping at the same time. What is the definition
of poor sleep habits?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Well, I think you gave them out not getting enough sleep,
not sleeping at the same time each each night, dealing
with sleep apnea, untreated, those are probably the key ones.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, well, what is the old thing word to the
wise is sufficient. Let's hope that that is sufficient to
get people to think about Okay, I need to go
to bed every night through ten and eleven, and I
need to get up every morning.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Between seven and eight.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
If you can do that or however, whatever the schedule is,
you work all night and you go to bed after
you get off work. That's harder to do for sure,
especially if you have a family. But the other side
of that is that the better you're sleep, the better
you're going to have in terms of time to take
care of your family, children and adult children.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So again, think about it that way.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
All right, we were talking about liver liver cancer cancers
that are preventable, I think from the danger danger Will
Robinson Department, especially.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
With that sort of thing. A couple of.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Different things here that I wanted to go back to
for a moment, and that was the different types of
risk for cancer and how that's changed.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And we also, just.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Before we ran out of time a few minutes ago
in that segment, we're talking about Gaba Pentin. So let's
do the Gaba Penin first. Then I want to go
back to the cancers for a moment if we can.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Gaba Pentin.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I was prescribed that last year and I took it
a couple of times because I have restless leg and
I didn't like it, so I stopped taking it. But
I then, you know, I do a little research when
somebody gives me a prescription for something, because I'm not
generally on meds for something special, I look it up
because I do have restless leg and it's annoying. But
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there was nothing about Gaba Penton when I read it
that made me think, oh, this is good.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
So you've just added to that with the connection.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So what would be the connection, what's in the what's
in the combination of drugs or whatever they put into
it that might lead to problems of dementia.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
That boy, you need to be in the lab, DOUG.
That's ongoing, very active research. And gabba pen is usually
used when other things don't work. And it's not usually
I mean, that wasn't given to you off the shelf
by the doctor as the first choice, I'm sure, and
it's usually used after patients come back and come back complaining, Doc,
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what you gave me just isn't working. And this is
a drug that isn't even totally understood how it works.
It does work on the nervous system. But the news
is that regular use and that's the key, not occasional use,
intermittent use, in frequent use, but regular use. You know,
(21:46):
you put on this chronically and sometimes patients have no
other choice. And this definitely is not the first choice
of the physician the provider who's prescribing. But the news
that we need to all aware of out of the
medical journal Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, just out in
the last couple of weeks is that regular gab of
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pent u s DOUG does appear to increase the risk
of dementia by twenty nine percent and mild cognitive impairment
by a whopping eighty five percent. So this is a
drug that if it's going to be used every day
for a long time, you need to ask your doctor, Doc,
is this my only option? What's the risk of taking
(22:29):
it versus the risk of not taking it? And you
have to discuss both sides of the seesaw, because if
you're on this drug, hopefully there's big time risk of
not taking it.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yep, all right, that's pretty clear. Thank you for explaining that.
I just wanted to, But the cancer thing just piqued
my interest because over the last few months we've seen
a lot of things, and I think you and I
addressed it a couple of times as to what the
leading cause of death is. Certainly heart disease has stayed
up there. A lot of doctors are growing about how
(23:02):
the risk of dying from any kind of cancer has
gone down. These stats really that have they changed that
much in terms of you know, somebody brought to my
attention the other day that the actual number two a
cause of death in America is the car accidents and
(23:22):
being involved in the drunken driving accidents and people driving
you know, you see, especially this time of.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Year, really serious accidents all over the place, all over
the highways, So is it?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And I guess I would ask also is this statistic
that important?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Is which statistic?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Lung?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Whether you're lung, whether cancer in general, is the second
heart disease, the first car crashes number three? All of
that stuff makes for conversation, but of what value is it?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Really?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Well, actually, Doug, heart disease is number cancer is number two,
and actually accidents is number three, then strokes and then
chronic lower respiratory diseases in that order. But especially with cancer, lately,
we are getting better. We haven't cured it, but we're
doing a lot better in helping people live longer and
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survive it, just because of the advances of immunotherapy and
cancer and heart disease. You know, you go back five
more than five years ago to about more than forty
years ago. In that interval of time, we were doing
dramatically better.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
With heart disease.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
More lately we've almost reached a peak, and I think
this is being offset. The advances that we had continuously
made in heart disease prevention is being offset by the
obesity epidemic. And yes, as a preventive cardiologist, I am
helping people live long, longer, to improve the quality of
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their lives much better than they would have if we
weren't using the tools we have. But working against that
effort is the obeseity epidemic. So it's an ongoing effort
to manage both sides of that SISA.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
All right, Coming up in a moment, one more focus
on cancer and something that affects it that Ken is
very happy to tell you is bad for you, and
I think I'm on the same pig.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
It kind of always have been.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
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of cannabis.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Can take it Away DOUG.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Important results out of the University of California, San Diego
School of Medicine this week. The news this week is
that individuals with cannabis use disorder are more than three
times more likely to develop oral cancer within five years
compared to those without cannabis use disorder DOUG. This is
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a significant finding that highlights are previously less emphasized health
risk associated with chronic cannabis use and warrants further investigation
and definitely public health awareness.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
So the people who scoff at those of us who
say not and I always got into the cannabis business
about ten years ago on my farm. The idea that
something like this although so many people use it now
you can smell it when you go to a lot
of public events, and we sort of laugh about it.
