March 11, 2025 • 36 mins
Tuesday, March 11 - 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 some good news that flu activity has finally decreased for two consecutive weeks — and why this season’s flu seems to be the worst case in decades. Continuing with viral infections, news out of the Infectious Disease Medical Journal found people who’ve been hospitalized with a severe case of COVID-19 are at a higher risk of death from any medical cause for up to two years after their hospitalization, and concerns continue to grow with the Avian/Bird Flu. Next, Dr. Ken shares good news about consuming fresh squeezed orange juice and why the natural sugar found in fruit is good for you, olive oil and nuts can help decrease depression risk, how poor sleep endangers your health, and what’s really going on with the latest measles outbreak and recent death. Lastly, Dr. Ken answers listener questions, including nonsurgical weightless treatments like laser therapy, the healthiest time of year and what each season brings with illnesses and health issues, the most powerful exercise people should do for their overall health, and patient monitoring devices doctors are using when their patience aren’t in their office.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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That's it, and so you're here to translate. And that's
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Find it a Good Day Healthshow dot com. That's the
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we discussed on the program this week, but for last week,
and last month and last year. So help yourself. Usually
start the program off with some good news. Last week,
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the news about the flu seemed kind of bad, But
this week the news about the flu seems much better. Ken,
what do we have it?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Sure? Does?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I like starting off with some good news, Doug, And yes,
as we mentioned last week, one of the worst flu
seasons and years, and you will personally testify to this
as called I know has reached its peak and is improving, Doug.
Flu activity remains elevated nationally, but has decreased, decreased for
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two consecutive weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Hooray, hooray. That's here for the good guys. What do
you suppose that's do to? Is it just the weather?
People always wonder why it's I mean, it's kind of
a duh question, but I'll ask it because I ask
duh questions from time to time. The simple explanation for
why we had a tough flu season, I suppose in
part it combines with the weather, because the weather in
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the wintertime keeps people shut up more shut up that
is inside.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I think I think several issues this year. It peaked
a little later than it usually does, so there was
an accumulation of a lot of the flu. Some of
it would have started earlier in the year, it peaked
later this year, and people are still in this mindset
that they're making up for lost time from COVID, and
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there's a lot of travel, there's a lot of intermingled.
People want to do things, they don't want to think
so much about it. They want experiences, and experiences caused
these issues. And there was a lot of time inside
with experiences. This is COVID's and outs is an indoor virus.
You spend time indoors. That's how you get it outside
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you don't have to worry about it. So there was
a lot of visiting over the holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and
that's what happens. And there's just been a lot of
intermingling making up for lost time, That's what I think.
And people have dropped a lot of their guard.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I don't want to get on the soapbox about masks
and get into that debate, but some of the things
that we were doing, whether we liked them or not,
I'm not a huge fan, but we did them actually
prevented us from getting viruses were And how often do
you see anyone anymore wearing a mask they're you.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Know, that's an interesting, very common question now, but there
are more I've found I've been on the West coast
for the last five or six days, and I've found
a lot of people, not just in the airport, but
a lot of people in various circumstances. And I'm not
sure whether it has to do with worry about this
stuff or because I drove around, well, I drove around
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the Pacific Palisades fire, yes, and that area. You can
still smell the smoke, and you can see people up
there wearing masks. But I've gone to movies, and I've
gone to restaurants, and I've been in the stores, and
it just seems like there are more people here wearing
masks than I've seen. But I've seen more this year, frankly,
on my traveling.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Come south, you'll see no one's wearing a mask.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No one. All right, I'll come south in a couple
of weeks. I got to see you pretty soon anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So but maybe maybe on the maybe on the two coasts,
they're wearing them. But I'll walk into the supermarket and
I'll see now maybe one or two people if I'm
there thirty to sixty minutes. And you know, you go
back a few years and there were eighty percent of
the people wearing them, but now you see one or
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two in an hour.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
All right. So oftentimes when we discuss flu, there are
two things that are attached to it. One of them
has to do with the old COVID I say old,
but it's still around. And the other has to do
with a bird flu. Let's talk about COVID nineteen first,
because the number of patients who are in the hospital
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with COVID seem to be at risk, or at least
it seems that that's what some of the studies. Some
of the research shows.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Ken Well, this is some of the follow up on
people who have been hospitalized. This comes out of the
Infectious Disease Medical Journal this month. People DOUG who have
been hospitalized for a severe bout of COVID nineteen. Remember
you don't get into the hospital in this there's a
real breathing issue. These are severe people low oxygenations. They're
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far from being in the clear after they're recovered enough
to return home. So you get discharged from the hospital
thinking things are fine, but the news is they may
not be for a while. COVID nineteen hospital patients DOUG
have an increased risk of death from any cause for
at least two and a half years. Following their initial illness.
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They also are more likely to be hospitalized again, with
particularly high risk for neurological, psychiatric, heart and lung problems.
Just indicating that this virus is a head to toe virus,
this COVID nineteen virus when it is severe, and so
often it's not, but occasionally, unfortunately it is all right.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
In a moment, we'll discuss where the bird flu is
because of the concerned a lot of people have, again
the word flu attached to it. Is it something that
you're going to worry about because covid is a flu,
is a flu and other regular flus. So what about
the bird flu? We call it the bird flu? Is
it a flu that Americans that people around the world
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let's talk about the bird flu. We've got the bad
regular flu, We've got covid. Now, this bird flu has
been an important influence on the cost of food. What's
going on? Only eggs, but buying chicken is becoming difficult. Turkey,
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all of the things that are good for you or
better for you than beef. I know some of my
friends listening. When I hear that thing, I say, huh,
But you know, well, beef is good for protein if
you have it maybe once a week or so. But
the beef markets are up, the cattle markets are up.
