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Initial coming to you live from Houston, Texas, home to the world's largest

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medical cellar. Everything looking really dremian. This is Your Health First, the

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most beneficial health program on radio with
doctor Joe Glati. During the next hour

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you'll learn about health, wellness and
the prevention of disease. Now here's your

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host, doctor Joe Gillotti. A
blistering Sunday evening here in Texas and probably

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across most of the United States.
The the heat is just not letting up

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on us. And you know,
certainly these are the days that we reflect

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and curse the cold weather that we
get occasionally here in Texas. And a

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lot of us would say, oh, the heat never bothers me. I

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love the heat. This cold is
for the pits. Well now we're sort

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of saying the opposite, bring on
the cool and get rid of the heats.

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But that is life. We're never
satisfied. I'm Dutch Joe Glotti in

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right, a programming note for this
week This Thursday, twelve o'clock noon Central

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Time, one pm East. I'll
leave it to you to do the math

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in other time zones. I am
going to be hosting a program on Sirius

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XM channel one twenty nine. It
is the Catholic Channel, and from time

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to time I do a program it
is very similar to this Your Health First,

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but we give it a little bit
of a twist. It's your Health

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First, putting faith and health together
for a better use. So there is

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the spiritual aspect that I bring to
it on the Catholic Channel on Series six

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S channel one twenty nine. So
if you want to tune in to that,

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it is twelve noon local time here
in Houston, Central Time. And

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actually one of the guests I'm going
to have is someone that a lot of

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you in Houston know a lot of
you in Texas, Mark Sherman. So

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Mark Sherman has been a permanent fixture
at iHeartRadio here in Houston for many,

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many many years Sunny ninety nine point
one, which he was a very very

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big part of and still is.
And Mark and I are going to talk

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about men's health, men's ministry in
the Atholic Church or Christian Church. And

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so if you're a fan of Mark, tune in. You'll be hearing him

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on the Catholic channel twelve o'clock noon
Central on Serious XM channel one twenty nine.

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Actually the replay is available on the
Serious XM app if you get that.

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But what I will be doing is
I will be repurposing it and replaying

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it on our podcast. We say
where do you get the podcast? The

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podcast is on doctor Joe Klati dot
com. So on the program today,

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I have a number of news stories
that I'm going to be weeding through and

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we will spend thirty seconds or five
minutes on them. I've got a stack

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of news stories here that I want
to get through to everybody. But a

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couple of things just to backtrack,
just to touch So a few days ago,

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July twenty eighth, it was the
World Health Organization declared that it was

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World Hepatitis Day. Now, as
a hepatologist, I have spent my entire

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career taking care of people with hepatitis, and in this particular scenario, World

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Hepatitis Day is really focusing on the
viral hepatitis. Now, just to step

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back a few steps, hepatitis in
the most generic sense, is inflammation of

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the liver, just like any of
those other itis words arthritis, dermatitis,

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neurritis, myositis. It's inflammation of
different parts of the brain. Colitis inflammation

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of the colon. So hepatitisis is
inflammation of the Ever Now, there are

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many, many different causes of hepatitis, and a day does not go by

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where we're talking with a patient in
the office and we say, look,

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Bob, you have hepatitis and they
say, how could it be. I'm

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not infectious, I haven't done drugs, I haven't had sex with anybody.

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No, no, no, We're
not talking about viral hepatitis. We're talking

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about maybe autoimmune hepatitis, a drug
induced hepatitis. But the World Hepatitis Day

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July twenty eighth, just this past
week, really focuses on viral hepatitis.