But this is not only it's not just cannabis.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
And you look at any.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Thing pipes and cigars and anything you put in your
mouth that brings smoke into your mouth. I guess the question,
why would you do any of that? But you see
all these people that are dying from gum cant These
are the cancers that you can't cure easily. Right, most
of this stuff around your.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Mouth, exactly get in line to have your tongue ressected.
Where are I get in that line? And exactly? It
just bewilders me that people who are the loudest screamers
against using tobacco products next day are using cannabis. And
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this is you know, just for so many of us
of us in healthcare and in prevention.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
It just bewilders us this kind of thinking.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
All right, there's a gut hormone that's linked to diarrhea.
Is this something that we can explain quickly?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I don't know, but this is so important.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
How many people do you know who are suffering from
chronic diarrhea? Inflammatory bowel disease and just irritable bowel syndrome Doug.
This comes out of the University of Cambridge. Scientists have
identified high levels of the gut hormone it's called I
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N five L five, the potential underlying cause for many
cases of chronic diarrhea, explaining up to forty percent of
irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea cases Dug. This discovery offers
a promising new target for diagnosis and treatment for chronic diarrhea,
particularly for patients with irritable bow who often struggle to
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find an effective treatment. Great hope for those who with
irritable beall who have told they're crazy 'or not.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
This is real.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Hi, it's a good explanation.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Thank you, Thanks for joining us. Doug Stephan here with
Good Day Health questions for doctor Ken. First question, has
mercury preservative been removed from all flu shots?
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Yes, Doug, and you and your crystal ball right on target.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Robert F.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Kennedy Junior signed the panel's decision to ban thim aarsol
just this week. And I think this is going to
take the mercury out of all the flu shots, and
I know it will, and I know you've been asking
for this for a long time and your ask has occurred.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Right seeking he shall find all.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Right, let's get to the business about grief, the business
about older people. Or is this Maybe that's not the
right way of asking the question, because it maybe isn't
just older people who have intense grief, but certainly it
appears not to be good for you. Can you explain
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that why would intense grief bring someone around to risking
and early death.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
It's just the heart and brain connection. And it was
reported recently in Frontiers and Public Health DOUG that people
intensely grieving a loved one and this is intense grieving,
are nearly twice as likely to die within a decade
of their loss. Those whose grief remained persistently high in
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the first years following a loss, they have eighty eight
percent increase odds of dying within ten years of their
loved ones passing. They're also nearly three times more likely
to receive mental health care like talk therapy, greater than
five times more likely to be prescribed antidepressants, and more
than twice as likely to receive sedatives or anxiety drugs.
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So if you have this intense grief from loss of
a loved one or anything in your life.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Make sure you get adequate help.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
That's the key, because a lot of these folks got help,
but was it adequate?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Was it effective?
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Make sure that you get the help you need because
it will change your life.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Hmm, yeah, it seems pretty obvious. Actually, now let's go
back to the discussion we were having vaccines and stuff.
I see that there's a new leader, a director at
the Centers for Disease Control.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Her name is Susan Manarez. I wonder what we know
about her.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
She obviously had to come through the Kennedy pipeline and
some of the other pipelines that are necessary. She's been
the acting head of the CDC since the first of
the year. She worked on a lot of research projects
at the Health Department, and some say.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
She was a surprise pick. What do you know about her?
