November 5, 2024 • 36 mins
11/5/24 - Host Doug Stephan and Dr. Ken Kronhaus of Lake Cardiology (352-735-1400) cover a number of topics, including news that exercise can cut the risk of cognitive decline, how much do you have to work out for it to actually make a difference to your overall health, how much of a plaque blockage can the human body tolerate before it becomes a deadly issue, what impact does sleep have on the body in reference to quantity over quality, and an assessment on how well you’re aging you can do yourself at home. Plus, what role RFK Jr may play in Trump’s cabinet if the later is elected President for a second term, hospital admissions for flu have surpassed admissions for COVID-19, questioning if weightless surgeries are worth it in terms of health benefits, and questioning the overweight epidemic for young children, why abstaining from/limiting refined sugar, and how marijuana use affects an unborn child. We discuss that, too.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Doug Stephan here with my friend Elizabeth Miller. All right,
let's talk about something that's new. Everybody, listen up, because
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Speaker 2 (00:31):
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up with Doug right now, Like he said, this offer
is only good through his website, you can always call
us too, and we will definitely still offer that to
you while those supplies are lasting. You can call eight
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Speaker 1 (00:57):
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So that's the kind of program that I discussed, the
kind of positions the information Doug and doctor Ken discussing
first of all, the exercise that can cut the risk
of cognitive decline. There was an episode of Law and
Order that I remember from a few years ago Ken
(02:46):
that focused on a soldier who had been mistreated by
the system. You know, we all have had our concerns
about what happens at the vets hospitals and with veterans care,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and I think the
Weekend Warriors fit into that as well. So what's this
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Why was it that the British Journal of Sports Medicine
looked specifically at the exercise routine for Weekend Warriors.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, this is hi, Doug. This is a great study
out of the British Journal of Sports Medicine. It's reassuring
to many. The reason why they looked at this is
because many of us, most of us don't have time
yet or unfortunately to go every day to the gym,
or even three to five days to the gym, so
during the week. So the question is if you just
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do it on the weekend. Is it enough? Is it
going to help? Is it going to make a big
difference in protecting us from that dementia that we all fear,
not only the heart attacks, the strokes, but the dementia
that is the hugest of the fears that people have,
the biggest one. And the answer is yes. And in
this study they show that being a weekend warrior that's
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engaging and exercise once or twice a week is beneficial
as regular sessions in decreasing the risk of cognitive decline
that often leads to dementia. So if you're only getting
to the gym for a good workout once or twice,
hopefully a weekend, do it. You're benefiting yourself. And don't
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listening to the guys and gals who tell you need
to be there every day, because yes, if you can,
it's wonderful. But if you can't, don't feel bad. You're
making a big dent in improving the quality of your life.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Well, the exercise stuff keeping the blood flowing. Certainly, when
you talk about cognition, we think about our brain. We
think about Alzheimer's and so I have a personal question
that we've talked about, and I think this applies to
lots and lots of people in this country. I have
been fortunate over the years because of maybe my supplemental routine,
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who knows, maybe my exercise, because I'm very active physically.
As you know, I don't have, according to your read,
any plaque in my thoracic cavity. Yet I do have
some plaque in my krotin arteries, even though it hasn't changed.
I don't mind, you know, you and I talk about
this all the time. I give up my hippo writes because.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I think you meaning your corner. Let's just pose it correctly.
I don't have it. A corner is your circulation to
your heart, but you have it in the circulation to
your brain. Let's make it easy for mom and dad
to understand.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Okay, So then what does that you know? I guess
I think more about it as I read more about
stuff going on with people at our age. The fact
that the blood flow has been steady and it hasn't
changed any. But is that if I had completely clear carotids,
when I have more blood in my brain? And is
that something that guys like me, women, men who have
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this issue should get straightened out at our age.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Good question. So what is the impact on flow, on
blood flow of having any plaque in the circulation. So
it's like sitting in the pipes and you and I
are inside your pipes. You look to the the sides
and you see the are these hard surfaces or fatty
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surfaces that are taking out the hole in the doughnut,
and the wallpaper inside the pipe is getting covered in
these plaques. And the good news is that mild blockage,
which doctors usually think about ten to thirty percent blockage.
If one hundred percent blockage is no flow. Zero percent
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blockage is wide open flow with no plaque, so anything
in between you can imagine. So ten to thirty percent,
we usually consider mild forty to sixty moderate, and seventy
and above severe. Okay, so we can tolerate very well
mild blockage ten to thirty percent. It doesn't impair flow
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at all. It's not affecting you. You can tolerate actually
forty to sixty percent and it won't impair flow in
most sometimes a little earlier, but usually it takes to
seventy percent, some people at fifty to sixty. And this
is where it gets a little complicated have impaired flow,
but usually after seventy percent it does impair flow. The
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other important thing is that between thirty to sixty percent,
often these plaques rupture, and that spontaneous rupture will cause
blockage because the materials in the blood that come to
patch up the rupture in the wallpaper of the lining
of the circulation pipe, they don't do a very clean,
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nice job. They usually over protect and overfill, and what
becomes a thirty to sixty percent can be quickly a
ninety to one hundred percent blockage because of the repair process.
