October 28, 2025 • 36 mins
On today’s Good Day Health Show - ON DEMAND…
Host Doug Stephan and Dr. Ken Kronhaus of Lake Cardiology (352-735-1400) cover a number of topics affecting our health. First up, Doug and Dr. Ken discuss the biggest news stories in the medical world, starting with an interesting overview on how our brain ages and new research identifying a genetic clue into being a super-ager — people in their 80s with the memory capacity of people much younger.
Moving on, there appears to be a new drug combination in those dealing with prostate cancer.
Next up, the effects the government shut down is having on the world of medicine. This is a continued conversation from last week, and this week’s answer is very different — as the only impact was considered to be a lack of new FDA approvals and grants. Now, Dr. Ken points out that the length of the current government shutdown appears to be a challenge for beneficiaries of Medicare to receive Telehealth services without paying out of pocket.
Some good news about a new eye prosthesis that restores eye degeneration for patients with previously untreatable form of blindness. New research addresses surgical oncology with cutting edge cancer treatment in preserving capabilities of the lymph nodes — considering a general approach to cancer treatment is lymph node removal.
Continuing with good news, a focus on iron deficiency with good news of a new iron supplement for anemia treatment will combine iron supplements with prebiotics and probiotics to — restoring iron levels while maintaining gut health and preventing inflammation and digestive issues common in conventional iron pills.
The conversation shifts to a new focus on exercise with those who suffer from knee issues, especially with knee-osteoarthritis — specifically low-impact cardio, such as walking and cycling to be the greatest pain relief and improvement in mobility compared to other exercises. In the not-so-good department, new research shows a rising number of children not spending enough time outdoors.
While the digital age may play a big role in this new research, the reality is an effect of parental anxiety with parents of pre-schoolers or toddlers feating their children stray too far or climb too high.
Then, a new overview for older women has shifted from a 10,000 steps daily shifts down to 4,000 steps a day. Doug and Dr. Ken question if that’s truly a beneficial number, while agreeing that something is better than nothing.
Lastly, Doug and Dr. Ken address listener questions, including issues of constipation, the rise in measles cases, and the FDA’s recall on a common statin.
Website: GoodDayHealthrShow.com
Social Media: @GoodDayNetworks
Host Doug Stephan and Dr. Ken Kronhaus of Lake Cardiology (352-735-1400) cover a number of topics affecting our health. First up, Doug and Dr. Ken discuss the biggest news stories in the medical world, starting with an interesting overview on how our brain ages and new research identifying a genetic clue into being a super-ager — people in their 80s with the memory capacity of people much younger.
Moving on, there appears to be a new drug combination in those dealing with prostate cancer.
Next up, the effects the government shut down is having on the world of medicine. This is a continued conversation from last week, and this week’s answer is very different — as the only impact was considered to be a lack of new FDA approvals and grants. Now, Dr. Ken points out that the length of the current government shutdown appears to be a challenge for beneficiaries of Medicare to receive Telehealth services without paying out of pocket.
Some good news about a new eye prosthesis that restores eye degeneration for patients with previously untreatable form of blindness. New research addresses surgical oncology with cutting edge cancer treatment in preserving capabilities of the lymph nodes — considering a general approach to cancer treatment is lymph node removal.
Continuing with good news, a focus on iron deficiency with good news of a new iron supplement for anemia treatment will combine iron supplements with prebiotics and probiotics to — restoring iron levels while maintaining gut health and preventing inflammation and digestive issues common in conventional iron pills.
The conversation shifts to a new focus on exercise with those who suffer from knee issues, especially with knee-osteoarthritis — specifically low-impact cardio, such as walking and cycling to be the greatest pain relief and improvement in mobility compared to other exercises. In the not-so-good department, new research shows a rising number of children not spending enough time outdoors.
While the digital age may play a big role in this new research, the reality is an effect of parental anxiety with parents of pre-schoolers or toddlers feating their children stray too far or climb too high.
Then, a new overview for older women has shifted from a 10,000 steps daily shifts down to 4,000 steps a day. Doug and Dr. Ken question if that’s truly a beneficial number, while agreeing that something is better than nothing.
Lastly, Doug and Dr. Ken address listener questions, including issues of constipation, the rise in measles cases, and the FDA’s recall on a common statin.
Website: GoodDayHealthrShow.com
Social Media: @GoodDayNetworks
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Good Day Health podcast with doctor Ken Cronhouse, sponsored
in part by Caldron The Safe, proven Way to lose
weight and keep it off. Hi Doug Steffan here, I'm
with doctor Ken Cronhouse on Good Day Health. Number of
good news stories this week that will be helpful hopefully
to put you in a good mood, and a lot
of people are dragging because of all sorts of influences. Ken,
(00:24):
psychological stuff sometimes gets into the way of good health
physical health. We all know that the mind body connection,
the brain is connected. What's the old hip bone and
YadA YadA. But the brain and what goes on your
attitude toward things does help to shape I think, how
(00:45):
we feel and what we're doing in our general overview
of life. Normally, I start with something that's good because
there are a lot of good news stories here from
the world of medicine that you've researched this week. But
I wanted to I just mentioned the brain and the
mind body connection. There's an interesting overview if you will
(01:06):
Apeace on how are brain ages. I happen to have
read this piece because I subscribed to Superagers looking at
dementia and what goes on? Is there a genetic clue.
This article seems to address that it does.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Hi, Doug, and it's great to be with you.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
This was published this week in Alzheimer's and Dementia and
it's his new research. It It identifies the potential mechanism
for preserving memory and cognitive function as the ability to
remember and to think.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well into old age. Doug.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Scientists, they are studying, as you were mentioning super agers.
These are individuals in their eighties with the memory capacity
of people much younger, and they discovered they possessed these
super ages. There's a unique set of genes and mechanisms
that help them resist harmful brain proteins associated with aging
(02:09):
and neurodegeneration. This is a crucial piece of fundamental research, Doug.
By isolating the protective factors in super ages helps to
identify new drug targets and therapeutic strategies to prevent or
slow cognitive decline into the ages and or for new
(02:32):
hope in the fight against Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You know, a happy life. Think about how we've lived
our lives and excuse me, whether happiness has been as
much a part of your life as you had hoped
it would be. Or we can take a rapid torrent
of it sometimes comes in big doses, or we can
take it a little at a time, kind of like
(02:56):
a gentle stream. And it sounds to me like that
that same thing, a little at a time is good
for your brain, a little bit of information, adding things
every day, like new words. Do you do that add
new words to your vocabulary every day consciously?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I think I do by how much I read. And
that's the best way to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh yeah, without a doubt. Yep. Okay. Let's get to
some of the good items that are on the list
this week. For example, there appears to be a new
drug combination that will help those who have prostate cancer
prostate problems. So how does this work? Where did this
come from?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Doug published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine,
so you know it's important. Was a new clinical trial.