Of anything?
Speaker 4 (33:56):
So much about her, I don't know much. She's not
a medical doctors, she's a PhD. She was active the
acting head of the CDC since January, so I guess
she's a well known commodity and she just has a
large background in health innovation, disease preparedness, global health biosecurity
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and she is on a mission to make America healthy again.
Apparently that's her what she's claiming, and the Center confirm
her July ninth, yep.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Right, So up, up and away with that. The business
of strep throat, we are talking about.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Whether we have more of the various types of the
return to covid and that sort of thing. Is there
a return to strep throat? Is there a lot of
that around or is there some new kind of strip
have different incarnations like covid does.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
All of the above, Doug.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
And you know, strip's been around forever as this bacteria
before we had antibiotics. It caused horrible, horrible life taking
heart disease, and fortunately most of it is effectively treated.
But US physicians know about these strips that are just
really terrible and they can be life threatening. And the
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mystery has been somewhat solved, Doug. Researchers at the University
of Osaka that's in Japan. They've identified a novel genetic
mutation in Strep throat bacteria that is significantly associated with
the severe invasive infections. This discovery could lead to better
understanding and treatment of these life threatening cases and This
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is a crucial finding for public health, Doug, as it
sheds light on why some strep infections become much more dangerous.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yep, all right, so there's a word to the why
as much as anything, especially I think kind of.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
In the water, uh, people who spend a lot of.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Time in the water, fresh water especially, it could be
a lot of that sort of thing, because it just is,
it's there.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Thanks for joining us, Doug Stephan here with Good Day Health.
This program was produced at Bobksound and Recording.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Please visit bobksound dot com.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
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weight and keep it off. Hi, Doug Stefan here on
Good Day Health. I'm with doctor Ken Cronhouse at Lake
Cardiology and I'm outdoorra Florida. He's here with us for
the hour as he has been for decades, to go
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through much of the information that's been published this past
week in the various journals of medicine, things that can
be interpreted in various ways, but the interpretation is his
because he has lots.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Of common sense and certainly all the experience.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
So we're going to get going, doctor Ken with some
good news about exercise. Actually a couple of things regarding
exercise that we should tie together here. The first has
to do with the exercise that's based on cardiac rehab.
So this is connected to that feeling in your heart
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that you love to describe as a bag of worms
beating like a bag of worms that is atrial fibrillation.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
All right, So, have I had done enough to confuse people?
Speaker 3 (01:08):
I hope not? Well, Dug.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
The news this week is that exercise based cardiac rehabilitation.
As you're suggesting does significantly lessen the severity, frequency, and
recurrence of atrial fibrillation. This is the most common form
of an irregular heart rhythm, when the top of the
heart beats like a bag of worms. It's a lot
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of a problem of aging. It leads to strokes. It's
not good, doesn't make you feel well. But this publication
provides strong evidence in the British Journal of Sports Medicine
this week for the non pharmacological management of atrial fibrillation,
highlighting the importance of exercise dug in improving cardiovascular health
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outcomes for these patients. So talk to your doctor if
you have atrial fibrillation about getting into an exercise program
provised if possible cardiac rehab and this seems to dramatically
lower the risk of having this recur.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
So this would be you'd get into this program if
you have had atriofibrillation.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Is that right?
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Well, that's that was the study that was done here.
But also we know that people who do regularly exercise
lower their risk of getting atrial fibrillation.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
We're all at risk of this.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
There's both a genetic component, there's an aging component, sometimes
a structural disease, a structural change in the heart that
leads to this. But it's such a common problem. I
bet everyone listening to me knows somebody somewhere in their
family or friends that has dealt with atrial fibrillation.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Right, Okay, So I'm going to like fast forward this
to another study. And this sort of describes me in
a manner of speaking, because I want walk a lot
every day, and I walk fast most of the time.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
So I see there is something here.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Didn't know it until I saw this that fast walking,
if you do it, even for a quarter of an
hour every day, has significant impact on the positive side exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
And this is great news for those of you who say,
you know, I just don't have enough time, doctor can
to exercise. Well, here's the great news this week in
Science Daily that this large study has found that walking
fast ug for just fifteen minutes per day, yes, fifteen
minutes per day, does significantly reduce the risk of death,
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especially from heart disease. And this reinforces the profound benefits
DOUG of even moderate physical activity, making a strong case
for integrating short, brisk walks into daily routines for improved
longevity and cardiovascular health. When time for exercises limited. So
if you can't exercise for a lot each day, at
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least if the doctor said it's okay, get a brisk
walk for just fifteen minutes, you're going to be on
planet Earth even longer.
