September 9, 2025 • 35 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 a focus on new findings on COVID-19 silently accelerating the aging of arteries with a sharp in crease for women, updated guidance from the FDA on updated COVID-19 vaccines, and why the CDC and FDA aren’t seeing eye-to-eye.
Then, a discussion on Omega-3s and the difference between Omega-3, Omega-6 and Omega-9.
Next up, the latest AI algorithm in a trial helps match potential volunteers to relevant medical trials in an effort to speed up the enrollment process and accelerate the pace of research to make it easier and faster to match patients with the proper studies.
Doug gives an update on his hearing troubles with his left ear after having a lady bug stuck in his ear. This revelation leads to a discussion on hearing aids and the connection between hearing problems and early dementia/Alzheimer’s.
Then, a new non-opioid pain killer that offers relief without the risk of addiction.
Lastly, Doug and Dr. Ken address listener questions, including the link between passive smoking and the risk of getting COPD. Are you ready for this? It appears that a father’s exposure to passive smoking as a child may impair the lifelong lung function of this children, increasing their risk of developing COPD. Let that sink in.
Another question addressed — “What happens if we skip breakfast later in life?” Turns out, this could lead to a higher likelihood of developing osteoporosis.
Website: GoodDayHealthrShow.com
Social Media: @GoodDayNetworks
Host Doug Stephan and Dr. Ken Kronhaus of Lake Cardiology (352-735-1400) cover a number of topics affecting our health.
First up, Doug and Dr. Ken discuss the biggest news stories in the medical world, starting with a focus on new findings on COVID-19 silently accelerating the aging of arteries with a sharp in crease for women, updated guidance from the FDA on updated COVID-19 vaccines, and why the CDC and FDA aren’t seeing eye-to-eye.
Then, a discussion on Omega-3s and the difference between Omega-3, Omega-6 and Omega-9.
Next up, the latest AI algorithm in a trial helps match potential volunteers to relevant medical trials in an effort to speed up the enrollment process and accelerate the pace of research to make it easier and faster to match patients with the proper studies.
Doug gives an update on his hearing troubles with his left ear after having a lady bug stuck in his ear. This revelation leads to a discussion on hearing aids and the connection between hearing problems and early dementia/Alzheimer’s.
Then, a new non-opioid pain killer that offers relief without the risk of addiction.
Lastly, Doug and Dr. Ken address listener questions, including the link between passive smoking and the risk of getting COPD. Are you ready for this? It appears that a father’s exposure to passive smoking as a child may impair the lifelong lung function of this children, increasing their risk of developing COPD. Let that sink in.
Another question addressed — “What happens if we skip breakfast later in life?” Turns out, this could lead to a higher likelihood of developing osteoporosis.
Website: GoodDayHealthrShow.com
Social Media: @GoodDayNetworks
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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go with doctor Ken from Lake Cardiology down Undura, Florida.
Lots of COVID nineteen material this week, new findings and
a couple of different things. Updates on vaccines, et cetera,
et cetera. So let's talk about the findings. The new
(01:04):
findings on aging Ken, Doug.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
This comes out of the European Heart Journal this week.
Doug COVID nineteen it actually may be silently accelerating the
aging of arteries, with a particularly sharp increase in women.
This finding highlights the new long term health risks for
COVID nineteen. It reinforces the importance of monitoring cardiovascular health
(01:30):
and individuals who've had the virus, especially women. The research
could lead to new preventative or therapeutic strategies to mitigate
this effect. So it looks like COVID nineteen maybe a
risk factor for getting cardiovascular disease. And it's important if
you've had COVID nineteen, who would be especially effort full
(01:52):
at lowering your other risk factors?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
All right, so let's go back to those thrilling days
from yesteryear when we were all talking about getting the
COVID shots. What you recommended, what we all did? I did.
I followed your recommendation the first time around. I didn't
the second, but I did for the first group of shots.
And now there's lots of questions about the vaccine, what
(02:18):
impact it has thanks to mister Kennedy, the Health and
Human Services Secretary, So what kind of guidance I see
that there's updated guidance from the FDA is this under
the influence of Kennedy's thinking.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes, boy, there's no one in health that's getting more
pressure between the vice than mister Kennedy, and he is
taking it rather well. But he's getting it at both ends.
Either you love him or you hate him in medicine
right now, and I have to give mister Kennedy, you know,
(02:51):
he's impressed me. But you've got much of the medical
community want him out, and you've got much of the
medical community who wanted him in. It's very controversy. I've
never seen it like this before. I've never seen the
CDC the former head disagreeing with the FDA over vaccine recommendations.
(03:14):
But nevertheless, the FDA, which is in agreement with mister Kennedy,
has approved updated COVID nineteen vaccines from Pfizer, modRNA and
Novervax this week, Doug for specific populations that's the important
part of mister Kennedy's plan, which I like, including adults
sixty five and older and younger individuals with certain high
(03:37):
risk medical conditions. However, the new guidance may make it
more difficult for some people DOUG to get inoculated without
a prescription. Doug the shifting guidance. It reflects a more
targeted approach to vaccination. That's what mister Kennedy is attempting,
focusing on the most vulnerable populations. But those former people
(03:59):
at the CDC want his scalp. I've never seen it
like this is a pediatric organization that wants all six
month old to get vaccinated. And I don't know where
the data is for that, and if someone wants to
show it to me, I'd love to see it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Okay, So let's go back to what you were saying
about arterial aging and what we ought to keep in
mind given the fact that there's new guidance on the
vaccines themselves, and whether or not there would be a
warning that will go with it. As to you saying
older people should get it, arterial aging would effect it
(04:37):
would seem to me older folks. Is there a conflict here,
a contradiction? Is there a concern because, as often is
the case, we get one person or one group of
experts saying one thing and we get another group of
people saying something else.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
WHOA.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I think you made it even more in all due
respects that you made it even more confusing, because what
the first hunt, just give me.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Let back it up a second.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Mister Kennedy feels very strongly to target the vaccine, Okay,
to give it just to sixty five and older and
to only younger people who have known physical problems, have
problems with their immune system. They have that we know
that if they get ill, they're not going to do well.
