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Well, just tell me now, will it teach you other instruments as well? Yes, I think it had something on there about the mandolin. DNP Carissa had one, and she was learning the ukulele with it.

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And check out my work on Normal World with Dave Landau. I just did one on fecal transplant that literally derailed the rest of the show. I was driving here thinking about fecal transplants. Oh, really? Were you just thinking about these things randomly? I don't think they're that disgusting. I was just, yeah. No. I was just thinking about it. Well, one of the points I made was it's, you know, first off, how are you going to make money off of it?

You know, because you're using people's literal shit. But then, you know, how are you going to do the clinical trials? It's like, oh, hi, you're depressed. Can we take someone's liquid stool and shove it up your rectum and just see if something happens? And so it's a little bit difficult to do those, although there is a company in Canada that

of course, that sells artificial stool called Repupulate. And I don't know if it has, because it is artificial, you know, it's just bacteria, a colony of bacteria, whether it has as much beneficial effects as actual stool from somebody. You wouldn't think so. I wouldn't think so because, you know, there are...

There are nerve cells in the gut. It's called the neuroenteric neural pathway or whatever, but it's called the second brain. And when there is inflammation in the gut, it actually can affect your mood and things like that. Oh, yeah. And if you take stool from one person to another, you can affect their mood. And I just wonder if the repopulate would actually do that. I doubt it.

Because it's, you know, it didn't come from a human being. Yeah, and it'd be less likely to elicit an inflammatory response, right? Well, true, that too. Yeah, they're supposed to, this stuff is supposed to improve inflammation. You know, people with Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, there's actually data for that. They started out just using it for pseudomembranous colitis, aka C. diff.

Clostridium difficile. Used it for that. Yeah, and for the refractory cases of that, you can take healthy stool bacteria, give somebody an enema with it, and it actually can resolve the problem by just replacing the bad bacteria with an overwhelming amount of good bacteria.

But then they found that people, they did that, who had ulcerative colitis actually got better, too. So there's some decent data for that. Right on. That's good stuff. So just, you know, shitting in a bucket and then adding a little saline to it and then giving somebody, you know, an enema.

It's unbelievable that that actually would have some effect, but it does. Hey, speaking of shit in a bucket, I've got a bucket full of shit for you out in my truck. Oh, you do? I did. Yeah, I cleaned my koi pond. I scooped you off some super-duper koi poo. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is that good for plants? Yeah, it's good for the garden. I've got even a fancy little bucket out there full of fish. I'm growing nothing but soybeans this year, so I'm replenishing my soil. Yeah.

So that'll be good for it. It'll be great. Yeah, thank you. Certainly. All right. Good deal. Right on top. So anyway, check that out on Normal World. That was fun. But yeah, at the end of that one, they were so distracted by my three minutes of talking about fecal transplants, it just completely derailed the show. And that's sort of my goal. Okay.

The first one I did was on Fournier gangrene because they asked me what's the worst way to die. And I said, oh, there's one answer for that. And it's Fournier gangrene. And do not Google image Fournier gangrenes. F-O-U-R-N-I-E-R. Space. Right. Space gangrene. And it disturbed them so much that it again derailed the show for a while.

And they kept trying to move on and kept coming back to it. And if I had known it was going to have that effect, I wouldn't have made my second one deviated septum, you know. But I'd already had it in the can, so to speak. So anyway. All right. Check that out. Normal World with Dave Landau. Dave is the sweetest, nicest person in the business. And I know some really nice people in the business. And they would all say the same thing.

So he's just great to work with. And Allison Lerman, who used to work for Compound Media, she's been sort of my liaison over there. And Angela Boggs, I might as well give everybody a shout out. Bryce and Ken and Sam and all the people that work on that show, they're just wonderful people. So it's really fun to work there. Cool. Anyway. Yeah.

It'd be nice to make some money off of some of this stuff at some point, but that's okay. Wait, we're making money? No, like I'm saying. It would be nice. It would be nice. We're on a 20-year plan. Right. What I'm hoping is someday...

One of these people will become so famous that they'll put me in their movie or something like that. That'd be cool. Yeah. Actually, Pete Davidson called me. Yeah. Said, if you could be up here on Thursday, I can put you on my TV show. We've got a place for you. And it was like, I can't just...

I just can't do that. You know, his lifestyle, he can just pick up and go, you know, hey, we need you for a commercial on, you know, Friday at midnight. It's like, okay, no problem. But I can't do that. So that was a missed opportunity. You've got some things to do. Yeah. I hated that. I really wanted to do it. Well, that'd be fun. Anyway, I now have an IMDB page now. And could I be more redundant? I said now twice. The Department of Redundancy Department. Oh, my God.

Anyway, yeah, because of my acting work on Normal World, I have an IMDb page. Congratulations. I know. And Mel B doesn't even know what it is, and that's fine. That's how unimportant it is. But it was kind of cool. Sounds highfalutin. It's the Internet Movie Database. So if you've ever been in a movie, even if you've been a bit, if you've gotten a credit, you end up on the IMDb.

It's just a database. It was kind of cool. And I'm on there as Dr. Steve, which was good. All right. Well, let's move on. Enough about me. A couple of things. I've had people reach out to me about Lady Di, in other words, Diana Urbani. She was a regular on Opium Anthony. She was beloved but frustrating because she was an alcoholic and she was just –

A degenerate alcoholic where you could never get her to stop drinking. And at the end, after ONA went away, she would call our show when we were taking live calls. And I would say, Diana, are you calling from rehab? And she's like, oh, no. And it was click. I had to hang up on her because she had made a promise that if I paid her rent...