The people are buying that because they're staying away from poultry.
(11:03):
And there are some reports that the flu, the bird flu,
has affected cattle. It hasn't affected really milk, and it
really doesn't affect the quality of the beef. And I'm
not sure, actually, I'm not so sure that it affects
any thing. But because there is, I guess we could
put it over abundance of caution. So what do you
think we ought to know about the bird flu?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Can It's called the so called H five bird flu.
It's widespread and wild birds worldwide dug and is causing
outbreaks and poultry and American dairy cows, with several recent
human cases in America dairy and poultry workers. While the
current public health risk is low, we're watching and the situation.
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We're watching carefully, and the CDC seems to be working
in states to monitor people with animal exposures to see
if it's moving from animals to humans. And these systems
are monitoring for H five bird flu activity and people,
and I think most of us have become familiar with
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this by the cost of eggs, and so far, fortunately
the wrist to all of us is low. It was
a cat food last week that was taking off the
market because of concern for bird flu and the cat food.
But hopefully this will not cross too strongly to us.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yep. All right, so that's the that's sort of good
news coming up. Good news about eating citrus fruit. If
you're an orange fan like I am, this is very
good grapefruit. I love grapefruit, and lemon is great and
your drinks that sort of thing. So what does it
mean if you eat a lot of citrus fruit? How
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does that help you out? Next with doctor ken Kronhaus
here on Good Day Health. If you have a desire,
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double ow good luck. Okay. So I suggested that we
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would have some good news about eating citrus. You're from
the Sunshine State, a lot of citrus going around you.
I love this time of year, especially you go up
and down the highway and not some of the secondary
roads and not in the main highways. The Tammiami Trail,
the old what we used to call it, Alligator Alley,
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and that's where a lot of these orange groves are,
and so we've seen a lot of that. What's going
on with the research on eating citrus fruit?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Well, Doug, just before we do that, you and I
grew up on orange juice. I think our generation did.
And it's very surprising to me that, you know, you
talk to people who are thirty or less, they just
don't drink much orange juice. In fact, you would be
shocking to hear after eighty years that Tropicana is talking
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about bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
This came out last week yes, shocking.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
As wonderful as that brand is and just shocking. And
I think there's a concern about the sugar in orange juice,
which if I can do anything to clarify that the
natural sugar in orange is good for you. This is
not like white sugar granular sugar that is not so
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healthy that should be just a treat. The natural sugar
in fruit is wonderfully good for you. It's not going
to give you diabetes. You just have to watch it
like the calories of everything else. And that's a big misunderstanding.
But anyway, the news this week from the medical journal Microbio,
maybe this will help save Tropicana. I certainly hope. There
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stress management, and eating a healthy diet. Previous studies have
identified eating olive oil and nuts olive oil and nuts
to decrease depression risk. But the news this week DOUG
is that oranges have been identified as another food that
may help decrease depression risk.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Okay, soh orange is a citrus fruit. The obvious question
is going to be about grapefruit, well, lemons or limes.
Would they have the same effect as oranges and lowering depression.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
We need to write a grant and do a study.
This was not part of the study. I'm sure that
that research is coming. Stay tuned. But though it tells
me that it will help, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
You know me, you know me, I want data, And.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, I know intuition is often wrong with the body
often too.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I'm lucky with intuition oftentimes of mine. I mean, it
just makes kind of it's the same stuff. All though
people say, well, what about grapefruit? It's so sour and
oranges are so sweet.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
But I will recommend oranges for so many good reasons.
I mean, I am a big consumer of one hundred
percent orange juice, the natural thing. It's not going to
give you diabetes. That sugar is healthy, the natural one
hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I'm with you on that one. Okay, Doctor Cannon, Doctor
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lots of different things because there are a lot of
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oranges and the lemons, the limes three five, two seven,
three five, fourteen hundred for doctor Ken. All right, let's
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have some discussion about sleep information, starting with a report
on how poor sleep endangers your health.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, Doug, this is a big factor for so many
of us. This comes out of JAMA, the journal American
Medical Association, their network edition.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Just last week.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
They report that about two thirds of Americans are getting
too little or too much sleep and risking their health.
In this study, DOUG people not getting the right amount
of sleep, and in the study they defined seven to
nine hours a night that was pretty generous. Seven to
nine hours is the right amount. They had a twenty
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nine percent increase risk of premature death from any cause
if you did not get seven to nine hours a night,
So DOUG, irregular sleep patterns over a five year period
may increase the risk of all cause and cardiovascular disease mortality.
A good way to prevent illness, to this study, is
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getting at least seven to nine hours of sleep on
a regular basis, and the best way is if you can,
is to get it at the same time each night.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Naps naps naps. Though we talk about how good naps
are for people, right.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Well, naps are good if your body's asking for it.