It reports significant benefits for a combination drug therapy in
advanced prostate cancer. If you know anyone in this group,
this is not.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
A happy group. So this is a great news.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It's a new combination utilizing and as usual in medicine
with these new drugs, it's a mouthful ends aludamide and
hormone therapy. This combination was shown to significantly reduce the
risk of death by over you already forty percent. This breakthrough
provides a major advancement in the standard care for high
(04:25):
grade recurring prostate cancer, offering patients substantially improved life expectancy
and hope.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Those of us who are on the male side of
the species. As we get older, we get kind of
we're conscious of our body at all. I know I
certainly have had with the prostate exams each year in
my physical there's the doctor, Ah, it's in good shape.
It's a good size for your age. I just love
(04:53):
hearing that for your age. And I don't know if
there's a standard, Really is there a standard for sy
it is because one size doesn't apparently fit all, so
how can it be just right for some people and
the same size as someone else?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
The not good, Doug.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
If you don't know somebody with a prostate problem, you
just don't have enough guy friends, That's all I can
tell you. And the issue with a prostate is it
can either be enlarge benignly and it causes problems, but
it's not cancer. That's where the word benign is makes
(05:35):
you get up a lot at night. It can be infected, inflamed,
or it can be cancerous. So there's a lot of
different possibilities. And for all of us guys, as we
get older, the prostate does increase in size.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It's just a matter of being a guy.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And it's just you hope that it's not on the
outer edge of.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That increasing size.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
M Well, that's funny. Yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Know you get up more now, yeah, from a sleep
than you did thirty years ago. Right, Yes, yeah, I
do can thank sometimes I can thank you. You can
thank your prostate for that.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I do think.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I don't know that I thank the prosta. But fortunately,
most of the time you just go right back to sleep.
Sometimes I get up just once a night, sometimes a
couple of times. And I guess it depends on whether
you eat and or drink significantly before you go to bed, right.
I try to drink a lot of water all these days.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
But that is true today, but it probably was less
true twenty thirty forty years ago for all of us.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Okay, all right, some more good medical news from doctor Ken,
who comes to his courtesy of his clinic in mid Florida.
Lake Cardiology is in Mordua, Florida, and so many people
make a bead for the Orlando airport, or there are
a couple of different airports that are in this area
that I just find when I get off the plane
(07:03):
in Orlando, I know where I'm going. I'm going straight
to Madura to see Ken. And you can do the
same thing. All you have to do is connect with
his office for a great appointment, a great visit, a
great time, a great way to find out what's going
on in your body from top to bottom. Three five
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(07:24):
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The Medicare Annual Enrollment period is here, and we're going
to talk with Ken about the effect of the shutdown
on Medicare and some of the government programs. But right
now it's time to think about the changes. If you're
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(07:47):
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Speaker 1 (08:50):
Back with doctor Ken, So after the conversation there a
little bit about Medicare and the annual enrollment period. I
have asked you a couple of times whether the shutdown
has had an impact on anything in the world of medicine,
and so your answer to that question today is different
apparently than it was last week when I asked you
(09:10):
the same question.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It really has if you had asked me before.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
COVID nineteen problem whether.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
It would be appropriate to see patients over the phone,
or buy phone without video with video and do tele
you know we call telehealth, Whether that would be an
appropriate thing. It goes against every traditional bit of teaching
in medicine that I had for decades by professors that
(09:40):
do pen you see San Francisco, you name it, you know,
they would have told me, are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Ken?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Are you going to take care of patients over the phone?
And this was the general thought of all the thought
leaders in medicine, maybe except in the mental health fields
were beginning to be using telehealth effectively before the rest
of us. But all changed in COVID because for many
(10:10):
of us we had no choice. Either the patients got
no care or they took telehealth, and there was no choice.
But US physicians learned a tremendous lesson over COVID. We
learned that we could do a lot of wonderful good
care by telehealth. The technology is there that I can
(10:33):
easily do video, very easily do audio only telehealth, but
very easily do with video telehealth, and when it was
the only option, it provided adequate care. We learned how
to do it because we had no other choice, and providers, physicians,
(10:54):
the rest of the people who take care of patients
and patients have become addicted to telehealth.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
We many of us love it. I can't do an electric.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Cardiogram over by telehealth, but there are some uses for
telehealth which are very good. You don't have to drive
one hundred miles. You can do it over just as
well over telleth Well. The government extended for Medicare telehealth
through September thirtieth, twenty twenty five, and unfortunately, as the
(11:24):
government has closed, this was an option that was being renewed,
never got renewed, and now millions of beneficiaries of Medicare
don't have an option, and we don't know what we're
going to do. And we've been recommended to sign an
IEBN that's where the patients say they'll pay for if
it's not paid for by Medicare.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But this is a great gray area.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
That's not good news because we used to have a
lot of people who would call into your office. Yeah
for the telehealth, more on the conventional world of medicine
from the popular mind and experience of doctor Ken Cronow
Here coming right up back with doctor Ken Cronhaus Doug
(12:08):
Stephen telling you what's new and what the effect is
of the things that are on the market for helping people.
And we're just talking about telehealth. Used to be when
I would talk to you about getting in touch with
doctor Ken that I would suggest, yeah, you could have
the telehealth connection. But he's just explained to us that
because of the shutdown that's going away, like so many
(12:31):
other things, it's really beginning. This is not.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Hopefully, hopefully it's going to come back, but right now
it's not there.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I do a program called the American Family Farmer as well,
and the state of agriculture and farming in America is
in complete chaos because of the government's shutdown and the
things that Trump has done, like encourage the Argentinians to
sell beef cheaper.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I mean, the.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Whole thing is melting before our very eyes. And nobody
seems the hardcore supporters except to see a few people
like Marjorie Taylor Green who are not checking all the
boxes anymore. And so some people are waking up. But
it is a difficult thing, especially when it comes to
your health and your well being, to have things cut
(13:19):
off under the circumstances kind of willy nilly for purely
political reasons. And so that's probably enough on that, but
it is something to be aware of in not only
the medical world, but all aspects of our world. Okay,
now we are in the good news department, so let's
get away from what we were just talking about and
(13:40):
go into this new ie prosthesis, this new device. Is
this a device or is this something? Because it looks
like it restores degeneration? So is it a replacement for
something in your eye?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
And just to finish your last thought, step one is
open the government. Step two is then stark debating. That's
how our system works. And that's all I'm gonna say.
