November 18, 2025 • 37 mins
On today’s Good Day Health Show - ON DEMAND…
Host Doug Stephan and Dr. Ken Kronhaus of Lake Cardiology (352-735-1400) cover a number of topics affecting our health. First up, Doug and Dr. Ken discuss the biggest news stories in the medical world, starting with good news on a breakthrough in Parkinson’s diagnostic efforts as well as a new brain stem stimulator that can help Parkinson’s patients in treating their illness — which works like a brain pace maker the way a pace maker for the heart works.
More medical updates from the “good news department” FDA has approved a new treatment for Crohn’s disease — an inflammatory bowel disease — that can be self-administered at home, what Robert Kennedy, Jr. is doing with his position and how banning certain foods (or, rather food-like-products) as well as carcinogenic ingredients brings a new perspective to American health standards, and how senior citizens can keep their brains healthy and minimize their risk of dementia by monitoring and maintaining health cholesterol levels.
Moving on, the conversation shifts to more information on weight loss/diabetes drugs, Wegovy and Ozempic, might help lower the risk of pancreatitis in patience with diabetes and/or obesity. Additionally, these drugs also help lower cravings for sweets, which also help manage diabetic symptoms and weight management.
Lastly, Doug and Dr. Jack address listener questions. For starters, the discussion addresses hearing aids and how to find the best one for you. Next question is on deodorant and the differences. Are some better for women vs men, young vs old, aluminum vs aluminum-free are all addressed. Then, the gentlemen discuss the benefits vs risks of intermittent fasting.
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Host Doug Stephan and Dr. Ken Kronhaus of Lake Cardiology (352-735-1400) cover a number of topics affecting our health. First up, Doug and Dr. Ken discuss the biggest news stories in the medical world, starting with good news on a breakthrough in Parkinson’s diagnostic efforts as well as a new brain stem stimulator that can help Parkinson’s patients in treating their illness — which works like a brain pace maker the way a pace maker for the heart works.
More medical updates from the “good news department” FDA has approved a new treatment for Crohn’s disease — an inflammatory bowel disease — that can be self-administered at home, what Robert Kennedy, Jr. is doing with his position and how banning certain foods (or, rather food-like-products) as well as carcinogenic ingredients brings a new perspective to American health standards, and how senior citizens can keep their brains healthy and minimize their risk of dementia by monitoring and maintaining health cholesterol levels.
Moving on, the conversation shifts to more information on weight loss/diabetes drugs, Wegovy and Ozempic, might help lower the risk of pancreatitis in patience with diabetes and/or obesity. Additionally, these drugs also help lower cravings for sweets, which also help manage diabetic symptoms and weight management.
Lastly, Doug and Dr. Jack address listener questions. For starters, the discussion addresses hearing aids and how to find the best one for you. Next question is on deodorant and the differences. Are some better for women vs men, young vs old, aluminum vs aluminum-free are all addressed. Then, the gentlemen discuss the benefits vs risks of intermittent fasting.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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doctor Ken takes all of the information that comes from
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(00:22):
it down if you will, so that you will understand.
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Speaker 2 (00:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:38):
So anyway, you've joined Doug Steffan and doctor Ken, so
we'll get at it. I'd like to start with some
of the good news from the world of medicine this week.
Conventional medicine, and there appears to be a breakthrough Ken
in this Parkinson's problem that we're having because apparently there's
more Parkinson's around. How all this live to be older
(00:58):
things like Parkinson's show it shows up a little bit
more frequently. So what's the good news here.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
There really is DOUG. When I was a little boy
in medicine many decades ago, there weren't many people around.
But it just seems like there are that we all
know somebody who has this movement disorder. Some do okay
with it, but some don't. And this is real hope
because there's been a ten year research of a brain
(01:25):
stimulator that it first didn't seem very promising, but with
a lot of research, a lot of it done at
Stanford and at other institutions in your backyard, at Harvard
and around the country, and the FDA in February finally
approved brain Sense adaptive deep brain stimulator developed by Medtronics.
(01:47):
And this is new hope. This will be available at
hospitals throughout the country immediately, and Parkinson's patients and their
advocates are marking this DOUG as the start of a
new era for treating this illness. This is deep brain
stimulation device. It's called a brain pacemaker. It works somewhat
(02:10):
like the pacemakers that we use in the heart. They
actually sense your own brains activity and it adjusts to
give you, as the Parkinson patient, your own individual treatment.
The initial problems with these pacemakers was it was one
size fited all, and it didn't fit all, and there
were problems because you needed individualization. Over ten years, they
(02:32):
figured out how to make these work individually and it
really does help control these debilitating tremors that some Parkinson's
patients have. The deep brain stimulation technology and combination with
medications really does help these tremors, stiffness and slowed movements.
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If you know any Parkinson's disease patients, they're easy to spot.
They have typical face and tremor and movement disorders. And
this is real hope.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Okay, So in the good news department, as we continue,
the FDA is okay to new treatment for Crone's disease.
So let's tell everybody what Crone's disease is in case
they don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Sure, Doug, Crone's disease. It's a type of inflammatory bowel
disease that causes intestinal inflammation. It actually affects about three
million people in America. Symptoms include stomach pain, diarrhea, blood
in the stool, weight loss, and fever, and up until
(03:39):
very recently, you had to go to the doctor's office
or an infusion center to get an injection that you
could not do yourself. The news gives the FDA has
approved a new Crone's disease treatment. It's called and this
is a mouthful, gasell comab GUSEE l k U m A.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
B for you.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Those mAbs are these monoclonal antibodies and which, unlike the
similar drugs that we have right now for crones, this
can be given via self injecting injection by patients at home.
And these self injections are not so bad. They're the
same technology that's used in the most popular drugs in
(04:26):
the world, these weight loss drugs. They're also used for
these new cholesterol lowering drugs that Doug is on. He's
given up his hippie. He doesn't mind if I mentioned that.