So ten to thirties we do real well. With thirties
to sixties, the flow is okay until it ruptures seventy
percent and above that is flow limiting and that will
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run into problems. Those need to be open.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So when you go have your annual exam, and you
have a good cardiologist, and if you don't, you should
go see Ken or talk to him anyway at three
five two seven, three five fourteen hundred. But in terms
of again going back to me as an example, if
I have forty percent blockage and it's been that way
since you and I started, what eighteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And the treatments. The treatment's been good prevention, watching your numbers,
your cholesterol, especially your LDL and triglycerides, and also your
blood pressure, your blood sugar, your weight. Those are the
treatments of that process.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
So you don't believe in the roto ruter approach which
some people.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, I only believe in that when it's flow limiting.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Doctor Ken Cronhouse, Doug Stephan, let's continue to talk about
our brain for a moment here, because I think this
is important, the focus on res and getting a good
night's sleep and your age especially. I remember during well
through most of my life up until now last year
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or so, since I stopped doing a daily radio program,
getting better and more sleep for the most part, seven
to eight hours almost every night. An alf where I
can grab it. But there's information here that's kind of
concerning kennabut where we are in our forties and up
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and how the amount of rest or is it the
amount of rest is at the quality of the rest
that affects our.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Brain well both and it's most people though the most
common issue is the quantity, you know, not getting seven
hours a night. There is a significant fraction about twenty
five percent of men ten percent of women who have
sleep apnea who have obstructed breathing while they sleep, and
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this definitely can have great impacts on the body from
head to toe. But the problem with not getting enough
sleep in middle age and we're talking about, you know,
thirty five to forties, is that it will bring on
dementia early, earlier than expected, and you will start having,
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as you were talking about earlier, these cognitive issues where
you can't think, you can't remember, it takes longer to
find the word that you want. Things that should be
stuck in your brain no longer are stuck. So even
as you're in middle age, you know, you were talking
thirty five forties, you have to start thinking how important
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it is to have good quality sleep, good quantity of sleep,
because it will catch up and bite you later on
in life and.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Any number of ways, right, just any numbers.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Well, especially the report this week was bringing to people's
attention the risk of early dementia by not getting good
quality sleep as early as middle aged.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
So let's go back to what we were talking about
a few minutes ago with regard to getting dementia and
the amount of goup that may be in your carotid arteries.
Is there ever a connection to let's say, the forty
percent blockage that we were talking about and one getting
one of the one of the dementias.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Usually when we have blockages in the corot, the pipe
from the heart to the brain, the biggest concern is
the risk to stroke, and the risk to stroke usually
starts beginning at about seventy percent. And that's why we're
following that. Seventy percent of strokes occur when those pipes
get seventy percent or more block The other thirty percent
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of strokes occur because of clots formed in the heart,
usually from atrial fibrillation, when the top of the heart
beats like a bag of worms, clots and then these
clots are propelled to the brain causing a stroke.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
All right, So the simple answer to that question is
don't worry about it. That's the answer is.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
If you have karate at our reblock it's follow it up.
Usually if it's under fifty percent, we look once a year.
Usually when it starts getting above fifty percent, we image
every six months. Just because this is all about stroke prevention.
That's the reason why we follow your karate. Stroke prevention
not so much.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It doesn't Alzheimer's. That's kind of the question.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Well, if you have multiple strokes, it can cause dementia.
The kind of Alzheimer's is more on the material of
the brain that becomes altered.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So what's the old expression of word to the wise,
look out and be aware. That's the whole bottom line,
all right. A lot of information this week about training.
We were talking about the exercise thing. A lot of
things on the dock out this week about weight training
and what that does, vigorous work, that sort of thing.
So we'll get to that as we continue here with
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doctor Ken. It's good day health. I'm Doug Stephan. Open.
Our brains are head eye opening, ear opening, thought provoking
ways to think about you and your health and well being.
So I promise that we would go back to because
there's a lot of information this week Ken about exercise,
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and I see that there are a couple of other
things we haven't touched on yet with regard to weight
training and if you stop lifting weights. I have had
this happen to me because I've done a lot of
it over my life. I think we have to keep
our muscles strong. I don't know whether necessarily big is important,
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but to keep your skeleton together. Men and women. The
more muscle you have, the better off you are. But
if you have, like me, your bad back and they
have to take a little bit of time off the
weight training, what happens when you go back.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Doug This is some good news out of the Scandinavia
Journal of Medicine and Science and Sports this week. People
are often concerned if they have to for whatever reason,
give up their strength training, will their muscles bounce back?
And the report this week is that yes, even after
several weeks when you cannot do your strength training program,
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the muscles will bounce back. Don't give up, get back
in the gym and realize that all of the efforts
that you've made developing these muscles will continue even with
several weeks when you can't do your strength training program.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
So how does that relate to another story this week
in the Journal of Endocrine Society Whatever in the world,
That is about vigorous workouts and what happens if you
are hungry when you go to the gym.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
More good news about working out that vigorous workouts, especially
in women, but in both sexes, will suppress hunger and
the way it works is through a hormone called grellin.
Grellin is a hormone in the body that secretes that
tells us we're hungry. And this report measured grellin levels
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in people who were doing workouts, and especially in a
vigorous workout. Don't bring on symptoms when you work out,
but in vigorous workouts, grellon levels do diminish your appetites
suppresses and this is especially seen in women.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
So here's the fifty four sixty four seventy four dollars question.
I see that there's also connect to do exercise and
body control. Some information about people, especially people who are
over the age of fifty, who stand on one leg
for thirty seconds. I can do that on my I
can easily do it on my right leg, not so
(15:56):
easy on my left leg. So what is all of
indik If you if you can rub your belly and
rub your head at the same time, what does that
mean for your health and well being? But in this
case it's standing on one foot at a time. What
does this all mean?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
This report out of Plos one this week doug about
assessing how well people are aging, and it seems to
be all about balance and this test that they recommend
for testing us all to see how well we're aging. Essentially,
the common thread is how well we can balance. So
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this simple test that helps gauge signs of aging and
people fifty and over, Doug, people over fifty who can
stand on one leg for thirty seconds are aging gracefully,
particularly if it's not their strong legs. Raceful aging process
occurs if you can stand on one leg for thirty seconds,
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especially your weaker leg.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
So when you started that, maybe here, I'm put the
microphone out. I stood up on my strong leg and
I stood there for the whole time. You destroy. Now
I'm on my week leg and I have to balance.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Myself all right there for thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
No, I didn't get this. Well. I can stand up
for thirty seconds, but it's not easy. Let's put it
that way, Doctor Cannon, Doctor Doug I have. He's got
a license. I don't. This is Good day Health, Doug
Stephan here with my friend Elizabeth Miller. All right, let's
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Speaker 2 (17:55):
Yeah, we don't do this ever, and with Calatron payment
up with Doug right now. Like he said, this offer
is only good through his website. You can always call
us two and we will definitely still offer that to
you while those supplies are lasting. You can call eight
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Speaker 1 (18:20):
Do it now, Thanks, Elizabeth, do yourself a favor. Any
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That's the bottom line. If you can't go see him directly,
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you know, kind of zoom in if you're partnering the
pun on whatever the issue is. Ken's office three five
two seven three five fourteen hundred. All right, so the
essence of I want to get to a lot of
the discussion this week about and this is somewhat political,
and so we'll dance around that a little obviously because
(19:03):
of the time that we're in. Robert F. Kennedy Junior
looks like if Trump wins, may become the Secretary of
Health and Human Services. He talks a lot about about
the attitude we have towards vaccines. There are sort of
inframational pockets as we can suggesting the entire population is
(19:24):
shifting and its attitude toward having vaccines, not just COVID nineteen,
but I think COVID nineteen and all the pressure brought
it on. What do you think?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Well, what hot potatoes? Specifically do you want me to address?