But I think what this study is saying is that
the best healthiest pattern is getting a single continuous if
you can. You know, we know as you get older,
you're going to be waking up for various reasons, but
without the naps seven to nine hours, well.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
When you get up to go take a pee, as
you'rul or even the different's how old.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Clock stops and it restarts when you get back it does.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So that means that if you get nine, because this
happens to me pretty much every night, if I get
seven or eight hours of sleep, which I'm more likely
to do because I'm not getting up every morning for
a daily radio program, then that when I get up,
let's say at one point thirty, and then I go
back to sleep, and I get up at six point thirty,
I've only gotten, according to the clock, five hours of sleep.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
No.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
No, the clock's just pausing when you get up to
do the bathroom thing, and then it restarts when you
get back to sleep. And that's why it's so important,
because the quality does decline as we get older, and
as we get older, this seven to nine is so
much more important.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Got it? Okay, while we're in this column of looking
at sleep, there's a report on obstructive sleep apnea and
what it's linked to that we ought know this. Pay
very close attention to this information, folks, no matter what your.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Age, any doctor that's been around a few decades, we
used to think this obstructive sleep happening when it first
came out several decades ago, was just you know, nothing,
but it's a lot, and it's the more it gets studied,
the more we realize how important it is, how common
it is in both sexes. And the annual meeting of
(22:01):
the American Academy of Neurology coming up is going to
have a very interesting report that another problem that sleep
apne is associated with obstructive sleep apnea DOUG. It's associated
with an increased risk for Parkinson's disease. But the good
news is that there is something you can do about it.
The incidence of Parkinson's disease DOUG is significantly lower with
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early SEAPAP treatment, but no reduction is seen with late
SEAPAP treatment. So, if your sleeping partner tells you that
you're waking up gasping for air, or you're not waking
up after seven to nine hours of sleep well rested,
or you're having trouble with your weight you're significantly obese,
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all of these are signals that you're at high risk
of having sleep apnea.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Men and women.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Again, if your sleep partner tells you you wake up
with this distinctive grunting noise, ninety nine point nine percent
likelihood you have sleep apne. If you're a snor high risk.
You have sleep avenue, get checked out. Here's just another
good reason. Illness is from head to toe. But early
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treatment will prevent Parkinson's disease and late treatment will not.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Amazing, So tell us more about SEAPAP. What is that?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Well, the treatment to keep the airway open, because most
of this is due there's some most of it is
due to the airway just collapses while we're sleeping, the
upper airway. And what the seapap does is keep the
airway open. It provides continuous positive airway pressure SEAPAP so
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that the airway doesn't collapse and the oxygenation continues to
the body while you're sleeping.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And the good news is there's now.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
A silent model, a small model. It's come a long
long way. This is pretty much a big breakthrough. You know,
most of us conceive of these contraptions. How can I
ever sleep with this thing? There is now a totally silent,
small model. And the other thing is if you can't
handle seapap, a dentist who knows how to make a
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specific mouthguard the Mayo Clinic tells us is just as
effective for treating sleep apnea. And hopefully they'll look at
that aspect and see if it also prevents the Parkinson's
disease there. My instinct is that it will, because the
Mayo Clinic tells us that it does do equivalent to
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seepap You have to find a dentist who knows how
to do this. You don't want to be their first client.
And these dentists specializing in treating sleep apnea provide us
with a nice other alternative, which, again the Mayo Clinic
tells us, is almost equivalent to death for treating sleep
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apupt Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I love when you say, you know, won't be the
first patient to do it. So there's a warning, and
not in disguise from doctor Ken Cronhaus here in good.
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They want to have economic impact, they want to cut
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the irs. One wonders what's going on at the Health Department?
If you have an update for since mister Kennedy took over?
What do you see? What do you sense? What do
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from the government before the public does. So what's going
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(27:25):
to tell a trend, but every department seems to be
making dramatic statements as these new directors start their jobs. Ken,
So what do you the sense is going on? What
do you read in some of the some of the
journals are not going to be too favorable for Kennedy's
stand on vaccines and stuff. But what really is going
on behind the scenes? Do you think?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
It's still too early to tell, But he actually is.
His first challenge is this measle epidemic, and he has
taken out a stand to support the vaccine, Doug, and
I think that he also is going to be looking
at a lot of our food safety issues which have
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been neglected, and so I think he's looking at health
from a preventive standpoint, which I'm excited about.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
So I meant to ask you, sorry I didn't do
this earlier in the program about measles and a lot
there's a lot of conversation about it, like it was
an epidemic. Is it dangerous? I mean, measles is never
fun to get. We all remember that from when we
were youngsters. I guess some people have never had it,
But there's a connection dream measles, right, and epstein bar
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and some of the other things that we get later
in life. What's the what do we have? What really
is going on?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Well, it's the problem with measles, Doug, is that it's
very contagious, very contagious, and as a young child, there
is a pneumonia associated with it, and it's totally preventable
by getting vaccinated. And that's been the big controversy. And
actually mister Kennedy has been advocating the vaccine and just
(29:12):
reassuring people that yes, it's an individual decision, but he.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Is supporting it. Yeah, well, and I have great hope.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I have great hope for him because he's going to
be looking at things in a new way, and we
need to look at these things in an objective way.
We learned this from COVID that objectivity is less than
it should be. And he's going to start looking under
the hood at many of the things that we have
not looked at. We spend a ton of money on
health in America, and the results are less than they
(29:42):
should be. And so I'm very excited that he's going
to be taking this new approach to it.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I suppose that then the next question, the obvious question,
is about health insurance where all that stands, because there
are people worried that they're going to cut the budget
on Medicare and Medicaid. I meant to ask you about
that last week, but we ran out of time.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
They're not going to cut the budget on Medicare.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
That's you know, you're being gaslighted, and and so just
stand by and let's see what they.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Do and how regularly by the way you do, the
public health folks communicate with doctors like you in private practice.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
On an often frequent basis when they need to. And
I think everybody should just relax about Medicare. They're not
going to cut Medicare and Medicaid. That is another area
that you know, I don't even want to predict what's
going to happen, and I just you know, people are
not going to be left without health care in America.