And this is now an options for Crohn's disease. If
you suffer from chrones, talk to the doctor. It may
save you a lot of time. You'll be able to
do this yourself at home and avoid having to come
(04:48):
to an infusion center or hospital or doctor's office.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
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Speaker 1 (09:21):
Back on Good Day Health with doctor Ken Cronhouse this
week on the American Family Farmer program, which you can
hear at Americanfamilyfarmershow dot com as a podcast. Ken I
was talking about what mister Kennedy is doing in the
Health and Human Services Department about things that are bad
for us. He's already banned dies or he's he had
(09:42):
a meeting I think we referred to this a week
or two ago with all the heads of the big
food companies. Of the four big companies that control the
most of the things that you see in the grocery store.
There are four companies control eighty five percent of the
grocery store chains, and there are four companies that pretty
much control the food that's made, especially the stuff with
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preservatives and all of the things that are on the shelf.
For a long time, those four big companies were told
in very certain terms from mister Kennedy that the dies
that they use, the things that are bad for people,
better come out of their food voluntarily, or he's going
to make sure the Congress passes a bill that will
eliminate them. And I can't help but think that glyc
(10:27):
of state some of these other things that we've been
talking about for years that are so bad for people
to cause cancer. Even though there would be a lot
of political pushback from various corners of the egg world,
I wouldn't be surprised to see him go after that
very quickly because it's so bad for you. So at
this point, the doctors, when you talk to your colleagues,
(10:50):
do you talk to them about what Kennedy is doing?
How much conversation even your patients, what do they think
about some of the changes that have been set forth
the ideas from mister Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I think most of us realize that we need to
do more, and a lot are frustrated that we haven't
made the progress in health that we need to make.
And I think most of us feel looking at this
at a new angle is worthwhile, as mister Kennedy will.
(11:21):
And there's been a lot of neglect at the FDA
with food and the people who have led the FDA,
they are all good people, the most recent one and
trained me at Duke excellent, but you know their perspective
is in drugs and now you have a new perspective
(11:42):
and this will just add to what we've had in
the past. And I'm excited to see mister Kennedy there.
And you know why food is so beautiful? Why do
we have to change with all these additives and preservatives?
And the data shows that the more natural the food is,
the less we do to it, the more harm we
(12:05):
do to it. So I think mister Kennedy's onto something.
I think the Europeans in this area have been ahead
of us. They've gotten rid of these things, and in
some ways that health wives they do better. Some ways
we do a lot better, but I think combining the
best of all. I am excited about mister Kennedy getting
(12:26):
a chance, and I'm excited about the new head of
the FDA, this professor from Johns Hopkins taking it was approved,
and so I think it's going to be an exciting
time in medicine. It's going to be a whole new
perspective looking at all this.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
You know, one of the things that's important to note.
You just made me think about it. The Europeans have
banned Clyfe of Sate, They've banned Montano even though beer
is a German company. They don't seem to be able
to influence the European legislative process and laws the way
we have that influence here with all the lobbyists we are. Yeah,
(13:01):
they have gotten rid of all of that stuff in Europe,
as you suggested. All right, I'm Doug Stephan with my
friend doctor Ken Cronhouse here on good day Health. Here
we are back on good day health. We all know
how hard it is to get to see a doctor
these days. I called up to have an appointment for you.
(13:24):
Remember when I had the PCP on my shoulders and
I went back because I'm having trouble in my back
and I thought i'd ask whether or not that PCP
treatment would be good for the things that are bothering
men my local in my lower back. And I called
last week and they are happy to see me May fifth.
So that's what you were saying. I think you and
(13:45):
other people the same thing. You know, if there's I said, so,
what happens if this is emergency? Well you have to
go to the emergency room. That's their answer. If you
have an emergency, hang up and dial nine to one one.
Did you ever notice that when you call? I don't
know if you that at your office, but pretty much
every I'm now thinking about what is the ree, what
(14:06):
we are done?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
We are dinosaurs, we still have a human answer to
the phone.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Amazing, isn't how that works? Okay, let's talk more about
the things that you need to know about with regard
to your heart health. So this is something specifically it
would seem for seniors, although I would think this would
apply to everybody. You're a cholesterol level and what it
does to your brain, Doug.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
This is a report at a neurology I found rather intriguing.
They report that seniors usually that means people over the
age of sixty five in a study whose bad cholesterol
LDL levels spike and plummet year to year, they're at
increased risk of dementia and failing brain health. Those whose
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cholesterols fluctuate the most have a sixty percent increased risk
of dementia. They also have a twenty three percent increased
risk of mild co native impairment and early stage of
brain aging that can lead to dementia. These results, DOUG,
suggest that fluctuating cholesterol measured annually may be a new
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biomarker for identifying people at risk of dementia.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
All right, what percentage of people at age need to
be concerned about this?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Would you say?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I think everybody should be concerned about it, and everybody
should be doing whatever they can to prevent it, because
there are many things that you can do to prevent this.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You never feel like you're a shoveling sand against the tide.
I was in a mall yesterday in Salt Lake City,
and I was actually was at the airport and there
were a series of four or five restaurants. There was
a healthy, really healthy food, local restaurant from Salt Lake City,
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and there was a nationally known chain that produces really
good chicken. And then there's the McDonald's and there's a
couple of other Hamburger joints. McDonald's had the longest line
of anybody. It blows my mind to see the way
that people flock to McDonald's and to understand what crap
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they serve and how bad it is for you. It
blows my mind.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Ken, Well, maybe we need to drug test the people
in line.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
There's a good one.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, I just find it flat rab. You know, you
work so hard to get the information. People can only
absorb what they want to absorb and in the case
of their French fries, I guess, or hamburgers or whatever
they've got there, supposedly they taste better than anybody else's.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Well, these people of all ages or predominantly younger people.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
No, they were older. As a matter of fact, they
were old. They were older, yep. And more women than men.
Now I was very hat. I looked carefully because I
had a little bit of time before I had to
get to the gate, so mostly older women were in
this particular line. I just kind of wonder what it
is about McDonald's. Is it that they put something like
(17:03):
in tobacco products, they put nicotine to keep you hooked
on their products. Is there something in the food at McDonald's.