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Now, a few things for you
to remember and take away. And the

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one guarantee, and there are very
few guarantees in life, the one guarantee

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listening to this program each week is
that you will have actionable information that you

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could learn right now and that you
could do something about. So the actionable

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information now is that everybody, every
man woman and child needs to be screened

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for a hepatitis C. See like
Charlie. Now a couple of things about

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hepatitis C. It's highly curable.
There are medications there that will give you

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a better than a ninety five ninety
eight percent curate. So if we identify

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it, it can be cured.
Left untreated, you run the risk of

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developing cirrhosis, which is scarring of
the liver. You run the risk of

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developing liver cancer. Going into liver
failure, it can cause other malignancies like

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lymphoma, could cause kidney problems,
heart problems, nerve problems. So the

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awareness part here, the actionable information
is everybody Tomorrow Monday morning, check your

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medical records, check your Emily's records, and say have we all been screened

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for hepatitis C. If you're not
sure, gets screened again. Call up

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your family doctor, your internist,
your gynecologist, whoever is taking care of

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you, your nurse practitioner or a
physician assistant. Call them up and say,

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hey, have I been checked and
tested for hepatitis C. If the

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answers know, you kindly ask them
please put in an order for a hepatitis

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The antibody test, because the thing
is, with hepatitis C, you may

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have no symptoms, you feel fine, and you may be sitting there and

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say luck, luck, luck.
If I had something wrong with my liver,

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if I had hepatitis, I would
know something is wrong. Well,

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hate to burst your bubble, but
you may not know anything is wrong.

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And so the other thing is there
are some standard, well documented risk fact

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for how you get hepatitis C.
First and foremost, history of blood transfusions

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theoretically prior to nineteen ninety two.
Now that was a heck of a long

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time ago, but that is one
thing. Number two, any history of

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intravenous or intra nasal drug use.
Now along those lines, if you're fifty

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years old, you're successful, you're
running a company. You may not exactly

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want to fess up and say,
hey, doc, look, I just

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want to tell you something. When
I was in my twenties and thirties,

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I had a horrible problem with heroin. Just to let you know, please

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check me for hepsy. So people
are very reluctant to come forward. That

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hampers the doctor thinking to say,
ah, Bob is saying he had a

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problem with heroin or cocaine or he
snorted whatever, I better test him.

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But on the questionnaire everything comes up
no, no, no, no,

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no, no, no, never
at anything. So we have basically gotten

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away from asking people do you have
tattoos? Did you do drugs? Did

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you ever get a blood transfusion?
Do you work in a dialysis unit?

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Or do you a healthcare work or
a fireman first responder? Do you work

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in a prison? Have you ever
been incarcerated? Have you had sex with

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multiple people, men with men?
Have you had a sexually transmitted disease which

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puts you at risk for heps?
So instead of asking these somewhat uncomfortable questions,

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just skip it. Test everybody,
Test everybody, and that's where the

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rationale comes in. Okay. So
the other is with regard to hepatitis,

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the viral idiologies typically hepatitis A,
B and C. See we have covered

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We just sort of enlightened everybody on
that hepatitis A and B very effective vaccines

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that have been around for nearly thirty
years. Safe, effective, nothing to

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do with the COVID vaccine. And
so there are those of us that feel

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everybody should have universal vaccination against hepatitis
A and B, depending on where you're

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from. I e Asian parts of
Africa, Central Europe, there are higher

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rates of hepatitis B. You need
to get screened. Hepatitis A is a

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typically a food born infection where somebody
that has hepatitis A doesn't realize they have

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hepatitis A. It is shed in
their stool, in their poop. They

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don't wash their hands, they prepare
a cobb salad for you. You ingest

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part of their stool. Yes,
I know it is disgusting for a Sunday

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evening, but then you are in
a sense exposed to hepatitis A. Two

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weeks later you get sick and you
don't know where you got it from.

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So vaccination for A and B is
very good. On the Facebook page,

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okay, our Facebook page, which
you could get by going to everybody doctor

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Joe Glotti dot com, you can. I'll leave an article on hepatize A,

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B and C little primer for all
of you to look at. How

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about that? Okay, all right, we are going to take a quick

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break here and when we come back
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a little good music on Sunday night. As we were chatting about the last

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segment, your actionable information for tonight
is get screened for appatitis C. All

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right, talk to your doctor.
Do not assume anything. I see tons

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of patients and they say, oh
yeah, I think I got it done.

