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across most of the United States. The the heat is just not letting up
on us. And you know, certainly these are the days that we reflect
and curse the cold weather that we get occasionally here in Texas. And a
lot of us would say, oh, the heat never bothers me. I
love the heat. This cold is for the pits. Well now we're sort
of saying the opposite, bring on the cool and get rid of the heats.
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right, a programming note for this week This Thursday, twelve o'clock noon Central
Time, one pm East. I'll leave it to you to do the math
in other time zones. I am going to be hosting a program on Sirius
XM channel one twenty nine. It is the Catholic Channel, and from time
to time I do a program it is very similar to this Your Health First,
but we give it a little bit of a twist. It's your Health
First, putting faith and health together for a better use. So there is
the spiritual aspect that I bring to it on the Catholic Channel on Series six
S channel one twenty nine. So if you want to tune in to that,
it is twelve noon local time here in Houston, Central Time. And
actually one of the guests I'm going to have is someone that a lot of
you in Houston know a lot of you in Texas, Mark Sherman. So
Mark Sherman has been a permanent fixture at iHeartRadio here in Houston for many,
many many years Sunny ninety nine point one, which he was a very very
big part of and still is. And Mark and I are going to talk
about men's health, men's ministry in the Atholic Church or Christian Church. And
so if you're a fan of Mark, tune in. You'll be hearing him
on the Catholic channel twelve o'clock noon Central on Serious XM channel one twenty nine.
Actually the replay is available on the Serious XM app if you get that.
But what I will be doing is I will be repurposing it and replaying
it on our podcast. We say where do you get the podcast? The
podcast is on doctor Joe Klati dot com. So on the program today,
I have a number of news stories that I'm going to be weeding through and
we will spend thirty seconds or five minutes on them. I've got a stack
of news stories here that I want to get through to everybody. But a
couple of things just to backtrack, just to touch So a few days ago,
July twenty eighth, it was the World Health Organization declared that it was
World Hepatitis Day. Now, as a hepatologist, I have spent my entire
career taking care of people with hepatitis, and in this particular scenario, World
Hepatitis Day is really focusing on the viral hepatitis. Now, just to step
back a few steps, hepatitis in the most generic sense, is inflammation of
the liver, just like any of those other itis words arthritis, dermatitis,
neurritis, myositis. It's inflammation of different parts of the brain. Colitis inflammation
of the colon. So hepatitisis is inflammation of the Ever Now, there are
many, many different causes of hepatitis, and a day does not go by
where we're talking with a patient in the office and we say, look,
Bob, you have hepatitis and they say, how could it be. I'm
not infectious, I haven't done drugs, I haven't had sex with anybody.
No, no, no, We're not talking about viral hepatitis. We're talking
about maybe autoimmune hepatitis, a drug induced hepatitis. But the World Hepatitis Day
July twenty eighth, just this past week, really focuses on viral hepatitis.
Now, a few things for you to remember and take away. And the
one guarantee, and there are very few guarantees in life, the one guarantee
listening to this program each week is that you will have actionable information that you
could learn right now and that you could do something about. So the actionable
information now is that everybody, every man woman and child needs to be screened
for a hepatitis C. See like Charlie. Now a couple of things about
hepatitis C. It's highly curable. There are medications there that will give you
a better than a ninety five ninety eight percent curate. So if we identify
it, it can be cured. Left untreated, you run the risk of
developing cirrhosis, which is scarring of the liver. You run the risk of
developing liver cancer. Going into liver failure, it can cause other malignancies like
lymphoma, could cause kidney problems, heart problems, nerve problems. So the
awareness part here, the actionable information is everybody Tomorrow Monday morning, check your
medical records, check your Emily's records, and say have we all been screened
for hepatitis C. If you're not sure, gets screened again. Call up
your family doctor, your internist, your gynecologist, whoever is taking care of
you, your nurse practitioner or a physician assistant. Call them up and say,
hey, have I been checked and tested for hepatitis C. If the
answers know, you kindly ask them please put in an order for a hepatitis
The antibody test, because the thing is, with hepatitis C, you may
have no symptoms, you feel fine, and you may be sitting there and
say luck, luck, luck. If I had something wrong with my liver,
if I had hepatitis, I would know something is wrong. Well,
hate to burst your bubble, but you may not know anything is wrong.
And so the other thing is there are some standard, well documented risk fact
for how you get hepatitis C. First and foremost, history of blood transfusions
theoretically prior to nineteen ninety two. Now that was a heck of a long
time ago, but that is one thing. Number two, any history of
intravenous or intra nasal drug use. Now along those lines, if you're fifty
years old, you're successful, you're running a company. You may not exactly
want to fess up and say, hey, doc, look, I just
want to tell you something. When I was in my twenties and thirties,
I had a horrible problem with heroin. Just to let you know, please
check me for hepsy. So people are very reluctant to come forward. That
hampers the doctor thinking to say, ah, Bob is saying he had a
problem with heroin or cocaine or he snorted whatever, I better test him.