Two months in a row because she was getting kicked out of her apartment. And I talked to her landlord. She's going to go to rehab. Will you just hold her apartment? We'll raise the money to keep it because I just don't want her to be homeless again. And he said, yeah, yeah, yeah. And he was all in. And then she just never went. And so, you know, we just couldn't keep doing it.

But she eventually was diagnosed with Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome, which I'm going to be doing a video on that very soon for my weird medicine one-shots. I did one on borderline personality disorder. I'm going to do another one on Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome. But it's a dementia. Ultimately, it's a dementia that's caused by thiamine deficiency. Yes.

And sometimes even if you supplement them with thiamine while they're drinking, they still get it because the alcohol and the changes in their liver make it impossible for them to actually absorb the thiamine. And but anyway, they she we found out as as a fan base because she called it was either Opie and Jim or Jim and Sam.

And it was like, oh, we haven't heard from you in a while. She said, yeah, I'm on a naval ship. You know, I'm in the Navy. And then that's when they realized, oh, you know, we really can't take her call. She can't even give consent to be on the air. And that was the right thing to do. So it was fun making fun of her. And everybody may, you know, and she was a good sport about it.

until she became seriously ill, and then it wasn't funny anymore. And it wasn't funny anymore, you know, before all of this, because she just wouldn't stop. And she was homeless, and she was blowing hobos and stuff. I mean, there's videos of her. I'm not speaking out of school, so...

It became very sad. But I have good news. I talked to her son. She's doing extremely well. She's in a nursing facility still with dementia, still thinks she's on a naval ship. She was in the Navy. And that was the one thing in her life that she was kind of proud of, even though she was sick.

discharged from the Navy, but she did serve her country and she was very proud of her service. So that's kind of what she's gone back to. So, you know, yeah.

So that's the good news. There is a GoFundMe. If you go to my Twitter feed, I posted a GoFundMe link. Her son raises a little bit of money for sodas and, you know, treats and stuff like that that she enjoys. Good. And God bless Lady Di. Anyway, there you go. Now.

Lydia, you haven't been here in a while. No, guys. I've been everywhere, man. P.A. Lydia. Oh, we could do that song. I've been everywhere. Yeah, we could do that and Lydia could sing it. I don't think I can get all those words out of my mouth. I know. There's a lot of words. You've got to get closer to the mic, too. That's okay. Just pull it closer. Yeah.

So, Lydia, we were doing the saga of your breast implants. Oh, yes. And that is complete. It's complete. And you look, I love this new sort of paradigm with you wearing the sort of sundress because you're always, it's not really a sundress, is it? What is that? What do you call that? I guess it would be a sundress, just a linen dress. You always said you couldn't wear sundresses before. Yeah. And now you can and you wear it very nicely, by the way. I can do so much. Thank you very much. Yeah.

So you're just showing. Very, very pleased. You paid money for it and you're showing it off. Good for you. Yeah. Yeah. So how has it changed your life? Do you? Yeah. You know.

Well, I can buy bras and underwear that much now. Okay, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm just kidding. I know. Nobody cares. So certainly some confidence. Listen, don't boo me. Certainly confidence, for sure. Yeah. It's really funny with different interactions. I'm going into a different profession now. Yeah. More like... Well, they didn't know you from before. They didn't know me from before, right? So now the people who know me, like...

I've had like supervisors and current bosses say, oh, I wonder how you got that job. Oh, get out of here. It's so freaking weird, but I don't care. That's horrible. Yeah. So, I mean, overall, 100% positive. Yeah. Totally good. Cool. Yeah. Do you have to go, oh, hey, my eyes are up here to people now? No, I just let them look, you know. Yeah, because you're, yeah, sure. I'm not that revealing when I dress. You paid good money for them.

Whatever. No, you look great. Thanks. You look great before, but you look great. Any pain? No. Residual pain? No. Cool. Do you have sensation? Yeah. Yeah. If anything, heightened sensation. Really? In like a positive way. Yeah. Yeah. I wonder if that's psychological. No, I don't think so. I mean. You think it's physiological? Yeah. Yeah. And the physician, I spoke with the surgeon about that.

And he said some people don't regain sensation. Others do report a heightened sensation. Interesting. Good. New nerve endings are made after the surgery, I guess. I guess so. Nice. Way to go. That's good.

Highly recommend. Yeah. Okay, good. And Mel B, how are you, my friend? Sleepy. Are you sleepy? Yeah. Yeah, you've had quite the time. I don't know if you knew, P.A. Lydia,

Mel B had her thyroid removed. Oh, goodness. And we showed pictures on here and got a content strike. It was an impressive thyroid. I saw your picture. Was it a large thyroid? Yeah. Well, it was a large nodule. Yeah. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. It just looked... Sweetbreads is what it is. I mean, I can just say, you know, this is what sweetbreads look like. Yep. People, if you...

If I was a chef channel and I put that exact same picture saying, here's what we're cooking up today, YouTube wouldn't have had a problem with it. But anyway. That's awesome, isn't it?

Now that is a nodule. It's nice to see the lobes of the thyroid and that nodule. Yeah, and that's something. That's impressive. I could still mostly swallow. You swallowed one side, couldn't you? So I do want to make one announcement, and this is just for the people who know. So those who know, know, and those who don't, it's okay. I just want to thank...