Speaker 1 (04:12):
All right, So then let's go to the next step
part in the pun on this and turn it around
to report on what happens to your body if you
don't have enough leisure time physical activity where it brings you,
and it's not to a good place.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Exactly, Doug, insufficient leisure time. That's aerobic physical activity, which
we were just talking about.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Are you ready for this?
Speaker 4 (04:40):
It contributes to one hundred and ninety two billion, that's
with a b annually to American health care costs. That's
representing twelve point six percent of total national health care spending.
So this study, which was published in the American Journal
of Health Promotion, a very strong economic argument for promoting
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physical activity, showing the immense financial burden of sedentary lifestyles
on the healthcare system. So let's save some money. Let's
get out there and exercise.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Why isn't that common sense?
Speaker 1 (05:16):
Honestly, doesn't it seem like it ought to be common
sense that people lack in common sense that much.
Speaker 4 (05:25):
Well, look around and I'd be home by three in
the afternoon every day if people didn't lack common sense.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
I yes, that says it all. Thank you very much.
All right, So let's see here, foodies. This is food information.
A couple of things.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
Let's talk about this study about ultraprocessed foods, which, if
Kennedy goes to the full extent of the law or
the full extent of his job, ought to be to
eliminate this stuff. But let's see that kind of there
it goes, Doug.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Go ahead, Doug.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
This was published this week in the medical journal Thorax.
And I'm going to do the medical end. I'll let
you expand on what exactly ultra processed foods is as
you being a wonderfully excellent farmer. So a higher intake
of ultra processed food we learned from this study, has
been linked to an increased risk of lung cancer. This publication,
(06:27):
thug It, adds to the growing body of evidence highlighting
the negative health impacts of ultra processed foods, emphasiety seeing
the importance of a whole food diet for cancer prevention.
So I want you to Doug expand on the difference
between an ultra processed food and a whole food.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Well, I would use a strainer as an example, maybe
a simple example.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Of the various degrees.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
There are strainers that have wide holes in them, and
you know, get rid of a lot of stuff. If
you're straining various foods and getting rid of the impurities,
and then it gets smaller and smaller, the screen can
get smaller and smaller. Ultra processed foods are foods that
have been filtered, that have been shall we say adjusted,
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any number of times. The word ultra pretty much says
it all processed foods.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
We pretty much know.
Speaker 1 (07:27):
Anybody who has studied this or been around longer than
five minutes knows that the processed foods are nowhere near
as good for you as the whole foods that come
from your local farmer, fresh frozen foods, much better than
stuff that's in the can. That's an example of one
degree or another of processed foods. But the processing is
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basically aimed at making the shelf life of whatever the
food is longer, so that you buy it and put
it on the shelf and you know it says you
know good Until twenty twenty nine on it, or whatever
nonsense it might.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Say to it.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
And so the way the processing or the processing, the
process of processing takes the goodness and the nutrition out
of most of these foods. They may look okay, but
they aren't. And I understand it's interesting to connect the
business of cancers to the ultra processed foods because there's
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no nutritional value in them, and in fact, they put
ingredients into the stuff that would not be it's good
to to keep it, if you will, usable, but it
isn't good for the body. It's good for the food
or good for the shelf life, but it's not good
for your body under any circumstances. It is nothing like
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eating food fresh from the garden, fresh from a farm,
fresh from a whole food store, that sort of thing.
And if you buy the stuff that is on the shelf,
shall we say, that looks and you touch it and
there's a fresh carrot there, and there's a fresh onion there,
or there's it hasn't been packaged, it hasn't been frozen,
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and that's what you're looking for.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
That's what's going to do your body.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Has been said many times by many good doctors. Food
is medicine. Good food is great medicine.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
You don't need medicine if you've been eating.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
Good food for most of your life. So is that
that I go off on the deep end of it.
But it was that helpful.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
It was helpful. Moving right along.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
Okay, So now let's connect that to a story excuse me,
about fad diets and supplements that have led to it
seems like a new wave of skin problems.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Why would that be.