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Unless you see it in writing.
Unless you see a negative test result,

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you ain't got nothing, okay,
So make sure you get tested for

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that. Now. The next thing, in the last few minutes before Sally

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Adams comes on and talks about news, weather, traffic and how the astros

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are doing, there is an initiative
that you may have heard about. It's

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called Healthy People twenty thirty. So
the government, in all their wisdom,

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put together three hundred and fifty nine
three hundred and fifty nine core objectives on

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how they are going to have a
healthy American citizenship by twenty thirty, and

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the clock is running. Okay,
time is flying. Now. Out of

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this three hundred and fifty nine core
objectives, I become very cynical to say,

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are they really serious about this?
And I have to say, no,

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they're not. They're really not serious
about this. So one of the

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core objectives is addiction. That they
want to get addiction under control. But

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yet year over year, the fentanyl
crisis, whatever you want to call it,

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is causing the deaths, the destruction
of lives, the destruction of careers,

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the destruction of families is going up
year over year. And if they

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were serious, they would cut off
the influx, the supply, the flow

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of fentanyl coming into this country.
Where it is coming from, and let's

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admit it, it is coming through
the borders, unless it's being parachuted,

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in which maybe it could be with
all the balloon activity we've had. It

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is coming directly through the border.
Shut Down the border, make it illegal,

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put these people away, to pour
them. You know where it's coming

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from, which is turning a blind
eye. So when you say, yes,

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we are very lofty, healthy people
twenty thirty, all these core objectives,

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the biggest one that is staring us
in the face. They can't even

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get straight. The other overweight and
obesity, and let's throw in diabetes as

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a separate core objective. Why is
it that if you have pre diabetes,

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or you're overweight, and you have
a fatty liver, and you have hypertension,

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those are not diagnostic codes that will
allow you to see a registered dietitian

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and or nutritionist to help you eat
better. It's not covered. So if

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it's not covered, most people are
not going to dig into their pocket to

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see a nutritionist or dietitian. They're
just going to kick the can down the

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road. Paying for a dietary consultation
would be a fraction of the cost.

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Then have somebody progressed to becoming a
dialysis patient, having a heart attack,

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getting stints, and all of the
other downstream complications of diabetes, obesity and

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heart disease. All right, we're
gonna take a break. News whether traffic

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astros are coming up. Maybe we'll
learn about how hot it is here in

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Houston. I'm doctor Joe Glotti.
Stay tuned, Welcome back, everybody.

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I was saying at the beginning of
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hosting a program on Serious SEXM Channel
one twenty nine, which is the Catholic

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station. We do a version of
your health first with a religious spiritual type

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twist to it. Don't fear it, it's not that bad. But if

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you want to hear more on a
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twelve o'clock noon Central and one pm
East and West Coast, whatever it may

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be, you do the math.
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at twelve o'clock noon here Central time, one pm East. Okay, let's

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of articles and I'm going to post these

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on the YouTube page. Not YouTube, what am I saying? Facebook,

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on the Facebook page, and you
could get there by going to doctor Joe

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Glotti dot com. The first has
to do at aspirin. Now, most

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people think that aspirin is safe,
especially a baby aspirin. I'm just taking

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the baby aspirin eighty one milligrams a
day. Well, whether you're taking any

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one milligrams a day or three hundred
and twenty five milligrams, it is doing

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the same thing. It is basically
paralyzing your platelets. And that's why aspirin

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works in certain situations to make your
platelets less sticky, but at the same

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time you also bleed more. And
so there was a study. It was

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published recently in Journal of the American
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is that individuals, and I should
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than seventy. Now, the key
point here is if you had no underlying

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heart disease, and you had no
risk factors for heart attack or stroke,

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so you were basically pretty healthy,
and the idea of taking a baby aspirant

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as a prevention to having a heart
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So taking it did not have any
reduced risk of heart attack or stroke.

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Now what it did do You had
a thirty percent increased risk of having

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a bleed, a hemorrhage into your
brain. Now that is not any good.

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Okay, so you know the study
pointed this out. Now, whether

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you're a physician listening or a patient
on aspirin, first and foremost, do

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not stop taking aspirin without talking to
your doctor. Period. You have to.

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Now, this is one of those
great situations where if you are on

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aspirin by all means, bring this
up to your doctor and say what risk

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factors do I have? Now you
should know if you yourself have risk factors

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for heart attack or stroke, highpertension, you have high cholesterol, you have

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diabetes, those type things. But
if it's unclear, you're really not sure.