What was the question?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I know how you love to talk about things that
are controversial. Well, the fact that people know COVID nineteen.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Politics that I don't want to get involved in.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
But no, I understand that.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Medical controversy, fine, political controversy not for this show, right, Well,
it's not.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
For this program anyway. So the explanation when people come
into your let me make it very personal. In your case,
people come to your clinic and they ask you, should
I get a COVID shot? Should I get a flu shot?
Should I have a shot for Should children in my
family have a shot?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
For?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
The various things? I mean, there's all kinds of stuff
that we're supposed to get when we're young. And then
the whole business, the heavy advertising by Pfizer and some
of the other companies. Get a flu shot, YadA, YadA.
People are ignoring that only nineteen percent, going to the
CDC anyway, nineteen percent of the public or fourteen percent sorry,
of adults have gotten COVID nineteen booster shots. So you know,
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what do you recommend? Let's go through your recommendations for vaccines.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Well, what is maybe not settling to you, Doug, is
that I don't have a single recommendation for everybody. This
is all about personalized medicine, especially the COVID vaccine. You
have to give an individual specific answer to a specific
person based on a number of circumstances. So it's not
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one advice for everybody, and the COVID is is a
great example of it. I think right now there's so
much natural immunity in the population. You know, if you
don't think you've had COVID already you have all of
us at some point like having the cold, have had COVID,
and it's not what it was in twenty twenty where
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people were dying everywhere. And today, fortunately we're not seeing
many admissions. We're not seeing at least where I am.
I actually was just talking to a few er doctors
in my area, and you know, they're seeing much more
admission for flu right now than they are for COVID,
and they're not seeing a whole bunch of admissions for COVID,
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but they still can occur in the elderly, the you know, compromised,
if you have multiple risk factors for severe severe COVID.
They're just becoming fewer of us in that category. That
me as a physician and other physicians are recommending to
get to get vaccines for COVID, but for flu it's
a totally different situation. My feeling is if you're you know,
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you're over six months and you're not allergic to the
flu vaccine, get it. And that's probably the other extreme
because there are admissions now, there are deaths from flu
and and uh and and there are long term consequences
to getting the flu and the flu vaccine to to
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to almost all of us, is a pretty safe, safe item.
I've had mine already this year. In fact, you know,
I encourage unless you're allergic to it to get.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It all right. So there's the vaccine story from Ken's perspective.
Uh there, I think we've talked last week.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
This is where you need a good primary care physition.
I got your personal situation with these, with these items
and the kids talk to the pediatrician, but get an opinion,
think about it, and it's it's worth researching it. And
joint decision making. There's no reason why you as a
patient you weres parents. It's called joint decision making where
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you get a vote and the doctor gets a vote
and you can come together and come to a good
decision together. Joint decision making.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
If it's a if it's a tie, you've got to
have a third person to work with you on that line.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Well, you know, and if your doctor or a caretaker
doesn't agree with joint decision making, you may have the
wrong one. Because you know, the days of doctors saying
do as I say and that's it, no discussion. You know,
those days went out in the nineteen fifties.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yep. See you later alligator. All right, Now, we talked
last week about the McDonald's quarter pounder, the E coli cases.
We spent a lot of time talking about E coli
and salmonella and lysteria. It seems that it's more linked now.
It's more we're more sure this week than we're last
week about the problem McDonald's has with quarter pounders. And
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this you wonder it because McDonald's isn't the only one
gets beef from these processors. My thought is that because
the same stuff goes to Burger King, goes to Wendy's
pretty much certainly all the cheap end the low price
discount fast food joints. So one wonders why this is
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me thinking there's something else going on. If McDonald's is
the only one that has a ninety one hundred E
Coli cases connected to its beef, there's something else going
on in the process of distribution. It's all the same
stuff got wrong.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Maybe I got wrong information, But the explanation is that
they were using a supplier for onions, and it was
in the onions in these particular McDonald's, and that's why
it wasn't seen in all the processes that you're describing right.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
But the thing is they all use the same I.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Heard the CDC cleared the beef. Is that not right?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Right? Yeah, they did, but it still is the delivery
mech to people with a quarter pounder, So if you
have onions on it, you're more likely to have a problem.
But my point is that all of these things, the tomatoes,
the lettuce, the onions, all of the accoutremonts that go
with it are all from the same places. If you're
in Massachusetts, all these fast food joints get the stuff
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that they sell. With the exception of the burgers, the
tomatoes that letters, all of the things that we use
are from the same source. Like when you get a ketchup, it's.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I heard it was one onion supplier in the locations
where they had it, and they just eliminated that supplier.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah. Well, anyway, we can go on on this forever
or ever. I want to talk about overweight, underweight, weight
and weight loss and all of the stuff that we
seem to find ourselves talking about every week, because it's
important to a lot of people losing weight, how to
lose it and keep it off. What are you using
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for products? I see that there is a lot of
information from the OZEPA camp and the GOVI camp has
nothing to do with weight loss, or maybe it does.
We'll talk about that in a matter of moments.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Here.