(30:41):
And you know, maybe you can find that one person
where the system fell through, and but they're just going
to look for there's so much waste in the system,
look around, and that's what they're going after though, waste.
And they don't want to No one wants to hurt people.
We want to take care of people, and let's all
(31:03):
work together and not make everything political.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, that is the danger here. There's a lot of
people that just go into hysterics about any exactlyory with Trump.
Exact people that are on the Trump side, they're going
to hysterics with anybody on the other side, right, exactly
smart enough to judge things on your own and stop
following exactly like sheep the stuff that is ridiculous. Frankly
on body exactly coming up questions for doctor Ken here
(31:29):
on Good Day Health, here's a lady that's got flabby arms,
that is putting cream on them, and she says that's
not helping. And she wonders about whether or not there's
a way without having surgery to get rid of creepy skin,
(31:49):
because I guess that's what laser that's what laser treatment does,
or one of the things you can use. So what
is how do you avoid You can't avoid it. As
you get older some parts of your you're going to
have that crepy skin. How do you think people should
deal with it? Ken?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
This is a medical spot treatment. It utilizes laser energy
dug to break up and target stubborn pockets of excess
fat in the arms. It's non invasive for removing arm
fat and sometimes provides okay results. I would want to
know who's doing it, what their track record is, and
(32:25):
any complications they have. But I would also want to
talk to a plastic surgeon and talk to various people
about options before I just made my choice of where
to go.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
So, in terms of what we are dealing with here
around the country this time of year, we become optimistic
because the weather improves, does health improve. We were talking
about this earlier and I think this was what prompted
this person's question about the healthiest month. We know the
winter time, especially like January February is the unhealthiest time
(32:58):
of the year. What's the healthy time of the year.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I would imagine when you leave the very cold weather
of the winter, because that's when the flues are, the virals,
diseases are so high. But each season has its own issues.
You know, in the summer, we're doing things that we
don't normally do, so we're at risk of getting harmed
(33:21):
from those things. And it varies from season to season.
Maybe the springtime is the safest, maybe the fall is
the safest, but I think the time that really there's
a lot more illnesses during the winter because you get
all these viruses that are active.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
All right, question from somebody that actually got a background
Valentine's Day. I didn't get it on the air. What's
the most powerful exercise that you do ken in your
exercise routine? And is that the exercise that most people
should do? What's the best exercise? You had to pick
one exercise, what would it be?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Whatever you enjoy moving, you know, getting the step count
up in any way you can If I had to
pick one item, but do it that you in a
way you enjoy it and do it so it doesn't
bring on any symptoms.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
When you say symptoms, you mean heart stuff. This is
a good time for you to tell people about that watch,
because that will monitor what your body is doing and
keep you on the straight and narrow in a manner
speaking right, well, you don't.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Want to your exercise.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
You don't want to bring on chestis comfort, shortness of breath,
light headedness, dizzyness. You want to leave a little bit
there and don't bring on symptoms when you're exercised. Cardiologist
is called the symptom limited activity. It'll keep you safe. Doug,
I think you're talking about remote patient monitoring. This program
that actually medicare initially set up, some of the private
(34:49):
insurers are covering where we can actually monitor you in
real time. We have high tech device, a watch that
records in real time. It's a real watch, tells time,
has an alarm date. But you just tap the face
where you see the time, and you get your blood pressure,
your heart rate, your temperature, your oxygenation actually measures accurately
(35:10):
your mental stress by some amazing work that's been done
by these genius cardiologists at Mount SINI looking at heart
rate variability and heart rate acceleration. But it accurately measures
your mental stress. It'll assess your sleep, it'll count steps
for you, and it helps us keep people out of
the emergency room. It helps us keep people healthy longer.
(35:30):
And that's why Medicare and many of the insurances support
it because it lowers their costs because people are going
to the er less and they're being hospitalized less. We
love it because we can just do better prevention and
give people a present.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Last question here about chronic aches and pains. I may
have told you I've got this pain. I guess I
twisted some kind of attendon. What's the best thing to
do for that? Aspirin? Is there something that you can
reach out for that will help eliminate these sorts of
aches and pains?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
The most important thing, Doug, is getting a diagnosis what
is causing the pain, and not just you know, like
the Chinese restaurant one from column A, one from Colin
B throwing anything at it. Find out the cause. Once
you know the diagnosis, then you can come up with
the specific treatment. And each of us are different. This
(36:31):
is where you need individualized treatment. There's not one size
fits all here.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Pretty optimistic answers to your questions. Thank you doctor Ken.
Questions for doctor Ken part of Good Day Health with
Ken Cronhaus. I'm Doug Stephan. This Good Day Health Doug
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Speaker 2 (01:28):
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That's it, and so you're here to translate. And that's
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we discussed on the program this week, but for last week,
and last month and last year. So help yourself. Usually
start the program off with some good news. Last week,
(02:14):
the news about the flu seemed kind of bad, But
this week the news about the flu seems much better. Ken,
what do we have it?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Sure? Does?