Do they put something on the French fries or something
in the milkshake or whatever it is that keeps you
coming back for more? I would wonder about that. Caltrin
is on the top of the food chain, if you will.
(17:24):
When it comes to losing weight, and because it is fall,
it's time to focus on what we seem to get
into every year at.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
This time exactly.
Speaker 8 (17:33):
You know, we call it the eating season around here,
and you know, while this season is full of joy.
It is just also full of temptation. So when you
were taking Caltron, it's not only going to help you
lose the inches and the pounds, but it also helps
you make those better decisions because you do have less cravings,
you have more energy, You're not having the afternoon slump
(17:55):
or the crash because Caltron's working with your body naturally.
So if you need a little bit of help, especially
this time of the year, Caltrin is gonna get you there.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
The website is toploss dot com.
Speaker 8 (18:07):
There is a big fall sale going on right now
with discounts on every single month, So whether you have
a little bit of weight to lose or a lot
of weight to lose, it's a great time to get
on Caldrin.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Elizabeth Miller from top looss dot com and Caldron here
back with doctor Ken Kronhaus Doug Stefan available for you
to get your fix on information not only about your
heart and circulatory system, but your whole body.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
It.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Ken is very good at interpreting the data, as you
can hear in our discussions here of the data that
comes out that's very technical, and he boils it down
so that we kind of know how it impacts us.
So let's we were talking earlier about weight loss et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. There are drugs that reduce the
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risk of pancreatitis. Are they related to Wegovian ozepic. I
know there's some news on that. There always seems to
be every there seems to be something new. So do
we tie these two together? Can or not?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Well, let me frame this for you, Doug. These two
new drugs originally from diabetes treatment that are now the
most popular drugs in the world and being used as
weight loss drugs and very effectively. There's been great concern
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about giving either one of them to people who've had
in the past pancreatitis, and in fact, there's a warning
on both of them that they haven't been studied in
pancre titus history patients, so just be warned. We don't
know if they're safe and out of the University of
(19:46):
Buffalo reported at the Endocrine Society Annual Meeting in Your
Backyard in Boston, we learned that ozempic and wagovi might
help lower the risk of pancreatitis in patients with obesity
and type two die diabetes. Up to now doctors have
been cautious about prescribing semeglatide, which is what goovi and
ozembic to patients with a history of pancreatitis DOUG because
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they feared the drug could worsen the condition. It's the
same thing with tur zeppeitide, the other drug. This new
research from the University of Buffalo demonstrates the safety and
the potential of these new diet drugs to reduce the
risk of acute pancreatitis recurrence in individuals with obesity and
type two diabetes, challenging previous concerns and offering new hope
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for effective disease management. So, if you've had in the past,
many have a history of having pancreatitis acute pancreatitis, and
you are told that you wouldn't be a candidate for
zep bound or wagovi to help you lose the weight
(20:56):
that you need to lose, there is now this study
out from the University of Buffalo showing that the door
can be open to those who've had pancreatitis in the
past and actually may help lower the risk of future pancreatitis.
Is great information. I have to tell you. I was
asked by a very close patient just a week ago
(21:19):
if they could take this. And I searched the literature
up until this paper came out, and there was just
really no good study about it, and the answer was,
we just don't know. But now we do know. And
I actually sent a copy of this article just earlier
(21:41):
this morning to this patient and I saw an incredibly
happy smile come back to me on my text.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Good, that's the way to do it. You talk about
personalized care. There it is from Ken. You can get
the same if you're around those areas of Florida, or
you want to tell the medicine hookup, it's three five
two seven three five fourteen hundred, all right, while we're
talking about with Goobe and ozempic, Apparently it lowers the
desire for sweets, would we say candy ice cream? Because
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there's sweet. There's sugar in what eighty percent of the
stuff that we eat with all the processed foods. So
how does this work in a direct fashion or an
indirect fashion?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Guess who I thought of me first? When I read
this report also from the Endocrine Society annual meeting in
your backyard? Who did I think of first?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Meyme Amy? Because I like ice cream and cookies and
cake and stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You get an eight plus today. So this study, this
report of zempic and wgovie, they appear to improve people's
sensitivity to taste DOUG, potentially lowering their desire for sweets.
The active ingredient in the weight loss medication semeglatide, also
appears to affect the way that the tongue and brain
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respond to sweet taste. People with obesity often perceive taste
less intensely doug, and they have an inherently elevated desire
for sweet and energy dense food. So more hope for
those who just can't get over those sweets. You may
want to talk to the doctor about wegov wegovy.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
All right, now here's another item. The popular culture today
seems to like tattoos, and more and more men are
getting them, more and more women, more and more younger people.
But this is sort of from the danger danger Will
Robinson department. Whether it affects people or not, I can
hear me talking to My daughter doesn't have any tattoos.
(23:51):
My son does. Basically he wanted it as his mother
was sick, to basically have a chronology on his body
of his mother and so all of the things, all
the tattoos relate to his relationship with his mother, what
she was going through, and she had stage four breast
cancer for twenty one years, all of that stuff. So
(24:11):
talking to him about tattoo ink is like talking to
my dog about not liking treats.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Having said that, what can you relate to people who
may be thinking of getting a tattoo because they're more
and more popular, and you see them more frequently now
than ever.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I know, as I go to the gym, I just
wonder why people think skin was meant to be a canvas.
It just has always perplexed me. This comes out this
week in the medical journal E Clinical Medicine. This new
research dog suggests that tattoo ink spurs inflammatory changes that
(24:55):
may contribute to the development of Are you ready lymphoma?
The risk of developing lymphoma it was twenty one percent
higher among those who were tattooed In the study. The
researchers found no difference in the lymphoma risk whether the
tattooed area was large or small. That's a little concerning. Fortunately, though,
(25:19):
lymphoma is not a common disease and this area needs
a lot more study. But again it perplexes me why
skin and canvas are often confused.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Now, are we sounding like a couple of old you
know what?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Too many people are.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Put lymphoma is not pretty.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
No, Well, that brings me around to a couple of
other cancer items that I wanted to talk to you about.