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about it all? Right? Back with doctor ken So, a
couple of things about weight and weight loss the surgeries
that people have had to get rid of. Is it
weight that they get rid of or fat that they
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get rid of it? And there's one equal to the other.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Well, there's different approaches. I think when you're referring to
the weight loss surgery, we usually think of the bariatric surgery,
and that just affects the way we absorb calories and
our appetite, our ability to actually take in calories. You know,
there is plastic surgery where liposuction where you get rid
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of the fat. That's a different process. But the news
this week about all this comes out of JAMA, the
Journal of American Medical Association JAMA network opened and they
looked at the years twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three,
and during that time period, amazingly, weight loss surgery declined
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by twenty five percent. And these GLP one drugs, the Wagovis,
the zep bounds, actually those drugs doubled in popularity during
this period as the amount of weight loss surgeries declined
by twenty five percent. And this just seems like a
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trend for the future that you know, I've often you know,
tongue in cheek has said, if I was thinking about
being in a bariatric surgeon today, if I was in
medical school, I might be thinking about doing something else
because these drugs are just going to accelerate. There's going
to be more and more drugs that are probably gonna
be oral forms of these self injectables, and they're going
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to get more and more effective. And you know, you
talk to me a few years ago, and I was
so against using drugs for weight loss my whole career
until this new class of drugs is GLP one group,
And now there's just such good evidence of their safety
and effectiveness and many people, not perfect, but dramatically different
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than it has been in the past. And now they've
come mainstream and they're being used, and this whole area
is just going to accelerate.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Using all right, so then you that sort of falls
into what I sug tested a few minutes ago. When
thinking about ozepic and mogov they seem to, according to
a couple of studies, be helpful when it comes to
ousti or arthritis. People have that problem with their knees.
Is that just a result of losing weight or is
there something else there?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Well, it's mostly from losing weight. And the other one
zet bound, which is even more effective. The two that
you were saying are basically the same thing, one for diabetes,
one for weight loss, but the same products and meglotide
for zepetide. The other product branded is zet Bound to
lose weight Mondro for diabetes. They the main effect is
(30:42):
on the weight loss, but it surprisingly the drug itself,
the GLP one agonist, does have specific benefits throughout the body,
so it's not all weight loss, which is quite interesting.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
All right. The questions continue out the whole. So every
week when we're on with doctor Ken, there are lots
of questions that I have, and lots of questions you have,
and lots of questions that come from what's going on
in the world of medicine, and Ken answers him. That's
his job here and he takes it seriously and he
does it well. So we continue and these are up next.
Specific questions for doctor Ken. Some of them come from
(31:20):
the research he's done this week, some of them come
from you, But that's next up on the docket. Here
questions for doctor Ken on good day health. What happens
when you're weight training and it's all a function of
keeping your body in shape. Let's look at the children
(31:42):
in our society. Youngsters that are either overweight or underweight.
There are questions about how that impacts their body generally
and specific organs. So what's the up and the down
of overweight and underweight with children? Ken?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Just another reason and dad to be concerned about the
kid's weight. And if you look around, we know we
need to do more and more of that. This comes
out of the European Respiratory Journal this week that being
overweight or underweight either one as a kid can impair
lung function down the road. And what they discovered was
(32:21):
that even if the child is underweight or overweight as
a small child, if you, by getting out of high school,
get the weight under control, you will get rid of
this lung impairment. Issue that's real for those who are
getting out of high school and still underweight or overweight.
So these things have issues beyond what we usually think
(32:46):
about the heart, the brain, diabetes, but now even the
lungs are impaired by the weight not being in the
right zone.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Hi, man, how you keep up on all this stuff?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
God?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I love you? All right? Here's one more about children.
Apparently there is a some kind of a research project
that went on or is going on about sugar and
how in England it's been rationed with the children. The
government is requiring that less sugar be allowed in public
(33:18):
places and it's lower diabetes and hypertension greatly. Should we
be doing this? Here is the question.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Absolutely, refined sugar should be a treat. The natural sugar
from fruit juice. You eat an orange with nothing else
added to it, that's not going to give you diabetes.
That's very healthy. It's the refined sugar, which you know,
I don't want to use the word poison, but it's close.
And these should be treats. I know people love it,
(33:44):
but it's not. You're not taking in refined sugar for
your health, all right.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
So one more thing with regard to children, there's a
question about marijuana and pregnancy. I don't even begin to
understand how anybody frankly my own pejorative here, how stupid
can you get to use marijuana when you're pregnant?
Speaker 4 (34:03):
But anyway, well, there are women for mourning Sickness Doug
that actually use marijuana, and please, I would urge this
not be done. This comes out of Jama Pediatrics this
week that marijuana used during pregnancy actually affects children's behavior
and their thinking skills. So you want a kid who's
(34:24):
not going to behave in class and who's going to
be the cognitively that is thinking, remembering back from everyone
else in the class. And then mom, use the marijuana
for morning sickness. Please don't use the marijuana for morning sickness.
Please do not, because it's just going to impair your
development of your child.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
All right. Last question has to do with because we've
just had Halloween this weekend, is the post Halloween situation
that people find themselves in at home with pillows filled
pillow sacks. I feel like I was filled with candy?
Is there a common sense warning here? And I mean
(35:05):
we're talking a lot about sugar and that sort of thing.
And weight with children. This is more probably a common
sense question to anything else. But you want to weigh in,
pardon the pun on all the sugar that's around now.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Because well, definitely only give the kids things that were
covered sealed, you know, any of these things that were
loose and handled by anyone's hands, Keep that away from them,
just for safety, for infectious diseases, for who knows what's
in there, but for the well wrapped candy. Just make
it a treat and just make sure that it's limited
(35:41):
and the kids know where you make sure they don't
know where you hide it. I mean, that was the
big joke in our home. My mother would hide it,
but me and my brother knew where it was. And
blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I get a kick out it because both my grandchildren,
especially my nine year old was soon to be ten
year old grandson, they get all dressed up Spider Man
I think was the costume that they went out on
the other night, and they come back with lots of stuff.