Speaker 2 (02:22):
I like starting off with some good news, Doug, And yes,
as we mentioned last week, one of the worst flu
seasons and years, and you will personally testify to this
as called I know has reached its peak and is improving, Doug.
Flu activity remains elevated nationally, but has decreased, decreased for
(02:44):
two consecutive weeks.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
Hooray, hooray. That's here for the good guys. What do
you suppose that's do to? Is it just the weather?
People always wonder why it's I mean, it's kind of
a duh question, but I'll ask it because I ask
duh questions from time to time. The simple explanation for
why we had a tough flu season, I suppose in
part it combines with the weather, because the weather in
(03:08):
the wintertime keeps people shut up more shut up that
is inside.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
I think I think several issues this year. It peaked
a little later than it usually does, so there was
an accumulation of a lot of the flu. Some of
it would have started earlier in the year, it peaked
later this year, and people are still in this mindset
that they're making up for lost time from COVID, and
(03:35):
there's a lot of travel, there's a lot of intermingled.
People want to do things, they don't want to think
so much about it. They want experiences, and experiences caused
these issues. And there was a lot of time inside
with experiences. This is COVID's and outs is an indoor virus.
You spend time indoors. That's how you get it outside
(03:57):
you don't have to worry about it. So there was
a lot of visiting over the holidays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and
that's what happens. And there's just been a lot of
intermingling making up for lost time, That's what I think.
And people have dropped a lot of their guard.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
I don't want to get on the soapbox about masks
and get into that debate, but some of the things
that we were doing, whether we liked them or not,
I'm not a huge fan, but we did them actually
prevented us from getting viruses were And how often do
you see anyone anymore wearing a mask they're you.
Speaker 1 (04:36):
Know, that's an interesting, very common question now, but there
are more I've found I've been on the West coast
for the last five or six days, and I've found
a lot of people, not just in the airport, but
a lot of people in various circumstances. And I'm not
sure whether it has to do with worry about this
stuff or because I drove around, well, I drove around
(04:57):
the Pacific Palisades fire, yes, and that area. You can
still smell the smoke, and you can see people up
there wearing masks. But I've gone to movies, and I've
gone to restaurants, and I've been in the stores, and
it just seems like there are more people here wearing
masks than I've seen. But I've seen more this year, frankly,
on my traveling.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
Come south, you'll see no one's wearing a mask.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
No one. All right, I'll come south in a couple
of weeks. I got to see you pretty soon anyway.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
So but maybe maybe on the maybe on the two coasts,
they're wearing them. But I'll walk into the supermarket and
I'll see now maybe one or two people if I'm
there thirty to sixty minutes. And you know, you go
back a few years and there were eighty percent of
the people wearing them, but now you see one or
(05:45):
two in an hour.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
All right. So oftentimes when we discuss flu, there are
two things that are attached to it. One of them
has to do with the old COVID I say old,
but it's still around. And the other has to do
with a bird flu. Let's talk about COVID nineteen first,
because the number of patients who are in the hospital
(06:08):
with COVID seem to be at risk, or at least
it seems that that's what some of the studies. Some
of the research shows.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Ken Well, this is some of the follow up on
people who have been hospitalized. This comes out of the
Infectious Disease Medical Journal this month. People DOUG who have
been hospitalized for a severe bout of COVID nineteen. Remember
you don't get into the hospital in this there's a
real breathing issue. These are severe people low oxygenations. They're
(06:36):
far from being in the clear after they're recovered enough
to return home. So you get discharged from the hospital
thinking things are fine, but the news is they may
not be for a while. COVID nineteen hospital patients DOUG
have an increased risk of death from any cause for
at least two and a half years. Following their initial illness.
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They also are more likely to be hospitalized again, with
particularly high risk for neurological, psychiatric, heart and lung problems.
Just indicating that this virus is a head to toe virus,
this COVID nineteen virus when it is severe, and so
often it's not, but occasionally, unfortunately it is all right.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
In a moment, we'll discuss where the bird flu is
because of the concerned a lot of people have, again
the word flu attached to it. Is it something that
you're going to worry about because covid is a flu,
is a flu and other regular flus. So what about
the bird flu? We call it the bird flu? Is
it a flu that Americans that people around the world
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let's talk about the bird flu. We've got the bad
regular flu, We've got covid. Now, this bird flu has
been an important influence on the cost of food. What's
going on? Only eggs, but buying chicken is becoming difficult. Turkey,
(10:39):
all of the things that are good for you or
better for you than beef. I know some of my
friends listening. When I hear that thing, I say, huh,
But you know, well, beef is good for protein if
you have it maybe once a week or so. But
the beef markets are up, the cattle markets are up.
The people are buying that because they're staying away from poultry.
(11:03):
And there are some reports that the flu, the bird flu,
has affected cattle. It hasn't affected really milk, and it
really doesn't affect the quality of the beef. And I'm
not sure, actually, I'm not so sure that it affects
any thing. But because there is, I guess we could
put it over abundance of caution. So what do you
think we ought to know about the bird flu?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Can It's called the so called H five bird flu.
It's widespread and wild birds worldwide dug and is causing
outbreaks and poultry and American dairy cows, with several recent
human cases in America dairy and poultry workers. While the
current public health risk is low, we're watching and the situation.