There apparently is a new inexpensive, non invasive test for
oral cancer. This is something that's difficult. We've talked about
problems with the gums and what happens to people who
smoke pipes or smoke cigars, that kind of stuff, what
(26:07):
creates in your oral cavity and so apparently this test
will save a lot of lives. And again, pre cancerous
lesions in your mouth hard to diagnose apparently, and the
biopsies are expensive, stressful on the patient. But this comes
(26:28):
from Case Western Reserve, the School of Dental Medicine, looking
to try to detect the cancer with a monitor that
looks at these pre cancerous lesions. So, do you want
to talk about how important it is to have good
health teeth, gums, and to stay away from pipes and
cigars and things like that. What else would cause these
(26:52):
sort of oral cancer problems.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Oh, definitely, tobacco products. Surely, anyway you get some inhaling, chewing,
vaping which has tobacco. Anyway that you get nicotine into
your mouth in any form is going to increase it.
There are viruses, you have to be careful where your
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where your mouth ends up. There are viruses that can
do things like this. So the combination of tobacco and
viruses would be the most common reasons why you would
do this. That's why going to a good dentist regularly
and getting checked up somebody in the dental office to do,
(27:40):
you know, every three months. I like to get checked
and cleaned, and you get a good dental hygienis who
does a thorough exam of the mouth. They're going to
pick these things up early and save lives.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, well that's the idea. That's why research most of
this research. I'm going to ask the question because I
don't know the answer. Is it federally sponsored federal money
doing or is this private money from let's say a
drug company is looking for a way to come up
with a new way to try to combat these oral cancers.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Well, I think we the specific study that you're talking about,
I don't know. I haven't seen ye because this is
a work in progress, and this hasn't been yet FDA approved,
It's not yet ready and available. And I think you
just saw a preliminary report. And these preliminary reports are
usually done to get enthusiasm, to get people involved in
(28:40):
the study, and to get people to contribute funds. So
these things we just have to wait and see whether
they actually make it to main street.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Next question ken has to do with immune cells and
how they could be a target because sometimes apparently when
it comes to breast cancer especially, but I would think
this would be something that would be a problem with
any cancer involvement cancer treatment. The immune cells get exhausted
because they're working so much to get rid of the cancers.
(29:12):
We all have cancers in our body, every one of us.
Just whether the cells get together, as far as I'm concerned,
that's the big deal what I know about it. So
there's apparently with certain immune cells when they're worn out,
there's a new way of energizing them, apparently, And this
(29:34):
sort of makes sense. But you know, when you talk
about mutations and the various cancers that women get, like
breast cancer and ovarian cancer, that men don't get Is
it because their tissue is more likely to encounter or
if you will, or invite in certain cancers.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I wonder about that. Oh, you're asking why breast cancer
is more common in women than in men.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, that's a good way of looking at it.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, well, a lot of that is genetic and hormonal.
And what you're talking about, though, in terms of treatment
is really a very large realm of the future of
treating cancer much more effectively. You know, we can think
of chemotherapy, we can think of radiation therapy, but immunotherapy,
(30:22):
which is what you're talking about, is really the future
of just revving up the immune system and to selectively
targeting these abnormal cells monoclonal antibodies, just targeting them and
selectively destroying the bad cells and not harming the good cells.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
When you look at this circumstances, you know, my wife
died of breast cancer. There were some drugs that they use,
some drugs they didn't. But there's new apparently drugs being
developed all the time that are working in a preventative way.
So if you have anything good to take out of it,
I guess that's.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
It, right. Immune therapy wasn't even an option. Sadly, and
breast cancer is just such a bad, unpredictable disease. You know,
why has it happened to young women?
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Hi, Doug Stefan here, I'm with doctor ken Kronhaus on
Good Day Health. I have people around me all the
time that are losing, people working with me on the farm,
especially around all the noise whatever causes hearing problems. But
has there been anybody that's come up with a recommendation
(32:35):
on hearing aids and what the best thing is other
than getting the wax out of your ears?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Then what do you do? I think you need to
individualize this, you know. I think that you need to
not pull your own teeth I need. I think you
need to talk to a good ear doctor, odor rhino
laryngologist or ear nose and throw doctor, they're whole the same,
and get yourself fit properly. The thing that is so
(33:02):
good about hearing age is that they're getting smaller, more effective,
less expensive, and you should just think of it like
glasses that they're seeing aid and hearing aids are nothing
more than healthier hearing, like the eyeglasses are healthier seeing.
So many people are unwilling to even think about it.
(33:26):
I think in the past the cost has been a
big deal. It's come down dramatically they were concerned about cosmetically.
The size is miniaturized and they're so effective. And we
know that dementia will come on earlier, get worse if
your hearing is not corrected.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Right, I'm seeing that with one of the people who
works with me on the farm. It's my age, and
he has early onsite dimension. He doesn't want to deal
with it, but he has a real problem hearing. He
just got himself glasses. But I love the guy and
I'm so sad to see him being, you know, going
down this road. Frankly, doctor Ken, do you use deodorant
or antiperspirants or neither?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I have? Boy, you are getting personal here. I will
use both from time to time. Are you asking me
out on a date? What do you ask?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
No? I want to know about well, I'm seeing I'm
looking at the context of the conversation or the question.
People want to know whether deodorants are different for women
and for men, for young or for old. Some deodorance
have aluminum inum, and I don't know whether that's the
anti person. I don't really know. I don't use deodorance,
frank I just washed myself well, and.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I use it occasionally. I don't. I don't use it
a lot. I use it occasionally, but not a big user.