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In addition to getting screened for hepatitis
C tomorrow, if you've all been

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listening to the prior segment, call
up your doctrine and say, hey,

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why am I on a baby aspirin? Ask those questions. Not in a

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challenging, duke it out with your
health team, but you want to be

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that informed consumer. You really want
to know why you're taking it. And

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certainly, taking aspirin, even eighty
one milligrams a day can cause a bleed

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into your brain. It can cause
gastro intestinal bleeding, which many, many

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times is asymptomatic. You're not going
to have heartburn, indigestion, any other

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GI symptoms. You just hemorrhage out. And a lot of older people die

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each year from bleeding related to taking
aspirin, So you have to be very

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careful. That is the main take
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a baby aspirin because there's commercials on
TV about bare aspirin eighty one milligrams or

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ecotrin, whatever it may be.
And you go to the pharmacy and you

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see a sea of aspirin lined up
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you know what I think I need
to be on aspirin. I want

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to be proactive. If you are
the wrong profile, it can spell trouble.

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All right, all right, changing
gears, no pun intended. Are

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you all familiar with e bikes?
So these are bicycles. They look like

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a regular bicycle with a pedaling gears
and brakes and tires, but they're battery

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operated. And this is something that
I was unfamiliar with. But there is

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an increasing incidence of these ebikes colliding
causing all kinds of ebike motor vehicle accident

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resulting in young people dying. Now, first and foremost, if you yourself

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or one of your kids or a
grand kid has an electric bike, take

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a look at this article, and
and and and be aware now that the

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top speed in many of these e
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twenty miles per hour. Now when
you read through the article, as a

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side note, there is a way
to bypass in a sense, a governor

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on it and you clip the wire
and it you bypass the speed limit on

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the bike, and it could go
faster. And so the you know,

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National UH Safety Transit Authority, the
Consumer UH Customer Products Safety Commission, National

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Highway Traffic Safety Administration, they don't
know where to put these things. Is

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it a bicycle or is it a
motorized vehicle? And so the key thing

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is to be safe and right now
there are really no restrictions on the bike.

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Of course, they should all be
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these bikes under the influence of drugs
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And you have to make sure that
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bike in traffic, because it's you're
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an hour to keep up with traffic
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than a bike or faster than someone
running, but you're sort of in that

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in between, and you have to
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lights, stop signs, three way
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And people are a combination of both
being reckless the bike rider and the cars

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don't quite know what these things are
going to do. Is that kid going

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to just whiz by me on the
right side? Is it going to cross

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in front of me? Who has
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this is a rather scary article,
but I will post this one too on

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Facebook for you to look at.
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all of these things, it is
being knowledgeable. Number one. You have

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to realize these things are potentially dangerous. I've ridden e bikes. They are

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very cool to be on. Now
I wrote them on a controlled street in

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a park and I had no intentions. I don't even like to ride my

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own bike on the street. I
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once you're mixing, you're mixing these
bikes with cars, and people are more

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distracted than ever you're You're putting a
lot of faith in the driver that they're

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going to know what these ebike riders
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everybody, everybody needs to be aware, have a conversation at the kitchen table

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about e bikes. If you are
the car driver, you may never sit

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on an ebike in your life,
but you need to know how fast they

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go. There are accidents, Proceed
with caution. The yellow lights should be

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on in your head. If somebody
in your family has an ebike, you

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need to alert them to be careful. How are they going to handle stop

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signs, red lights, intersections,
yield signs, whatever. Okay, So

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that is our public service for tonight. All right, final segment coming up.

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Don't forget doctor Joe Glati dot com. Go there for everything, find

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out about me all that we do, all of our social media, plenty

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of information there to raise your health. I Q. That's what we do,

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raising your health. I Q.
Stay tuned final segment we'll bring back.