He still got His mother is such a a she's
a guardian when it comes to this. He still got
candy left over from last Halloween. So it's not what
(36:16):
not good to have it left over and not good
to do it. I think it's good.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Probably expired, I mean, well that's that, yeah, but I
do to the trash.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I was more thinking she was metering it out and
not letting him have as much. That was the good
side of it, was don't eat it.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Probably growing things in it by now.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
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So that's the kind of program that I discussed, the
kind of positions the information Doug and doctor Ken discussing
first of all, the exercise that can cut the risk
of cognitive decline. There was an episode of Law and
Order that I remember from a few years ago Ken
(02:46):
that focused on a soldier who had been mistreated by
the system. You know, we all have had our concerns
about what happens at the vets hospitals and with veterans care,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, and I think the
Weekend Warriors fit into that as well. So what's this
(03:07):
Why was it that the British Journal of Sports Medicine
looked specifically at the exercise routine for Weekend Warriors.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Yeah, this is hi, Doug. This is a great study
out of the British Journal of Sports Medicine. It's reassuring
to many. The reason why they looked at this is
because many of us, most of us don't have time
yet or unfortunately to go every day to the gym,
or even three to five days to the gym, so
during the week. So the question is if you just
(03:37):
do it on the weekend. Is it enough? Is it
going to help? Is it going to make a big
difference in protecting us from that dementia that we all fear,
not only the heart attacks, the strokes, but the dementia
that is the hugest of the fears that people have,
the biggest one. And the answer is yes. And in
this study they show that being a weekend warrior that's
(04:00):
engaging and exercise once or twice a week is beneficial
as regular sessions in decreasing the risk of cognitive decline
that often leads to dementia. So if you're only getting
to the gym for a good workout once or twice,
hopefully a weekend, do it. You're benefiting yourself. And don't
(04:24):
listening to the guys and gals who tell you need
to be there every day, because yes, if you can,
it's wonderful. But if you can't, don't feel bad. You're
making a big dent in improving the quality of your life.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Well, the exercise stuff keeping the blood flowing. Certainly, when
you talk about cognition, we think about our brain. We
think about Alzheimer's and so I have a personal question
that we've talked about, and I think this applies to
lots and lots of people in this country. I have
been fortunate over the years because of maybe my supplemental routine,
(04:57):
who knows, maybe my exercise, because I'm very active physically.
As you know, I don't have, according to your read,
any plaque in my thoracic cavity. Yet I do have
some plaque in my krotin arteries, even though it hasn't changed.
I don't mind, you know, you and I talk about
this all the time. I give up my hippo writes because.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
I think you meaning your corner. Let's just pose it correctly.
I don't have it. A corner is your circulation to
your heart, but you have it in the circulation to
your brain. Let's make it easy for mom and dad
to understand.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
Okay, So then what does that you know? I guess
I think more about it as I read more about
stuff going on with people at our age. The fact
that the blood flow has been steady and it hasn't
changed any. But is that if I had completely clear carotids,
when I have more blood in my brain? And is
that something that guys like me, women, men who have
(05:50):
this issue should get straightened out at our age.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Good question. So what is the impact on flow, on
blood flow of having any plaque in the circulation. So
it's like sitting in the pipes and you and I
are inside your pipes. You look to the the sides
and you see the are these hard surfaces or fatty
(06:17):
surfaces that are taking out the hole in the doughnut,
and the wallpaper inside the pipe is getting covered in
these plaques. And the good news is that mild blockage,
which doctors usually think about ten to thirty percent blockage.
If one hundred percent blockage is no flow. Zero percent
(06:41):
blockage is wide open flow with no plaque, so anything
in between you can imagine. So ten to thirty percent,
we usually consider mild forty to sixty moderate, and seventy
and above severe. Okay, so we can tolerate very well
mild blockage ten to thirty percent. It doesn't impair flow
(07:01):
at all. It's not affecting you. You can tolerate actually
forty to sixty percent and it won't impair flow in
most sometimes a little earlier, but usually it takes to
seventy percent, some people at fifty to sixty. And this
is where it gets a little complicated have impaired flow,
but usually after seventy percent it does impair flow. The
(07:22):
other important thing is that between thirty to sixty percent,
often these plaques rupture, and that spontaneous rupture will cause
blockage because the materials in the blood that come to
patch up the rupture in the wallpaper of the lining
of the circulation pipe, they don't do a very clean,
(07:43):
nice job. They usually over protect and overfill, and what
becomes a thirty to sixty percent can be quickly a
ninety to one hundred percent blockage because of the repair process.
So ten to thirties we do real well. With thirties
to sixties, the flow is okay until it ruptures seventy
percent and above that is flow limiting and that will
(08:05):
run into problems. Those need to be open.
Speaker 1 (08:08):
So when you go have your annual exam, and you
have a good cardiologist, and if you don't, you should
go see Ken or talk to him anyway at three
five two seven, three five fourteen hundred. But in terms
of again going back to me as an example, if
I have forty percent blockage and it's been that way
since you and I started, what eighteen years ago.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And the treatments. The treatment's been good prevention, watching your numbers,
your cholesterol, especially your LDL and triglycerides, and also your
blood pressure, your blood sugar, your weight. Those are the
treatments of that process.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
So you don't believe in the roto ruter approach which
some people.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Well, I only believe in that when it's flow limiting.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Doctor Ken Cronhouse, Doug Stephan, let's continue to talk about
our brain for a moment here, because I think this
is important, the focus on res and getting a good
night's sleep and your age especially. I remember during well
through most of my life up until now last year
(09:11):
or so, since I stopped doing a daily radio program,
getting better and more sleep for the most part, seven
to eight hours almost every night. An alf where I
can grab it. But there's information here that's kind of
concerning kennabut where we are in our forties and up
(09:31):
and how the amount of rest or is it the
amount of rest is at the quality of the rest
that affects our.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Brain well both and it's most people though the most
common issue is the quantity, you know, not getting seven
hours a night. There is a significant fraction about twenty
five percent of men ten percent of women who have
sleep apnea who have obstructed breathing while they sleep, and
(09:58):
this definitely can have great impacts on the body from
head to toe. But the problem with not getting enough
sleep in middle age and we're talking about, you know,
thirty five to forties, is that it will bring on
dementia early, earlier than expected, and you will start having,
(10:19):
as you were talking about earlier, these cognitive issues where
you can't think, you can't remember, it takes longer to
find the word that you want. Things that should be
stuck in your brain no longer are stuck. So even
as you're in middle age, you know, you were talking
thirty five forties, you have to start thinking how important
(10:42):
it is to have good quality sleep, good quantity of sleep,
because it will catch up and bite you later on
in life and.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
Any number of ways, right, just any numbers.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Well, especially the report this week was bringing to people's
attention the risk of early dementia by not getting good
quality sleep as early as middle aged.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
So let's go back to what we were talking about
a few minutes ago with regard to getting dementia and
the amount of goup that may be in your carotid arteries.