And I think, you know, again, everything.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
In moderation, right, all right, there you go. Now back
to the question about losing weight. When we keep talking
talking about this month of the year exercising and dieting,
what do you think about intermittent fasting? Is that good
or bad for the body losing weight and the number
of considerations.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I think that for some people this works, and I
think for some people, like yourself, it made you feel horrible,
and you have to if you want to try it,
try it. Don't extend the fast too long when you begin,
because you might feel ill, and I don't want you
driving and hurting yourself. You have to try this. I
(35:35):
have patients who swear by it, love by it. I
love it. I have patients who have tried it and
they feel horrible. So it works for some, it doesn't
work for others.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
All right, Back to the discussion that was in the
regular body of the program this week about sugar. We
were talking about things that should have warning signs on them.
I like alcohol, Well, alcohol is very is full of sugar,
so maybe that's why of the connections. But now the
question comes on artificial sweeteners and whether or not they
affect your health from top to bottom of the body.
(36:10):
Artificial sweeteners, well.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
I think again in moderation. You know, some people live
on these things. That concerns me. But I think if
you use them occasionally, there is where you'll be. Okay.
The studies that show horrible cancers are using excessively high
doses of them. But just make them a treat, not
(36:36):
a steady, intense part of your diet.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Well, some of the things that we like. I eat
a lot of fruit, blueberries because I think they help
my visions good and strawberries and.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
All well, natural sugar. The natural sugar of fruit is
so incredibly healthy. That's not the refined Sugar's not gonna
make you be diabetic. The natural sugar in fruit is
good for you.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Right, Okay, Doctor Ken here at your service. Check all
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So anyway, you've joined Doug Steffan and doctor Ken, so
we'll get at it. I'd like to start with some
of the good news from the world of medicine this week.
Conventional medicine, and there appears to be a breakthrough Ken
in this Parkinson's problem that we're having because apparently there's
more Parkinson's around. How all this live to be older
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things like Parkinson's show it shows up a little bit
more frequently. So what's the good news here.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
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in medicine many decades ago, there weren't many people around.
But it just seems like there are that we all
know somebody who has this movement disorder. Some do okay
with it, but some don't. And this is real hope
because there's been a ten year research of a brain
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stimulator that it first didn't seem very promising, but with
a lot of research, a lot of it done at
Stanford and at other institutions in your backyard, at Harvard
and around the country, and the FDA in February finally
approved brain Sense adaptive deep brain stimulator developed by Medtronics.
(01:47):
And this is new hope. This will be available at
hospitals throughout the country immediately, and Parkinson's patients and their
advocates are marking this DOUG as the start of a
new era for treating this illness. This is deep brain
stimulation device. It's called a brain pacemaker. It works somewhat
(02:10):
like the pacemakers that we use in the heart. They
actually sense your own brains activity and it adjusts to
give you, as the Parkinson patient, your own individual treatment.
The initial problems with these pacemakers was it was one
size fited all, and it didn't fit all, and there
were problems because you needed individualization. Over ten years, they
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really does help control these debilitating tremors that some Parkinson's
patients have. The deep brain stimulation technology and combination with
medications really does help these tremors, stiffness and slowed movements.
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If you know any Parkinson's disease patients, they're easy to spot.
They have typical face and tremor and movement disorders. And
this is real hope.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
Okay, So in the good news department, as we continue,
the FDA is okay to new treatment for Crone's disease.
So let's tell everybody what Crone's disease is in case
they don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Sure, Doug, Crone's disease. It's a type of inflammatory bowel
disease that causes intestinal inflammation. It actually affects about three
million people in America. Symptoms include stomach pain, diarrhea, blood
in the stool, weight loss, and fever, and up until
(03:39):
very recently, you had to go to the doctor's office
or an infusion center to get an injection that you
could not do yourself. The news gives the FDA has
approved a new Crone's disease treatment. It's called and this
is a mouthful, gasell comab GUSEE l k U m A.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
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Speaker 2 (04:05):
Those mAbs are these monoclonal antibodies and which, unlike the
similar drugs that we have right now for crones, this
can be given via self injecting injection by patients at home.
And these self injections are not so bad. They're the
same technology that's used in the most popular drugs in
(04:26):
the world, these weight loss drugs. They're also used for
these new cholesterol lowering drugs that Doug is on. He's
given up his hippie. He doesn't mind if I mentioned that.
And this is now an options for Crohn's disease. If
you suffer from chrones, talk to the doctor. It may
save you a lot of time. You'll be able to
do this yourself at home and avoid having to come
(04:48):
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I want to talk about mister Kennedy and what's going
on to Health and Human Services Department. Ken I'll have
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Speaker 1 (09:21):
Back on Good Day Health with doctor Ken Cronhouse this
week on the American Family Farmer program, which you can
hear at Americanfamilyfarmershow dot com as a podcast. Ken I
was talking about what mister Kennedy is doing in the
Health and Human Services Department about things that are bad
for us. He's already banned dies or he's he had
(09:42):
a meeting I think we referred to this a week
or two ago with all the heads of the big
food companies. Of the four big companies that control the
most of the things that you see in the grocery store.
There are four companies control eighty five percent of the
grocery store chains, and there are four companies that pretty
much control the food that's made, especially the stuff with
(10:05):
preservatives and all of the things that are on the shelf.
For a long time, those four big companies were told
in very certain terms from mister Kennedy that the dies
that they use, the things that are bad for people,
better come out of their food voluntarily, or he's going
to make sure the Congress passes a bill that will
eliminate them. And I can't help but think that glyc
(10:27):
of state some of these other things that we've been
talking about for years that are so bad for people
to cause cancer. Even though there would be a lot
of political pushback from various corners of the egg world,
I wouldn't be surprised to see him go after that
very quickly because it's so bad for you. So at
this point, the doctors, when you talk to your colleagues,
(10:50):
do you talk to them about what Kennedy is doing?
How much conversation even your patients, what do they think
about some of the changes that have been set forth
the ideas from mister Kennedy.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I think most of us realize that we need to
do more, and a lot are frustrated that we haven't
made the progress in health that we need to make.
And I think most of us feel looking at this
at a new angle is worthwhile, as mister Kennedy will.
(11:21):
And there's been a lot of neglect at the FDA
with food and the people who have led the FDA,
they are all good people, the most recent one and
trained me at Duke excellent, but you know their perspective
is in drugs and now you have a new perspective
(11:42):
and this will just add to what we've had in
the past. And I'm excited to see mister Kennedy there.
