Kristen Hagopian Show - 09 17 25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, everybody, Welcome to the christ Enigopian Show. Shout outs
from everybody here in Studio B as we connect with
our syndicated stations coast to coast via the Biz Talk
Radio Network. Greetings to you all. I'm Christigopian, author of
Brilliant Frugal Living, syndicated lifestyle columnist, highly caffeinated, host of
your show, raising my mug of what do we have today?

(00:23):
Crem breulay. Oh, it's mighty fine. Dedicated to slashing your spending,
growing your savings to new previously unthought of heights, and
demolishing your dead Thanks for hanging out. A huge welcome
to all of our news to affiliates, all of our listeners.
The emails are fabulous, and I got to give a
big shout out guys. We recorded the show a little
earlier in the week. South Carolina, North Carolina, all of

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the Southeastern, you know, the lower Southeast, and holy mackerel,
it's gonna be a real whopper. Please know that we're
thinking of you, We're praying for you. If you guys
get a chance to check in, if you have family
that you know down there, let us know how you're doing.
Find us online. Brilliant Krugal Living dot com give us
the latest. Know that we are all pulling for you
and made this storm pass with the minimal minimal damage.

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The guys there in the Southeast some of the toughest
on earth, but heck, nobody wants a hurricane to pass over,
So just know that we're thinking about you. We hope
you're okay, and we would love for you guys to
check in emails all over the place, a dozens upon
dozens after last week's show. Hats off to all of them.
Thank you so much. I wake up in the morning
and I see these emails and it's just tremendous camaraderie.

(01:27):
I love it. We are in this to win it
when it comes to the frugal fight, and huge shout
out as always every week. You know who you are.
Mitchell Meek's and Linda E super fans listening in from
super Talk Mississippi, saving America's wallets one hour at a time,
Sitting here with my previously mentioned crem Breulet coffee in hand. Man,

(01:48):
this stuff is good, Tony says, hello with this green tea,
cheers as we tackle today's trendy topics and if you're
not drinking coffee or you know, green tea at the moment,
that's okay. We will do enough for all of you,
because that's just the type of team players we are.
Last week, I was nearly giddy talking about deep cleaning

(02:10):
these carpets. It sounds so lame, it sounds so nutty,
But I'm telling you right now, you know, first of all,
how much I love a good, well done home improvement project.
Right you're thinking about something that needs to get freshened up.
You're not crazy about how much space you have. Maybe
you're thinking about moving stuff around. Get your hands on
one of these deep carpet cleaners. I don't care how

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dedicated you are to just wonderful vacuuming each week. Or
maybe you've got the hardwood floors, you sweep, you do whatever,
do a serious floor cleaning on here. Invest In one
of these deep cleaners, is my advice. Honestly, it will
pay for itself within just a few months. It's fantastic.
And when I put the word out about this, I
got so many great My gosh, you guys are the best.

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But we're talking about home improvement projects that freshen things up,
make things newer, make things, you know, just looking better,
feeling better, you know, a higher value, a higher price
tag to it. And I started thinking about another huge
project we're doing, which is decluttering. And I'm telling you
guys right now, I am addicted to this new movement.

(03:13):
And I gotta be honest with you. You see these
shows out there about the hoarders and everything else going on.
We all might even know a hoarder. I am not
a hoarder. However, I am a low grade pack rat.
I'm not really famous for getting rid of a lot
of stuff. If things are clearly past their you know, usefulness,
they can maybe go to someone else, they can use

(03:34):
it more. I have donated tons of stuff, could literally
be tons. I mean a ton is two thousand pounds.
I could have literally donated tons of stuff to good
Will by now, but I still hold on to a
heck of a lot of crap. Now, the good news
slash bad news is is that I married a man
over twenty years ago, bless his heart. That is also

(03:55):
my level of minor league packrat. Okay, so which is
better than have someone who's over your shoulder all the time.
Throw that out, Throw that out, throw that out. I've
never said that to him. He's never said that to me,
which is nice. It's good news. The bad news is
we never throw anything out. I mean, we really did
not throw a lot of stuff out. We have now
engaged in a again, to use the phrase, low level purge.