Is there ever a connection to let's say, the forty
percent blockage that we were talking about and one getting
one of the one of the dementias.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Usually when we have blockages in the corot, the pipe
from the heart to the brain, the biggest concern is
the risk to stroke, and the risk to stroke usually
starts beginning at about seventy percent. And that's why we're
following that. Seventy percent of strokes occur when those pipes
get seventy percent or more block The other thirty percent
(11:47):
of strokes occur because of clots formed in the heart,
usually from atrial fibrillation, when the top of the heart
beats like a bag of worms, clots and then these
clots are propelled to the brain causing a stroke.
Speaker 1 (12:01):
All right, So the simple answer to that question is
don't worry about it. That's the answer is.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
If you have karate at our reblock it's follow it up.
Usually if it's under fifty percent, we look once a year.
Usually when it starts getting above fifty percent, we image
every six months. Just because this is all about stroke prevention.
That's the reason why we follow your karate. Stroke prevention
not so much.
Speaker 1 (12:27):
It doesn't Alzheimer's. That's kind of the question.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Well, if you have multiple strokes, it can cause dementia.
The kind of Alzheimer's is more on the material of
the brain that becomes altered.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
So what's the old expression of word to the wise,
look out and be aware. That's the whole bottom line,
all right. A lot of information this week about training.
We were talking about the exercise thing. A lot of
things on the dock out this week about weight training
and what that does, vigorous work, that sort of thing.
So we'll get to that as we continue here with
(13:03):
doctor Ken. It's good day health. I'm Doug Stephan. Open.
Our brains are head eye opening, ear opening, thought provoking
ways to think about you and your health and well being.
So I promise that we would go back to because
there's a lot of information this week Ken about exercise,
(13:26):
and I see that there are a couple of other
things we haven't touched on yet with regard to weight
training and if you stop lifting weights. I have had
this happen to me because I've done a lot of
it over my life. I think we have to keep
our muscles strong. I don't know whether necessarily big is important,
(13:48):
but to keep your skeleton together. Men and women. The
more muscle you have, the better off you are. But
if you have, like me, your bad back and they
have to take a little bit of time off the
weight training, what happens when you go back.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Doug This is some good news out of the Scandinavia
Journal of Medicine and Science and Sports this week. People
are often concerned if they have to for whatever reason,
give up their strength training, will their muscles bounce back?
And the report this week is that yes, even after
several weeks when you cannot do your strength training program,
(14:24):
the muscles will bounce back. Don't give up, get back
in the gym and realize that all of the efforts
that you've made developing these muscles will continue even with
several weeks when you can't do your strength training program.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
So how does that relate to another story this week
in the Journal of Endocrine Society Whatever in the world,
That is about vigorous workouts and what happens if you
are hungry when you go to the gym.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
More good news about working out that vigorous workouts, especially
in women, but in both sexes, will suppress hunger and
the way it works is through a hormone called grellin.
Grellin is a hormone in the body that secretes that
tells us we're hungry. And this report measured grellin levels
(15:16):
in people who were doing workouts, and especially in a
vigorous workout. Don't bring on symptoms when you work out,
but in vigorous workouts, grellon levels do diminish your appetites
suppresses and this is especially seen in women.
Speaker 1 (15:33):
So here's the fifty four sixty four seventy four dollars question.
I see that there's also connect to do exercise and
body control. Some information about people, especially people who are
over the age of fifty, who stand on one leg
for thirty seconds. I can do that on my I
can easily do it on my right leg, not so
(15:56):
easy on my left leg. So what is all of
indik If you if you can rub your belly and
rub your head at the same time, what does that
mean for your health and well being? But in this
case it's standing on one foot at a time. What
does this all mean?
Speaker 4 (16:10):
This report out of Plos one this week doug about
assessing how well people are aging, and it seems to
be all about balance and this test that they recommend
for testing us all to see how well we're aging. Essentially,
the common thread is how well we can balance. So
(16:32):
this simple test that helps gauge signs of aging and
people fifty and over, Doug, people over fifty who can
stand on one leg for thirty seconds are aging gracefully,
particularly if it's not their strong legs. Raceful aging process
occurs if you can stand on one leg for thirty seconds,
(16:53):
especially your weaker leg.
Speaker 1 (16:55):
So when you started that, maybe here, I'm put the
microphone out. I stood up on my strong leg and
I stood there for the whole time. You destroy. Now
I'm on my week leg and I have to balance.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Myself all right there for thirty seconds.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
No, I didn't get this. Well. I can stand up
for thirty seconds, but it's not easy. Let's put it
that way, Doctor Cannon, Doctor Doug I have. He's got
a license. I don't. This is Good day Health, Doug
Stephan here with my friend Elizabeth Miller. All right, let's
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Speaker 1 (18:20):
Do it now, Thanks, Elizabeth, do yourself a favor. Any
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That's the bottom line. If you can't go see him directly,
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essence of I want to get to a lot of
the discussion this week about and this is somewhat political,
and so we'll dance around that a little obviously because
(19:03):
of the time that we're in. Robert F. Kennedy Junior
looks like if Trump wins, may become the Secretary of
Health and Human Services. He talks a lot about about
the attitude we have towards vaccines. There are sort of
inframational pockets as we can suggesting the entire population is
(19:24):
shifting and its attitude toward having vaccines, not just COVID nineteen,
but I think COVID nineteen and all the pressure brought
it on. What do you think?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Well, what hot potatoes? Specifically do you want me to address?
What was the question?
Speaker 1 (19:42):
I know how you love to talk about things that
are controversial. Well, the fact that people know COVID nineteen.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Politics that I don't want to get involved in.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
But no, I understand that.
Speaker 4 (19:54):
Medical controversy, fine, political controversy not for this show, right, Well,
it's not.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
For this program anyway. So the explanation when people come
into your let me make it very personal. In your case,
people come to your clinic and they ask you, should
I get a COVID shot? Should I get a flu shot?