And you know why food is so beautiful? Why do
we have to change with all these additives and preservatives?
And the data shows that the more natural the food is,
the less we do to it, the more harm we
(12:05):
do to it. So I think mister Kennedy's onto something.
I think the Europeans in this area have been ahead
of us. They've gotten rid of these things, and in
some ways that health wives they do better. Some ways
we do a lot better, but I think combining the
best of all. I am excited about mister Kennedy getting
(12:26):
a chance, and I'm excited about the new head of
the FDA, this professor from Johns Hopkins taking it was approved,
and so I think it's going to be an exciting
time in medicine. It's going to be a whole new
perspective looking at all this.
Speaker 1 (12:41):
You know, one of the things that's important to note.
You just made me think about it. The Europeans have
banned Clyfe of Sate, They've banned Montano even though beer
is a German company. They don't seem to be able
to influence the European legislative process and laws the way
we have that influence here with all the lobbyists we are. Yeah,
(13:01):
they have gotten rid of all of that stuff in Europe,
as you suggested. All right, I'm Doug Stephan with my
friend doctor Ken Cronhouse here on good day Health. Here
we are back on good day health. We all know
how hard it is to get to see a doctor
these days. I called up to have an appointment for you.
(13:24):
Remember when I had the PCP on my shoulders and
I went back because I'm having trouble in my back
and I thought i'd ask whether or not that PCP
treatment would be good for the things that are bothering
men my local in my lower back. And I called
last week and they are happy to see me May fifth.
So that's what you were saying. I think you and
(13:45):
other people the same thing. You know, if there's I said, so,
what happens if this is emergency? Well you have to
go to the emergency room. That's their answer. If you
have an emergency, hang up and dial nine to one one.
Did you ever notice that when you call? I don't
know if you that at your office, but pretty much
every I'm now thinking about what is the ree, what
(14:06):
we are done?
Speaker 2 (14:06):
We are dinosaurs, we still have a human answer to
the phone.
Speaker 1 (14:11):
Amazing, isn't how that works? Okay, let's talk more about
the things that you need to know about with regard
to your heart health. So this is something specifically it
would seem for seniors, although I would think this would
apply to everybody. You're a cholesterol level and what it
does to your brain, Doug.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
This is a report at a neurology I found rather intriguing.
They report that seniors usually that means people over the
age of sixty five in a study whose bad cholesterol
LDL levels spike and plummet year to year, they're at
increased risk of dementia and failing brain health. Those whose
(14:50):
cholesterols fluctuate the most have a sixty percent increased risk
of dementia. They also have a twenty three percent increased
risk of mild co native impairment and early stage of
brain aging that can lead to dementia. These results, DOUG,
suggest that fluctuating cholesterol measured annually may be a new
(15:11):
biomarker for identifying people at risk of dementia.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
All right, what percentage of people at age need to
be concerned about this?
Speaker 7 (15:22):
Would you say?
Speaker 2 (15:23):
I think everybody should be concerned about it, and everybody
should be doing whatever they can to prevent it, because
there are many things that you can do to prevent this.
Speaker 1 (15:32):
You never feel like you're a shoveling sand against the tide.
I was in a mall yesterday in Salt Lake City,
and I was actually was at the airport and there
were a series of four or five restaurants. There was
a healthy, really healthy food, local restaurant from Salt Lake City,
(15:53):
and there was a nationally known chain that produces really
good chicken. And then there's the McDonald's and there's a
couple of other Hamburger joints. McDonald's had the longest line
of anybody. It blows my mind to see the way
that people flock to McDonald's and to understand what crap
(16:14):
they serve and how bad it is for you. It
blows my mind.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Ken, Well, maybe we need to drug test the people
in line.
Speaker 4 (16:23):
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Speaker 1 (16:24):
Yeah, I just find it flat rab. You know, you
work so hard to get the information. People can only
absorb what they want to absorb and in the case
of their French fries, I guess, or hamburgers or whatever
they've got there, supposedly they taste better than anybody else's.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
Well, these people of all ages or predominantly younger people.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
No, they were older. As a matter of fact, they
were old. They were older, yep. And more women than men.
Now I was very hat. I looked carefully because I
had a little bit of time before I had to
get to the gate, so mostly older women were in
this particular line. I just kind of wonder what it
is about McDonald's. Is it that they put something like
(17:03):
in tobacco products, they put nicotine to keep you hooked
on their products. Is there something in the food at McDonald's.
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you make those better decisions because you do have less cravings,
you have more energy, You're not having the afternoon slump
(17:55):
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Elizabeth Miller from top looss dot com and Caldron here
back with doctor Ken Kronhaus Doug Stefan available for you
to get your fix on information not only about your
heart and circulatory system, but your whole body.
Speaker 8 (18:30):
It.
Speaker 1 (18:31):
Ken is very good at interpreting the data, as you
can hear in our discussions here of the data that
comes out that's very technical, and he boils it down
so that we kind of know how it impacts us.
So let's we were talking earlier about weight loss et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. There are drugs that reduce the
(18:51):
risk of pancreatitis. Are they related to Wegovian ozepic. I
know there's some news on that. There always seems to
be every there seems to be something new. So do
we tie these two together? Can or not?