Everyone for the support from every corner of this universe. It's really humbling and it's so appreciated. It's never going to be taken for granted. And I'll explain to you guys later what I'm talking about. But like I said, those who know, know. Anyway, so we were going to talk about.

gross things and drug shortages and stuff like that. I've got a couple news stories. But before we do that, actually, P.A. Lydia has a story. Tell us about this massage and give us the background. This sounds crazier than hell, this kind of crazy massage. So tell us about this. Yeah, we were just chatting because prior to the show, we were talking about old school massage parlors that gave happy endings

Right. And they said manual relief. Yeah. It uncovered this suppressed memory that I had from about a month ago. So I got tired of paying for the expensive massage because it's like you might as well be asleep. Right. I want that like good deep tissue for less. So I've been going to this local place run by a female and male. They're Chinese women.

they don't speak any English. So we communicate through, uh, the, through dollars, through dollars and Google, Google translate, you know, and they do. I had been a few times. I did a great job. Uh,

Very intense. Like they'll have you hang from like a pull-up bar. Okay, this is the part. Anyway. This sounds like something from a Eli Roth movie. You're hanging from these bars. Yeah. You know, they really like stretch you and all this stuff. Okay. So anyway, I go back and this time the gentleman is going to be my, their masseuse. And so I'm like, okay, well, it's not weird. I'll be okay with that.

So anyway, I'm lying in the room. That's lit with, you know, cheap Christmas lights. And he... So when you get a massage as a female, you normally will take your top off, right? You don't wear your bra. You just keep your underwear on. And then you're always covered. I thought I was supposed to get naked. Oh, you get naked? I do. Oh, well, see, she's not going to be disgusted by this story. So anyway, he starts getting started. And he just pulls down my underwear.

And gets on top of me. What? And just like straddles me on the table. Now are you face up or face down? I'm face down. Okay. Yeah. Face down. He's on top of me on the table. This is just, you know. And so I'm getting the uh-oh feeling. Yeah. And I'm like, I don't want to be rude. Yeah.

I want to accept the massage. So I have to keep drawing new lines for myself. Excuse me, can you ask a question, though? Like, is this part of the normal massage? He doesn't understand that. Oh, my God. He doesn't understand that. That's weird, man. That's an excuse. So you literally can't talk, right? Yeah. And so then I keep making these new boundaries for myself. And if anybody knows me, I have a difficulty with boundaries. So I'm thinking, okay, if I feel something, I'm definitely going to get up.

I'm crawling out of here. Like, I know if I feel something, I'm going to get up. Yeah. But it ended up just being like a really intense massage of my butt. Okay, did it have to be skin to skin, though? I mean, were you wearing like thick...

felt underwear? No, I wasn't. I was wearing like, no, like bikini underwear. Cheeky bottoms. Not a thong. It wasn't like pull me down. See, fabric gets in the way though. Yeah, it does. I know. I think it was the combo of like pulling it down, which was a first for me. And climbing on top of me. And definitely having a full view of all of my privates. That was a bit awkward. So anyway, I left and I'm thinking I'm never going back. But I still left a tip.

So my friends give me so much shit because they're like, you tipped him? Uh-huh. Awesome. That is bizarre, dude. So I'm going to go back to the other place. The other more expensive place. Where they don't straddle you. Yeah. Well, I've seen these massages in other parts of the country where everybody's naked and then they're just...

your limbs and bending them ways that they're not supposed to and then they're slapping you and doing all this stuff and it's supposed to be good for you. I like that. Well, that sounds like you're describing kind of a Thai massage. Or Turkish too. Turkish. I think it's a Turkish massage. Because Thai massages are really aggressive. They're stretching kind of almost like a...

kind of stretch and massage and it's really aggressive. They like start toes and start manipulating and like manipulating. I think I would like that. It's actually wonderful. Yeah, those I love.

But I don't think I would love somebody straddling me and pulling my underwear down first. That's just – Pulling my underwear down and then climbing on top of me. That was the uh-oh feeling. That reminds me of talking about getting the prostate exam and then the urologist cleaning up after the – remember I was talking about that years ago?

Didn't you have a prostate exam with somebody? After they checked your prostate, they kind of wiped you up and cleaned you up for you? No. Do you remember that show? So tender. No, I would do that. We talked about that years ago. No, I know you didn't do it. You've got to learn this. You've got to learn this phrase. You ready? Yeah. 谢谢。

What's that mean? That means no thank you. No thank you. Xie xie. Xie xie is thank you. Yeah, I know xie xie. Or you can say bu hao. Bu hao. Bu hao means bad. Bu hao. Bu hao. Xie xie. Bu hao. Bu hao. Okay. Bu hao. Bu hao. So you can go back. Now you can set boundaries. There we go. Thank you. Bu hao. Bu hao. Bad. I'll just keep my Google Translate on the table. Bu hao. Bu hao. Bu hao.

Can you put my underwear on, please? Would you mind sliding my panties back up? Back up? Thank you. Oh, my God. That was so weird, man. It was a lot. That is so weird. I have to say I didn't enjoy the rest of the massage. No? No, you must have been. What happened after that? You probably don't even remember. I was pretty mortified the whole time. Yeah. So much for taking a nap and enjoying. I'm going to go back to the soft. Oh.

I mean, I take naps in the MRI. I'm usually in it. When I get my teeth cleaned, sometimes I'll fall asleep. Here you go. This is another statement. Critics are losing their minds for shrinking on Apple TV+. We're back!

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Oh, wait. No, wait. Okay, you ready? That means put my underwear back on, please. Please. I'll save it. Oh, that's hilarious. Wow, wow. I just think if you're going to be...

I mean, massages are such an intimate thing anyway. It's always good to sort of know what's on the menu. But it's hard when there's a language barrier. I understand that. I was never a big massage person, but when I was at that retreat that I went to, I tore my soleus muscle, which is one of the calf muscles. The first...

the first movement of the first exercise of the first day. And I was like, I'm not going to be that guy that's going, ow, ow, my leg hurts. And so I did all of the things that we were doing that day and just in agony. But I was damned if I was going to show it. But that night I had a massage scheduled and I had this big, well, I don't want to say big, but she was big boned. I mean, she was very strong,

woman named Marty and... Oh, for God's sake. Throw Marty. Yeah, no. She was awesome. She was awesome. Marty, I love... I will love Marty to the end of my days because she got... I told her what had happened. Husky Marty. And she said... Well, she was just strong. You know, she's physically strong. And...