(05:31):
It's targeted therapy, whereas the other side wants to give
it to everybody, you know, in terms of six months
to to to you, to young stirs, to teenagers. You know,
they want to give it to everybody. What's a six
months to twelve years old everybody? And that's where the
(05:55):
difference is that Kennedy wants you to select the American
Pediatrics Association and the former people working at the CDC
wanted to give it to everyone very young. Right, And
then you're talking about this arterial issue. Our arterial issues
are a problem of the aging. So you would want
(06:17):
to give the vaccine to people who are older because
they're at risk for aging issues. And you don't want
your blood vessels when you're older to age any faster.
So that's why over sixty five, there's common agreement that
you definitely want to at least think about whether you
(06:37):
want to get it or not. If you're over sixty
five and you have chronic illness, you definitely want to
think about it. But I can't give specific advice on
this to anyone because this is all about individualized medicine,
especially the COVID nineteen, and you've got to have a
good relationship with a physician and one on one you
(07:00):
and your provider need to make the decision for you.
What's the risk of you doing it versus the risk
of you not doing it. There's a seesawd and a
good doctor makes that decision for anything that we recommend,
what's the risk of doing it versus the risk of
not doing it? And the key is, mister Kennedy wants
to selectively make this decision for the COVID nineteen vaccine.
(07:21):
And there are people I'm getting emails, you know, I'm
getting emails from these from these groups to really boycott
mister Kennedy. It's shocking from from you know, from medical.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Groups, from organisms, from organized groups. And they're not just
they're just a second.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
They're not just to me personally, but they're coming out
to all I'm talking to my colleagues. We're being bombarded
as physicians by these groups to just you know, to
boycott mister Kennedy. It's shocking the emails that I'm getting,
and they're going to all physicians. So there's this organized
effort to discredit mister Kennedy. It's really sad.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Why why would you find that shocking? It's it's it's
not shocking. I don't find the shock. I understand what
you made about. In fact, the extent is so political.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That's what I'm trying to say, the extent of politics
in medicine. I've been in medicine, you know, since the
nineteen seventies, and there's always been politics in it. But
I've never seen it, you know, like this, where you know,
if you don't you know where you're a horrible person
if you don't agree with me, and we're going to
get rid of you if you don't agree with me,
and you know you're not going to be able to
(08:35):
practice if you don't agree, you know. I I've never
seen it like this before.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
And all the time, I'm small think the seventies.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, there's a lot of small thinking, right, I gotta.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
But there's a there's a lot of big organization. That's
what it is.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well, but they're small thinkers. That doesn't mean just because
they're big doesn't mean that they're smart, nor they're on
the They have a one size fits all the way
of fixing what they think is a problem, and what
a lot of us think is a problem. We weren't
allowed to address or trying to fix it before because
it became politically incorrect.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
There's a lot of financing behind it that's never been
there before either. Yeah, and I mean I'm getting emails
from groups to you know, to pressure me how to think.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, of course, well they want you to They want
to tell you how to think. They don't want you
to think for yourself. So your brain is worth was
an extra expendage that you don't need.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Mister Kennedy is under intense attack. It's amazing he.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Can handle it. He'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
The thing that I got a kick, not a kick
out of it. You know I do besides the Good
Day Health shows, I do the American Family Farmer every week.
And I got the most hateful, nasty postcard from somebody
listening to the program. And of course, nobody ever signs
their name to any of these things, whether it's the
(09:55):
stuff that you're getting, it's from an organization, it's not
from an individual, and in this case, from the postcard
that I got, because I have some criticism of Trump
and the way he's handling farmers and what's going on
on the farm. The same as in medicine, the same
as everywhere. There's lots of good stuff going on, but
there's a lot of things that the way they're being
handled is ludicrous, and so I think people need to
(10:19):
speak out, even though they're in the face of the
stuff that you're facing, or I may be facing, or
other people may be facing. It's pretty sick, frankly, and
other people around the world are taking advantage while we're
getting sucked into all this political boloney. Meanwhile, the Chinese
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Health is on the air. Okay, so there's a discussion
here about Omega threes and what it leads to. I
think maybe we ought on once again. As often as
we bring this up, can clarify the difference between Omega three, six,
and nine, because for a long time we were told,
(12:31):
we're even still told by some people that you need
all three. Uh there there was say that six is
bad for you and take three only. It's a round
robin of information. So you want to sort it out
for us, Well, I.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Just want to say something, you know, I just don't
want to have any politics. I want to deal in
fact and I want to have both sides represented.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
And you know, I enjoyed growing.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Up where you could debate, you could talk on both sides,
you could like someone who may disagree with you. And
what really troubles me these days is that is that,
you know, just open speech and the ability to debate
is not there, And if someone disagrees with you, you
just can't love them and still.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
A bad guy. That is what truly is troubling to me.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
We can't just all love each other even though we
may not always agree with each other. And it seems
like when you and I were growing up, we could
have our open discussions and maybe we didn't agree all
the time, but we didn't, you know, we didn't do
it to the detriment of all.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well, unfortunately that tony is being set by the top,
by the leaders of the party and the president, and
that stuff continues to be a problem. And if they
change their way, then the people that follow them would
also change their way. But again, let's get out the
politics and back to talking about omega three, six and
(14:04):
nine if we can.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Well, these are just differences in structures three, six and nine.
You know, you're looking at different fatty acids. How the
chemicals are put together. They're all polyunsaturated fatty acids.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You know, the six just has a bond.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I don't want to get into organic chemistry, but they
just have a bond. Differently, the omega nines again mono unsaturated,
and they're just structurally put together. The omega nines are
non essential fats that the body can produce. Replacing some
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saturated fats with omega nine fats may be beneficial to
the heart, to the body. Omega six dug They are
essential fats that provide energy for the body. However, people
should eat more omega threes and omega six's. Omega threes
are essential fats that you must get from your diet.
(15:07):
They have important benefits for your heart, brain, and metabolism.
I don't know if that helps to untangle this, But
what really brought this on is a very interesting study
out of Alzheimer's and dementia the Journal of the Alzheimer's
Association this week. It's a study that found that women
with Alzheimer's disease have a significant drop you know, omega
(15:29):
three fatty acids compared to healthy women, a difference not
found in men. This discovery, Doug, suggests a potential reason
why Alzheimer's disproportionately affects women and opens the door for
research into omega three supplementation as a preventive or a
therapeutic strategy.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Is there a difference between how it affects women and men?