But on the questionnaire everything comes up no, no, no, no,
no, no, no, never at anything. So we have basically gotten
away from asking people do you have tattoos? Did you do drugs? Did
you ever get a blood transfusion? Do you work in a dialysis unit?
Or do you a healthcare work or a fireman first responder? Do you work
in a prison? Have you ever been incarcerated? Have you had sex with
multiple people, men with men? Have you had a sexually transmitted disease which
puts you at risk for heps? So instead of asking these somewhat uncomfortable questions,
just skip it. Test everybody, Test everybody, and that's where the
rationale comes in. Okay. So the other is with regard to hepatitis,
the viral idiologies typically hepatitis A, B and C. See we have covered
We just sort of enlightened everybody on that hepatitis A and B very effective vaccines
that have been around for nearly thirty years. Safe, effective, nothing to
do with the COVID vaccine. And so there are those of us that feel
everybody should have universal vaccination against hepatitis A and B, depending on where you're
from. I e Asian parts of Africa, Central Europe, there are higher
rates of hepatitis B. You need to get screened. Hepatitis A is a
typically a food born infection where somebody that has hepatitis A doesn't realize they have
hepatitis A. It is shed in their stool, in their poop. They
don't wash their hands, they prepare a cobb salad for you. You ingest
part of their stool. Yes, I know it is disgusting for a Sunday
evening, but then you are in a sense exposed to hepatitis A. Two
weeks later you get sick and you don't know where you got it from.
So vaccination for A and B is very good. On the Facebook page,
okay, our Facebook page, which you could get by going to everybody doctor
Joe Glotti dot com, you can. I'll leave an article on hepatize A,
B and C little primer for all of you to look at. How
about that? Okay, all right, we are going to take a quick
break here and when we come back some items in the news. Don't forget
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a little good music on Sunday night. As we were chatting about the last
segment, your actionable information for tonight is get screened for appatitis C. All
right, talk to your doctor. Do not assume anything. I see tons
of patients and they say, oh yeah, I think I got it done.
Unless you see it in writing. Unless you see a negative test result,
you ain't got nothing, okay, So make sure you get tested for
that. Now. The next thing, in the last few minutes before Sally
Adams comes on and talks about news, weather, traffic and how the astros
are doing, there is an initiative that you may have heard about. It's
called Healthy People twenty thirty. So the government, in all their wisdom,
put together three hundred and fifty nine three hundred and fifty nine core objectives on
how they are going to have a healthy American citizenship by twenty thirty, and
the clock is running. Okay, time is flying. Now. Out of
this three hundred and fifty nine core objectives, I become very cynical to say,
are they really serious about this? And I have to say, no,
they're not. They're really not serious about this. So one of the
core objectives is addiction. That they want to get addiction under control. But
yet year over year, the fentanyl crisis, whatever you want to call it,
is causing the deaths, the destruction of lives, the destruction of careers,
the destruction of families is going up year over year. And if they
were serious, they would cut off the influx, the supply, the flow
of fentanyl coming into this country. Where it is coming from, and let's
admit it, it is coming through the borders, unless it's being parachuted,
in which maybe it could be with all the balloon activity we've had. It
is coming directly through the border. Shut Down the border, make it illegal,
put these people away, to pour them. You know where it's coming
from, which is turning a blind eye. So when you say, yes,
we are very lofty, healthy people twenty thirty, all these core objectives,
the biggest one that is staring us in the face. They can't even
get straight. The other overweight and obesity, and let's throw in diabetes as
a separate core objective. Why is it that if you have pre diabetes,
or you're overweight, and you have a fatty liver, and you have hypertension,
those are not diagnostic codes that will allow you to see a registered dietitian
and or nutritionist to help you eat better. It's not covered. So if
it's not covered, most people are not going to dig into their pocket to
see a nutritionist or dietitian. They're just going to kick the can down the
road. Paying for a dietary consultation would be a fraction of the cost.
Then have somebody progressed to becoming a dialysis patient, having a heart attack,
getting stints, and all of the other downstream complications of diabetes, obesity and
heart disease. All right, we're gonna take a break. News whether traffic
astros are coming up. Maybe we'll learn about how hot it is here in
Houston. I'm doctor Joe Glotti. Stay tuned, Welcome back, everybody.