(04:20):
Holy crap, the square footage we have added to our home,
the open spaces that we have added to our residence,
Between that and the deep carpet cleaning, it is phenomenal.
So we're talking about a fall house cleaning. And I
want you guys to think about this. I know how
crazy hard you work. I want your free time to
be used in ways that benefits you body, mind, and soul.

(04:44):
And I'm here to tell you I am just a
grade a regular human being, and the incredible peace of
mind and fun and self satisfaction which we all love
to have these days. God knows I do. And I
say this freely. We like to feel satisfied with our efforts.
You go and do a deep carpet cleaning on your carpets,

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and you do a minor purge couple of loads of
car loads worth of stuff to your local goodwill, your
Habitat for humanity, or whatever your best you know, your
favorite charity is you will feel reborn. So I put
the word out about this last week. I'm getting all
kinds of stuff back. And here is the best decluttering advice,
literally that I've ever heard. And this stuff it cracks

(05:26):
me up. I'm laughing back and forth going back and
forth to some of these people. It is hilarious what
some of these people do. And the phrase that I'm
gonna keep bringing up that I saw this online trash
bag tango. You're gonna go through your house and do
a trash bag tango. What do you put in? What
do you leave out? Here's where we go over it.
Number one. This advice is so good, guys, this is

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so spot on. Know your clutter personality. We all have clutter,
all right. The hoarders are way there in the pseudo
crazy clutter pat you know category. We are not there,
you and I all right, but we do have clutter.
My god, look at my junk drawer in my kitchen
back home. Holy crap, I've got unbelievable stuff there. I'm
never getting rid of it. I gotta be honest with you.

(06:08):
I'm never going through the clutter drawer, never going through
the kitchen drawer, that way, but there's a lot of
other stuff I'm going through and it feels dang good.
In order for you guys, to maintain a clutter free home,
here's the biggest thing. You need to get to the
root of why things pile up in the first place.
And here's three different categories. They say you're supposed to
fit yourself into one. I basically fit into all three.

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Number one, you're too busy, which equals you know, too
many extras. You buy these items you already own because
you don't have a system in place for where to
store them, or you know, when you need to find
things fast, the time to search through all the possible
storage spots is just impossible, So you buy too many things.
You have too many things because you didn't know you
had them in the first place. You know, we have

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extra pillows in our house, tons of toilet paper in
our house. Do we need some? Oh my god, buy some,
just to make sure you know. I've gone through the
kid's clothes and realized I already had a winter coat
that's going to fit them this year, but now I
got an extra one. That's the kind of day to
day activities where suddenly I got too many extras, and
I got to purge next thing. This is so me.
This is so me. You guys, for better or for worse.

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If you are a constant warrior, thinking you got to
save everything, You're concerned that you might need something in
the future, so you save everything just in case. You know,
you've got rain boots for your kids or your grandkids
that no longer fit, and you're thinking, well, maybe some
other kid will come along in your life, a neighbor kid,
or maybe you'll save it and you'll put it together
in some big bag of stuff for goodwill later on.

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That's the kind of thing that I have in my
house as well. I'm pretty darn well organized. I've got
a pretty decently organized life, but I still have items
like that in my house. Okay, here's another one that
I got admit I kind of fall into. It's called
the overwhelmed in life equals overwhelmed at home. Now, I
am not overwhelmed. I'm really not. Kind of cued up

(07:51):
once in a while trying to get my to duel
list done, But I never feel overwhelmed. I do know people, however,
that use that phrase overwhelmed. I just feel over whelmed.
They're overwhelmed. You know, I feel bad for people who
feel overwhelmed. You are capable, you're strong, you are organized.
You just gotta harness the horses and put them to work.
These people who feel overwhelmed, you don't know where to

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begin with your decluttering, so you just live with the chaos.
You shove it into another closet. There are people I've
connected with who have entire rooms dedicated to their clutter.
They know some people are coming over. It feels last minute.
You're working, work and work, and you don't have time
to do this. You know, the strong cleaning you want
to So they put all of the clutter not just

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in its own closet, but they put it in their
own room. There is a clutter room. There's a bedroom,
there's a bathroom, there's a den, there's a kitchen, there's
a basement, there's the kids rooms, there's other stuff, and
there's the clutter room. Like literally, it's a permanent guest
so it has its own room. Okay, that's what I'm
talking about. So if you've got that kind of room
going on, you're not alone. We've got pretty good sized