Because this study was linked to Alzheimer's and women, what
about men?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
It does?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And that's the whole point of the study and maybe
more time to talk about it. There wasn't this drop
in men like there is in women where the Omega
three levels just seem to drop.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
One wonder why let's talk Yeah, let's talk about it
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Speaker 1 (17:09):
Elizabeth Miller from the folks at cal Trin. Thanks Elizabeth.
All right, So we were involved in a rather lengthy
and involved conversation about the three six nine omegas and
I asked the question because the study we were referencing
that Ken was referencing had to do with those who
don't have enough omega three women who don't have enough
(17:31):
omega three, and maybe it connects them to having been
being more vulnerable to Alzheimer's. And I asked Ken, why not?
What's the difference. Is there a difference between men and
women here as to how maybe they absorb omega three?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well, there's definitely a difference between men and women. I
know my biology, and why there is this significant big
drop in women omega threes and not in men. The
study did not identify, and I would imagine it has
(18:08):
something to do with the changing hormonal situation in women
at this age, but more research is needed. It's just
an observation. It's clear that there is this drop in
omega three levels in women not seen in men, and
more of the unhealthy fats are noted to be in.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
The women and not so much in the men.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
And then there's this association with Alzheimer's much more common
in females more research in this area. You're asking questions,
let's write a grant and figure it out. But if
I was speculating, and it's dangerous as a good scientist
to speculate, I would think it has something to do
with the with hormones.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Okay, all right, So that clarifies it to a large,
to a great extent. I know there's always this discussion.
I try to take omega threes every single day. I
think you and I have talked about what its impact
might be without really knowing on the fact that I
have had little, if no plaque in my thoracic cavity
(19:16):
all my life.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
In my humble opinion, the best way to get omega
threes is from oily fish.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
And you know that's.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Why I will try once a day to have a
serving of oily fish, but ideally at least four days
a week one serving of oily fish at minimum. But
pick your oily fish, enjoy it, and you can't have
enough of them and enjoy them.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Had some salmon last night, in fact, and I do
probably two three times a week, have some salmon other
fishes as well. I must admit that I'm liking shrimp
even though there are a lot of people that say, oh,
all a plastic they're bottom feeders, don't eat shrimp anymore,
and a lot of you know, there's a lot of
advice about that. Again, hard to know what to believe.
(20:02):
And also it's you. You have your own prejudices and
that weighs on how you read things as well, Right, Ken,
I mean covid is a great example of that.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Oily fish, salmon, mackerel, sardines, and herring great examples.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Sardines gross.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
All right, get out of my kitchen.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Yeah, I know, Okay, my father used to eat them
out of the can. Anyway, while we're talking about Alzheimer's,
let's talk about the brainwave test that's being used to
determine Is this for everybody this Alzheimer's to test? Or
how does this get applied?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Well, this is the future, Doug. This is how of
brain communications. This week a new it's a new brain
wave test it's been developed that can detect early memory
decline years before and Alzheimer's diagnosis. This could be a
game changer for early intervention and treatment early detection, Doug
of Alzheimer's. It's crucial for the effectiveness of emerging treatments.
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This non invasive test could allow clinicians to identify at
risk individuals and begin interventions much earlier, potentially slowing disease
progression DOUG and improving patient outcomes.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
So this is a big breakthrough.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
All right, So that's good news, right, that's one of
the sometimes we have more good news than others. Okay, Now,
the AI department, we usually touch on one or two
items because AI is becoming a factor in all of
our lives. Like it or not, I don't like it,
and whether you do or not in practicing medicine, what's
(21:41):
the latest AI algorithm being used for.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I call it assisted intelligence in medicine, and therefore I
do like it. This comes out of Nature communications. This
is big the NIH, DOUG and the National Cancers too.
They've developed an AI algorithm named trial GPT. It helps
match potential volunteers to clinical trials DOUG. The algorithm it
(22:06):
can identify relevant trials and explain eligibility criteria, speeding up
the enrollment process. One of the biggest bottlenecks in medical
research is patient recruitment for these clinical trials, and this
AI tool it could significantly accelerate the pace of research
by making it easier and faster DOUG to match patients
(22:27):
with suitable studies, leading to faster development of new treatment.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
So this is a breakthrough and in terms of breakthroughs
because the I just this is me talking, not you.
Maybe it's a few and me talking as if we
were in the same room or we were at dinner
and we were talking about AI being used not only
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in medicine but everywhere, and what the real concerns are.
And I don't think people are owning up to or
admitting to themselves at kitting themselves if they think AI
is all good because it's.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Oh, it could be abused like any other development, can
be abused, definitely, but if it's used, if it's used
for good, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I want to go back to the Alzheimer's discussion for
a second, because this week I I've made my we
throw my hippop out the window. I've had problems with
one of my with my left ear in the last
couple of months, and I still am having problems with it.
So I had a hearing test to determine the difference
(23:33):
between what I can hear my right ear and what
I can hear my left ear. What I can hear
my left ear is half of what I can hear
in my right ear. So the doctor suggested that I
get hearing aids. And that isn't something that, as you
know me well, that I feel like I'm real excited
about doing. However, when she said to me, you know
there's a direct link between bad hearing and Alzheimer's, I said, Okay,
(23:59):
where do I sign up for hearing aids? So should
I be working that quickly? Am I? Am I being
scared into having hearing aids? Or what's your thought on
the connection between having bad hearing hearing problems and leading
that leading to Alzheimer's.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
No, it sounds like you haven't been hearing me a
lot lately because we've been talking about that.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I know.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I'm glad you're listening. I'm glad you're laughing all right.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
But we've talked about this a lot lately, and without doubt,
she's giving you facts and there's good multiple studies.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I know we've talked about.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, I know we've talked about is a.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Real risk factor for early dementia early Alzheimer's and it's correctable.