Speaker 4 (09:52):
I think you're referring to an article that was in
the British medical journal Yes DOUG last week, and this
is a new review. It highlights how fad diets and
unregulated supplements, often promoted online, can cause significant skin, hair
and nail problems, sometimes before other symptoms appear. And this
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study urge clinicians to recognize these risks and address health misinformation.
And this is a crucial public health warning, underscoring the
dangers of unvetted health trends and the importance of evidence
based dietary advice. It calls for greater awareness among both
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the public and healthcare workers. It seems like restrictive eating
leads to nutrient deficiencies, as you pointed out earlier, specifically
In this article they talk about how overload of selenium, niosin,
and zinc all lead to big health problems too much.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
You got to find out what the right combination is
because all of them, when taken properly.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Are good for you.
Speaker 1 (11:04):
But if you overdo it, it's kind of like anything else.
You overdo anything, it's going to take its toll. I
think that's a fair statement.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Don't you think.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Overloading will do it?
Speaker 4 (11:13):
The question is, and that's for the future, what's the
right those.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Right?
Speaker 1 (11:20):
Well, that might be a question that we ask of
doctor Jack Stockwell, who is into that sort of thing.
All right, coming up, I want to go back to
the discussion of cancers. What's new this week in cancers.
There's some interesting, compelling info about liver cancer, and.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
I don't think we talked that much about that. We
do talk a lot about.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Lung cancer and skin cancers and that sort of thing,
prostate cancer, But the liver problems that we have, as
they are brought about, I don't know why they are
brought about and what the impact is because your liver
is a very important part obviously of your whole system,
and it was not working. Probably not good. Doctor Ken Kronos.
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I'm Doug Stephan. This is Good Day Health.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Here. We are back on Good Day Health.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Over the years, probably tens of thousands of people have
seen Ken and benefited from his extraordinary knowledge, his research,
the sort of thing that likes. Good doctors like to
be in his company, and he's in the company of
good doctors, a lot of great cardiologists around the country.
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He's won a number of awards as a facilitator.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
He gives good advice. You can get some set.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Up an appointment either in the clinic or online by
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doctor Ken's office at Lake Cardiology three five two seven
three five one four double ow all Right, back to
the discussion this week of cancers, and I suggested we
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would go down to focus on liver cancers because well,
apparently most of the problem people have with liver cancers
are preventable.
Speaker 2 (13:13):
So what's that scoop?
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yes, this comes this week from the medical journal Lance.
It Doug that liver cancer, in most cases does not
have to happen. It seems that sixty percent of cases
of this often deadly disease are preventable by avoiding or
treating big risk factors. So what are these big risk factors?
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They include viral hepatitis, infection, alcohol misuse, or a dangerous
obesity link build up of fat in the liver. So
very simply minimizing alcohol, minimizing obesity, and treating viral hepatitis,
we get rid of sixty percent of liver cancers.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Wow. Say that again, that's an important stat.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
Treating treating, treating hepatitis, which we now can, minimizing alcohol
abuse and avoiding obesity, we get rid of sixty of
liver cancer.
Speaker 2 (14:16):
Wow. All right, let's talk about dementia.
Speaker 1 (14:20):
We have old age maladies that we talk about pretty
much every week, dementia, Alzheimer's, that sort of thing. There
is evidence apparently this week that ties air pollution to
the dangers of dementia. Do you want to explain that
that seems Look out below for that one.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Doug doesn't experience that Doug.
Speaker 4 (14:42):
British study published this week in the Lancet Planetary Health.
It appears to strengthen the suspected link between long term exposure.
Key is long term exposure to air pollution and the
risk of dementia in the elderly. So simply try to
breathe as much clean air as you can.
Speaker 1 (15:03):
Yeah, what about masks and things that seem to help
people purify what they breathe in? That is there significant
help there or is that just kind of fetish?
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Again, that wasn't specifically tested in this study, but you
would think you would lower in really bad days when
the particulates are very high. It certainly couldn't hurt. It
would certainly diminish the amount of pollutants that you breathe in.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
All right, I want to start this conversation.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
There's a warning that's come out about gabba penton that
may be also tied to dementia.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
This is a widely used drug.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
I took it because I had the hiccups for a
couple of days and you got rid of them.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
And it is isn't it? It's widely used, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
It Sure is? Doug.