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closets downstairs in our home. I gotta be honest with you,
one of them stuffed full of coats codes for a
family of four, for God's sake. But here's what you do,
and we got about what do we have two minutes?
Great before the next break, ask yourself these three questions
when you're going through your belongings. And there's a couple
of different rooms we're starting with, because I highly recommend it,
the first step to a clutter cure is to write

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down your favorite pack rat phrases. All right, this person's
saying her client's top three are I have to still
go through those. Someone could use that, and but I
need it. Here's the thing you don't. I need you
to go. First of all, go to the room that's
driving you the most nuts. All right. If it's the
basement that might feel a little overwhelming, go to like
a second most cluttered up room. Maybe it's a big

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closet you'd love to free up. Maybe it's a part
of your room you'd love to free up. Get out,
not just one bag. Do not bring one bag upstairs
with you, or you will be highly you'll be back
downstairs for another one. Grab the box of trash bags,
bring it with you. You're in this to win it.
Go to your closet. Start with your stuff. You're not
gonna want to go through your kids stuff because that

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feels a little bit like I want to know, I
want to say it. Go through your stuff. Time to
be fearless and heartless. Go through your drawers. Go through
your closet. If you have not worn it in a year,
and it's not something important like you know, your old
prom dress or a wedding dress, or or you know
a suit or your favorite suit that you got married in,
or whatever else, get yourself a garbage bag and fill

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it with everything that you have not worn in a year. Everything,
shoes that you have not worn in a year, everything
you've not worn in a year. Then go through your drawers. Guys,
the jeans you haven't worn in a year. Keep one
pair of ratty jeans for your around the house projects.
Throw everything else in this bag. You are going to
in just one room's time, free up a whole bunch

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of square footage you didn't even know you had. Look
around at the furniture. If you have not sat in
that piece of furniture for over a year, you're getting
rid of that too. You get the point, Guys, hang
out for a minute more after the break, including some
of the experts best advice yes for decluttering your home
and freeing up your space. You all stay tuned, and

(11:12):
we are back with the Christen Gophian Show and with
COVID infections on the rise since June. Yes, we're all
hearing the headlines again. We hate that word COVID, but
knowledge is power. We've got many Americans confused, maybe myself included,
about how to keep ourselves healthy this fall and this winter.
And the latest data on COVID risk and impact might

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surprise a lot of Americans and are specially relevant during
this current back to school season and the cooler weather
right around the corner. And we've got questions. You've got questions,
I've got questions. And joining us to help us with
those questions is former US Serge and General doctor Jerome
Adams to help us make some sense of the science

(11:56):
and offer his medical recommendations to help keep everyone as
safe as possible this year. Welcome doctor Adams.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
Well, I'm so glad to be with you today, Kristin.
You know I can relate. I've got three school age
kids myself, and we're dealing with this. With that my
daughter's soccer practice just last night and half the team
was out with a respiratory illness. We don't know exactly
what it was, but we know what it was. And so,
as you mentioned, this is impacting our lives right now,

(12:24):
and I want to make sure people have the facts
to be able to make smart health choices.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
And you bring up such a good point right off
the bat, because as we get all of our kids
in school, and of course there's always the usual viruses
that make their way. First thing, it seems to be
just a rite of passage those first couple of weeks
of school. But when you look at it, you know,
what is the current COVID situation? And when are we
looking too deep? Maybe we're thinking something it is something

(12:50):
it's not. How do we find out whether or not
it's actually COVID? And what is the current COVID situation
out there? What are you seeing out there in the street.

Speaker 2 (12:57):
Well, you know, if I were going to give you
my most honest answer, I would say that we are
underreacting at the moment because COVID is spreading like wildfire.
I have multiple family members, as I'm sure many of
your listeners do, who have tested positive in recent weeks,
and that's just the people who've actually tested. We know

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it's a little bit early for flu season, and we
know that there aren't really a lot of other respiratory
viruses circulating. So most of what's out there that is
causing symptoms for people that are severe enough for them
to miss school, miswork, it's COVID. It really is COVID,
and the wastewater samples that we're getting from around the
country illustrate that precipitous increase along with the increase in

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hospitalizations ten to fifteen thousand hospitalizations in the last couple
of weeks each week from confirmed COVID. But I don't
want to overfocus on hospitalization and death because Kristin, I
think that's one of the challenges is that people go
at it's just sick people, it's just old people who
are being impacted by COVID.