Should I have a shot for Should children in my
family have a shot?
Speaker 3 (20:18):
For?
Speaker 1 (20:19):
The various things? I mean, there's all kinds of stuff
that we're supposed to get when we're young. And then
the whole business, the heavy advertising by Pfizer and some
of the other companies. Get a flu shot, YadA, YadA.
People are ignoring that only nineteen percent, going to the
CDC anyway, nineteen percent of the public or fourteen percent sorry,
of adults have gotten COVID nineteen booster shots. So you know,
(20:44):
what do you recommend? Let's go through your recommendations for vaccines.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
Well, what is maybe not settling to you, Doug, is
that I don't have a single recommendation for everybody. This
is all about personalized medicine, especially the COVID vaccine. You
have to give an individual specific answer to a specific
person based on a number of circumstances. So it's not
(21:15):
one advice for everybody, and the COVID is is a
great example of it. I think right now there's so
much natural immunity in the population. You know, if you
don't think you've had COVID already you have all of
us at some point like having the cold, have had COVID,
and it's not what it was in twenty twenty where
(21:35):
people were dying everywhere. And today, fortunately we're not seeing
many admissions. We're not seeing at least where I am.
I actually was just talking to a few er doctors
in my area, and you know, they're seeing much more
admission for flu right now than they are for COVID,
and they're not seeing a whole bunch of admissions for COVID,
(21:56):
but they still can occur in the elderly, the you know, compromised,
if you have multiple risk factors for severe severe COVID.
They're just becoming fewer of us in that category. That
me as a physician and other physicians are recommending to
get to get vaccines for COVID, but for flu it's
a totally different situation. My feeling is if you're you know,
(22:19):
you're over six months and you're not allergic to the
flu vaccine, get it. And that's probably the other extreme
because there are admissions now, there are deaths from flu
and and uh and and there are long term consequences
to getting the flu and the flu vaccine to to
(22:40):
to almost all of us, is a pretty safe, safe item.
I've had mine already this year. In fact, you know,
I encourage unless you're allergic to it to get.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
It all right. So there's the vaccine story from Ken's perspective.
Uh there, I think we've talked last week.
Speaker 4 (23:00):
This is where you need a good primary care physition.
I got your personal situation with these, with these items
and the kids talk to the pediatrician, but get an opinion,
think about it, and it's it's worth researching it. And
joint decision making. There's no reason why you as a
patient you weres parents. It's called joint decision making where
(23:22):
you get a vote and the doctor gets a vote
and you can come together and come to a good
decision together. Joint decision making.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
If it's a if it's a tie, you've got to
have a third person to work with you on that line.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
Well, you know, and if your doctor or a caretaker
doesn't agree with joint decision making, you may have the
wrong one. Because you know, the days of doctors saying
do as I say and that's it, no discussion. You know,
those days went out in the nineteen fifties.
Speaker 1 (23:53):
Yep. See you later alligator. All right, Now, we talked
last week about the McDonald's quarter pounder, the E coli cases.
We spent a lot of time talking about E coli
and salmonella and lysteria. It seems that it's more linked now.
It's more we're more sure this week than we're last
week about the problem McDonald's has with quarter pounders. And
(24:16):
this you wonder it because McDonald's isn't the only one
gets beef from these processors. My thought is that because
the same stuff goes to Burger King, goes to Wendy's
pretty much certainly all the cheap end the low price
discount fast food joints. So one wonders why this is
(24:36):
me thinking there's something else going on. If McDonald's is
the only one that has a ninety one hundred E
Coli cases connected to its beef, there's something else going
on in the process of distribution. It's all the same
stuff got wrong.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Maybe I got wrong information, But the explanation is that
they were using a supplier for onions, and it was
in the onions in these particular McDonald's, and that's why
it wasn't seen in all the processes that you're describing right.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
But the thing is they all use the same I.
Speaker 4 (25:11):
Heard the CDC cleared the beef. Is that not right?
Speaker 1 (25:14):
Right? Yeah, they did, but it still is the delivery
mech to people with a quarter pounder, So if you
have onions on it, you're more likely to have a problem.
But my point is that all of these things, the tomatoes,
the lettuce, the onions, all of the accoutremonts that go
with it are all from the same places. If you're
in Massachusetts, all these fast food joints get the stuff
(25:37):
that they sell. With the exception of the burgers, the
tomatoes that letters, all of the things that we use
are from the same source. Like when you get a ketchup, it's.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
I heard it was one onion supplier in the locations
where they had it, and they just eliminated that supplier.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Yeah. Well, anyway, we can go on on this forever
or ever. I want to talk about overweight, underweight, weight
and weight loss and all of the stuff that we
seem to find ourselves talking about every week, because it's
important to a lot of people losing weight, how to
lose it and keep it off. What are you using
(26:17):
for products? I see that there is a lot of
information from the OZEPA camp and the GOVI camp has
nothing to do with weight loss, or maybe it does.
We'll talk about that in a matter of moments.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
Here.
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about it all? Right? Back with doctor ken So, a
couple of things about weight and weight loss the surgeries
that people have had to get rid of. Is it
weight that they get rid of or fat that they
(27:58):
get rid of it? And there's one equal to the other.
Speaker 4 (28:00):
Well, there's different approaches. I think when you're referring to
the weight loss surgery, we usually think of the bariatric surgery,
and that just affects the way we absorb calories and
our appetite, our ability to actually take in calories. You know,
there is plastic surgery where liposuction where you get rid
(28:21):
of the fat. That's a different process. But the news
this week about all this comes out of JAMA, the
Journal of American Medical Association JAMA network opened and they
looked at the years twenty twenty two to twenty twenty three,
and during that time period, amazingly, weight loss surgery declined
(28:43):
by twenty five percent. And these GLP one drugs, the Wagovis,
the zep bounds, actually those drugs doubled in popularity during
this period as the amount of weight loss surgeries declined
by twenty five percent. And this just seems like a
(29:05):
trend for the future that you know, I've often you know,
tongue in cheek has said, if I was thinking about
being in a bariatric surgeon today, if I was in
medical school, I might be thinking about doing something else
because these drugs are just going to accelerate. There's going
to be more and more drugs that are probably gonna
be oral forms of these self injectables, and they're going
(29:27):
to get more and more effective. And you know, you
talk to me a few years ago, and I was
so against using drugs for weight loss my whole career
until this new class of drugs is GLP one group,
And now there's just such good evidence of their safety
and effectiveness and many people, not perfect, but dramatically different
(29:48):
than it has been in the past. And now they've
come mainstream and they're being used, and this whole area
is just going to accelerate.