And again, you wear glasses.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Right, that's what somebody said if you wear glasses. But
the all the difference to make whether you wear glasses
or have a hearing aid.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, right, glasses are seeing aids, and and what's the
difference between a seeing and a hearing aid? And you
know you can get these things so tiny and light
and today only you and your hairdresser will know you're
wearing a hearing it.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Okay, that's good, all right, So I guess I'm heading
to that drug. Although when I have my headsets on,
when I'm doing my radio work, I don't notice the
difference at all. But I do notice a difference when
I'm talking to my family or friends or in some
circumstance business where I have to listen especially closely, more
so than I used to. That I admit to frankly.
(25:33):
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this would you please?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
This comes out of Coyoto University, Good Japanese school, Japanese
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addiction associated with opioids. This breakthrough could be a major
(26:56):
development in addressing the ongoing opioid crisis, Doug Adriana. It
could change the landscape of all of pain medicine.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
So how would you we have so many of these
different things. You and I have had lots of conversations
about nsai D versus the other.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
We're talking about this is severe pain, where opioids, you know,
opioids should only be used for severe pain, and the
non steroidals that you're about to come off your tongue,
you know, those are not going to help severe pain.
And the real challenge in the past for the physician
(27:35):
and for the patient was how do we deal with
severe pain?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
And sometimes you're.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Left, unfortunately, with only these very potentially addictive substances, these opioids,
and sadly, so many people who have opioid issues got
on them because they were just giving them for pain
after surgery, pain after some horrible accent whatever, and then
and then they got addicted to them. We're a lot smarter,
(28:03):
I hope as physicians. We give them in much shorter
durations than we did when they were initially developed, but
still there are people who get hooked on them. And
it would be wonderful if we had an option for
severe pain, not mild, not moderate, but severe pain that
was totally non opioid and non addictive. And that's where
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this fits in to the black bag for the pain
killing doctor.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
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what's important. All right, let's talk about these plant based
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According to the latest research, these fast but when you
(28:52):
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without drugs.
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So from the American Chemical Society Fall meeting just out
it's a breakthrough announced this week doug in weight loss.
It's development of these plant based microbeads that can block
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weight management and obesity treatment. This method, doug Itt, leverages
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Speaker 1 (29:35):
Okay, so let's see here. I have some questions, and
so does some of our listeners. So let's deal with
them because we have coming up next our Weekly Questions
for Doctor Ken, in which we take some of the
things that are in the studies, some of the things
I've come across, some of the things you've come across.
So listen up. Next questions for doctor Kenn on Good
(29:58):
Day Health. Hi, Doug Stephan here, I'm with doctor Ken
Cronhouse on Good Day Health. The link between passive smoking
and the risk of getting COPD. I have asked you
(30:18):
this question before. So maybe this comes out of my
wheelhouse as an offspring of someone who smoked incessantly three
four packs a day that killed her by the time
she was fifty. We were around it. The windows in
the house were covered with that smoggy film, the car
windows were covered with it. It was everywhere, and so
(30:39):
I know that it's had an impact. But I wonder sometimes,
you know, I'm on the farm and I'm breathing in
lots of stuff for ragweed and HFF and that sort
of stuff, whether or not I have a lung checkup
every year, and maybe everybody ought to have that if
they can. But I've been asked this more than once
about my parents smoking. My father did some, but not
(31:02):
a lot. Everybody Doug that point.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
So Doug, sit down, get those headphone volumes up real high,
because you need to hear this that your hair is
going to be standing up. I thought about this when
I read about it in the medical journal Thorax this week.
It appears that a father's exposure to passive smoking as
(31:26):
a child may impair the lifelong lung function of his children,
increasing their risk of developing COPD DOUG. This research reveals
a previously unknown transgenerational health risk associated with passive smoking.
It underscores the long lasting and far reaching effects of
(31:47):
environmental factors on health, even across generations.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
So let's go over that again.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, let's have a repeat of that. Please.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
It's the father's exposure to passive smoking as a child
may impair the lifelong function of his children. So you
know what you're describing about your own life. You know,
you may want to talk to your children about how
their lung situation is developing, if at all.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
So why would it be I was the one who
was exposed to it, But correct, if I'm hearing this correctly,
I was exposed. Therefore I'm subject to COPD No, but
my children are as well.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
That's what this study is pointing out. That's what it's
transgenerational health risk. It's and it was unknown prior to this.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Study this week, and it's quite you.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Know, it's amazing, and yes, you the father as a
child is exposed to the passive smoking.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
And we know that the father is at risk.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
But the point of this study in Thorax this week,
which is a very good medical journal, is that it's
the father's children has a light have lifelong risk to
their lungs. So why well, this was an observation of
the study and apparently you can only speculate on that one.
(33:08):
But apparently the secondhand smoke has a genetic impact on
the young child.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Okay, what happens if we skip breakfast later in life?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Out of the Journal of the Endocrine Society DOUG this week,
breakfast it's said to be the most important meal of
the day, and this new study says that absolutely true
as far as bone health is concerned. Folks who skip
breakfast they have a greater risk of broken bones from osteoporosis.
And it's also true from eating a late dinner you
have a much higher risk of getting osteoporosis.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
We got to absorb this. I don't want to go
too quickly through here, but we only have a certain
amount of time.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Most likely, most likely there's a lower vitamin D and
calcium levels, and most likely this is associated with other
unhealthy eating habits accumulate with other lifestyle risk factors such
as physical inactivity, smoking, excessive alcohol, and insufficient sleep. The
one study that I could explain, you didn't ask me,
(34:10):
But that's.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
The one study that we know why. Most of these
conclusions we don't know why.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
All right, there's a study on beta blockers that looks
like it up ends forty years of a question of
study in Spain and Italy. I'm sure you've read this.
These beta blockers slow the heart rate, lower blood pressure,
but it's better for those who have had heart attacks
than those who have hearts that are still functioning. Well,
(34:35):
does that makes sense?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Well, what this study pointed out is, yes, we try
to give people who have had a heart attack a
beta blocker just to take some of the edge off
of the heart.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
And the feeling has been that.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
If you've had a heart attack, you should be on
a beta blocker. But what this study did was it's
subgrouped in even more carefully and pointed out that if
you don't have reduction of heart function, which is a
pretty small heart attack, because that's what a heart attack,
is that you wouldn't benefit from a beta bloker. It's
(35:12):
just a small subgroup of people who've had a heart attack.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
There is another example, just one of the many examples
why it's beneficial to listen every week to the pearls
of wisdom from doctor Ken Cronhaus on Good Day Health.