All right, so let's talk about a great breakthrough. This
also was published this week in the New England Journal
of Medicine. DOUG a new technological advance in ophthalmology. It
(14:17):
offers a dramatic improvement in vision for patients with a
previously untreatable form of blindness. DOUG a clinical trial of
wireless rentinal prosthesis. This is an eyechip successfully restored enough
vision in people with advanced age related macular degeneration for
them to be able to read books and subway signs.
(14:39):
The device coordinates with natural eyesight. This is a spectacular
piece of good news representing a true quality of life
breakthrough for patients with end stage AMD. That's age related
macular degeneration, which is the leading cause of blindness in
older adults.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
You'll hear it referred to.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
As AMD or age related macular degeneration.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
How would you get access to this through a regular
ophthalmologist and an optometrist doctors who.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
You see You'd have to write well eventually, but you'd
have to go online and look around who is the
nearest center doing this cutting edge work because this is
not yet on every street corner.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
So you'd have to go to a place like mass
generally CLA Medicals at this point.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
At this point, all.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Right, okay, next bit of good news. Here is something.
It's a connection to immunotherapy that helps you and your
lymph nodes. If you don't know what your lymph nodes are,
maybe we start with an explanation of what and where
your lymph nodes are again you think.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Well, the lymph nodes are the part of the body
where a lot of your natural immune cells are made.
There's a circulation for them, and this comes out in
nature immunology, and this is new research. It suggests a
strategic change DOUG in surgical oncology, that's the surgery that's
done when you have cancer. It could dramatically improve the
(16:13):
effectiveness of cutting edge cancer treatment DOUG preserving lymph nodes.
And I think we're going to need to talk about
this around the.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, that's whole. Yeah, we're kind on time, So let's
continue the conversation in a matter of moments here as
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Doug Stephan. Let's go back to talking about lymph nodes
because I think I first became really familiar with them,
although I remember studying and talking about them in science
and high school and that sort of thing the health courses.
(17:45):
But when my wife got a breast cancer, h then
you really get into what the lymph nodes are all about,
because that's kind of what the connector is. Right there,
A lot of the cancers for the lymph nodes.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Well, this is this is going to be a change
of approach because when sadly, when your ex wife had
to deal with surgery and they removed the lymph nodes,
and that is the general approach to cancer surgery, and
this is going to change the whole approach. This was
(18:19):
a publication this week in Nature Immunology. It's new research, Doug,
and it suggests the strategic change that I'm suggesting to
you in the folks who do surgery for cancer, and
again it could dramatically improve the effectiveness of these cutting
edge cancer treatments that we now provide for patients, which
(18:43):
combine surgery and immunotherapy. When your unfortunate ex wife was
being treated, all there was was surgery. There wasn't immunotherapy
where you rev up the immune system, the part of
your body that fights foreign bodies and bugs to help
fight the cancer. And what we discovered is that preserving
(19:05):
the lymph nodes during cancer surgery, rather than removing them,
like what your ex experience, and like what everyone else
in the past has experienced, leaving the lymph nodes could
dramatically improve how patients respond to the cutting edge immunotherapy
for cancer. The lymph nodes are shown to be essential
(19:26):
dug for training and sustaining the immune system's cancer fighting
T cells. This finding, it could lead to an immediate
change in surgical practice for certain cancers, creating procedure that
also enhances the power of subsequent drug treatment. I think
this is fascinating.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, well, this is a lot here to digest. So
again that's why I suggest here's something and you're not
quite sure what the info is, easy to go back
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All right, so here's another piece of good news about
an iron supplement. I take iron from time to time.
(20:09):
I remember when we were young, remember those commercials for
what was that? What was that liquid that used to
be advertised all the time. No, no, no, this was
a liquid Gerita, not that, yes, gone, gone. Well it
was advertised to help you if you had iron poor blood,
(20:32):
and I always wondered how you would find out if
you had iron poor blood, And then there were warnings
you can have too much in your system, and YadA YadA.
So now I see there's a new iron supplements. What's
the story with that?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Right, And you've brought up several points.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Doug in the old days, you know, people would think, oh,
I feel a little sluggish. I have low red blood
cell count. I probably have a little anemia. So my iron,
which you need, you need multiple building blocks to make
red blood cells iron be twelve fold eate And people
would say, oh, just take some more iron and I'll
feel stronger. And that was done for a long time
(21:11):
until we realize taking too much iron is not a
benign safe thing to do, and you really shouldn't take
iron on your own. You know, what's in a multi
vitamin is fine, but I'm talking about a separate, standalone
iron supplement. You shouldn't really do that without the doctor
telling you, documenting from blood levels that your iron level
(21:34):
is low, because too much iron can do you in including.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Cause your heart to have a heart attack if you
have too.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Much iron by clogging up your circulation, among many other things.
Too much iron can do to ruin a lot of organs.
But nevertheless, there's some good news. If you've taken iron,
you may not have a smile on your face. And
this comes out from the American Chemical Society, their main journal,
Apply Materials and Interfaces. A common side effect traditional anemia
(22:06):
treatment has been addressed with a new formulation. Doug researchers
have created what they call a three and ones iron supplement.
It merges iron with probiotics and prebiotics. You may like
this combination. This new formula effectively restores iron levels, so
it treats anemia when the cause is low iron, and
(22:27):
it's very common you lose it out the GI track
from gas to intestinal bleeding, or you lose it women
in periods. They lose their iron, they don't replace it.
So it's a very common cause of anemia. And the
nice thing is that this formulation restores your iron levels
why at the same time maintaining gut health and preventing
(22:49):
the inflammation and digestive issues common with conventional iron pills
that anyone who's taken a conventional standalone iron pill knows.