Speaker 3 (14:02):
No.

Speaker 2 (14:02):
We know that in the last omicron wave that was
the largest number of children hospitalized at any point during
the pandemic. We know that kids are sick enough that
they're missing school. We know that thirty percent of adults
who've experienced COVID now report long COVID, and we really
worry about what that impact could be for our children

(14:24):
if they're continuing to get infected. And I have teenagers.
You know, it's interesting that seventy five percent of US
adults actually have underlying conditions that the CDC says put
them at increased risk of severe complications due to COVID nineteen.
So morbid obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes. Well, guess what.

(14:45):
Unfortunately in our country, we know that we're seeing increasing
numbers of high schoolers and middle schoolers with those same comorbidities,
so they are at risk. And a third of COVID
nineteen hospitalizations in the United States right now are in
a adults eighteen to sixty four. So it's not just
everyone over sixty five or everyone who we think of

(15:06):
as being sick. It's really most of the country right
now is at risk for complications from this virus. And
it's why we want to make sure people are taking precautions,
and it's why I'm emphasizing, particularly going into this upcoming
CDC meeting, where we hope they will approve the updated
vaccine that's well matched for the new variants, that people

(15:29):
will be aware of that and they'll talk to their
health provider about whether or not getting that updated vaccine
is right for them.

Speaker 1 (15:37):
I love that, and I'm writing down so many bits
of info as you're saying, because you're seeing so many
important things here. But one thing I want to make
sure we get out there as well. With each successive
new round of COVID that goes around, the one thing
I've been able to internalize is the fact that each
one is successively a little less dangerous than the one before.
That's just pure science that's been explained to me before.

(15:58):
Talk to us a bit. Given this current new round
of COVID, what is the CDC recommending? What are they
going with for COVID vaccination with this? What are their recommendations?

Speaker 2 (16:09):
Well? Great, great question, And let me back up to
something you said. You said, we're all tired of COVID.
I'm tired of COVID. I wish I didn't have to
talk about COVID anymore. There are so many other things
as a physician that I wish we could be talking about.
But that's why we need to transition into thinking about
COVID the way that we think about other respiratory diseases.

(16:30):
We monitor for them when we see a surge, we
take precautions. Think about like we do with flu. Every
year we know flu is coming, we get an annual
flu vaccine, we wash our hands, we take precautions, and
we deal with it well. We need to look at
covid in a similar way and that we're monitoring for

(16:51):
it when we see surges. Sometimes we take extra precautions
like masking up in hospitals, and we geta our flu vaccines.
Important for your listeners to know you can get your
fluid in covid vaccine at the same time this year,
and as you mentioned, it is a good match for
the currently circulating variants based on the information I've seen

(17:13):
out of the companies and from the FDA, and again
the CDC is going to discuss that soon. So it's
a great way to protect yourself. I think about MTV masking,
testing and treatment and vaccines and ventilation. So I think
everyone knows I'm a proponent of masking, but I've got
three kids. You know, my daughter's not wearing a mask
at school. The kids don't want to wear a mask.

(17:35):
I do have them wear a mask when we're traveling,
testing and treatment. If you've got symptoms, particularly if you're
in a higher risk category, you can test and you
can get treated, But then ventilation is important, being outside,
opening up the windows, HEPA filters. If you in a
surge and vaccines, we're now going to have a vaccine
that's a great match for the currently circulating variants. The

(17:57):
best advice I can give people is the advice I
give my family. My mother and my father are in
their seventies. They're darn sure are going to be first
in line to get these updated vaccines. But also my
three kids are going to get the updated vaccine when
it's available for them. Why because I don't want them
missing school. Unfortunately, we can't predict, and so these vaccines

(18:18):
have been shown to be safe, been shown to be effective,
and I'm going to get myself, my family, including my
kids vaccinated when it's available.

Speaker 1 (18:27):
Doctor Adams, thank you so much for joining us. I
knew the time would fly. The information that you're sharing
is so important. So many more people need to know
about this. When our listeners are out there and they
want to learn more, where do we send them to
get more information on.