This program was produced at bobk Sound and Recording.
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make it easy for you to understand how this work
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go with doctor Ken from Lake Cardiology down Undura, Florida.
Lots of COVID nineteen material this week, new findings and
a couple of different things. Updates on vaccines, et cetera,
et cetera. So let's talk about the findings. The new
(01:04):
findings on aging Ken, Doug.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
This comes out of the European Heart Journal this week.
Doug COVID nineteen it actually may be silently accelerating the
aging of arteries, with a particularly sharp increase in women.
This finding highlights the new long term health risks for
COVID nineteen. It reinforces the importance of monitoring cardiovascular health
(01:30):
and individuals who've had the virus, especially women. The research
could lead to new preventative or therapeutic strategies to mitigate
this effect. So it looks like COVID nineteen maybe a
risk factor for getting cardiovascular disease. And it's important if
you've had COVID nineteen, who would be especially effort full
(01:52):
at lowering your other risk factors?
Speaker 1 (01:55):
All right, so let's go back to those thrilling days
from yesteryear when we were all talking about getting the
COVID shots. What you recommended, what we all did? I did.
I followed your recommendation the first time around. I didn't
the second, but I did for the first group of shots.
And now there's lots of questions about the vaccine, what
(02:18):
impact it has thanks to mister Kennedy, the Health and
Human Services Secretary, So what kind of guidance I see
that there's updated guidance from the FDA is this under
the influence of Kennedy's thinking.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yes, boy, there's no one in health that's getting more
pressure between the vice than mister Kennedy, and he is
taking it rather well. But he's getting it at both ends.
Either you love him or you hate him in medicine
right now, and I have to give mister Kennedy, you know,
(02:51):
he's impressed me. But you've got much of the medical
community want him out, and you've got much of the
medical community who wanted him in. It's very controversy. I've
never seen it like this before. I've never seen the
CDC the former head disagreeing with the FDA over vaccine recommendations.
(03:14):
But nevertheless, the FDA, which is in agreement with mister Kennedy,
has approved updated COVID nineteen vaccines from Pfizer, modRNA and
Novervax this week, Doug for specific populations that's the important
part of mister Kennedy's plan, which I like, including adults
sixty five and older and younger individuals with certain high
(03:37):
risk medical conditions. However, the new guidance may make it
more difficult for some people DOUG to get inoculated without
a prescription. Doug the shifting guidance. It reflects a more
targeted approach to vaccination. That's what mister Kennedy is attempting,
focusing on the most vulnerable populations. But those former people
(03:59):
at the CDC want his scalp. I've never seen it
like this is a pediatric organization that wants all six
month old to get vaccinated. And I don't know where
the data is for that, and if someone wants to
show it to me, I'd love to see it.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Okay, So let's go back to what you were saying
about arterial aging and what we ought to keep in
mind given the fact that there's new guidance on the
vaccines themselves, and whether or not there would be a
warning that will go with it. As to you saying
older people should get it, arterial aging would effect it
(04:37):
would seem to me older folks. Is there a conflict here,
a contradiction? Is there a concern because, as often is
the case, we get one person or one group of
experts saying one thing and we get another group of
people saying something else.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
WHOA.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
I think you made it even more in all due
respects that you made it even more confusing, because what
the first hunt, just give me.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
Let back it up a second.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Mister Kennedy feels very strongly to target the vaccine, Okay,
to give it just to sixty five and older and
to only younger people who have known physical problems, have
problems with their immune system. They have that we know
that if they get ill, they're not going to do well.
(05:31):
It's targeted therapy, whereas the other side wants to give
it to everybody, you know, in terms of six months
to to to you, to young stirs, to teenagers. You know,
they want to give it to everybody. What's a six
months to twelve years old everybody? And that's where the
(05:55):
difference is that Kennedy wants you to select the American
Pediatrics Association and the former people working at the CDC
wanted to give it to everyone very young. Right, And
then you're talking about this arterial issue. Our arterial issues
are a problem of the aging. So you would want
(06:17):
to give the vaccine to people who are older because
they're at risk for aging issues. And you don't want
your blood vessels when you're older to age any faster.
So that's why over sixty five, there's common agreement that
you definitely want to at least think about whether you
(06:37):
want to get it or not. If you're over sixty
five and you have chronic illness, you definitely want to
think about it. But I can't give specific advice on
this to anyone because this is all about individualized medicine,
especially the COVID nineteen, and you've got to have a
good relationship with a physician and one on one you
(07:00):
and your provider need to make the decision for you.
What's the risk of you doing it versus the risk
of you not doing it. There's a seesawd and a
good doctor makes that decision for anything that we recommend,
what's the risk of doing it versus the risk of
not doing it? And the key is, mister Kennedy wants
to selectively make this decision for the COVID nineteen vaccine.
(07:21):
And there are people I'm getting emails, you know, I'm
getting emails from these from these groups to really boycott
mister Kennedy. It's shocking from from you know, from medical.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Groups, from organisms, from organized groups. And they're not just
they're just a second.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
They're not just to me personally, but they're coming out
to all I'm talking to my colleagues. We're being bombarded
as physicians by these groups to just you know, to
boycott mister Kennedy. It's shocking the emails that I'm getting,
and they're going to all physicians. So there's this organized
effort to discredit mister Kennedy. It's really sad.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Why why would you find that shocking? It's it's it's
not shocking. I don't find the shock. I understand what
you made about. In fact, the extent is so political.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
That's what I'm trying to say, the extent of politics
in medicine. I've been in medicine, you know, since the
nineteen seventies, and there's always been politics in it. But
I've never seen it, you know, like this, where you know,
if you don't you know where you're a horrible person
if you don't agree with me, and we're going to
get rid of you if you don't agree with me,
and you know you're not going to be able to
(08:35):
practice if you don't agree, you know. I I've never
seen it like this before.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
And all the time, I'm small think the seventies.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
Yeah, there's a lot of small thinking, right, I gotta.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
But there's a there's a lot of big organization. That's
what it is.