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Well, let me frame this for you, Doug. These two
new drugs originally from diabetes treatment that are now the
most popular drugs in the world and being used as
weight loss drugs and very effectively. There's been great concern
(19:25):
about giving either one of them to people who've had
in the past pancreatitis, and in fact, there's a warning
on both of them that they haven't been studied in
pancre titus history patients, so just be warned. We don't
know if they're safe and out of the University of
(19:46):
Buffalo reported at the Endocrine Society Annual Meeting in Your
Backyard in Boston, we learned that ozempic and wagovi might
help lower the risk of pancreatitis in patients with obesity
and type two die diabetes. Up to now doctors have
been cautious about prescribing semeglatide, which is what goovi and
ozembic to patients with a history of pancreatitis DOUG because
(20:10):
they feared the drug could worsen the condition. It's the
same thing with tur zeppeitide, the other drug. This new
research from the University of Buffalo demonstrates the safety and
the potential of these new diet drugs to reduce the
risk of acute pancreatitis recurrence in individuals with obesity and
type two diabetes, challenging previous concerns and offering new hope
(20:35):
for effective disease management. So, if you've had in the past,
many have a history of having pancreatitis acute pancreatitis, and
you are told that you wouldn't be a candidate for
zep bound or wagovi to help you lose the weight
(20:56):
that you need to lose, there is now this study
out from the University of Buffalo showing that the door
can be open to those who've had pancreatitis in the
past and actually may help lower the risk of future pancreatitis.
Is great information. I have to tell you. I was
asked by a very close patient just a week ago
(21:19):
if they could take this. And I searched the literature
up until this paper came out, and there was just
really no good study about it, and the answer was,
we just don't know. But now we do know. And
I actually sent a copy of this article just earlier
(21:41):
this morning to this patient and I saw an incredibly
happy smile come back to me on my text.
Speaker 1 (21:48):
Good, that's the way to do it. You talk about
personalized care. There it is from Ken. You can get
the same if you're around those areas of Florida, or
you want to tell the medicine hookup, it's three five
two seven three five fourteen hundred, all right, while we're
talking about with Goobe and ozempic, Apparently it lowers the
desire for sweets, would we say candy ice cream? Because
(22:13):
there's sweet. There's sugar in what eighty percent of the
stuff that we eat with all the processed foods. So
how does this work in a direct fashion or an
indirect fashion?
Speaker 2 (22:25):
Guess who I thought of me first? When I read
this report also from the Endocrine Society annual meeting in
your backyard? Who did I think of first?
Speaker 1 (22:36):
Meyme Amy? Because I like ice cream and cookies and
cake and stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:41):
You get an eight plus today. So this study, this
report of zempic and wgovie, they appear to improve people's
sensitivity to taste DOUG, potentially lowering their desire for sweets.
The active ingredient in the weight loss medication semeglatide, also
appears to affect the way that the tongue and brain
(23:03):
respond to sweet taste. People with obesity often perceive taste
less intensely doug, and they have an inherently elevated desire
for sweet and energy dense food. So more hope for
those who just can't get over those sweets. You may
want to talk to the doctor about wegov wegovy.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
All right, now here's another item. The popular culture today
seems to like tattoos, and more and more men are
getting them, more and more women, more and more younger people.
But this is sort of from the danger danger Will
Robinson department. Whether it affects people or not, I can
hear me talking to My daughter doesn't have any tattoos.
(23:51):
My son does. Basically he wanted it as his mother
was sick, to basically have a chronology on his body
of his mother and so all of the things, all
the tattoos relate to his relationship with his mother, what
she was going through, and she had stage four breast
cancer for twenty one years, all of that stuff. So
(24:11):
talking to him about tattoo ink is like talking to
my dog about not liking treats.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Now.
Speaker 1 (24:18):
Having said that, what can you relate to people who
may be thinking of getting a tattoo because they're more
and more popular, and you see them more frequently now
than ever.
Speaker 2 (24:31):
I know, as I go to the gym, I just
wonder why people think skin was meant to be a canvas.
It just has always perplexed me. This comes out this
week in the medical journal E Clinical Medicine. This new
research dog suggests that tattoo ink spurs inflammatory changes that
(24:55):
may contribute to the development of Are you ready lymphoma?
The risk of developing lymphoma it was twenty one percent
higher among those who were tattooed In the study. The
researchers found no difference in the lymphoma risk whether the
tattooed area was large or small. That's a little concerning. Fortunately, though,
(25:19):
lymphoma is not a common disease and this area needs
a lot more study. But again it perplexes me why
skin and canvas are often confused.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Now, are we sounding like a couple of old you
know what?
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I don't know?
Speaker 1 (25:39):
Too many people are.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Put lymphoma is not pretty.
Speaker 1 (25:43):
No, Well, that brings me around to a couple of
other cancer items that I wanted to talk to you about.
There apparently is a new inexpensive, non invasive test for
oral cancer. This is something that's difficult. We've talked about
problems with the gums and what happens to people who
smoke pipes or smoke cigars, that kind of stuff, what
(26:07):
creates in your oral cavity and so apparently this test
will save a lot of lives. And again, pre cancerous
lesions in your mouth hard to diagnose apparently, and the
biopsies are expensive, stressful on the patient. But this comes
(26:28):
from Case Western Reserve, the School of Dental Medicine, looking
to try to detect the cancer with a monitor that
looks at these pre cancerous lesions. So, do you want
to talk about how important it is to have good
health teeth, gums, and to stay away from pipes and
cigars and things like that. What else would cause these
(26:52):
sort of oral cancer problems.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
Oh, definitely, tobacco products. Surely, anyway you get some inhaling, chewing,
vaping which has tobacco. Anyway that you get nicotine into
your mouth in any form is going to increase it.
There are viruses, you have to be careful where your
(27:17):
where your mouth ends up. There are viruses that can
do things like this. So the combination of tobacco and
viruses would be the most common reasons why you would
do this. That's why going to a good dentist regularly
and getting checked up somebody in the dental office to do,
(27:40):
you know, every three months. I like to get checked
and cleaned, and you get a good dental hygienis who
does a thorough exam of the mouth. They're going to
pick these things up early and save lives.
Speaker 1 (27:55):
Yeah, well that's the idea. That's why research most of
this research. I'm going to ask the question because I
don't know the answer. Is it federally sponsored federal money
doing or is this private money from let's say a
drug company is looking for a way to come up
with a new way to try to combat these oral cancers.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Well, I think we the specific study that you're talking about,
I don't know. I haven't seen ye because this is
a work in progress, and this hasn't been yet FDA approved,
It's not yet ready and available. And I think you
just saw a preliminary report. And these preliminary reports are
usually done to get enthusiasm, to get people involved in
(28:40):
the study, and to get people to contribute funds. So
these things we just have to wait and see whether
they actually make it to main street.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
Next question ken has to do with immune cells and
how they could be a target because sometimes apparently when
it comes to breast cancer especially, but I would think
this would be something that would be a problem with
any cancer involvement cancer treatment. The immune cells get exhausted
because they're working so much to get rid of the cancers.