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at twelve o'clock noon here Central time, one pm East. Okay, let's
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It's radio at doctor Joe Glotti dot com. Radio at doctor Joe Glotti
dot com. Let's see a couple of articles and I'm going to post these
on the YouTube page. Not YouTube, what am I saying? Facebook,
on the Facebook page, and you could get there by going to doctor Joe
Glotti dot com. The first has to do at aspirin. Now, most
people think that aspirin is safe, especially a baby aspirin. I'm just taking
the baby aspirin eighty one milligrams a day. Well, whether you're taking any
one milligrams a day or three hundred and twenty five milligrams, it is doing
the same thing. It is basically paralyzing your platelets. And that's why aspirin
works in certain situations to make your platelets less sticky, but at the same
time you also bleed more. And so there was a study. It was
published recently in Journal of the American Medical Association, and what they found out
is that individuals, and I should say adults, I believe they were older
than seventy. Now, the key point here is if you had no underlying
heart disease, and you had no risk factors for heart attack or stroke,
so you were basically pretty healthy, and the idea of taking a baby aspirant
as a prevention to having a heart attack or stroke did not fully pan out.
So taking it did not have any reduced risk of heart attack or stroke.
Now what it did do You had a thirty percent increased risk of having
a bleed, a hemorrhage into your brain. Now that is not any good.
Okay, so you know the study pointed this out. Now, whether
you're a physician listening or a patient on aspirin, first and foremost, do
not stop taking aspirin without talking to your doctor. Period. You have to.
Now, this is one of those great situations where if you are on
aspirin by all means, bring this up to your doctor and say what risk
factors do I have? Now you should know if you yourself have risk factors
for heart attack or stroke, highpertension, you have high cholesterol, you have
diabetes, those type things. But if it's unclear, you're really not sure.
In addition to getting screened for hepatitis C tomorrow, if you've all been
listening to the prior segment, call up your doctrine and say, hey,
why am I on a baby aspirin? Ask those questions. Not in a
challenging, duke it out with your health team, but you want to be
that informed consumer. You really want to know why you're taking it. And
certainly, taking aspirin, even eighty one milligrams a day can cause a bleed
into your brain. It can cause gastro intestinal bleeding, which many, many
times is asymptomatic. You're not going to have heartburn, indigestion, any other
GI symptoms. You just hemorrhage out. And a lot of older people die
each year from bleeding related to taking aspirin, So you have to be very
careful. That is the main take home here, the idea of just taking
a baby aspirin because there's commercials on TV about bare aspirin eighty one milligrams or
ecotrin, whatever it may be. And you go to the pharmacy and you
see a sea of aspirin lined up on the shelves and you say, hey,
you know what I think I need to be on aspirin. I want
to be proactive. If you are the wrong profile, it can spell trouble.
All right, all right, changing gears, no pun intended. Are
you all familiar with e bikes? So these are bicycles. They look like
a regular bicycle with a pedaling gears and brakes and tires, but they're battery
operated. And this is something that I was unfamiliar with. But there is
an increasing incidence of these ebikes colliding causing all kinds of ebike motor vehicle accident
resulting in young people dying. Now, first and foremost, if you yourself
or one of your kids or a grand kid has an electric bike, take
a look at this article, and and and and be aware now that the
top speed in many of these e bikes, battery operated bikes, is about
twenty miles per hour. Now when you read through the article, as a
side note, there is a way to bypass in a sense, a governor
on it and you clip the wire and it you bypass the speed limit on
the bike, and it could go faster. And so the you know,
National UH Safety Transit Authority, the Consumer UH Customer Products Safety Commission, National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, they don't know where to put these things. Is
it a bicycle or is it a motorized vehicle? And so the key thing
is to be safe and right now there are really no restrictions on the bike.
Of course, they should all be wearing helmets. They should not use
these bikes under the influence of drugs or alcohol or marijuana or anything else.
And you have to make sure that they are trained on how to ride the
bike in traffic, because it's you're going slower than say, fifty five miles
an hour to keep up with traffic on the street. But and you're faster
than a bike or faster than someone running, but you're sort of in that
in between, and you have to know how to address the intersection, red
lights, stop signs, three way crossings, etc. Etc. Etc.
And people are a combination of both being reckless the bike rider and the cars
don't quite know what these things are going to do. Is that kid going
to just whiz by me on the right side? Is it going to cross
in front of me? Who has the right away? So I would say
this is a rather scary article, but I will post this one too on
Facebook for you to look at. And I would say, with all of
all of these things, it is being knowledgeable. Number one. You have
to realize these things are potentially dangerous. I've ridden e bikes. They are
very cool to be on. Now I wrote them on a controlled street in
a park and I had no intentions. I don't even like to ride my
own bike on the street. I am a trail kind of rider. But
once you're mixing, you're mixing these bikes with cars, and people are more
distracted than ever you're You're putting a lot of faith in the driver that they're
going to know what these ebike riders are going to do. So I believe
everybody, everybody needs to be aware, have a conversation at the kitchen table
about e bikes. If you are the car driver, you may never sit
on an ebike in your life, but you need to know how fast they
go. There are accidents, Proceed with caution. The yellow lights should be
on in your head. If somebody in your family has an ebike, you
need to alert them to be careful. How are they going to handle stop
signs, red lights, intersections, yield signs, whatever. Okay, So
that is our public service for tonight. All right, final segment coming up.