(11:51):
We're watching carefully, and the CDC seems to be working
in states to monitor people with animal exposures to see
if it's moving from animals to humans. And these systems
are monitoring for H five bird flu activity and people,
and I think most of us have become familiar with
(12:11):
this by the cost of eggs, and so far, fortunately
the wrist to all of us is low. It was
a cat food last week that was taking off the
market because of concern for bird flu and the cat food.
But hopefully this will not cross too strongly to us.
Speaker 1 (12:30):
Yep. All right, so that's the that's sort of good
news coming up. Good news about eating citrus fruit. If
you're an orange fan like I am, this is very
good grapefruit. I love grapefruit, and lemon is great and
your drinks that sort of thing. So what does it
mean if you eat a lot of citrus fruit? How
(12:51):
does that help you out? Next with doctor ken Kronhaus
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double ow good luck. Okay. So I suggested that we
(13:33):
would have some good news about eating citrus. You're from
the Sunshine State, a lot of citrus going around you.
I love this time of year, especially you go up
and down the highway and not some of the secondary
roads and not in the main highways. The Tammiami Trail,
the old what we used to call it, Alligator Alley,
(13:56):
and that's where a lot of these orange groves are,
and so we've seen a lot of that. What's going
on with the research on eating citrus fruit?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Well, Doug, just before we do that, you and I
grew up on orange juice. I think our generation did.
And it's very surprising to me that, you know, you
talk to people who are thirty or less, they just
don't drink much orange juice. In fact, you would be
shocking to hear after eighty years that Tropicana is talking
(14:26):
about bankruptcy.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
This came out last week yes, shocking.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
As wonderful as that brand is and just shocking. And
I think there's a concern about the sugar in orange juice,
which if I can do anything to clarify that the
natural sugar in orange is good for you. This is
not like white sugar granular sugar that is not so
(14:54):
healthy that should be just a treat. The natural sugar
in fruit is wonderfully good for you. It's not going
to give you diabetes. You just have to watch it
like the calories of everything else. And that's a big misunderstanding.
But anyway, the news this week from the medical journal Microbio,
maybe this will help save Tropicana. I certainly hope. There
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are a number of risk factors DUG for depression, including
family history, hormonal changes and other chronic diseases, and constant stress.
All of these can bring on depression. Past studies DOUG
show that certain lifestyle changes can help lower a person's
risk of developing depression. These include physical activity, proper sleep,
(15:38):
stress management, and eating a healthy diet. Previous studies have
identified eating olive oil and nuts olive oil and nuts
to decrease depression risk. But the news this week DOUG
is that oranges have been identified as another food that
may help decrease depression risk.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Okay, soh orange is a citrus fruit. The obvious question
is going to be about grapefruit, well, lemons or limes.
Would they have the same effect as oranges and lowering depression.
Speaker 2 (16:12):
We need to write a grant and do a study.
This was not part of the study. I'm sure that
that research is coming. Stay tuned. But though it tells
me that it will help, yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
You know me, you know me, I want data, And.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Yeah, I know intuition is often wrong with the body
often too.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
I'm lucky with intuition oftentimes of mine. I mean, it
just makes kind of it's the same stuff. All though
people say, well, what about grapefruit? It's so sour and
oranges are so sweet.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
But I will recommend oranges for so many good reasons.
I mean, I am a big consumer of one hundred
percent orange juice, the natural thing. It's not going to
give you diabetes. That sugar is healthy, the natural one
hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I'm with you on that one. Okay, Doctor Cannon, Doctor
Doug here on Good Day Health. It's twenty eight past
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(18:58):
have some discussion about sleep information, starting with a report
on how poor sleep endangers your health.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Yeah, Doug, this is a big factor for so many
of us. This comes out of JAMA, the journal American
Medical Association, their network edition.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
Just last week.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
They report that about two thirds of Americans are getting
too little or too much sleep and risking their health.
In this study, DOUG people not getting the right amount
of sleep, and in the study they defined seven to
nine hours a night that was pretty generous. Seven to
nine hours is the right amount. They had a twenty
(19:40):
nine percent increase risk of premature death from any cause
if you did not get seven to nine hours a night,
So DOUG, irregular sleep patterns over a five year period
may increase the risk of all cause and cardiovascular disease mortality.
A good way to prevent illness, to this study, is
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getting at least seven to nine hours of sleep on
a regular basis, and the best way is if you can,
is to get it at the same time each night.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
Naps naps naps. Though we talk about how good naps
are for people, right.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Well, naps are good if your body's asking for it.
But I think what this study is saying is that
the best healthiest pattern is getting a single continuous if
you can. You know, we know as you get older,
you're going to be waking up for various reasons, but
without the naps seven to nine hours, well.
Speaker 1 (20:35):
When you get up to go take a pee, as
you'rul or even the different's how old.
Speaker 2 (20:39):
Clock stops and it restarts when you get back it does.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So that means that if you get nine, because this
happens to me pretty much every night, if I get
seven or eight hours of sleep, which I'm more likely
to do because I'm not getting up every morning for
a daily radio program, then that when I get up,
let's say at one point thirty, and then I go
back to sleep, and I get up at six point thirty,
I've only gotten, according to the clock, five hours of sleep.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
No.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
No, the clock's just pausing when you get up to
do the bathroom thing, and then it restarts when you
get back to sleep. And that's why it's so important,
because the quality does decline as we get older, and
as we get older, this seven to nine is so
much more important.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
Got it? Okay, while we're in this column of looking
at sleep, there's a report on obstructive sleep apnea and
what it's linked to that we ought know this. Pay
very close attention to this information, folks, no matter what your.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
Age, any doctor that's been around a few decades, we
used to think this obstructive sleep happening when it first
came out several decades ago, was just you know, nothing,
but it's a lot, and it's the more it gets studied,
the more we realize how important it is, how common
it is in both sexes. And the annual meeting of
(22:01):
the American Academy of Neurology coming up is going to
have a very interesting report that another problem that sleep
apne is associated with obstructive sleep apnea DOUG. It's associated
with an increased risk for Parkinson's disease. But the good
news is that there is something you can do about it.