Speaker 4 (15:53):
This comes out of Regional Anesthesian Pain Medicine July tenth
of this month. A drug used to treat seizures, nerve pain,
and restless legs syndrome might be linked with increased risk
of dementia. We're talking about what you just mentioned, gab
of penon. It's use that it seems to increase the
risk of dementia by twenty nine percent, in mild cognitive
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impairment by eighty five percent.
Speaker 3 (16:18):
Good regular use.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
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We have fifteen, sixteen, seventeen hundred of these episodes. One
of the things last week that got the most attention
Ken was are discussing sleeping with your pets and the
effects on sleep quality. So that might be something that
people want to go back to if they haven't found
their way there yet. And speaking of that, one of
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the things that is out today and this week is
a focus on poor sleep habits and what happens and
can we describe what they are? Not sleeping enough or
not sleeping at the same time. What is the definition
of poor sleep habits?
Speaker 4 (18:43):
Well, I think you gave them out not getting enough sleep,
not sleeping at the same time each each night, dealing
with sleep apnea, untreated, those are probably the key ones.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Yeah, well, what is the old thing word to the
wise is sufficient. Let's hope that that is sufficient to
get people to think about Okay, I need to go
to bed every night through ten and eleven, and I
need to get up every morning.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Between seven and eight.
Speaker 1 (19:14):
If you can do that or however, whatever the schedule is,
you work all night and you go to bed after
you get off work. That's harder to do for sure,
especially if you have a family. But the other side
of that is that the better you're sleep, the better
you're going to have in terms of time to take
care of your family, children and adult children.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
So again, think about it that way.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
All right, we were talking about liver liver cancer cancers
that are preventable, I think from the danger danger Will
Robinson Department, especially.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
With that sort of thing. A couple of.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Different things here that I wanted to go back to
for a moment, and that was the different types of
risk for cancer and how that's changed.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
And we also, just.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
Before we ran out of time a few minutes ago
in that segment, we're talking about Gaba Pentin. So let's
do the Gaba Penin first. Then I want to go
back to the cancers for a moment if we can.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
Gaba Pentin.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
I was prescribed that last year and I took it
a couple of times because I have restless leg and
I didn't like it, so I stopped taking it. But
I then, you know, I do a little research when
somebody gives me a prescription for something, because I'm not
generally on meds for something special, I look it up
because I do have restless leg and it's annoying. But
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there was nothing about Gaba Penton when I read it
that made me think, oh, this is good.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
So you've just added to that with the connection.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
So what would be the connection, what's in the what's
in the combination of drugs or whatever they put into
it that might lead to problems of dementia.
Speaker 4 (20:59):
That boy, you need to be in the lab, DOUG.
That's ongoing, very active research. And gabba pen is usually
used when other things don't work. And it's not usually
I mean, that wasn't given to you off the shelf
by the doctor as the first choice, I'm sure, and
it's usually used after patients come back and come back complaining, Doc,
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what you gave me just isn't working. And this is
a drug that isn't even totally understood how it works.
It does work on the nervous system. But the news
is that regular use and that's the key, not occasional use,
intermittent use, in frequent use, but regular use. You know,
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you put on this chronically and sometimes patients have no
other choice. And this definitely is not the first choice
of the physician the provider who's prescribing. But the news
that we need to all aware of out of the
medical journal Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine, just out in
the last couple of weeks is that regular gab of
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pent u s DOUG does appear to increase the risk
of dementia by twenty nine percent and mild cognitive impairment
by a whopping eighty five percent. So this is a
drug that if it's going to be used every day
for a long time, you need to ask your doctor, Doc,
is this my only option? What's the risk of taking
(22:29):
it versus the risk of not taking it? And you
have to discuss both sides of the seesaw, because if
you're on this drug, hopefully there's big time risk of
not taking it.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yep, all right, that's pretty clear. Thank you for explaining that.
I just wanted to, But the cancer thing just piqued
my interest because over the last few months we've seen
a lot of things, and I think you and I
addressed it a couple of times as to what the
leading cause of death is. Certainly heart disease has stayed
up there. A lot of doctors are growing about how
(23:02):
the risk of dying from any kind of cancer has
gone down. These stats really that have they changed that
much in terms of you know, somebody brought to my
attention the other day that the actual number two a
cause of death in America is the car accidents and
(23:22):
being involved in the drunken driving accidents and people driving
you know, you see, especially this time of.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Year, really serious accidents all over the place, all over
the highways, So is it?