Speaker 2 (18:39):
This great point? What I would say is number one,
talk to your health provider. They'll know what's available. And
when it's available, and then for general Linfo, I've got
a new book out called Crisis and Chaos. It's available
for pre order on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. We
talk about vaccinations, we talk about masking, we talk about
it's a lot of fun stories, Kristen about my interaction

(19:00):
with everyone from Axel Rose to Oprah Winfrey to Colin
Powell during the pandemic. And I bring that up because,
as you mentioned, this is tough. It doesn't matter who
you are, if you're a surgeon general, if you're a celebrity,
if you're a rock star, if you're a parent trying
to get your kids to school. It's confusing and we
want people to have those broader facts. But we also
want people to understand when you have questions, talk to

(19:22):
your health provider. And one of the best things you
can do to keep yourself on the right track is
to get updated with vaccines. That's what the CDC recommends.

Speaker 1 (19:32):
Doctor. I can thank you enough. The book is called
Crisis in Chaos. Find it now and you've gotten open
mic anytime. Thank you so much for all that you
do and for breaking this all down for us. Be
well to you and yours, take care, thank you you too,
and we'll be right back gang right after this.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Not too the best.

Speaker 1 (19:56):
Of and we are back with the Christian Egopian Show.
And you guys know I love our medical segments. We
live in truly incredible times with all of the medical

(20:16):
breakthroughs happening, and these stats I'm about to share are
just going to shock you like they shocked me. More
than one point six million people in the US alone
live with what's called a leaky tricuspid heart valve okay,
dramatically impacting their quality of life. Open heart surgery okay

(20:36):
used to be their only treatment option. The very thought
of any of my kids or any of my loved
ones going through that just stops my heart. So it
leaves many patients untreated because they're either too high risk
to undergo the procedure maybe they're understandably worried about it.
But that all recently changed with the FDA approval of
a life changing treatment option, and doctor Nadem Galou, a

(20:59):
cardioist with Abbot, is joining us our Newsmaker Line to
share more about this amazing breakthrough and joining Gregory. I
believe a patient advocate whose life has positively changed since
their procedure.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
Everybody welcome, Thank you, Thank you, Chris, and great to
be here.

Speaker 1 (21:15):
It is wonderful to have you here. Okay, now, someone
my age. You know, I'm in my fifties. I've got
older kids. My husband's a little bit older than I am.
We've all heard of a leaky heart valve. It's something
that we hear in passing, but we don't know a
lot about it. What is a leaky heart valve? And
talk to me a bit about some of the symptoms,
if you would.

Speaker 3 (21:34):
Sure, Chris, So, a leaky heart valve is when the
valve leaf that don't seal or close properly, so blood
essentially backs up. We have four heart valves. The one
of the ones on the right side is called the
tri cuspid valve, and that's the one that we're talking
about today. That's addressed by the Abbot triclip device. So

(21:58):
what happens is the valve doesn't close properly and blood
leaks backwards. And when this happens, blood can back up.
Much like in your house, if you some pump goes bad,
your fluidble backup. Same thing can happen in the body,
and this can lead to symptoms such as swelling in
the legs, swelling in the abdomen, difficulty laying flat, not

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having energy to be able to do the things that
you want to do or enjoy doing, and sometimes just
not having enough energy to just walk down the hall.
And the patients who've had this problem, their only options
in the past were diuretic therapy, which essentially allowed them

(22:43):
to urinate the extra fluid, which helped a lot of patients,
but not everybody, and oftentimes this can be an uncomfortable therapy.
You have to be close to a bathroom, and as
I said, it doesn't always take care of the majority
of symptoms and a significant number of patients. The other

(23:04):
therapy that has been available and it's still available, is
open heart surgery, but that's, as you suggested earlier, a
big procedure. It can cause anxiety for patients, and in
this setting of tricusmoergurgitation, the patients were good were not
often good candidates for the procedure in the sense that

(23:27):
their risk would be significantly increased of having a complication
from the surgery, So the surgery wasn't necessarily offered to
a lot of patients, so you were left with a
group of patients. As you said, you know at this
time up to one point six million, many of whom
had a lot of symptoms that just were not managed
because the diuretics weren't adequate and because surgery was not

(23:50):
an option for these patients. The triclip device is truly revolutionary.
It's done through a small puncture and the skin in
the top of the leg, and that's where there's a
large vein called the thermal vein, which then connects into
another large vein which takes you right to the heart.
It's sort of the highway of the body, and you're

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able to traverse this vein with a delivery catheter, which
then allows you to put a small clip, the abit triclip,
onto the leaflets, which reapproximates the leaflets and closes the
area of leaking, and by doing so, the valve is
repaired and the delivery system is removed from the body.