So this is great news for the millions of people
who suffer from anemia and struggle with the gastrointestinal side
effects like constipation of standard iron supplements, often leading to
(23:11):
poor adherence to treatment, meaning people just don't continue and
take the iron as recommended.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
All right, we have some interesting overviews, a couple of
different stories that connect exercise to our well being. But
I want to first before we pause, talk about this
new info on COVID nineteen how the vaccination can affect
cancer survival. Is that how I'm reading this?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yes, this is from the European Society for Medical Oncology
Congress in Berlin, and medical oncology are the cancer doctors
who come from the medical side approaching cancer. Cancer patients
who receive COVID nineteen mRNA vaccine within a specific timeframe,
(24:03):
for example, one hundred days of starting immunotherapy, they live
dramatically longer than those who do not. And again, nice
way to tie the studies this week together. We're talking
about the benefits of immunotherapy. So if you're going on
immunotherapy for cancer, talk to the doctor about getting a
COVID nineteen. This is a special case because the studies
(24:24):
show you will live much longer.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Wow, that's some good news. And in a manner speaking
for a specific portion of the audience to be sure,
all right, exercise in our focus. In a matter of
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Speaker 1 (27:19):
All right, so let's talk about the exercise items that
are in here this week. Are actually three different things
that I want to pinpoint here. Here's a new exercise
for those who have knee osteoarthritis.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Again, if you don't know somebody who has a knee issue,
your family is too small or your friends size is
too small. So this comes out of the British Medical
Journal this week, Doug. So the question is what is
the best form of exercise for this common debilitating condition,
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knee osteoarthritis. It's a review of over two hundred studies
and it concludes at aerobic exercise such as walking and
cycling provide the greatest pain relief and improvements in mobility
for individuals with knie osteoarthritis compared to other exercise types.
This is excellent news, Doug. For millions of people with
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knioste arthritis, providing a definitive guide for physical therapy and
self management. It validates simple accessible activities like walking as
the frontline exercise intervention.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I think it's good news. Okay, So here's something that's
not so good. This is a poll that's out this
week finding one in ten children in America rarely play outside.
Does that mean nine and ten do? What does this mean?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
This is from the University of Michigan Children's Hospital. It's
a national poll on children's health. It was just done
a week ago, DOUG. And what they discover is this
is amazing. Some young children are virtual shut ins, rarely
leaving their homes to play.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yes, rarely.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
About one in ten preschoolers and toddlers go outside to
play once a week or less. That's one in ten
playing outside, Doug. It improves children's mental and physical health,
and it also contributes to good eye health. Parental anxiety
might be one barrier, with four and ten parents polled
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admitting they do feel nervous when their child strays two
four or climbs too high. So this is one in
ten preschoolers or toddlers go outside to play once a
week or less.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
That is pretty sad.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Well, it's the helicopter syndrome, the helicopter parent. Everybody's worried.
They've been sort of taught to be worried by the
news media, social media. Everybody's out to get you. Everybody's
a bad guy. And so we have lines. Kids don't
get any exercise when they leave school, their parents are there.
If they don't have a bus ride, the parents are there.
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I can't go by any elementary school or junior high
school in my town at the end of the day,
end of the school day without encountering lines. And this
is the same all over the country. Lines and lines
of cars. And it's just kids need exercise. You go
out and get dirty. And speaking of that, there's one
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other quick thing here. There is a new overview for
older women. Used to be there, walking ten thousand steps
was the way at least you were told to extend
your life. And now it looks like that list that
walking numbers down to four thousand steps a day. What
do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Well, it's better than none, but I'd like it a
little more than that.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
More than four thousand. Yeah, you know, you look at
some of these things and.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
That's a good that's a good minimum.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
But if you can do more. But if you can
do at least that, that's a good minimum. But try
a little more.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah, it's as long as it's comfortable.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, the more the merrier, I think is what applies.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
As long as it's comfortable.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yep, keep going, all right, we will keep going. Doctor
Ken will have some questions from you and other sources
that we will answer in a matter of moments here
in Good Day Health. Here we are back on Good
day health.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Constipation Exactly what causes it?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
And how do you relieve it without having to take
Is there a way of doing it? I guess without
taking medicine exactly.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Constipation is such a common problem. It's a common reason
for seeing the doctor. And if you've ever had it,
you would not be poo pooing it. It's not a
pleasant experience and those who have it know it can
ruin your whole life. It's just makes life just miserable.
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But there's some really good news and it came out
this month in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics.
These are researchers in the United Kingdom across the other
side of the pond. They recently published new guidelines in
the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics about the foods
that can actually relieve constipation. This research it's the first
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evidence based dietary guidelines for adults with chronic constipation. So
this is a perfect answer to that question.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And the main.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Recommendations they recommend, especially three things that you can eat,
all which improve bowel regularity. You want to guess them
or so I go right to them, and I doubt
you'll guess them.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Isn't it fiber and fruit that helps that?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Well?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Well, well, fruit is correct, But fiber and liquids have
been the old thoughts until this paper came out, and
this now gives you specifics and the main recommendations you're
right about.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
You're on the right track with the fruit. Is kiwi,
rye bread and mineral water? Really?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Mineral water isn't that interesting? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
But especially kiwi?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Yeah, all right, Kiwi's are good, find them all over
the place. Rye bread, yeah, any riot is good. Wheat
I think does bind you up. This does the opposite,
all right. So the question comes on whether there are
more cases of measles around. There seems to be a
lot of reporting, but is that true? Are there more
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cases of measles at the moment in America.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Well yes, according to the CDC. They this week released
updated concerning data on infectious disease outbreaks across the country DOUG.
The CDC confirmed almost sixteen hundred measle cases in America
as of mid October twenty twenty five for this year,
with eighty six percent of the cases being outbreak associated.
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This represents the dramatic increase compared to previous years, highlighting
significant gaps in national vaccine coverage. This rise in a
previously well controlled, highly contagious disease DUG is a major
public health concern as it stresses local health systems and
risk complications in vulnerable populations. The data underscores the critical
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need for bolstering routine childhood vaccination rates. Mom and dad,
get your kids vaccinated against measles. It's incredibly contagious. You
walk into a room and the child has measles. I
don't care where they are in that large room. Your
child's gonna leave there with measles, most contagious virus there
is on planet Earth.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Okay, the FDA has recalled a common statin medication. What
do you know about that? As a cardiologist.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
They didn't recall a statin. It was a combination of
Simba stat in, which many of us don't use anymore.
You know, it was good in its day, but now
we have generic crester and generic lipatory rosuvastatin and a
torbostat as the main statins. They're much more effective. But
before those two were around a very common one. One
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of the earliest statins to show it prevented heart attack
was Simba stat and.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
The old zocor.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
But I think what was the FDA took out was
there was a combination drug of the simbastatin with niasin,
and that's what the FDA withdrew from approval.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
So is nias in good?
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:35):
I never have gotten the right read on this, no
matter how many times we've talked about it. Is niasin
good for you or not good for you? Because you
see it, you know, it seems like it's a very
common item.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I would definitely not recommend taking therapeutic a standalone niosin.
You know, it's in a multivite that amount is okay.
For a long time, people were taking five hundred milligrams
one thousand up to several thousand milligrams in nias and
to reduce the bad coolester LDL. The number goes down,
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but bad things happen, like more plaquing, more unstable placking.