Speaker 1 (23:36):
And I guess I would ask also is this statistic
that important?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Is which statistic?
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Lung?
Speaker 1 (23:44):
Whether you're lung, whether cancer in general, is the second
heart disease, the first car crashes number three? All of
that stuff makes for conversation, but of what value is it?
Speaker 2 (23:56):
Really?
Speaker 4 (23:57):
Well, actually, Doug, heart disease is number cancer is number two,
and actually accidents is number three, then strokes and then
chronic lower respiratory diseases in that order. But especially with cancer, lately,
we are getting better. We haven't cured it, but we're
doing a lot better in helping people live longer and
(24:21):
survive it, just because of the advances of immunotherapy and
cancer and heart disease. You know, you go back five
more than five years ago to about more than forty
years ago. In that interval of time, we were doing
dramatically better.
Speaker 3 (24:37):
With heart disease.
Speaker 4 (24:38):
More lately we've almost reached a peak, and I think
this is being offset. The advances that we had continuously
made in heart disease prevention is being offset by the
obesity epidemic. And yes, as a preventive cardiologist, I am
helping people live long, longer, to improve the quality of
(25:01):
their lives much better than they would have if we
weren't using the tools we have. But working against that
effort is the obeseity epidemic. So it's an ongoing effort
to manage both sides of that SISA.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
All right, Coming up in a moment, one more focus
on cancer and something that affects it that Ken is
very happy to tell you is bad for you, and
I think I'm on the same pig.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
It kind of always have been.
Speaker 1 (25:31):
But the connection between cannabis and a certain type of cancer.
Up next here in our discussion our good day health
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Speaker 2 (26:05):
So losing weight slowly, why is that a good thing?
Look at the scale every morning, get up.
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If it's not moving as fast as you wanted to move,
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That's toploss dot Com. Hi back with doctor ken So
one more cancer story. This is connected to the use
of cannabis.
Speaker 2 (28:00):
Can take it Away DOUG.
Speaker 4 (28:02):
Important results out of the University of California, San Diego
School of Medicine this week. The news this week is
that individuals with cannabis use disorder are more than three
times more likely to develop oral cancer within five years
compared to those without cannabis use disorder DOUG. This is
(28:22):
a significant finding that highlights are previously less emphasized health
risk associated with chronic cannabis use and warrants further investigation
and definitely public health awareness.
Speaker 1 (28:35):
So the people who scoff at those of us who
say not and I always got into the cannabis business
about ten years ago on my farm. The idea that
something like this although so many people use it now
you can smell it when you go to a lot
of public events, and we sort of laugh about it.
But this is not only it's not just cannabis.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
And you look at any.
Speaker 1 (29:00):
Thing pipes and cigars and anything you put in your
mouth that brings smoke into your mouth. I guess the question,
why would you do any of that? But you see
all these people that are dying from gum cant These
are the cancers that you can't cure easily. Right, most
of this stuff around your.
Speaker 4 (29:17):
Mouth, exactly get in line to have your tongue ressected.
Where are I get in that line? And exactly? It
just bewilders me that people who are the loudest screamers
against using tobacco products next day are using cannabis. And
(29:38):
this is you know, just for so many of us
of us in healthcare and in prevention.
Speaker 3 (29:45):
It just bewilders us this kind of thinking.
Speaker 1 (29:48):
All right, there's a gut hormone that's linked to diarrhea.
Is this something that we can explain quickly?
Speaker 3 (29:58):
I don't know, but this is so important.
Speaker 4 (30:01):
How many people do you know who are suffering from
chronic diarrhea? Inflammatory bowel disease and just irritable bowel syndrome Doug.
This comes out of the University of Cambridge. Scientists have
identified high levels of the gut hormone it's called I
(30:22):
N five L five, the potential underlying cause for many
cases of chronic diarrhea, explaining up to forty percent of
irritable bowel syndrome with diarrhea cases Dug. This discovery offers
a promising new target for diagnosis and treatment for chronic diarrhea,
particularly for patients with irritable bow who often struggle to
(30:45):
find an effective treatment. Great hope for those who with
irritable beall who have told they're crazy 'or not.