The incidence of Parkinson's disease DOUG is significantly lower with
(22:25):
early SEAPAP treatment, but no reduction is seen with late
SEAPAP treatment. So, if your sleeping partner tells you that
you're waking up gasping for air, or you're not waking
up after seven to nine hours of sleep well rested,
or you're having trouble with your weight you're significantly obese,
(22:46):
all of these are signals that you're at high risk
of having sleep apnea.
Speaker 3 (22:51):
Men and women.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
Again, if your sleep partner tells you you wake up
with this distinctive grunting noise, ninety nine point nine percent
likelihood you have sleep apne. If you're a snor high risk.
You have sleep avenue, get checked out. Here's just another
good reason. Illness is from head to toe. But early
(23:13):
treatment will prevent Parkinson's disease and late treatment will not.
Speaker 1 (23:18):
Amazing, So tell us more about SEAPAP. What is that?
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Well, the treatment to keep the airway open, because most
of this is due there's some most of it is
due to the airway just collapses while we're sleeping, the
upper airway. And what the seapap does is keep the
airway open. It provides continuous positive airway pressure SEAPAP so
(23:47):
that the airway doesn't collapse and the oxygenation continues to
the body while you're sleeping.
Speaker 3 (23:54):
And the good news is there's now.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
A silent model, a small model. It's come a long
long way. This is pretty much a big breakthrough. You know,
most of us conceive of these contraptions. How can I
ever sleep with this thing? There is now a totally silent,
small model. And the other thing is if you can't
handle seapap, a dentist who knows how to make a
(24:18):
specific mouthguard the Mayo Clinic tells us is just as
effective for treating sleep apnea. And hopefully they'll look at
that aspect and see if it also prevents the Parkinson's
disease there. My instinct is that it will, because the
Mayo Clinic tells us that it does do equivalent to
(24:40):
seepap You have to find a dentist who knows how
to do this. You don't want to be their first client.
And these dentists specializing in treating sleep apnea provide us
with a nice other alternative, which, again the Mayo Clinic
tells us, is almost equivalent to death for treating sleep
(25:01):
apupt Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
I love when you say, you know, won't be the
first patient to do it. So there's a warning, and
not in disguise from doctor Ken Cronhaus here in good.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Day, that particular provider.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
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here as we look at what the Trump administration is doing.
They want to have economic impact, they want to cut
(27:05):
the irs. One wonders what's going on at the Health Department?
If you have an update for since mister Kennedy took over?
What do you see? What do you sense? What do
you hear? Because doctors usually get inside and inside information
from the government before the public does. So what's going
on there? Is it? Two? I mean, probably too early
(27:25):
to tell a trend, but every department seems to be
making dramatic statements as these new directors start their jobs. Ken,
So what do you the sense is going on? What
do you read in some of the some of the
journals are not going to be too favorable for Kennedy's
stand on vaccines and stuff. But what really is going
on behind the scenes? Do you think?
Speaker 2 (27:46):
It's still too early to tell, But he actually is.
His first challenge is this measle epidemic, and he has
taken out a stand to support the vaccine, Doug, and
I think that he also is going to be looking
at a lot of our food safety issues which have
(28:10):
been neglected, and so I think he's looking at health
from a preventive standpoint, which I'm excited about.
Speaker 1 (28:18):
So I meant to ask you, sorry I didn't do
this earlier in the program about measles and a lot
there's a lot of conversation about it, like it was
an epidemic. Is it dangerous? I mean, measles is never
fun to get. We all remember that from when we
were youngsters. I guess some people have never had it,
But there's a connection dream measles, right, and epstein bar
(28:38):
and some of the other things that we get later
in life. What's the what do we have? What really
is going on?
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Well, it's the problem with measles, Doug, is that it's
very contagious, very contagious, and as a young child, there
is a pneumonia associated with it, and it's totally preventable
by getting vaccinated. And that's been the big controversy. And
actually mister Kennedy has been advocating the vaccine and just
(29:12):
reassuring people that yes, it's an individual decision, but he.
Speaker 3 (29:16):
Is supporting it. Yeah, well, and I have great hope.
Speaker 2 (29:19):
I have great hope for him because he's going to
be looking at things in a new way, and we
need to look at these things in an objective way.
We learned this from COVID that objectivity is less than
it should be. And he's going to start looking under
the hood at many of the things that we have
not looked at. We spend a ton of money on
health in America, and the results are less than they
(29:42):
should be. And so I'm very excited that he's going
to be taking this new approach to it.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
I suppose that then the next question, the obvious question,
is about health insurance where all that stands, because there
are people worried that they're going to cut the budget
on Medicare and Medicaid. I meant to ask you about
that last week, but we ran out of time.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
They're not going to cut the budget on Medicare.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
That's you know, you're being gaslighted, and and so just
stand by and let's see what they.