So we don't use niosin anymore to treat cholesterol in
these high, high high doses.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
All right, So toss it out. You don't need it,
especially with all the new stuff. That's what I hear there.
And so there we have had some answers, good answers
to good questions from doctor Ken Cronhouse down at Lake
Cardiology in Montdurra, Florida. Again for doctor Ken three five
two seven, three five fourteen hundred at Late Cardiology. I'm
Doug Stephan, happy to be here every week with you
(36:40):
with Good Day Health.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
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weight and keep it off. Hi Doug Steffan here, I'm
with doctor Ken Cronhouse on Good Day Health. Number of
good news stories this week that will be helpful hopefully
to put you in a good mood, and a lot
of people are dragging because of all sorts of influences. Ken,
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psychological stuff sometimes gets into the way of good health
physical health. We all know that the mind body connection,
the brain is connected. What's the old hip bone and
YadA YadA. But the brain and what goes on your
attitude toward things does help to shape I think, how
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we feel and what we're doing in our general overview
of life. Normally, I start with something that's good because
there are a lot of good news stories here from
the world of medicine that you've researched this week. But
I wanted to I just mentioned the brain and the
mind body connection. There's an interesting overview if you will
(01:06):
Apeace on how are brain ages. I happen to have
read this piece because I subscribed to Superagers looking at
dementia and what goes on? Is there a genetic clue.
This article seems to address that it does.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Hi, Doug, and it's great to be with you.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
This was published this week in Alzheimer's and Dementia and
it's his new research. It It identifies the potential mechanism
for preserving memory and cognitive function as the ability to
remember and to think.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Well into old age. Doug.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Scientists, they are studying, as you were mentioning super agers.
These are individuals in their eighties with the memory capacity
of people much younger, and they discovered they possessed these
super ages. There's a unique set of genes and mechanisms
that help them resist harmful brain proteins associated with aging
(02:09):
and neurodegeneration. This is a crucial piece of fundamental research, Doug.
By isolating the protective factors in super ages helps to
identify new drug targets and therapeutic strategies to prevent or
slow cognitive decline into the ages and or for new
(02:32):
hope in the fight against Alzheimer's disease.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
You know, a happy life. Think about how we've lived
our lives and excuse me, whether happiness has been as
much a part of your life as you had hoped
it would be. Or we can take a rapid torrent
of it sometimes comes in big doses, or we can
take it a little at a time, kind of like
(02:56):
a gentle stream. And it sounds to me like that
that same thing, a little at a time is good
for your brain, a little bit of information, adding things
every day, like new words. Do you do that add
new words to your vocabulary every day consciously?
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Well?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
I think I do by how much I read. And
that's the best way to do it.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
Oh yeah, without a doubt. Yep. Okay. Let's get to
some of the good items that are on the list
this week. For example, there appears to be a new
drug combination that will help those who have prostate cancer
prostate problems. So how does this work? Where did this
come from?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Doug published this week in the New England Journal of Medicine,
so you know it's important. Was a new clinical trial.
It reports significant benefits for a combination drug therapy in
advanced prostate cancer. If you know anyone in this group,
this is not.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
A happy group. So this is a great news.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It's a new combination utilizing and as usual in medicine
with these new drugs, it's a mouthful ends aludamide and
hormone therapy. This combination was shown to significantly reduce the
risk of death by over you already forty percent. This breakthrough
provides a major advancement in the standard care for high
(04:25):
grade recurring prostate cancer, offering patients substantially improved life expectancy
and hope.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Those of us who are on the male side of
the species. As we get older, we get kind of
we're conscious of our body at all. I know I
certainly have had with the prostate exams each year in
my physical there's the doctor, Ah, it's in good shape.
It's a good size for your age. I just love
(04:53):
hearing that for your age. And I don't know if
there's a standard, Really is there a standard for sy
it is because one size doesn't apparently fit all, so
how can it be just right for some people and
the same size as someone else?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
The not good, Doug.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
If you don't know somebody with a prostate problem, you
just don't have enough guy friends, That's all I can
tell you. And the issue with a prostate is it
can either be enlarge benignly and it causes problems, but
it's not cancer. That's where the word benign is makes
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you get up a lot at night. It can be infected, inflamed,
or it can be cancerous. So there's a lot of
different possibilities. And for all of us guys, as we
get older, the prostate does increase in size.
Speaker 2 (05:51):
It's just a matter of being a guy.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
And it's just you hope that it's not on the
outer edge of.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
That increasing size.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
M Well, that's funny. Yeah, you.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
Know you get up more now, yeah, from a sleep
than you did thirty years ago. Right, Yes, yeah, I
do can thank sometimes I can thank you. You can
thank your prostate for that.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
I do think.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I don't know that I thank the prosta. But fortunately,
most of the time you just go right back to sleep.
Sometimes I get up just once a night, sometimes a
couple of times. And I guess it depends on whether
you eat and or drink significantly before you go to bed, right.
I try to drink a lot of water all these days.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
But that is true today, but it probably was less
true twenty thirty forty years ago for all of us.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Okay, all right, some more good medical news from doctor Ken,
who comes to his courtesy of his clinic in mid Florida.
Lake Cardiology is in Mordua, Florida, and so many people
make a bead for the Orlando airport, or there are
a couple of different airports that are in this area
that I just find when I get off the plane
(07:03):
in Orlando, I know where I'm going. I'm going straight
to Madura to see Ken. And you can do the
same thing. All you have to do is connect with
his office for a great appointment, a great visit, a
great time, a great way to find out what's going
on in your body from top to bottom. Three five
two seven three five fourteen hundred for can at Lake
(07:24):
Cardiology three five to two seven three five fourteen hundred.
The Medicare Annual Enrollment period is here, and we're going
to talk with Ken about the effect of the shutdown
on Medicare and some of the government programs. But right
now it's time to think about the changes. If you're
planning to make some changes in your Medicare program for
(07:47):
the coming year, here's Jerry Brooks with some things for
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Speaker 1 (08:50):
Back with doctor Ken, So after the conversation there a
little bit about Medicare and the annual enrollment period. I
have asked you a couple of times whether the shutdown
has had an impact on anything in the world of medicine,
and so your answer to that question today is different
apparently than it was last week when I asked you
(09:10):
the same question.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
It really has if you had asked me before.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
COVID nineteen problem whether.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
It would be appropriate to see patients over the phone,
or buy phone without video with video and do tele
you know we call telehealth, Whether that would be an
appropriate thing. It goes against every traditional bit of teaching
in medicine that I had for decades by professors that
(09:40):
do pen you see San Francisco, you name it, you know,
they would have told me, are you kidding?