She said, do you mind if I use hot rocks on you? And you always see those pictures, but they're static. It just looks like people are laying there and they're just placing rocks on them and leaving them there. And I said, sure. And she got out this rock and lubed it up and just went to town on my leg, just scraping it from the top. Like blading, yeah. Yeah, blading. That's what she was doing. Gua sha. Gua sha.

Yeah. Is that what it's called? Squash eye. Okay. But she bladed the shit out of that leg, and I'll be damned if I didn't walk out of there with 90% pain relief. Wow.

And then the next day I did sort of a Western thing. I saw the physical therapist and he dry needled me. He stuck acupuncture needles in and then hooked me up to electricity. And I posted a video of that with my leg twitching with the electricity. Twitch, twitch, twitch. And then the rest of the time I was fine. So...

Don't shit on massage therapy. It really is real therapy if you get somebody that knows what they're doing. And physical therapy, if you have an injury like that...

I highly recommend physical therapy. People go, oh, I'm not going to do that. No, they really do great work. Physical therapists do great work. And then there's a whole medical subspecialty based around that called physiatry or physical medicine and rehab, which they have a problem because when I say I'm going to send you to a physical medicine rehab physician, they say, well, I ain't going to no nursing home. It's like, no, that's the name of their specialty. But anyway. All right. Very good. Yeah.

I had something else that we wanted to talk about. Yeah. You guys been noticing these drug shortages? Yes. I mean, it's insane, right? Yes. I started saying, well, it feels like we're in a third world country, except I had a guy interview with us, a doctor who, if he comes to work with us, Mel B, you're going to really like him a lot. But he has seven kids and they spent four years in Tanzania. He said, yeah,

You don't know what third world is, you know. So, OK, we're in a second world country when it comes to these drug shortages, because we have patients who need drugs.

Drenabinol, they have chemotherapy-associated nausea or they have wasting syndrome from their cancer or they have HIV and they have wasting syndrome. And Drenabinol is an FDA-approved version of Delta-9-THC. And it is synthesized in the lab, so it's legal. It comes in 2.55 and 10 milligrams, so it's legal because it's a quantifiable amount.

And it's legal in all 50 states, except now we can't get it. You can't get it anywhere. Nowhere can it be found. It's only made by one manufacturer. And this is one of the problems in this country is these things have gotten so consolidated. If the one manufacturer screws up with the FDA and the FDA shuts them down for quality reasons, then nobody gets anything. I mean...

Try to buy a resistor from a factory made in the United States. It's impossible. It's no such thing. It's all made in China. So a lot of these pharmaceutical companies, you know... And one of the problems is, and I'm going to catch shit for this, is that we don't allow them...

to make money. Now, Pfizer, obviously an exception. But, you know, some of the prices that they can charge are actually less than what it costs them to make it. So they just go, fuck it, we're not going to do it.

So, but anyway. I think it'll be worse. I was at ASCO, the American College of Society, or Clinical Society of Oncology. Yeah. National conference two weeks ago. And a lot of drug development and clinical trials, especially surrounding gastric cancers and certain lung cancers, is happening in China. And they have...

remarkable therapeutics that we really need. But I think the pipeline on getting those drugs actually here and approved here is going to be significantly delayed. Can we not make some things here? I mean, I think we should be, if a company here

comes up with something, yes, they should be able to sell it in other countries and they should be able to make a profit and all that stuff. And if it's made in Belgium or China or somewhere else, we should have access to it as well. There should be a global market for that stuff. I've seen some nonprofits that are working on that where drugs are available in the United States, but not necessarily in a European Union country. So certain nonprofits will work on that.

And then the FDA has the early access program, fortunately. But it's a lot and it delays patient care. Why are we allowing these delays? That's the thing. Yeah. Is, you know, this Paul Abramowitz, he's a CEO of this ASHP. It's a, you know, don't worry about what it is, but he's a spokesperson. He's, you know, they track drug shortages everywhere.

It says some of the most worrying shortages involve generic, sterile, injectable medications, including cancer chemotherapy drugs and emergency medications stored in hospital crash carts and procedural areas. Come on. It gets rationed between who's cured of intent and who is not. Fortunately, we don't have to do that in our area, but it's certainly... This is unnerving. This is really unnerving. And what's...

The injustice that I see in my practice is with the dronabinol shortage. We just go right over the line in Virginia, California.

Virginia residents can just go to a dispensary. So they're okay. It's more expensive. Their insurance doesn't cover it, but they can get it. But their friends who live just over the border in Tennessee see their friends going to the dispensary, but they can't. Now, the good news is that the DEA has recommended that marijuana be rescheduled from Schedule 1, meaning it's illegal, to Schedule 3. Okay.

So it will be prescribable. The FDA can't approve it unless they change their rules because they have certain rules about what they can approve. And you have to have a quantifiable ratio and a quantifiable amount, plus or minus a certain percentage. You can't do that with a plant.

But it's going to be really interesting to see how this plays out because all these places selling Delta 8 and all that stuff, they're going to knock them out of business when the pharmacists have to be the ones that dispense this stuff. Because a Schedule 3 drug has to be dispensed by a pharmacist. But it'll be legal everywhere. Yeah.