Speaker 1 (08:51):
Well, but they're small thinkers. That doesn't mean just because
they're big doesn't mean that they're smart, nor they're on
the They have a one size fits all the way
of fixing what they think is a problem, and what
a lot of us think is a problem. We weren't
allowed to address or trying to fix it before because
it became politically incorrect.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
There's a lot of financing behind it that's never been
there before either. Yeah, and I mean I'm getting emails
from groups to you know, to pressure me how to think.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah, of course, well they want you to They want
to tell you how to think. They don't want you
to think for yourself. So your brain is worth was
an extra expendage that you don't need.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Mister Kennedy is under intense attack. It's amazing he.
Speaker 1 (09:32):
Can handle it. He'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
The thing that I got a kick, not a kick
out of it. You know I do besides the Good
Day Health shows, I do the American Family Farmer every week.
And I got the most hateful, nasty postcard from somebody
listening to the program. And of course, nobody ever signs
their name to any of these things, whether it's the
(09:55):
stuff that you're getting, it's from an organization, it's not
from an individual, and in this case, from the postcard
that I got, because I have some criticism of Trump
and the way he's handling farmers and what's going on
on the farm. The same as in medicine, the same
as everywhere. There's lots of good stuff going on, but
there's a lot of things that the way they're being
handled is ludicrous, and so I think people need to
(10:19):
speak out, even though they're in the face of the
stuff that you're facing, or I may be facing, or
other people may be facing. It's pretty sick, frankly, and
other people around the world are taking advantage while we're
getting sucked into all this political boloney. Meanwhile, the Chinese
and the Russians and the Indians are all working to
(10:41):
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Health is on the air. Okay, so there's a discussion
here about Omega threes and what it leads to. I
think maybe we ought on once again. As often as
we bring this up, can clarify the difference between Omega three, six,
and nine, because for a long time we were told,
(12:31):
we're even still told by some people that you need
all three. Uh there there was say that six is
bad for you and take three only. It's a round
robin of information. So you want to sort it out
for us, Well, I.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
Just want to say something, you know, I just don't
want to have any politics. I want to deal in
fact and I want to have both sides represented.
Speaker 3 (12:55):
And you know, I enjoyed growing.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Up where you could debate, you could talk on both sides,
you could like someone who may disagree with you. And
what really troubles me these days is that is that,
you know, just open speech and the ability to debate
is not there, And if someone disagrees with you, you
just can't love them and still.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
A bad guy. That is what truly is troubling to me.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
We can't just all love each other even though we
may not always agree with each other. And it seems
like when you and I were growing up, we could
have our open discussions and maybe we didn't agree all
the time, but we didn't, you know, we didn't do
it to the detriment of all.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well, unfortunately that tony is being set by the top,
by the leaders of the party and the president, and
that stuff continues to be a problem. And if they
change their way, then the people that follow them would
also change their way. But again, let's get out the
politics and back to talking about omega three, six and
(14:04):
nine if we can.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Well, these are just differences in structures three, six and nine.
You know, you're looking at different fatty acids. How the
chemicals are put together. They're all polyunsaturated fatty acids.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
You know, the six just has a bond.
Speaker 2 (14:25):
I don't want to get into organic chemistry, but they
just have a bond. Differently, the omega nines again mono unsaturated,
and they're just structurally put together. The omega nines are
non essential fats that the body can produce. Replacing some
(14:45):
saturated fats with omega nine fats may be beneficial to
the heart, to the body. Omega six dug They are
essential fats that provide energy for the body. However, people
should eat more omega threes and omega six's. Omega threes
are essential fats that you must get from your diet.
(15:07):
They have important benefits for your heart, brain, and metabolism.
I don't know if that helps to untangle this, But
what really brought this on is a very interesting study
out of Alzheimer's and dementia the Journal of the Alzheimer's
Association this week. It's a study that found that women
with Alzheimer's disease have a significant drop you know, omega
(15:29):
three fatty acids compared to healthy women, a difference not
found in men. This discovery, Doug, suggests a potential reason
why Alzheimer's disproportionately affects women and opens the door for
research into omega three supplementation as a preventive or a
therapeutic strategy.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Is there a difference between how it affects women and men?
Because this study was linked to Alzheimer's and women, what
about men?
Speaker 3 (15:57):
It does?
Speaker 2 (15:57):
And that's the whole point of the study and maybe
more time to talk about it. There wasn't this drop
in men like there is in women where the Omega
three levels just seem to drop.
Speaker 1 (16:08):
One wonder why let's talk Yeah, let's talk about it
on Good Day Health. I'm Doug Stephan with doctor ken Cronhouse.
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Speaker 1 (17:09):
Elizabeth Miller from the folks at cal Trin. Thanks Elizabeth.
All right, So we were involved in a rather lengthy
and involved conversation about the three six nine omegas and
I asked the question because the study we were referencing
that Ken was referencing had to do with those who
don't have enough omega three women who don't have enough
(17:31):
omega three, and maybe it connects them to having been
being more vulnerable to Alzheimer's. And I asked Ken, why not?
What's the difference. Is there a difference between men and
women here as to how maybe they absorb omega three?
Speaker 2 (17:47):
Well, there's definitely a difference between men and women. I
know my biology, and why there is this significant big
drop in women omega threes and not in men. The
study did not identify, and I would imagine it has
(18:08):
something to do with the changing hormonal situation in women
at this age, but more research is needed. It's just
an observation. It's clear that there is this drop in
omega three levels in women not seen in men, and
more of the unhealthy fats are noted to be in.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
The women and not so much in the men.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
And then there's this association with Alzheimer's much more common
in females more research in this area. You're asking questions,
let's write a grant and figure it out. But if
I was speculating, and it's dangerous as a good scientist
to speculate, I would think it has something to do
with the with hormones.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Okay, all right, So that clarifies it to a large,
to a great extent. I know there's always this discussion.
I try to take omega threes every single day. I
think you and I have talked about what its impact
might be without really knowing on the fact that I
have had little, if no plaque in my thoracic cavity
(19:16):
all my life.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
In my humble opinion, the best way to get omega
threes is from oily fish.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
And you know that's.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Why I will try once a day to have a
serving of oily fish, but ideally at least four days
a week one serving of oily fish at minimum. But
pick your oily fish, enjoy it, and you can't have
enough of them and enjoy them.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Had some salmon last night, in fact, and I do
probably two three times a week, have some salmon other
fishes as well. I must admit that I'm liking shrimp
even though there are a lot of people that say, oh,
all a plastic they're bottom feeders, don't eat shrimp anymore,
and a lot of you know, there's a lot of
advice about that. Again, hard to know what to believe.