(24:37):
The patient simply lays flat for a couple of hours
or a few hours after the procedure, and they're literally
up and walking the same day, and the vast number
of patients go home the very next day. So it's
truly revolutionary. It improves the quality of life. In our

(24:58):
clinical trials, it was a incredibly safe ninety eight percent
of patients were free of adverse events at thirty days,
and the FDA, based on the results of this trial,
approved the device for use. And these types of patients
who aren't good candidates for surgery, who are very.

Speaker 1 (25:18):
Symptomatic, unbelievable. And I'm sitting here taking notes here in
the studio as you're talking, and about forty five seconds
in I just set my pen down because my jaw
was hanging open. What you just described sounds so science
fiction Star Trek. I might be showing my age here,
but it's something that just even a few decades ago

(25:39):
wouldn't have even been on the horizon for the most
thoughtful and innovative scientists, And here you have made it
a reality that is just incredible. And the ripple effects
of the success of this amazing device, it's just going
to go for generations to come. Doctor. I have a
few more questions for you, but first I'm going to
swing over to Gregory because I have to hear about

(25:59):
your personal viewpoint on this. You're up close and personal
with this as a civilian, like you know, the rest
of us out there, and the number Gregory astonished me
because when you hear that there's one point six million
people out there that are battling back on this, that's
like one in every two hundred Americans. You know, a
lot of us know somebody who's dealing with this. And
you absolutely took the bull by the horns. Your quality

(26:22):
of life was compromised due to your condition. You saw
this was available, you took care of it, and now
you're on the other end telling us all about it.
Take a minute to describe, if you what you were
experiencing before the treatment and maybe what you're looking at
today and welcome.

Speaker 4 (26:39):
Yeah. Very much like doctor Gidlewid said, I was, I've
always been very athletic, and I've got to a point
zeria lethargic. I can to perform some of the activities
I normally did. I had shortness of breath, very fatigued,
swelling in the abminon and a new thought was wrong.

(26:59):
In nineteen ninety four, I'd had triple bypass surgery and
then from that point on I had three additional stints
put in, and ultimately, because of the heart issue, I
lost both my kidneys. So in twenty twenty, I started
experiencing symptoms that were similar but much more severe, and
at that point I decided to get in contact with

(27:21):
my cardiologists went to see him. He ran test. The
results were that I had track cusper regurgitation and he said,
because of my age at the time, I was seventy
years old. He said, because of my age, would be
far too risky for me to have over art surgery.
But he had a friend who was going to be

(27:41):
part of a clinical trial the app using the apid
track clip. So I had to qualify for the trial,
which I did, went in and had the surgery, spent
one night in the hospital. I was actually up and
walking maybe maybe two or three hours after the surgery,
and the next day I was discharged and went home.

Speaker 1 (28:00):
That is amazing, Gregory, and I'm so glad that you're
feeling better. I want to stick with you for one
minute and then I'm going to go back to the
good doctor. When you think about receiving it. Prior to
receiving it, what were your recommended treatment options? You talked
about the open heart surgery you went for this instead.
How long did it take for you to feel a

(28:20):
noticeable difference and know that this was absolutely a slam
dunk home run. Any other sports analogy you wanted to
do well.

Speaker 4 (28:28):
Actually, after I was just started from the hospital, I
went home and later on that day I started walking.
We had a very long hallway, so I started walking
up and down that hallway, but maybe five minutes at
a time. Each day I had a couple more minutes.
So then about a week I was feeling very good
and so we After that, I went out and actually

(28:49):
played golf, and from that going on, my life has
been very similar to what it had been, about eighty
five percent capacity of what I had previously.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
Incredible. I'm just ging ear to ear and it takes
guts to do what you did, So on behalf of
all of us, you know, slightly more cowardly people out here.
I tip my hat. I'm just all kidding aside. I'm
so glad you're doing better. Doctor. We have about a
minute left before the break. You got a lot of
people out there listening to you. Their jaws are dropping too.
They had no idea that this option was out there

(29:21):
and that it was just revolutionary. It was absolutely changing
the entire landscape on this condition. Where do they go
for more information how do they get the ball rolling
on seeing if this might be the right option for them.