So we'll see. Now, the states still have some say over it. Yes. States can have the right to take a Schedule 5 drug and make it Schedule 1 if they want to. You know, gabapentin is not a scheduled drug in every state. But in Tennessee and Virginia, they rescheduled it to a Schedule 5 or whatever. So now it's a controlled substance. So, yeah, interesting. We definitely see it. Seems like there's some easier ways to go about it.

Well, I'll tell you one thing. You know, I've become one of those people I used to make fun of. You know, I'm pushing lion's mane mushrooms on my patients and stuff like that for their neuropathic pain. Right. There are a lot of other options. And reishi and all kinds of things. Good. There are a lot of other things out there that do work. Yeah. It just takes a lot of the Western providers' time.

being okay with learning about these things and being okay with suggesting them and not prescribing them and saying, look, there may not be perfect research on this, but we've seen some things, and I know some people that have done pretty well with taking these supplements or having these other treatments, and not feel bad about it, not feel like they're, you know,

My thing was always if it's not going to do any harm, it might do some good. But there is decent data on things like lion's mane extract. You don't want the powder. You want it extracted. The chitin in the body of the mushroom can prevent some absorption of some of the good stuff. So I just extract mine. I do an alcohol extraction. Then I do a water extraction. Okay.

And, you know, I've just got these bottles of Lion's Mane extract lying around. But you can buy it. You just buy it at Amazon. Right. And it's anecdotal information.

N of 1, you know, you and I recorded my final performance on the piano because my neuropathy had gotten so bad. I'm ready to re-record it and do the whole piece now. I only did two-thirds of it. I can really, I mean, it's amazing the difference. And I've suffered from this neuropathy.

for years and alpha lipoic acid and glutamine and those kinds of things really helped a lot but the lion's mane kind of pushed me over the you know the finish line so and I used to make fun of people oh yeah mushrooms you know go fuck yourself you know but now I'm that guy do you guys have you researched amygdala at all

A little bit. Or apricot seed. Yeah, a little. Well. It scares me. Yeah. Now, laetrile was developed from the apricot seed. And all the data I've seen on it is that not only is it not helpful, but it can be harmful. Quite harmful. Yeah. But people back in the 70s particularly were going to Mexico to get laetrile treatment because

Because, frankly, at the time, the chemotherapy that we were doing and the, you know, quote-unquote cobalt treatments and stuff were pretty barbaric. I had a patient taking this over-the-counter, like, you know, Amazon delivery amygdalin. Yeah. And...

It essentially gets, when you take it through the GI tract, right, not as IV, but when you take it through the GI tract, there's strong data that it gets metabolized into cyanide. Cyanide, right. It's cyanogenic glycoside. And this patient was in fulminant liver failure. Oh, wow.

Of course, it takes a long time to get cyanide levels back on people. And, you know, we didn't even realize she was taking it. She was a metastatic breast patient. But anyway, it just really concerned me that this is on the market. You can purchase it. Right. Certainly for healthy people, you could probably process it and be okay. But for unhealthy people. What I've said for, yeah, and I'm just looking at this amygdalin, natural cyanogenic glycoside occurring in the seeds of edible plants, bitter almonds and peaches.

It's medically interesting but controversial as it does have anti-cancer activity on one hand, but is also toxic because when our body's enzyme degrade them, it produces hydrogen cyanide, which is deadly. So these things are fascinating molecules that need to be studied.

But it breaks my heart that people are in a situation where they feel like they have to go outside the medical system to get stuff. Kratom is a good example of that. Kratom is a fascinating molecule. It has mu opioid receptor activity, just like morphine and hydrocodone or oxycodone, but also is an alkaloid. So it's got all sorts of, you know, alkaloid type activity. And I have people...

Writing me saying, hey, I was addicted to oxycodone and I got off of it using kratom. And but now I'm addicted to kratom or whatever. Or some people have had some good successes with it. But it's it bothers me that people feel like they can't just go to the medical practice.

profession to get this help that they have to go to like a head shop and just take their chances. You know, and same thing with psilocybin for PTSD. So effective or can be. Yes. Yes. The data is good. And if you choose your patients correctly and we will have it. But there are people out there with severe PTSD and the drugs that we have and the talk therapy alone may not be enough.

And so they're having to go buy magic mushrooms from Joe down the road. Figure out how to microdose. Right. Right. And have to do it on their own. And they're on their own. And that's the part of it. I don't mean that...

I need them to come to me and let me bill them, but I just don't like it for people to be on their own trying to take care of this stuff because they're so desperate for relief and they can't get it. And it's a population that should be one of the forefronts of our attention with the suicide rate being so high. Correct. So, I mean, I agree. Give thyself a bill.

Oh, all right. Depressing. That sucks. All right. Anyway, okay, I'm off my soapbox. You want to take some questions? Let's do it. Yeah. All right, let's do it. Let's do it. Number one thing, don't take advice from some asshole on the radio. All right. How about this one? Hi. Hi. My name is Alexander. I'm calling because I would like to know...

If untreated allergies can cause nasal pharyngitis, please let me know. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. One of you guys, I've been talking enough. One of you guys want to take that? Mel B, you want to take it? You're talking about post-nasal drip. Yeah. And inflammation. You want to take it, Mel B? Yeah. I mean, the answer is yes.

Yeah, so you get this continuous release of histamine. You get cobblestoning in the back of the throat, so inflammatory changes, hypersecretion. Drainage, nausea, it all comes with it. And there are many ways to treat it, other than just an antihistamine, a prescription medicine. There are nasal sprays that you might find online, like Cervix.