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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

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Q because the majority of the chronic
disease that we see is related to the

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lifestyle choices we make, or the
lifestyle choices we don't make. The things

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we don't do. We elect not
to eat well, we elect not to

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exercise, we elect to stay up
late, we elect to drink too much

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alcohol and smoke. Okay, So
by you all gathering this information through the

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for replays and other broadcast that we've
got. Okay, so talking about sleep

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deprivation, now this is sort of
interesting. Google is tracking the number of

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searches for sleep remedies and insomnia.
So again, big brother, big Google

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is watching us. And you know
that right. You all know that all

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of your search terms are being logged
and associated with you or other groups of

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people. So what they found is
that they looked at all fifty states and

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they made the assumption that if you
were searching insomnia sleep remedies, how to

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heck do I fall asleep at night? Why am I up all night?

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That you are having some sort of
an insomnia or sleep problem. And so

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the the states with the most sleeped
deprived searches, okay, the top ten

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California, Maryland, New York,
Massachusetts, Nevada, Georgia, Connecticut,

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Virginia, Texas is coming in at
number nine and New Jersey at ten.

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And part of their analysis of this
is that people that live on the easter

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west coast that are in the city
or close to the city have similar type

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problems related to noise, being in
a large urban area, traffic stress,

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large commutes, things like that,
they're more likely to drink coffee, public

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transit traffic, which all ends up
being less time for sleep. Now the

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flip side, let's go to the
least sleep deprived states based on the number

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of searches, so number one.
These are the least sleep deprived Montana,

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South Dakota, Idaho, Wyoming,
Iowa, West Virginia, North Dakota,

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Arkansas. That's Arkansas, Maine and
Kansas number ten. Now what do you

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what do you notice about these states? They're in the middle of nowhere,

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they're low population, the town's close
up at eight o'clock. There's look,

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I lived in Nebraska, I know
all about the Midwest. I lived in

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Iowa for a while too. I've
traveled to all these places. This is

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a much more laid back. People
are working in age, they're in physical

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labor. They are up early and
they are in bed early, and they

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don't have traffic. They go down
to the corner store, pick up their

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gas and their groceries and their elk
burghers and they're fine. So it is

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a change in lifestyle. So the
opposite of everything that the people in California,

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Maryland and New York have. It
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that's in Montana, South Dakota,
Idaho, Wyoming, Iowa, West Virginia,

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North Dakota, Arkansas, Maine,
and Kansas. And those are all

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lovely states with beautiful people. So
think about it, now, why don't

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we talk about this. Well,
if you live in one of those states,

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like Texas or California, you're putting
yourself at risk for chronic disease.

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And it's the usual cast of characters. It is obesity, hypertension, increased

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risk of stroke, depression, high
blood pressure, kidney disease, diabetes,

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all because you don't sleep enough.
Now, I know plenty of people that

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have relocated from these city dwelling locations
to get out into the country into a

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quieter lifestyle for their health. And
so you have to look and say,

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what kind of you know, what
kind of a lifestyle do you want?

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One that's putting you at risk for
chronic disease or one that's going to support

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a very healthful type of environment for
you and your family. Something to think

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about, But do do pay attention
to your sleep. The last two articles,

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I will post these on the Facebook
page. We're just running out of

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time here, and maybe we could
talk about this next week. How fake

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science sells wellness. What I would
say is a day does not go by

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in my office where people come in
and they want some shortcut to making lifestyle

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changes. So we have this big, long talk about how we're going to

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manage their liver disease, their diabetes, and how to help them lose weight.

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And at the very end of the
conversation they say, well, can

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I take this supplement? And I
said, it's garbage, it's not proven,

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it is not controlled. You're putting
yourself at risk. In the same

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light, there is a supplement out
there called Crayton cr A t O M.

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It's being pushed as a sort of
an antidote for opioid addiction. Again,

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it can cause other adverse events.
It can cause seizures, it can

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cause liver damage, which I'm familiar
with, and it is just trying to

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prey on your desire to get off
of these medication. So be aware.

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All right, we're going to close
out tonight. I do hope that you

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learned something tonight, at least one
thing. Go to doctor Joe Glati dot

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com. Hopefully I will see you
on the radio Thursday on Sirius XM channel

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one twenty nine. Until then,
send me a note, send me a

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message, let me know what's on
your mind, and we'll see you next

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Sunday night. Thank you,