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Ken?
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Are you going to take care of patients over the phone?
And this was the general thought of all the thought
leaders in medicine, maybe except in the mental health fields
were beginning to be using telehealth effectively before the rest
of us. But all changed in COVID because for many
(10:10):
of us we had no choice. Either the patients got
no care or they took telehealth, and there was no choice.
But US physicians learned a tremendous lesson over COVID. We
learned that we could do a lot of wonderful good
care by telehealth. The technology is there that I can
(10:33):
easily do video, very easily do audio only telehealth, but
very easily do with video telehealth, and when it was
the only option, it provided adequate care. We learned how
to do it because we had no other choice, and providers, physicians,
(10:54):
the rest of the people who take care of patients
and patients have become addicted to telehealth.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
We many of us love it. I can't do an electric.
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Cardiogram over by telehealth, but there are some uses for
telehealth which are very good. You don't have to drive
one hundred miles. You can do it over just as
well over telleth Well. The government extended for Medicare telehealth
through September thirtieth, twenty twenty five, and unfortunately, as the
(11:24):
government has closed, this was an option that was being renewed,
never got renewed, and now millions of beneficiaries of Medicare
don't have an option, and we don't know what we're
going to do. And we've been recommended to sign an
IEBN that's where the patients say they'll pay for if
it's not paid for by Medicare.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
But this is a great gray area.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
That's not good news because we used to have a
lot of people who would call into your office. Yeah
for the telehealth, more on the conventional world of medicine
from the popular mind and experience of doctor Ken Cronow
Here coming right up back with doctor Ken Cronhaus Doug
(12:08):
Stephen telling you what's new and what the effect is
of the things that are on the market for helping people.
And we're just talking about telehealth. Used to be when
I would talk to you about getting in touch with
doctor Ken that I would suggest, yeah, you could have
the telehealth connection. But he's just explained to us that
because of the shutdown that's going away, like so many
(12:31):
other things, it's really beginning. This is not.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Hopefully, hopefully it's going to come back, but right now
it's not there.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
You know.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I do a program called the American Family Farmer as well,
and the state of agriculture and farming in America is
in complete chaos because of the government's shutdown and the
things that Trump has done, like encourage the Argentinians to
sell beef cheaper.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I mean, the.
Speaker 1 (12:56):
Whole thing is melting before our very eyes. And nobody
seems the hardcore supporters except to see a few people
like Marjorie Taylor Green who are not checking all the
boxes anymore. And so some people are waking up. But
it is a difficult thing, especially when it comes to
your health and your well being, to have things cut
(13:19):
off under the circumstances kind of willy nilly for purely
political reasons. And so that's probably enough on that, but
it is something to be aware of in not only
the medical world, but all aspects of our world. Okay,
now we are in the good news department, so let's
get away from what we were just talking about and
(13:40):
go into this new ie prosthesis, this new device. Is
this a device or is this something? Because it looks
like it restores degeneration? So is it a replacement for
something in your eye?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:55):
And just to finish your last thought, step one is
open the government. Step two is then stark debating. That's
how our system works. And that's all I'm gonna say.
All right, so let's talk about a great breakthrough. This
also was published this week in the New England Journal
of Medicine. DOUG a new technological advance in ophthalmology. It
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offers a dramatic improvement in vision for patients with a
previously untreatable form of blindness. DOUG a clinical trial of
wireless rentinal prosthesis. This is an eyechip successfully restored enough
vision in people with advanced age related macular degeneration for
them to be able to read books and subway signs.
(14:39):
The device coordinates with natural eyesight. This is a spectacular
piece of good news representing a true quality of life
breakthrough for patients with end stage AMD. That's age related
macular degeneration, which is the leading cause of blindness in
older adults.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
You'll hear it referred to.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
As AMD or age related macular degeneration.
Speaker 1 (15:04):
How would you get access to this through a regular
ophthalmologist and an optometrist doctors who.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
You see You'd have to write well eventually, but you'd
have to go online and look around who is the
nearest center doing this cutting edge work because this is
not yet on every street corner.
Speaker 1 (15:25):
So you'd have to go to a place like mass
generally CLA Medicals at this point.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
At this point, all.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
Right, okay, next bit of good news. Here is something.
It's a connection to immunotherapy that helps you and your
lymph nodes. If you don't know what your lymph nodes are,
maybe we start with an explanation of what and where
your lymph nodes are again you think.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Well, the lymph nodes are the part of the body
where a lot of your natural immune cells are made.
There's a circulation for them, and this comes out in
nature immunology, and this is new research. It suggests a
strategic change DOUG in surgical oncology, that's the surgery that's
done when you have cancer. It could dramatically improve the
(16:13):
effectiveness of cutting edge cancer treatment DOUG preserving lymph nodes.
And I think we're going to need to talk about
this around the.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
Yeah, that's whole. Yeah, we're kind on time, So let's
continue the conversation in a matter of moments here as
we discuss what's new in medicine on good day health.
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Doug Stephan. Let's go back to talking about lymph nodes
because I think I first became really familiar with them,
although I remember studying and talking about them in science
and high school and that sort of thing the health courses.
(17:45):
But when my wife got a breast cancer, h then
you really get into what the lymph nodes are all about,
because that's kind of what the connector is. Right there,
A lot of the cancers for the lymph nodes.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Well, this is this is going to be a change
of approach because when sadly, when your ex wife had
to deal with surgery and they removed the lymph nodes,
and that is the general approach to cancer surgery, and
this is going to change the whole approach. This was
(18:19):
a publication this week in Nature Immunology. It's new research, Doug,
and it suggests the strategic change that I'm suggesting to
you in the folks who do surgery for cancer, and
again it could dramatically improve the effectiveness of these cutting
edge cancer treatments that we now provide for patients, which
(18:43):
combine surgery and immunotherapy. When your unfortunate ex wife was
being treated, all there was was surgery. There wasn't immunotherapy
where you rev up the immune system, the part of
your body that fights foreign bodies and bugs to help
fight the cancer. And what we discovered is that preserving
(19:05):
the lymph nodes during cancer surgery, rather than removing them,
like what your ex experience, and like what everyone else
in the past has experienced, leaving the lymph nodes could
dramatically improve how patients respond to the cutting edge immunotherapy
for cancer. The lymph nodes are shown to be essential
(19:26):
dug for training and sustaining the immune system's cancer fighting
T cells. This finding, it could lead to an immediate
change in surgical practice for certain cancers, creating procedure that
also enhances the power of subsequent drug treatment. I think
this is fascinating.