(29:12):
We all have cancers in our body, every one of us.
Just whether the cells get together, as far as I'm concerned,
that's the big deal what I know about it. So
there's apparently with certain immune cells when they're worn out,
there's a new way of energizing them, apparently, And this
(29:34):
sort of makes sense. But you know, when you talk
about mutations and the various cancers that women get, like
breast cancer and ovarian cancer, that men don't get Is
it because their tissue is more likely to encounter or
if you will, or invite in certain cancers.
Speaker 2 (29:54):
I wonder about that. Oh, you're asking why breast cancer
is more common in women than in men.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, that's a good way of looking at it.
Speaker 2 (30:01):
Yeah, well, a lot of that is genetic and hormonal.
And what you're talking about, though, in terms of treatment
is really a very large realm of the future of
treating cancer much more effectively. You know, we can think
of chemotherapy, we can think of radiation therapy, but immunotherapy,
(30:22):
which is what you're talking about, is really the future
of just revving up the immune system and to selectively
targeting these abnormal cells monoclonal antibodies, just targeting them and
selectively destroying the bad cells and not harming the good cells.
Speaker 1 (30:42):
When you look at this circumstances, you know, my wife
died of breast cancer. There were some drugs that they use,
some drugs they didn't. But there's new apparently drugs being
developed all the time that are working in a preventative way.
So if you have anything good to take out of it,
I guess that's.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
It, right. Immune therapy wasn't even an option. Sadly, and
breast cancer is just such a bad, unpredictable disease. You know,
why has it happened to young women?
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Speaker 1 (32:15):
Hi, Doug Stefan here, I'm with doctor ken Kronhaus on
Good Day Health. I have people around me all the
time that are losing, people working with me on the farm,
especially around all the noise whatever causes hearing problems. But
has there been anybody that's come up with a recommendation
(32:35):
on hearing aids and what the best thing is other
than getting the wax out of your ears?
Speaker 2 (32:40):
Then what do you do? I think you need to
individualize this, you know. I think that you need to
not pull your own teeth I need. I think you
need to talk to a good ear doctor, odor rhino
laryngologist or ear nose and throw doctor, they're whole the same,
and get yourself fit properly. The thing that is so
(33:02):
good about hearing age is that they're getting smaller, more effective,
less expensive, and you should just think of it like
glasses that they're seeing aid and hearing aids are nothing
more than healthier hearing, like the eyeglasses are healthier seeing.
So many people are unwilling to even think about it.
(33:26):
I think in the past the cost has been a
big deal. It's come down dramatically they were concerned about cosmetically.
The size is miniaturized and they're so effective. And we
know that dementia will come on earlier, get worse if
your hearing is not corrected.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
Right, I'm seeing that with one of the people who
works with me on the farm. It's my age, and
he has early onsite dimension. He doesn't want to deal
with it, but he has a real problem hearing. He
just got himself glasses. But I love the guy and
I'm so sad to see him being, you know, going
down this road. Frankly, doctor Ken, do you use deodorant
or antiperspirants or neither?
Speaker 2 (34:07):
I have? Boy, you are getting personal here. I will
use both from time to time. Are you asking me
out on a date? What do you ask?
Speaker 1 (34:19):
No? I want to know about well, I'm seeing I'm
looking at the context of the conversation or the question.
People want to know whether deodorants are different for women
and for men, for young or for old. Some deodorance
have aluminum inum, and I don't know whether that's the
anti person. I don't really know. I don't use deodorance,
frank I just washed myself well, and.
Speaker 2 (34:42):
I use it occasionally. I don't. I don't use it
a lot. I use it occasionally, but not a big user.
And I think, you know, again, everything.
Speaker 1 (34:52):
In moderation, right, all right, there you go. Now back
to the question about losing weight. When we keep talking
talking about this month of the year exercising and dieting,
what do you think about intermittent fasting? Is that good
or bad for the body losing weight and the number
of considerations.
Speaker 2 (35:13):
I think that for some people this works, and I
think for some people, like yourself, it made you feel horrible,
and you have to if you want to try it,
try it. Don't extend the fast too long when you begin,
because you might feel ill, and I don't want you
driving and hurting yourself. You have to try this. I
(35:35):
have patients who swear by it, love by it. I
love it. I have patients who have tried it and
they feel horrible. So it works for some, it doesn't
work for others.
Speaker 1 (35:47):
All right, Back to the discussion that was in the
regular body of the program this week about sugar. We
were talking about things that should have warning signs on them.
I like alcohol, Well, alcohol is very is full of sugar,
so maybe that's why of the connections. But now the
question comes on artificial sweeteners and whether or not they
affect your health from top to bottom of the body.
(36:10):
Artificial sweeteners, well.
Speaker 2 (36:12):
I think again in moderation. You know, some people live
on these things. That concerns me. But I think if
you use them occasionally, there is where you'll be. Okay.
The studies that show horrible cancers are using excessively high
doses of them. But just make them a treat, not
(36:36):
a steady, intense part of your diet.
Speaker 1 (36:39):
Well, some of the things that we like. I eat
a lot of fruit, blueberries because I think they help
my visions good and strawberries and.
Speaker 2 (36:49):
All well, natural sugar. The natural sugar of fruit is
so incredibly healthy. That's not the refined Sugar's not gonna
make you be diabetic. The natural sugar in fruit is
good for you.
Speaker 1 (37:06):
Right, Okay, Doctor Ken here at your service. Check all
the info out Goodday healthshow dot com.
Speaker 4 (37:13):
This program was produced at Bobksound and Recording.
Speaker 7 (37:16):
Please visit Bobksound dot com.
Speaker 1 (37:19):
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