(20:02):
And also it's you. You have your own prejudices and
that weighs on how you read things as well, Right, Ken,
I mean covid is a great example of that.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Oily fish, salmon, mackerel, sardines, and herring great examples.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Sardines gross.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
All right, get out of my kitchen.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
Yeah, I know, Okay, my father used to eat them
out of the can. Anyway, while we're talking about Alzheimer's,
let's talk about the brainwave test that's being used to
determine Is this for everybody this Alzheimer's to test? Or
how does this get applied?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Well, this is the future, Doug. This is how of
brain communications. This week a new it's a new brain
wave test it's been developed that can detect early memory
decline years before and Alzheimer's diagnosis. This could be a
game changer for early intervention and treatment early detection, Doug
of Alzheimer's. It's crucial for the effectiveness of emerging treatments.
(21:05):
This non invasive test could allow clinicians to identify at
risk individuals and begin interventions much earlier, potentially slowing disease
progression DOUG and improving patient outcomes.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
So this is a big breakthrough.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
All right, So that's good news, right, that's one of
the sometimes we have more good news than others. Okay, Now,
the AI department, we usually touch on one or two
items because AI is becoming a factor in all of
our lives. Like it or not, I don't like it,
and whether you do or not in practicing medicine, what's
(21:41):
the latest AI algorithm being used for.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
I call it assisted intelligence in medicine, and therefore I
do like it. This comes out of Nature communications. This
is big the NIH, DOUG and the National Cancers too.
They've developed an AI algorithm named trial GPT. It helps
match potential volunteers to clinical trials DOUG. The algorithm it
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can identify relevant trials and explain eligibility criteria, speeding up
the enrollment process. One of the biggest bottlenecks in medical
research is patient recruitment for these clinical trials, and this
AI tool it could significantly accelerate the pace of research
by making it easier and faster DOUG to match patients
(22:27):
with suitable studies, leading to faster development of new treatment.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
So this is a breakthrough and in terms of breakthroughs
because the I just this is me talking, not you.
Maybe it's a few and me talking as if we
were in the same room or we were at dinner
and we were talking about AI being used not only
(22:52):
in medicine but everywhere, and what the real concerns are.
And I don't think people are owning up to or
admitting to themselves at kitting themselves if they think AI
is all good because it's.
Speaker 2 (23:02):
Oh, it could be abused like any other development, can
be abused, definitely, but if it's used, if it's used
for good, it's amazing.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
I want to go back to the Alzheimer's discussion for
a second, because this week I I've made my we
throw my hippop out the window. I've had problems with
one of my with my left ear in the last
couple of months, and I still am having problems with it.
So I had a hearing test to determine the difference
(23:33):
between what I can hear my right ear and what
I can hear my left ear. What I can hear
my left ear is half of what I can hear
in my right ear. So the doctor suggested that I
get hearing aids. And that isn't something that, as you
know me well, that I feel like I'm real excited
about doing. However, when she said to me, you know
there's a direct link between bad hearing and Alzheimer's, I said, Okay,
(23:59):
where do I sign up for hearing aids? So should
I be working that quickly? Am I? Am I being
scared into having hearing aids? Or what's your thought on
the connection between having bad hearing hearing problems and leading
that leading to Alzheimer's.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
No, it sounds like you haven't been hearing me a
lot lately because we've been talking about that.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
I know.
Speaker 3 (24:23):
I'm glad you're listening. I'm glad you're laughing all right.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
But we've talked about this a lot lately, and without doubt,
she's giving you facts and there's good multiple studies.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
I know we've talked about.
Speaker 1 (24:36):
Yeah, I know we've talked about is a.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
Real risk factor for early dementia early Alzheimer's and it's correctable.
And again, you wear glasses.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
Right, that's what somebody said if you wear glasses. But
the all the difference to make whether you wear glasses
or have a hearing aid.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Yeah, right, glasses are seeing aids, and and what's the
difference between a seeing and a hearing aid? And you
know you can get these things so tiny and light
and today only you and your hairdresser will know you're
wearing a hearing it.
Speaker 1 (25:12):
Okay, that's good, all right, So I guess I'm heading
to that drug. Although when I have my headsets on,
when I'm doing my radio work, I don't notice the
difference at all. But I do notice a difference when
I'm talking to my family or friends or in some
circumstance business where I have to listen especially closely, more
so than I used to. That I admit to frankly.
(25:33):
So anyway, all right, next up here, let's I want
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for Calitron, the natural way, the healthiest way to lose
weight and keep it off. Okay, So there's a new
(26:17):
painkiller that offers relief, and I'm not sure I understand
the connection with opioid. You when you explain this, you'd
like to say, let me take this apart, so untangled
this would you please?
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (26:32):
This comes out of Coyoto University, Good Japanese school, Japanese
scientists DOUG. They announced this week that they've developed a
new non opioid painkiller. It's named Adriana, and it shows
promise in providing very powerful relief without the risk of
addiction associated with opioids. This breakthrough could be a major
(26:56):
development in addressing the ongoing opioid crisis, Doug Adriana. It
could change the landscape of all of pain medicine.
Speaker 1 (27:07):
So how would you we have so many of these
different things. You and I have had lots of conversations
about nsai D versus the other.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
We're talking about this is severe pain, where opioids, you know,
opioids should only be used for severe pain, and the
non steroidals that you're about to come off your tongue,
you know, those are not going to help severe pain.
And the real challenge in the past for the physician
(27:35):
and for the patient was how do we deal with
severe pain?
Speaker 3 (27:39):
And sometimes you're.