Speaker 1 (19:47):
Yeah, well, this is a lot here to digest. So
again that's why I suggest here's something and you're not
quite sure what the info is, easy to go back
by going to the podcast Good Day Healthshow dot com.
All right, so here's another piece of good news about
an iron supplement. I take iron from time to time.
(20:09):
I remember when we were young, remember those commercials for
what was that? What was that liquid that used to
be advertised all the time. No, no, no, this was
a liquid Gerita, not that, yes, gone, gone. Well it
was advertised to help you if you had iron poor blood,
(20:32):
and I always wondered how you would find out if
you had iron poor blood, And then there were warnings
you can have too much in your system, and YadA YadA.
So now I see there's a new iron supplements. What's
the story with that?
Speaker 2 (20:46):
Right, And you've brought up several points.
Speaker 3 (20:48):
Doug in the old days, you know, people would think, oh,
I feel a little sluggish. I have low red blood
cell count. I probably have a little anemia. So my iron,
which you need, you need multiple building blocks to make
red blood cells iron be twelve fold eate And people
would say, oh, just take some more iron and I'll
feel stronger. And that was done for a long time
(21:11):
until we realize taking too much iron is not a
benign safe thing to do, and you really shouldn't take
iron on your own. You know, what's in a multi
vitamin is fine, but I'm talking about a separate, standalone
iron supplement. You shouldn't really do that without the doctor
telling you, documenting from blood levels that your iron level
(21:34):
is low, because too much iron can do you in including.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
Cause your heart to have a heart attack if you
have too.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Much iron by clogging up your circulation, among many other things.
Too much iron can do to ruin a lot of organs.
But nevertheless, there's some good news. If you've taken iron,
you may not have a smile on your face. And
this comes out from the American Chemical Society, their main journal,
Apply Materials and Interfaces. A common side effect traditional anemia
(22:06):
treatment has been addressed with a new formulation. Doug researchers
have created what they call a three and ones iron supplement.
It merges iron with probiotics and prebiotics. You may like
this combination. This new formula effectively restores iron levels, so
it treats anemia when the cause is low iron, and
(22:27):
it's very common you lose it out the GI track
from gas to intestinal bleeding, or you lose it women
in periods. They lose their iron, they don't replace it.
So it's a very common cause of anemia. And the
nice thing is that this formulation restores your iron levels
why at the same time maintaining gut health and preventing
(22:49):
the inflammation and digestive issues common with conventional iron pills
that anyone who's taken a conventional standalone iron pill knows.
So this is great news for the millions of people
who suffer from anemia and struggle with the gastrointestinal side
effects like constipation of standard iron supplements, often leading to
(23:11):
poor adherence to treatment, meaning people just don't continue and
take the iron as recommended.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
All right, we have some interesting overviews, a couple of
different stories that connect exercise to our well being. But
I want to first before we pause, talk about this
new info on COVID nineteen how the vaccination can affect
cancer survival. Is that how I'm reading this?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Yes, this is from the European Society for Medical Oncology
Congress in Berlin, and medical oncology are the cancer doctors
who come from the medical side approaching cancer. Cancer patients
who receive COVID nineteen mRNA vaccine within a specific timeframe,
(24:03):
for example, one hundred days of starting immunotherapy, they live
dramatically longer than those who do not. And again, nice
way to tie the studies this week together. We're talking
about the benefits of immunotherapy. So if you're going on
immunotherapy for cancer, talk to the doctor about getting a
COVID nineteen. This is a special case because the studies
(24:24):
show you will live much longer.
Speaker 1 (24:27):
Wow, that's some good news. And in a manner speaking
for a specific portion of the audience to be sure,
all right, exercise in our focus. In a matter of
moments here speaking about exercise, I guess we can talk
our way into a conversation about caltrin, which is the
number one way to lose weight and keep it off.
Involves a certain amount of exercise, but in your taking
(24:50):
of the Caldron support mechanism, you reduce joint pain. So
you kind of want to exercise a little bit more.
And because we're going into the Halloween season right now,
Caltrin has offered a Halloween sale this weekend. They call
it a spectacular Halloween sale, scary, good deals, kind of corny,
(25:12):
but it's a good way for you to be, as
I say this time of year, to be on the offense.
Good offense is the best defense. So instead of gaining
weight and then next January trying to knock it off,
how about you get on the natural way to lose
weight and keep it off right now. That's what happens
when you get on the Caldron program. It works with
your body to rebuild the muscle, the tissue, repair joints.
(25:35):
You will have a much better time of making it
through without gaining weight. If you start Caltrin right now,
go to their website which is top loss dot com
and to check out again the Halloween sale. You can
shop right now at top loss dot com and get
the Actually this a big sale, and so if you
(25:57):
want to take advantage of the huge fift percent discut,
then you better go right now while you're thinking about
it to either get into the program or upgrade and
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Speaker 7 (26:19):
Five thousand dollars. That's the average amount of money people
in the US are now spending on gas in a year.
Five grand.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
That's crazy.
Speaker 7 (26:28):
If you drive, you have to download Upside, the free
app that gives you cash back every time you get gas.
That's right. You can earn real cash back with Upside
just by buying the gas you're already buying. You can
literally start earning cash back today.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
I use Upside every time I fill up, and I've
already made around to three hundred dollars.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
You're putting gas in your car anyway, why not get
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(27:06):
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That's code map for a twenty five cents per gallon bonus.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
All right, so let's talk about the exercise items that
are in here this week. Are actually three different things
that I want to pinpoint here. Here's a new exercise
for those who have knee osteoarthritis.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Again, if you don't know somebody who has a knee issue,
your family is too small or your friends size is
too small. So this comes out of the British Medical
Journal this week, Doug. So the question is what is
the best form of exercise for this common debilitating condition,
(27:54):
knee osteoarthritis. It's a review of over two hundred studies
and it concludes at aerobic exercise such as walking and
cycling provide the greatest pain relief and improvements in mobility
for individuals with knie osteoarthritis compared to other exercise types.
This is excellent news, Doug. For millions of people with
(28:16):
knioste arthritis, providing a definitive guide for physical therapy and
self management. It validates simple accessible activities like walking as
the frontline exercise intervention.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
I think it's good news. Okay, So here's something that's
not so good. This is a poll that's out this
week finding one in ten children in America rarely play outside.
Does that mean nine and ten do? What does this mean?