Simply Herbals. Dot net. Dot net. Yes, that's an excellent nasal spray that's healthy for you. The nasal lavage. You can wash the crud out of your head like Mel B was probably remembering. Never do again. And speaking of Chinese, there are some old Chinese herbs that are pretty good for nasal stuff. Actually, I took some this morning. Astragalus. Astragalus is one that I love. God damn you. Astragalus. Astragalus.

So I think the question would be, is it dangerous to not treat it? Right? Right. Well, it depends on how...

fucking miserable you want to be. The question being, if you leave that inflammation alone, could it lead to head and neck cancer or something like that? I don't think there's any evidence of that. Or just secondary infections. Post-nasal drip, it just wears away the mucous membrane. When it's exposed, it gets inflamed and it gets painful. Yes, absolutely. You want to get that treated. If you have chronic

post-nasal drip, there may be something else going on in there. You could have a nasal polyp or a concha bolosa or something like that. So let somebody look up there. Your primary care should be taking out a speculum and actually looking in your nose with a light. And if they're not doing that, get them to send you to an ear, nose, and throat doctor and get that looked at. Okay. But sometimes just a little Flonase, a little nasal steroid will take care of it. What are you going to say, Malie? You

Just thinking about putting things up my nose. Oh, yeah. She loves it. She hates that. My very favorite thing. She hates it so much that we had the inventor of the Navage on our show, and we convinced her to try a Navage. We got her her own. I did not puke. You didn't? Good job. I did not. Oh, she wanted to. That's what she said. I was drinking tequila. She wanted to. I got some liquid courage. And it felt good, though, right? It did. I felt...

I've never been so opened up in my life and never since. Yeah. But never done it again. Okay. It is sitting in the cabinet. I had an ex-boyfriend who used to snorkel me. Have you guys heard of that? Snorkel? He just randomly put his mouth over my nose when I least expect it and blow. Oh, and then blow. So annoying. And it makes you snort sort of like a...

Yeah, and then the air has to escape. Right, right, right. What an idiot. We're going to have to do a whole show of Lydia's weird experiences. Did he make you queef when he was like, you know? Oh, God. Ew. I mean, if he was blowing in your nose. I told you what to do. Oh, no. If he was blowing in your nose, would he not blow there?

Oh, Lord. Okay. The thing about... Okay, so P.A. Liddy is sitting in G-Vac's chair. Mm-hmm. And G-Vac, what was so... One of the things that was fun about him is we could make him gag pretty easily. Mm-hmm.

When we started talking about scrotums and stuff like that, I know exactly what makes P.A. Lydian puke. And don't—okay, I won't do any of the other stuff, but I know what the other things are, too. Anyway. Now I've got the image of him making me queef. Thank you. It's fucking disgusting. I huff and I puff. But it was—

But him blowing in your nose wasn't a deal breaker. So weird. Yeah, and evidently pulling her panties down without permission and pumping her. Yeah, and laying on top of her. That's not a deal breaker. I'm kind of wondering. I'll give you a tip for that. I'm kind of wondering. She actually pays extra for that. I must be. Well, you're right. This stuff deals. What can we do to Lydia to really piss her off? That's what I want to know. It would make her run away.

All right. Here we go. Are you ready? I don't think so. I hope everyone is doing well. Hey, thanks. I had a question about getting blood drawn. Okay. You know, in your local lab or wherever else. You know, in the past I've had an issue with dehydration, not drinking enough water before going in, and either they have trouble finding the means. Yep.

or the drawing was really slow, like trickle, trickle thin. And I just got out of it a little while ago and the same problem came up where they tried to vein in one arm, didn't see the catch, tried to vein in the other arm. Slow was good for the first two vials, but the third one was just a struggle, a slow trip.

And between yesterday and today, I must have drank, like, gallons of water. Like, I'm sure it was overkill, but I am just shocked that it was a problem. He's trying to increase his blood volume. I've seen her before. She's great. I don't want to call it, you know, technician error. But I'm just curious, two things. One, is there anything else I can do?

pre a blood drawing appointment to make sure that this doesn't happen stay hydrated how much hydration is enough should I try to get the blood flowing maybe do a couple jumping jacks I know it sounds silly but would that help and

And then second, I wonder if you could tell me what it is meant by a blown vein. When I was there a few months ago, this tech was having a different type of having more problems. Okay. Okay. Someone casually mentioned that. Oh, it's the blown vein. Okay. Well, yeah, we've got that. So, um,

P.A. Lydia, you were never a nurse. No. But Mel B was a nurse for X number of years, 15, 17 years before you went to nurse practitioners. Like five. Oh, only five? Don't answer that. No.

No, about seven years. Okay. This you can answer. Absolutely. So difficult, not only blood draws, but sticks for IVs. So talk about that for a minute. Well, some people just have deep veins. Yep. And the needles are small and short. And sometimes it's just hard to get deep enough. People that are large in size tend to have deeper veins. Yep.

So that's part of the problem. Right. Well, they have more overlying tissue. Right. And then you're also trying to hit a little tube.

that you can't see, that you can just feel. Right. So it's a gift, and some people just have it and can visualize these things. In the hospital, there's always that one person. When you have trouble getting something, they say, oh, call Sally June from the fifth floor. She'll come down and do it. Yes. Some people just have a sixth sense for that. I have a weird sixth sense that I can usually, if someone comes in complaining of pain, I can put my finger right where it hurts. Is it hurting here? It's...

Almost right every single time. And some of that is just intuition because I understand the anatomy and where pain comes from and all that stuff. You can kind of imagine what you can't see. And some people just can't do that. Nurses are the same way. Some nurses and phlebotomists can picture what they can't see and imagine it there. And then you can hit the vein every time. Why do you think sometimes it's a slow process?