Speaker 1 (30:08):
Do and how regularly by the way you do, the
public health folks communicate with doctors like you in private practice.
Speaker 2 (30:18):
On an often frequent basis when they need to. And
I think everybody should just relax about Medicare. They're not
going to cut Medicare and Medicaid. That is another area
that you know, I don't even want to predict what's
going to happen, and I just you know, people are
not going to be left without health care in America.
(30:41):
And you know, maybe you can find that one person
where the system fell through, and but they're just going
to look for there's so much waste in the system,
look around, and that's what they're going after though, waste.
And they don't want to No one wants to hurt people.
We want to take care of people, and let's all
(31:03):
work together and not make everything political.
Speaker 1 (31:06):
Yeah, that is the danger here. There's a lot of
people that just go into hysterics about any exactlyory with Trump.
Exact people that are on the Trump side, they're going
to hysterics with anybody on the other side, right, exactly
smart enough to judge things on your own and stop
following exactly like sheep the stuff that is ridiculous. Frankly
on body exactly coming up questions for doctor Ken here
(31:29):
on Good Day Health, here's a lady that's got flabby arms,
that is putting cream on them, and she says that's
not helping. And she wonders about whether or not there's
a way without having surgery to get rid of creepy skin,
(31:49):
because I guess that's what laser that's what laser treatment does,
or one of the things you can use. So what
is how do you avoid You can't avoid it. As
you get older some parts of your you're going to
have that crepy skin. How do you think people should
deal with it? Ken?
Speaker 2 (32:04):
This is a medical spot treatment. It utilizes laser energy
dug to break up and target stubborn pockets of excess
fat in the arms. It's non invasive for removing arm
fat and sometimes provides okay results. I would want to
know who's doing it, what their track record is, and
(32:25):
any complications they have. But I would also want to
talk to a plastic surgeon and talk to various people
about options before I just made my choice of where
to go.
Speaker 1 (32:37):
So, in terms of what we are dealing with here
around the country this time of year, we become optimistic
because the weather improves, does health improve. We were talking
about this earlier and I think this was what prompted
this person's question about the healthiest month. We know the
winter time, especially like January February is the unhealthiest time
(32:58):
of the year. What's the healthy time of the year.
Speaker 2 (33:01):
I would imagine when you leave the very cold weather
of the winter, because that's when the flues are, the virals,
diseases are so high. But each season has its own issues.
You know, in the summer, we're doing things that we
don't normally do, so we're at risk of getting harmed
(33:21):
from those things. And it varies from season to season.
Maybe the springtime is the safest, maybe the fall is
the safest, but I think the time that really there's
a lot more illnesses during the winter because you get
all these viruses that are active.
Speaker 1 (33:38):
All right, question from somebody that actually got a background
Valentine's Day. I didn't get it on the air. What's
the most powerful exercise that you do ken in your
exercise routine? And is that the exercise that most people
should do? What's the best exercise? You had to pick
one exercise, what would it be?
Speaker 2 (33:57):
Whatever you enjoy moving, you know, getting the step count
up in any way you can If I had to
pick one item, but do it that you in a
way you enjoy it and do it so it doesn't
bring on any symptoms.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
When you say symptoms, you mean heart stuff. This is
a good time for you to tell people about that watch,
because that will monitor what your body is doing and
keep you on the straight and narrow in a manner
speaking right, well, you don't.
Speaker 3 (34:27):
Want to your exercise.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
You don't want to bring on chestis comfort, shortness of breath,
light headedness, dizzyness. You want to leave a little bit
there and don't bring on symptoms when you're exercised. Cardiologist
is called the symptom limited activity. It'll keep you safe. Doug,
I think you're talking about remote patient monitoring. This program
that actually medicare initially set up, some of the private
(34:49):
insurers are covering where we can actually monitor you in
real time. We have high tech device, a watch that
records in real time. It's a real watch, tells time,
has an alarm date. But you just tap the face
where you see the time, and you get your blood pressure,
your heart rate, your temperature, your oxygenation actually measures accurately
(35:10):
your mental stress by some amazing work that's been done
by these genius cardiologists at Mount SINI looking at heart
rate variability and heart rate acceleration. But it accurately measures
your mental stress. It'll assess your sleep, it'll count steps
for you, and it helps us keep people out of
the emergency room. It helps us keep people healthy longer.
(35:30):
And that's why Medicare and many of the insurances support
it because it lowers their costs because people are going
to the er less and they're being hospitalized less. We
love it because we can just do better prevention and
give people a present.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Last question here about chronic aches and pains. I may
have told you I've got this pain. I guess I
twisted some kind of attendon. What's the best thing to
do for that? Aspirin? Is there something that you can
reach out for that will help eliminate these sorts of
aches and pains?
Speaker 2 (36:07):
The most important thing, Doug, is getting a diagnosis what
is causing the pain, and not just you know, like
the Chinese restaurant one from column A, one from Colin
B throwing anything at it. Find out the cause. Once
you know the diagnosis, then you can come up with
the specific treatment. And each of us are different. This
(36:31):
is where you need individualized treatment. There's not one size
fits all here.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Pretty optimistic answers to your questions. Thank you doctor Ken.
Questions for doctor Ken part of Good Day Health with
Ken Cronhaus. I'm Doug Stephan. This Good Day Health Doug
Stefan with Doctor Ken Cronhouse, sponsored in part by Calendron.
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