Speaker 3 (28:47):
This is from the University of Michigan Children's Hospital. It's
a national poll on children's health. It was just done
a week ago, DOUG. And what they discover is this
is amazing. Some young children are virtual shut ins, rarely
leaving their homes to play.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Yes, rarely.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
About one in ten preschoolers and toddlers go outside to
play once a week or less. That's one in ten
playing outside, Doug. It improves children's mental and physical health,
and it also contributes to good eye health. Parental anxiety
might be one barrier, with four and ten parents polled
(29:26):
admitting they do feel nervous when their child strays two
four or climbs too high. So this is one in
ten preschoolers or toddlers go outside to play once a
week or less.
Speaker 2 (29:40):
That is pretty sad.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Well, it's the helicopter syndrome, the helicopter parent. Everybody's worried.
They've been sort of taught to be worried by the
news media, social media. Everybody's out to get you. Everybody's
a bad guy. And so we have lines. Kids don't
get any exercise when they leave school, their parents are there.
If they don't have a bus ride, the parents are there.
(30:04):
I can't go by any elementary school or junior high
school in my town at the end of the day,
end of the school day without encountering lines. And this
is the same all over the country. Lines and lines
of cars. And it's just kids need exercise. You go
out and get dirty. And speaking of that, there's one
(30:25):
other quick thing here. There is a new overview for
older women. Used to be there, walking ten thousand steps
was the way at least you were told to extend
your life. And now it looks like that list that
walking numbers down to four thousand steps a day. What
do you think of that?
Speaker 3 (30:45):
Well, it's better than none, but I'd like it a
little more than that.
Speaker 1 (30:49):
More than four thousand. Yeah, you know, you look at
some of these things and.
Speaker 2 (30:54):
That's a good that's a good minimum.
Speaker 3 (30:56):
But if you can do more. But if you can
do at least that, that's a good minimum. But try
a little more.
Speaker 2 (31:03):
Yeah, it's as long as it's comfortable.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, the more the merrier, I think is what applies.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
As long as it's comfortable.
Speaker 1 (31:12):
Yep, keep going, all right, we will keep going. Doctor
Ken will have some questions from you and other sources
that we will answer in a matter of moments here
in Good Day Health. Here we are back on Good
day health.
Speaker 3 (31:29):
Constipation Exactly what causes it?
Speaker 1 (31:33):
And how do you relieve it without having to take
Is there a way of doing it? I guess without
taking medicine exactly.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Constipation is such a common problem. It's a common reason
for seeing the doctor. And if you've ever had it,
you would not be poo pooing it. It's not a
pleasant experience and those who have it know it can
ruin your whole life. It's just makes life just miserable.
(32:02):
But there's some really good news and it came out
this month in the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics.
These are researchers in the United Kingdom across the other
side of the pond. They recently published new guidelines in
the Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics about the foods
that can actually relieve constipation. This research it's the first
(32:24):
evidence based dietary guidelines for adults with chronic constipation. So
this is a perfect answer to that question.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
And the main.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Recommendations they recommend, especially three things that you can eat,
all which improve bowel regularity. You want to guess them
or so I go right to them, and I doubt
you'll guess them.
Speaker 1 (32:48):
Isn't it fiber and fruit that helps that?
Speaker 2 (32:50):
Well?
Speaker 3 (32:51):
Well, well, fruit is correct, But fiber and liquids have
been the old thoughts until this paper came out, and
this now gives you specifics and the main recommendations you're
right about.
Speaker 2 (33:03):
You're on the right track with the fruit. Is kiwi,
rye bread and mineral water? Really?
Speaker 1 (33:10):
Mineral water isn't that interesting? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
But especially kiwi?
Speaker 1 (33:15):
Yeah, all right, Kiwi's are good, find them all over
the place. Rye bread, yeah, any riot is good. Wheat
I think does bind you up. This does the opposite,
all right. So the question comes on whether there are
more cases of measles around. There seems to be a
lot of reporting, but is that true? Are there more
(33:35):
cases of measles at the moment in America.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Well yes, according to the CDC. They this week released
updated concerning data on infectious disease outbreaks across the country DOUG.
The CDC confirmed almost sixteen hundred measle cases in America
as of mid October twenty twenty five for this year,
with eighty six percent of the cases being outbreak associated.
(34:01):
This represents the dramatic increase compared to previous years, highlighting
significant gaps in national vaccine coverage. This rise in a
previously well controlled, highly contagious disease DUG is a major
public health concern as it stresses local health systems and
risk complications in vulnerable populations. The data underscores the critical
(34:25):
need for bolstering routine childhood vaccination rates. Mom and dad,
get your kids vaccinated against measles. It's incredibly contagious. You
walk into a room and the child has measles. I
don't care where they are in that large room. Your
child's gonna leave there with measles, most contagious virus there
is on planet Earth.
Speaker 5 (34:44):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
Okay, the FDA has recalled a common statin medication. What
do you know about that? As a cardiologist.
Speaker 3 (34:53):
They didn't recall a statin. It was a combination of
Simba stat in, which many of us don't use anymore.
You know, it was good in its day, but now
we have generic crester and generic lipatory rosuvastatin and a
torbostat as the main statins. They're much more effective. But
before those two were around a very common one. One
(35:15):
of the earliest statins to show it prevented heart attack
was Simba stat and.
Speaker 2 (35:21):
The old zocor.
Speaker 3 (35:22):
But I think what was the FDA took out was
there was a combination drug of the simbastatin with niasin,
and that's what the FDA withdrew from approval.
Speaker 1 (35:33):
So is nias in good?
Speaker 2 (35:35):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (35:35):
I never have gotten the right read on this, no
matter how many times we've talked about it. Is niasin
good for you or not good for you? Because you
see it, you know, it seems like it's a very
common item.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (35:46):
I would definitely not recommend taking therapeutic a standalone niosin.
You know, it's in a multivite that amount is okay.
For a long time, people were taking five hundred milligrams
one thousand up to several thousand milligrams in nias and
to reduce the bad coolester LDL. The number goes down,
(36:07):
but bad things happen, like more plaquing, more unstable placking.
So we don't use niosin anymore to treat cholesterol in
these high, high high doses.
Speaker 1 (36:18):
All right, So toss it out. You don't need it,
especially with all the new stuff. That's what I hear there.
And so there we have had some answers, good answers
to good questions from doctor Ken Cronhouse down at Lake
Cardiology in Montdurra, Florida. Again for doctor Ken three five
two seven, three five fourteen hundred at Late Cardiology. I'm
Doug Stephan, happy to be here every week with you
(36:40):
with Good Day Health.
Speaker 5 (36:41):
This program was produced at bob k Sound and Recording.
Speaker 1 (36:44):
Please visit bobksound dot com. This Good Day Health Doug
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