A slow drip. Oh, I know what I am. It's fluid dynamics. Okay. We don't think it's maybe like the angle of the needle into the vein. It could be a lot of things. So the needle has a little hole on the end of it, and it's at an angle. You know, you've got a tube, and it's not on the end of the tube. Right. It's the...

the end of the tube's at an angle, so it's turned sideways. And if you have that pressed up against the inside... It slows it down because you're not getting a full flow in there. Or if you're not fully in it. Or if because of the vacuum, the vein is collapsing because veins are thin-walled and they are a little bit collapsible. Some people may have more collapsible veins, that kind of stuff. I don't mean to keep interrupting you, but what about thicker blood? I mean, would it...

If someone has a little bit thicker blood? The whole sort of concept of blood viscosity is a little bit of a myth. I mean, it's true. Okay.

That some people have slightly more viscous blood than others, like if they're dehydrated or something like that. Myeloma. Yes. And then people who have blood disorders. But the amount of viscosity difference, it's not like the difference between water, say, and honey. Okay. Got it. You know, you may even have to put it in a machine to measure it to be able to tell the difference. Got it.

But, you know, a blown vein, then talk about what a blown vein is. That's just one where somebody fucked it up. Yeah, that's just where somebody screwed up. They put a hole in the vein and it leaked. Right. And basically you have a bruise now. Yeah. And your body clots and it stops these things so that you don't bleed to death from a blood draw. Right. But you can get a blood vein from drawing blood and from an IV getting fluids and stuff.

You can get a blood vein? A blown vein. A blown vein. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Both of them. No, absolutely. It's just you can either go into the vein and then come out and it bleeds until it cuts. Or go through and through. Or you go all the way through the vein and then you've got blood coming out the other side. Right on. And it just leaks. They do have ultrasound probably.

Did you ever use that? I used a vein finder. It's like a light that makes things glow. Projects a map onto the... Yeah. Okay. Tried to hold one of those for a nurse who was trying to get IV access on my daughter and passed out. Alright.

Oh, rats. You passed out? I did. Oh, rats. She's going to embarrass my poor kid. She was so sick. Oh, my God. I don't do well with my own blood or the blood of my children. Way to make it all about you, Mom. Yeah, that's pretty much what she said. Yeah, that's what I was thinking. All about you. But it was. I did. I passed right out. I don't deal well with their blood or mine. Yeah, yeah.

But, no, I've used a vein finder. I've used it for myself. I never really found them really helpful because I'm one of those people that can imagine it. You can do it, yeah. That can see it. And it's like the one nursing thing I could do really well. I used to have really good veins. That was just one thing. I'm not a big person. I can see your veins from over here, and it's getting me very excited. Boy. I got to go.

But one of the things that you can do, if they're going to draw blood out of your arm, one of the things that you can do, jumping jacks won't do it, but what you can do is stand there, make a fist, and spin your arm around like, what was that? Um.

Like a softball pitcher. Like a softball pitcher. Yeah, like a softball pitcher. They go round and round and round and round. And through centrifugal force, you will fill up the veins in your arm, and you can see them standing out, and it makes it an easier target. Use gravity as another trick. If you've got somebody that's frail, elderly, very dehydrated, very, very sick,

You can use gravity and let their arm dangle down because then the blood, you know, kind of pulls. And then they put the tourniquet on. And the tourniquet is there because arteries are muscular, high-pressure vessels. They can push blood past the tourniquet. But veins are thin, low-pressure, you know, thin-walled vessels. And they can't push blood as easily past the tourniquet. So you get more blood going in than you get coming out.

Sounds familiar to the men out there who are taking Viagra and stuff like that. But the veins will pop out, and then you can... That's why they do that anyway. All right? Getting very excited over here. The veins. It's funny what you get excited about. All right. This person I think called for... Let me see if we've got time for this. We do not. We'll do this one on the podcast later.

And check out our podcast anywhere where you find podcasts. Let's do this one on poison ivy, though. Hey, Dr. Steve. It's Matt in Charleston. How are you? Hey, Matt. Good, man. How are you? That's good. We're doing good here. Good, man. Hey, so I'm dealing with some poison ivy. It's like a repeat issue for me because I spend a lot of time outside in the woods.

And I'm extremely sensitive to it. I've been hospitalized with it before where they've given me IV steroids to help flush it out and obviously topical stuff.

And I'm wondering how rare that is or if that's all in my head or crazy. And also, how does calamine lotion work? Does it just suck moisture out of your skin or is it magic, fairy farts? What the hell is going on with calamine?

Yeah, calamine just basically dries things out. That's its role. And there'll be calamine with Benadryl in it or diphenhydramine, which people think, oh, well, this is going to be better because it's got anti-itch stuff in it. Actually, topical diphenhydramine or topical Benadryl is calamine.

can be activating and actually make it worse. So if you need an anti-itch and you want to take diphenhydramine, which will make you sleepy, and if you've got an enlarged prostate, it'll affect your ability to urinate. But if you can take it, it's pretty good for itch. But take it orally. Don't put it on your skin. But no, it's not in his head. It's obviously real. Just get on steroids from the second it starts, and then you'll know. All right, Dr. Scott, before we get out of here...

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We need to get him in the studio, Dr. Scott. That would be fun. And then let me see. I'm going to do all those things, and you can scan for questions. Piscato Joe. Yeah. Thank you for the $1.99 super chat. I stand with Dr. Steve. This is a hot, sexy talk. Hashtag chub. So well done, PA Lydia. Okay.

I think that was about you talking about the veins bulging. Oh, you think? No. I don't think so. I think there was some massage talk that got him going. All right. So that's what I've got. I'm glad someone enjoyed it. I enjoyed it. I didn't. I mean, the event. It gives you a good story. There's pleasure out of it. Yeah. It was a good story. All right, Dr. Scott, what do you got from the fluid family? I see lots of sort of long posts. Yeah, but we do have one question. Okay. So we'll do that one then.