Don't forget doctor Joe Glati dot com. Go there for everything, find
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raising your health. I Q. Stay tuned final segment we'll bring back.
Thanks for tuning in this Sunday evening. As always, it is my
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have. We want to inspire everybody. We want everybody to become and I
say it every week being a better consumer of healthcare, raising your health i
Q because the majority of the chronic disease that we see is related to the
lifestyle choices we make, or the lifestyle choices we don't make. The things
we don't do. We elect not to eat well, we elect not to
exercise, we elect to stay up late, we elect to drink too much
alcohol and smoke. Okay, So by you all gathering this information through the
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And if you go to doctor Joe Glotti dot com, the podcast is there
for replays and other broadcast that we've got. Okay, so talking about sleep
deprivation, now this is sort of interesting. Google is tracking the number of
searches for sleep remedies and insomnia. So again, big brother, big Google
is watching us. And you know that right. You all know that all
of your search terms are being logged and associated with you or other groups of
people. So what they found is that they looked at all fifty states and
they made the assumption that if you were searching insomnia sleep remedies, how to
heck do I fall asleep at night? Why am I up all night?
That you are having some sort of an insomnia or sleep problem. And so
the the states with the most sleeped deprived searches, okay, the top ten
California, Maryland, New York, Massachusetts, Nevada, Georgia, Connecticut,
Virginia, Texas is coming in at number nine and New Jersey at ten.
And part of their analysis of this is that people that live on the easter
west coast that are in the city or close to the city have similar type
problems related to noise, being in a large urban area, traffic stress,
large commutes, things like that, they're more likely to drink coffee, public
transit traffic, which all ends up being less time for sleep. Now the
flip side, let's go to the least sleep deprived states based on the number
of searches, so number one. These are the least sleep deprived Montana,
South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, Iowa, West Virginia, North Dakota,
Arkansas. That's Arkansas, Maine and Kansas number ten. Now what do you
what do you notice about these states? They're in the middle of nowhere,
they're low population, the town's close up at eight o'clock. There's look,
I lived in Nebraska, I know all about the Midwest. I lived in
Iowa for a while too. I've traveled to all these places. This is
a much more laid back. People are working in age, they're in physical
labor. They are up early and they are in bed early, and they
don't have traffic. They go down to the corner store, pick up their
gas and their groceries and their elk burghers and they're fine. So it is
a change in lifestyle. So the opposite of everything that the people in California,
Maryland and New York have. It is the antithesis of that. And
that's in Montana, South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming, Iowa, West Virginia,
North Dakota, Arkansas, Maine, and Kansas. And those are all
lovely states with beautiful people. So think about it, now, why don't
we talk about this. Well, if you live in one of those states,
like Texas or California, you're putting yourself at risk for chronic disease.
And it's the usual cast of characters. It is obesity, hypertension, increased
risk of stroke, depression, high blood pressure, kidney disease, diabetes,
all because you don't sleep enough. Now, I know plenty of people that
have relocated from these city dwelling locations to get out into the country into a
quieter lifestyle for their health. And so you have to look and say,
what kind of you know, what kind of a lifestyle do you want?
One that's putting you at risk for chronic disease or one that's going to support
a very healthful type of environment for you and your family. Something to think
about, But do do pay attention to your sleep. The last two articles,
I will post these on the Facebook page. We're just running out of
time here, and maybe we could talk about this next week. How fake
science sells wellness. What I would say is a day does not go by
in my office where people come in and they want some shortcut to making lifestyle
changes. So we have this big, long talk about how we're going to
manage their liver disease, their diabetes, and how to help them lose weight.
And at the very end of the conversation they say, well, can
I take this supplement? And I said, it's garbage, it's not proven,
it is not controlled. You're putting yourself at risk. In the same
light, there is a supplement out there called Crayton cr A t O M.
It's being pushed as a sort of an antidote for opioid addiction. Again,
it can cause other adverse events. It can cause seizures, it can
cause liver damage, which I'm familiar with, and it is just trying to
prey on your desire to get off of these medication. So be aware.
All right, we're going to close out tonight. I do hope that you
learned something tonight, at least one thing. Go to doctor Joe Glati dot
com. Hopefully I will see you on the radio Thursday on Sirius XM channel
one twenty nine. Until then, send me a note, send me a
message, let me know what's on your mind, and we'll see you next
Sunday night. Thank you,