Speaker 3 (29:33):
Abbit dot com is a great resource for people to
learn more about the tricuspid regurgitation and the treatment for it,
the Abbot triclip device. In addition to that, there are
other cardiac devices that Avis developed and folks can learn
more about those devices as well on that website. But

(29:56):
most importantly, if anyone is having any symptoms, particularly of
the hype that Gregory described where they just don't feel
normal short of breath swelling in the legs or abdomen,
please go and talk to your physician so that they
can take a look at it, order the appropriate testing

(30:16):
as needed, and recommend the therapies.

Speaker 1 (30:18):
Aim into that. And I knew the time would fly Gregory,
Doctor Nadeem Galu, thank you so much for taking the
time to join us today. God speeding your work and
thanks for all you do. You got an open mic anytime.
Please join us again when you can.

Speaker 3 (30:31):
Thank you, Christian, thank you, thank you so much. Chris.
It was a pleasure. Would love to be back on again.

Speaker 1 (30:36):
Love it and we'll be right back right after this
and we are back with the Christigopian Show. Talking about

(30:58):
turning your clutter. The stuff you love, you keep that.
The stuff you don't love, you declutter it. You put
it on eBay, you put it on Craigslist. People are
telling me stories with little bank statements to back it up.
I love this stuff they're making. I love this two
grand in a couple of weeks, three grand, thirty two
hundred somebody made here, thirty seven hundred somebody else made here,

(31:19):
other numbers that I will not disclose. And what I
love about this is that not only are they taking
that cash, they're not putting it towards some glissy vacation.
One of them bought a used car, one of them
paid off credit cards that had been just haunting them
for years, and the other one that I loved. Somebody
asked me this, if you were to put this money away,
put it somewhere in any kind of a basic you

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know nothing account. You know you put it in there,
you forget about it. You get your statements. The average
stock market people are talking about eight percent returns, and
this includes way back, you know, when it crashed in
the twenties, all the way up, remember Black Friday, you know,
you know, eighty seven, all the upsil, the downs, the
two thousand and nine downturn, that was a mess. Over
All the years the stock market's been in functioning, it's

(32:02):
been around eight percent. What would happen if you cleared
out all the junk in your house that you don't
need anymore. You free up all this space, You free
up all this time. You put all of these items,
old phones, old furniture, old anything, pots and pans and
anything else, school supplies, people are selling jewelry, old stuff.

(32:22):
People are selling. Say you make okay, I love crunching
these numbers. Say you make five grand in a few
months time. That's not unusual. I'm getting stories from people
where they're doing more than that. What if you were
to put five grand from all these sales into a
basic account, put it into the market, basic stuff, no crazy,
you know, high risk whatever, Basic returns eight percent and

(32:47):
you left it there. You didn't add a penny to it.
You left it there for twenty years. I'm fifty. Imagine
I put it in there for twenty years. What would
that decluttering cash? That small amount of cash you got,
what would that do in twenty years? Want to take
a step it, Tony's not taking a stab at it
twenty three thousand dollars. How would you like your cluttering
and you're decluttering to result in cash that you can

(33:09):
put into an account and forget about, and twenty years
later you're looking at twenty five grand. It's amazing, guys,
it's incredible. Imagine not just that. I love the people
who are taking that cash and paying off credit cards.
That is an investment that will oh my gosh, people
say that they've had, you know, stress headaches for how
long because of credit card debt. They pay off this

(33:32):
credit card debt and these headaches are gone. Put a
price tag on that. I absolutely love it. Now here's
a couple more things because you know, we might have
to do two Yeah, we might have to do two
shows on this. All the money you can make from decluttering.
Who is this from Sacks? Hey? I know up member Sacks.
Thank you so much for all the notes. He wants
to reiterate here, and this is so true selling different

(33:53):
things in different ways to get the best price. He
has done this through some you know, hard experimenting here.
You know he's trial and error, but he is really
kind of narrowed down the best way to get the
best prices for various things. I love this used kids
toys and clothes, and this is absolutely spot on correct.
A lot of people like to use Craigslist for it.