Speaker 3 (30:50):
This is real.
Speaker 2 (30:51):
Hi, it's a good explanation.
Speaker 1 (30:54):
Thank you, Thanks for joining us. Doug Stephan here with
Good Day Health questions for doctor Ken. First question, has
mercury preservative been removed from all flu shots?
Speaker 4 (31:13):
Yes, Doug, and you and your crystal ball right on target.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Robert F.
Speaker 4 (31:20):
Kennedy Junior signed the panel's decision to ban thim aarsol
just this week. And I think this is going to
take the mercury out of all the flu shots, and
I know it will, and I know you've been asking
for this for a long time and your ask has occurred.
Speaker 2 (31:42):
Right seeking he shall find all.
Speaker 1 (31:45):
Right, let's get to the business about grief, the business
about older people. Or is this Maybe that's not the
right way of asking the question, because it maybe isn't
just older people who have intense grief, but certainly it
appears not to be good for you. Can you explain
(32:05):
that why would intense grief bring someone around to risking
and early death.
Speaker 4 (32:11):
It's just the heart and brain connection. And it was
reported recently in Frontiers and Public Health DOUG that people
intensely grieving a loved one and this is intense grieving,
are nearly twice as likely to die within a decade
of their loss. Those whose grief remained persistently high in
(32:31):
the first years following a loss, they have eighty eight
percent increase odds of dying within ten years of their
loved ones passing. They're also nearly three times more likely
to receive mental health care like talk therapy, greater than
five times more likely to be prescribed antidepressants, and more
than twice as likely to receive sedatives or anxiety drugs.
(32:53):
So if you have this intense grief from loss of
a loved one or anything in your life.
Speaker 3 (33:00):
Make sure you get adequate help.
Speaker 4 (33:01):
That's the key, because a lot of these folks got help,
but was it adequate?
Speaker 3 (33:07):
Was it effective?
Speaker 4 (33:08):
Make sure that you get the help you need because
it will change your life.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Hmm, yeah, it seems pretty obvious. Actually, now let's go
back to the discussion we were having vaccines and stuff.
I see that there's a new leader, a director at
the Centers for Disease Control.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
Her name is Susan Manarez. I wonder what we know
about her.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
She obviously had to come through the Kennedy pipeline and
some of the other pipelines that are necessary. She's been
the acting head of the CDC since the first of
the year. She worked on a lot of research projects
at the Health Department, and some say.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
She was a surprise pick. What do you know about her?
Of anything?
Speaker 4 (33:56):
So much about her, I don't know much. She's not
a medical doctors, she's a PhD. She was active the
acting head of the CDC since January, so I guess
she's a well known commodity and she just has a
large background in health innovation, disease preparedness, global health biosecurity
(34:20):
and she is on a mission to make America healthy again.
Apparently that's her what she's claiming, and the Center confirm
her July ninth, yep.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Right, So up, up and away with that. The business
of strep throat, we are talking about.
Speaker 1 (34:40):
Whether we have more of the various types of the
return to covid and that sort of thing. Is there
a return to strep throat? Is there a lot of
that around or is there some new kind of strip
have different incarnations like covid does.
Speaker 3 (35:00):
All of the above, Doug.
Speaker 4 (35:02):
And you know, strip's been around forever as this bacteria
before we had antibiotics. It caused horrible, horrible life taking
heart disease, and fortunately most of it is effectively treated.
But US physicians know about these strips that are just
really terrible and they can be life threatening. And the
(35:24):
mystery has been somewhat solved, Doug. Researchers at the University
of Osaka that's in Japan. They've identified a novel genetic
mutation in Strep throat bacteria that is significantly associated with
the severe invasive infections. This discovery could lead to better
understanding and treatment of these life threatening cases and This
(35:45):
is a crucial finding for public health, Doug, as it
sheds light on why some strep infections become much more dangerous.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
Yep, all right, so there's a word to the why
as much as anything, especially I think kind of.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
In the water, uh, people who spend a lot of.
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Time in the water, fresh water especially, it could be
a lot of that sort of thing, because it just is,
it's there.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
Thanks for joining us, Doug Stephan here with Good Day Health.
This program was produced at Bobksound and Recording.
Speaker 3 (36:15):
Please visit bobksound dot com.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
This Good Day Health Doug Stefan with doctor Ken Cronhaus,
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