Speaker 2 (27:40):
Left, unfortunately, with only these very potentially addictive substances, these opioids,
and sadly, so many people who have opioid issues got
on them because they were just giving them for pain
after surgery, pain after some horrible accent whatever, and then
and then they got addicted to them. We're a lot smarter,
(28:03):
I hope as physicians. We give them in much shorter
durations than we did when they were initially developed, but
still there are people who get hooked on them. And
it would be wonderful if we had an option for
severe pain, not mild, not moderate, but severe pain that
was totally non opioid and non addictive. And that's where
(28:24):
this fits in to the black bag for the pain
killing doctor.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
All right, So there's the distinction. Making the distinction is
what's important. All right, let's talk about these plant based
fat sponges. They're called fat sponges. They're absorbing fat. What
is the good, the bad, and the ugly about this?
According to the latest research, these fast but when you
(28:52):
say fat, they absorb the fat in your system, right,
belly fat or any kind of fat.
Speaker 2 (28:58):
Yes, this could be a novel way to lose weight
without drugs.
Speaker 3 (29:02):
This is the hope.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
So from the American Chemical Society Fall meeting just out
it's a breakthrough announced this week doug in weight loss.
It's development of these plant based microbeads that can block
fat absorption in the gut. These fat sponges, made from
green tea and seaweed, are an entirely new approach to
weight management and obesity treatment. This method, doug Itt, leverages
(29:26):
natural components to physically interfere with fat digestion. More research
is needed to determine its effet, efficacy and long term safety.
Speaker 1 (29:35):
Okay, so let's see here. I have some questions, and
so does some of our listeners. So let's deal with
them because we have coming up next our Weekly Questions
for Doctor Ken, in which we take some of the
things that are in the studies, some of the things
I've come across, some of the things you've come across.
So listen up. Next questions for doctor Kenn on Good
(29:58):
Day Health. Hi, Doug Stephan here, I'm with doctor Ken
Cronhouse on Good Day Health. The link between passive smoking
and the risk of getting COPD. I have asked you
(30:18):
this question before. So maybe this comes out of my
wheelhouse as an offspring of someone who smoked incessantly three
four packs a day that killed her by the time
she was fifty. We were around it. The windows in
the house were covered with that smoggy film, the car
windows were covered with it. It was everywhere, and so
(30:39):
I know that it's had an impact. But I wonder sometimes,
you know, I'm on the farm and I'm breathing in
lots of stuff for ragweed and HFF and that sort
of stuff, whether or not I have a lung checkup
every year, and maybe everybody ought to have that if
they can. But I've been asked this more than once
about my parents smoking. My father did some, but not
(31:02):
a lot. Everybody Doug that point.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
So Doug, sit down, get those headphone volumes up real high,
because you need to hear this that your hair is
going to be standing up. I thought about this when
I read about it in the medical journal Thorax this week.
It appears that a father's exposure to passive smoking as
(31:26):
a child may impair the lifelong lung function of his children,
increasing their risk of developing COPD DOUG. This research reveals
a previously unknown transgenerational health risk associated with passive smoking.
It underscores the long lasting and far reaching effects of
(31:47):
environmental factors on health, even across generations.
Speaker 3 (31:51):
So let's go over that again.
Speaker 1 (31:53):
Yeah, let's have a repeat of that. Please.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
It's the father's exposure to passive smoking as a child
may impair the lifelong function of his children. So you
know what you're describing about your own life. You know,
you may want to talk to your children about how
their lung situation is developing, if at all.
Speaker 1 (32:14):
So why would it be I was the one who
was exposed to it, But correct, if I'm hearing this correctly,
I was exposed. Therefore I'm subject to COPD No, but
my children are as well.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
That's what this study is pointing out. That's what it's
transgenerational health risk. It's and it was unknown prior to this.
Speaker 3 (32:34):
Study this week, and it's quite you.
Speaker 2 (32:37):
Know, it's amazing, and yes, you the father as a
child is exposed to the passive smoking.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
And we know that the father is at risk.
Speaker 2 (32:47):
But the point of this study in Thorax this week,
which is a very good medical journal, is that it's
the father's children has a light have lifelong risk to
their lungs. So why well, this was an observation of
the study and apparently you can only speculate on that one.
(33:08):
But apparently the secondhand smoke has a genetic impact on
the young child.
Speaker 1 (33:16):
Okay, what happens if we skip breakfast later in life?
Speaker 2 (33:21):
Out of the Journal of the Endocrine Society DOUG this week,
breakfast it's said to be the most important meal of
the day, and this new study says that absolutely true
as far as bone health is concerned. Folks who skip
breakfast they have a greater risk of broken bones from osteoporosis.
And it's also true from eating a late dinner you
have a much higher risk of getting osteoporosis.
Speaker 1 (33:44):
We got to absorb this. I don't want to go
too quickly through here, but we only have a certain
amount of time.
Speaker 2 (33:49):
Most likely, most likely there's a lower vitamin D and
calcium levels, and most likely this is associated with other
unhealthy eating habits accumulate with other lifestyle risk factors such
as physical inactivity, smoking, excessive alcohol, and insufficient sleep. The
one study that I could explain, you didn't ask me,
(34:10):
But that's.
Speaker 3 (34:10):
The one study that we know why. Most of these
conclusions we don't know why.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
All right, there's a study on beta blockers that looks
like it up ends forty years of a question of
study in Spain and Italy. I'm sure you've read this.
These beta blockers slow the heart rate, lower blood pressure,
but it's better for those who have had heart attacks
than those who have hearts that are still functioning. Well,
(34:35):
does that makes sense?
Speaker 2 (34:37):
Well, what this study pointed out is, yes, we try
to give people who have had a heart attack a
beta blocker just to take some of the edge off
of the heart.
Speaker 3 (34:49):
And the feeling has been that.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
If you've had a heart attack, you should be on
a beta blocker. But what this study did was it's
subgrouped in even more carefully and pointed out that if
you don't have reduction of heart function, which is a
pretty small heart attack, because that's what a heart attack,
is that you wouldn't benefit from a beta bloker. It's
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just a small subgroup of people who've had a heart attack.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
There is another example, just one of the many examples
why it's beneficial to listen every week to the pearls
of wisdom from doctor Ken Cronhaus on Good Day Health.
This program was produced at bobk Sound and Recording.
Speaker 3 (35:28):
Please visit bobksound dot com.
Speaker 1 (35:31):
This Good Day Health Doug Stefan with Doctor Ken Cronhouse,
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