(34:14):
I love using Craigslist to find my kid's clothes, and
I'm deeply indebted to all those wonderful, highly organized parents
out there from which I can buy all these clothes
season after season. Another way you can do this using
consignment stores. Consignment stores are picking up big time. And
here's the best part about consignment stores. Unless you're a

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super hot trader something. Don't sell bundles of kids clothes
or small toys on eBay. There's just too much supplies.
What they're saying, take it to the consignment stores. It
then becomes the consignment stores job to market it. Maybe
take some pictures, maybe put some stuff online. They are
highly motivated to get the best price for it. They

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do all of the work and you still get your slice. Fantastic.
Here's another thing, and this is and this makes a
lot of sense. I've heard this more than once. His
only hard earned word of caution when it comes to
consignment stores. Find one that you have a good rapport with.
Read the terms and conditions about rejected or unsold items,

(35:16):
and make sure you understand any upfront costs. The most
successful consignment stores out there are going to be the
ones that work with you. If they don't work with
their suppliers, they won't have supply anymore. That being said,
make sure you read all of the terms. Maybe go
online check out see if they have any online reviews.

(35:37):
It's all good. Next up, sax is talking again here
he talks also about the cash for old phones. I
love this. Here's a couple that he talks about. He
talks about Declutter, dec l U, t t R, Gazelle, eBay.
He's huge on eBay, and apparently there's a site called enviraphone.
With enviraphone f for a phone e n vro fone

(36:02):
pays you for old smartphones, old tablets, old laptops. I
love it. I love it. Oh this is huge. Yes, yes,
I want to make sure we got to this bulk
trade CDs, DVDs and games, all right. I don't have
a heck of a lot of those. We don't buy
a lot of DVDs or CDs or games. But I
know people where I've gone to their homes and they

(36:25):
have shelves stacked with all of these games. My head
worlds to think of what they paid for this stuff.
God forbid they paid you know, retail. There is a huge,
huge online marketplace for this stuff. Old CDs and DVDs
can take up monster amounts of space that could be
far better used. And see my earlier notes about maybe
enjoying some cash in your pocket rather than all of

(36:46):
this clutter in your home. Luckily, no matter how ancient
your CDs or DVDs are, you can and this is
according to him, you can make huge money out of
them as long as they still play. Now here's where
the site. It's like d clutter, d E, c l U,
t TR make it super easy to sell large collections
of CDs and DVDs. You won't make a fortune per item,

(37:10):
but for the bigger collections. And honestly, people I know
have got these bigger collections. So try it, love it,
report back to me. I don't have a big supply
you know, DVDs or CDs to try this out on
a lot of people. Do let me know how it
turns out. His biggest bit of advice reserve eBay, Amazon
and Craigslist for the big eas Okay, now he sells

(37:34):
on eBay. But what he's learned is that even if
you're not an expert trader, you can still make decent
money from selling high end branded items on the three
big trading sites. Apparently he's making between forty and fifty
percent of retail on these essential big on these big
ticket items, okay, a big thing on eBay, and I'd
like now, see I haven't tried this out, but I

(37:55):
have heard from other people this works brilliant. The expensive toys.
And when I thought toys, I thought kid stuff. No,
apparently this is for you know, you know, adult toys.
You know the fun little games, the fun little gadgets,
the fun little who knows the video games, that kind
of thing that are more for an adult audience. Apparently
they sell great around forty fifty percent again on eBay,

(38:15):
So who knew? I love that surplus decorating supplies. I
know we're coming up on the heartbreak here, decorating supplies.
If you've got stuff to sell, old wallpaper, who knows
what you could get a huge amount. You could get
more than what you paid for retail. If you've got
any kind of old wallpaper just hanging around, that's the
kind of stuff I loved any other type of items,
even if it's only a few, you know, ceiling tiles

(38:36):
or whatever it is, paint brushes that aren't you. Stuff
like that. Get it out of your house, get some
money in your pocket. Enjoyed the rush that is really
kind of indescribable when it comes to decluttering, and know
that someone else is making good use of something that
we gave up a long time ago. And until next week,
save those pennies, pay with cash, and you all save
rugle out there not Tuesday,