I'm from Golden, Georgia, and I think this is a good one for Lydia. How long does the bruising normally last after IVs? Took a few tries for the anesthesia, and they beat me up pretty bad. Yeah, so...

Can I answer now? Yes, please. Yeah. Bruises, typically a couple of weeks you can see changes from bruising. Right. So initially they would be like a bright red color, purple, and then eventually fade into a green-ish color as your body starts to break down. And then yellow. Yeah. So it's normal to last for a couple weeks. If you get a big enough hematoma where there's actual collection of blood in one place, it

the body can get rid of everything but the calcium, and so you'll get a little nodule of calcium left behind. But that's a really big one, like a car wreck on somebody's hip. They've got a big, giant hematoma.

And a couple things to help with bruising, though. Topical stuff is Arnica. Arnica. It's not a prescription, you know, allopathic medicine. It's an old, you know, homeopathic medicine. And a lot of the surgeons, a lot of the vein doctors will use that for bruising. It works pretty well. Arnica. Yeah. So bruising is just loose blood under the skin. And it'll travel around along sort of –

fascial pathways in other ways in other words pathways between layers of of tissue and uh if it's on your leg a lot of times it will migrate down the leg and you think oh gosh this thing's spreading but it's really not it's just the blood being affected by gravity and um yeah so uh

When they dig around in there, sometimes you get a bruise where they did it, and that's just part of it. Nobody's perfect at putting these needles in. Hey, one last quickie that just came in. One last quickie. Diesel Child wants to know, isn't it dangerous to blow air into a vagina?

Okay, so there is such a thing called an air embolism, but that is when the person is pregnant. Right. So let me look up vaginal air embolism because you should not, when someone is pregnant and like nine months pregnant, you should not be blowing air up their vagina. It's rare, potentially fatal, and it can occur when air is introduced into the vagina under pressure.

And it can happen during, and I love this term, vaginal insufflation. Because that's what that is. So anytime you blow into something and blow it up, it's called insufflation. That's right.

or during digital or penile penetration in non-pregnant. Well, they say here non-pregnant women can get it. When air enters the vagina, travels through the cervical canal and the amniotic membranes, so it's subplacental sinuses. That's where the problem is. So you've got the placenta, and then you have what they call sinuses, which are just pools of blood where exchange is happening. And pregnant women can lead to death for the mother and the fetus within minutes.

Now, here it says in non-pregnant women, air can enter the venous circulation through vaginal lacerations. Okay. That is highly unlikely. That would be very traumatic. And cause acute right heart failure. You would have to. I mean, this, again, another Eli Roth type situation where you're just taking an air compressor. Right. Maybe that's happened, though. People have done stupider shit. Yeah, that's true. When I was a medical examiner.

I used to get the journal. It's called NAME. It was National Association of Medical Examiners. And this journal was just one horrific death after another. And one guy died. Get the... I mean...

You know, you have an infinite number of instances. You're going to have infinite number of things happen. This person mixed up quickcrete and gave himself an enema with it. Now, I'm not sure what he was trying to accomplish, but what he didn't realize was that concrete is an exothermic reaction. In other words, it gives off heat. It's hot in there.

Well, it gives off heat as it crystallizes, and it cooked him to death from the inside. Yikes. Yeah, it was bad. What a terrible idea. Yeah, not a good idea. Don't do that. Champagne enemas, don't do that. You absorb it too fast, and you can't control it.

and you can get alcohol poisoning and even die. We had somebody in the National Association of Medical Examiners die from champagne anemone. Oh, goodness. Just drink it. Yeah, drink it. It's tasty. It tastes great. Yes, just drink it. Stop putting vodka under your eyelids or soaking tampons. We proved on this show that that does not work. That was before Dr. Scott's time and P.A. Lydia's time. We had a woman come in and volunteer. We soaked a tampon. We tried that in college. Well, failed.

Right. Well, and people are trying to, you know, if they're underage, they're trying to drink without drinking so they can go to a party and be drunk or whatever. But we soaked this thing in vodka. And maybe I'll post this episode on my Patreon because it's not available elsewhere now. And every 20 minutes we did a breathalyzer test on her.

on her and it was zero every time. She's got nothing, which makes total sense. What's the one thing the vagina is not made to do? Absorb things. It's made to be a conduit for semen. Believe it or not, there's a purpose for it other than just, you know,

your membrane there and going in and out and in and out until stuff comes out. There's a reason for it. And when semen is deposited in there, you don't want it to absorb. You want the sperm cells to end up

through the cervix into the uterus where it's going to find, not in the fallopian tubes, Dr. Scott, that's where you don't want it to go. That would be awful. But you want it to meet an egg somewhere in a hospitable place in the uterus. It's amazing. Any of us are even fucking here when you think about it.

when you put it that way. But that's what it's for, so it's not made to absorb things. Now, if you shove, don't do this, if you shove that same tampon up your rectum, then you would absorb some of it. But please don't do that. I'm telling you, don't do that. It's stupid. Just drink it responsibly.

For fuck's sake. Hey, before you get out of here, Diesel Child thinks he needs a bell for his beautiful question. Okay. I like a bell. I think a bell's reasonable. Take your hand off my penis! There you go. Give thyself a bell. There you go.

There you go. All right, my friends. Cool. Yeah, let's get out of here. We will be playing some music. Mel B was supposed to demonstrate her skills on the guitar after doing the roadie coach, but we'll do that on the after show. Mm-hmm.

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