Speaker 1 (29:55):
Using all right, so then you that sort of falls
into what I sug tested a few minutes ago. When
thinking about ozepic and mogov they seem to, according to
a couple of studies, be helpful when it comes to
ousti or arthritis. People have that problem with their knees.
Is that just a result of losing weight or is
there something else there?
Speaker 4 (30:17):
Well, it's mostly from losing weight. And the other one
zet bound, which is even more effective. The two that
you were saying are basically the same thing, one for diabetes,
one for weight loss, but the same products and meglotide
for zepetide. The other product branded is zet Bound to
lose weight Mondro for diabetes. They the main effect is
(30:42):
on the weight loss, but it surprisingly the drug itself,
the GLP one agonist, does have specific benefits throughout the body,
so it's not all weight loss, which is quite interesting.
Speaker 1 (30:56):
All right. The questions continue out the whole. So every
week when we're on with doctor Ken, there are lots
of questions that I have, and lots of questions you have,
and lots of questions that come from what's going on
in the world of medicine, and Ken answers him. That's
his job here and he takes it seriously and he
does it well. So we continue and these are up next.
Specific questions for doctor Ken. Some of them come from
(31:20):
the research he's done this week, some of them come
from you, But that's next up on the docket. Here
questions for doctor Ken on good day health. What happens
when you're weight training and it's all a function of
keeping your body in shape. Let's look at the children
(31:42):
in our society. Youngsters that are either overweight or underweight.
There are questions about how that impacts their body generally
and specific organs. So what's the up and the down
of overweight and underweight with children? Ken?
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Just another reason and dad to be concerned about the
kid's weight. And if you look around, we know we
need to do more and more of that. This comes
out of the European Respiratory Journal this week that being
overweight or underweight either one as a kid can impair
lung function down the road. And what they discovered was
(32:21):
that even if the child is underweight or overweight as
a small child, if you, by getting out of high school,
get the weight under control, you will get rid of
this lung impairment. Issue that's real for those who are
getting out of high school and still underweight or overweight.
So these things have issues beyond what we usually think
(32:46):
about the heart, the brain, diabetes, but now even the
lungs are impaired by the weight not being in the
right zone.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
Hi, man, how you keep up on all this stuff?
Speaker 4 (32:57):
God?
Speaker 1 (32:57):
I love you? All right? Here's one more about children.
Apparently there is a some kind of a research project
that went on or is going on about sugar and
how in England it's been rationed with the children. The
government is requiring that less sugar be allowed in public
(33:18):
places and it's lower diabetes and hypertension greatly. Should we
be doing this? Here is the question.
Speaker 4 (33:24):
Absolutely, refined sugar should be a treat. The natural sugar
from fruit juice. You eat an orange with nothing else
added to it, that's not going to give you diabetes.
That's very healthy. It's the refined sugar, which you know,
I don't want to use the word poison, but it's close.
And these should be treats. I know people love it,
(33:44):
but it's not. You're not taking in refined sugar for
your health, all right.
Speaker 1 (33:48):
So one more thing with regard to children, there's a
question about marijuana and pregnancy. I don't even begin to
understand how anybody frankly my own pejorative here, how stupid
can you get to use marijuana when you're pregnant?
Speaker 4 (34:03):
But anyway, well, there are women for mourning Sickness Doug
that actually use marijuana, and please, I would urge this
not be done. This comes out of Jama Pediatrics this
week that marijuana used during pregnancy actually affects children's behavior
and their thinking skills. So you want a kid who's
(34:24):
not going to behave in class and who's going to
be the cognitively that is thinking, remembering back from everyone
else in the class. And then mom, use the marijuana
for morning sickness. Please don't use the marijuana for morning sickness.
Please do not, because it's just going to impair your
development of your child.
Speaker 1 (34:45):
All right. Last question has to do with because we've
just had Halloween this weekend, is the post Halloween situation
that people find themselves in at home with pillows filled
pillow sacks. I feel like I was filled with candy?
Is there a common sense warning here? And I mean
(35:05):
we're talking a lot about sugar and that sort of thing.
And weight with children. This is more probably a common
sense question to anything else. But you want to weigh in,
pardon the pun on all the sugar that's around now.
Speaker 4 (35:17):
Because well, definitely only give the kids things that were
covered sealed, you know, any of these things that were
loose and handled by anyone's hands, Keep that away from them,
just for safety, for infectious diseases, for who knows what's
in there, but for the well wrapped candy. Just make
it a treat and just make sure that it's limited
(35:41):
and the kids know where you make sure they don't
know where you hide it. I mean, that was the
big joke in our home. My mother would hide it,
but me and my brother knew where it was. And
blah blah blah.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
I get a kick out it because both my grandchildren,
especially my nine year old was soon to be ten
year old grandson, they get all dressed up Spider Man
I think was the costume that they went out on
the other night, and they come back with lots of stuff.
He still got His mother is such a a she's
a guardian when it comes to this. He still got
candy left over from last Halloween. So it's not what
(36:16):
not good to have it left over and not good
to do it. I think it's good.
Speaker 4 (36:19):
Probably expired, I mean, well that's that, yeah, but I
do to the trash.
Speaker 1 (36:24):
I was more thinking she was metering it out and
not letting him have as much. That was the good
side of it, was don't eat it.
Speaker 4 (36:31):
Probably growing things in it by now.
Speaker 1 (36:33):
All right? Questions for doctor Ken an important part of
our conversation every week three five, two seven, three five,
fourteen hundred. I'm Doug Stephan. This good day Health Doug
Stephan with doctor Ken Cronhaus, sponsored in part by Caldron,
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