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emerging increasing awareness of robotic surgery robots. Robotic surgery is being used more in
the operatory in hospitals all the time. We're now seeing reports of thousands of
people being injured and hundreds of people dying as a result of robotic surgery.
But it is considered generally safe. But we want to get your opinion as
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know that coming up this hour, we're going to have installments of the Health
Alternative of the Week, the Health Outrage of the Week. We've got a
product recall to tell you about. Stick around for that, and the Health
Mistery of the Week. Now during the break there top of the hour break
my producer asked me who I was rooting for as with respect to the Super
Bowl outcome today because today is Super Bowl Sunday and a lot of people,
they predict, are going to be watching the Super Bowl hundreds of millions of
people, and I usually don't comment on stuff like that, but I feel
like, okay, all right, I will because my producer said, well,
what do you think? And I'm kind of torn. I have to
say that I'm a little bit torn because having grown up in the Midwest,
I did my training for acupuncture, which is one of the treatments that I
offered to our patients, one of the mini treatments we offer to our patients
over thirty thousand patients tree By Yours truly over my practice career, acupuncture being
one of them. And I did my acupuncture training in Kansas City, Missouri,
and that's where my instructor was from. It's where the training went on,
and so I'm a little partial there. In fact, my acpuncer teacher
treated a number of the Kansas City Chief football players. So I'm a little
torn there. But at the same time, my one of my daughters,
my middle daughter, she lives in Napa, California, and so she's a
big fan of the San Francisco forty nine ers team, and so she's been
really in my year about you know, dad, you got to be rooting
for the forty nine ers. Dad, come on now, and so I
don't know. It's kind of a toss up. I just hope it's going
to be a great game, that's the hope, and that nobody gets hurt,
even though most football players will get hurt. I've had the great honor
in my practice career because at one point in time I practiced in Denver,
Colorado, and I had an opportunity to treat a couple of the Denver Bronco
football players and a bunch of other professional athletes. Also, while I was
in Colorado, Olympic athletes actually skiers on the Olympic ski team. So I
know what athletes go through in terms of their risk ratio when they are trying
to perform in their given arena that they are interested in, whether it be
football or skiing, or basketball or ice hockey or whatever. Injuries happen and
people need to get the care that is needed. And I know a great
number of Over the years, a great number of my colleagues have treated some
of the professional football players who were involved in the Super Bowl. In fact,
one of my colleagues years ago treated Joe Montana San Francisco forty nine ers
and one of the half backs can't remember his name. He was actually from
the Midwest itself. And these football players are oh my gosh. You know,
we think all these guys are overpaid. They get all these millions of
dollars for paying for playing football? Is there? You know why is that?
Well, it's a short window of career. One. You got to
know that that you're not a football player for very long before you start start
sustaining lifelong quality of life impacting injuries. And I have seen a lot of
injuries of football players and professional athletes that they would be willing to give up
all of their material wealth and toys to get their health back. Because what
is the value of having a lot of money in the bank and a big
house and a nice car and and all of that lifestyle If you're hurting every
day, if you've got bionic knees, if you have a key breaky joints,
and you're degenerated because of all the hits that you took, all the
injuries that you resist, and all the surgeries that were necessary to try to
patch you back together to get you back on that field, what is that
worth? Geez? I see some retired football players you know that are doing
commercial work on television where I see them walking across the field to get an
honor of some some in some manner, and I see them limping, and
I see them all hunched over, and they're not that old. We're talking
about maybe, you know, fifty sixty years of age, and it looks
like they're ready to croak already, and they should be living another you know,
thirty years at least, and they don't. But what's more important than
longevity of life is the quality of life. What happens when you're injured to
the degree that people are injured in these contact sports and they don't get the
care they need, is that they suffer with these chronic, ongoing injuries for
which they have to take drugs to try to numb themselves. Never really works,
and then they have low quality of life. So you got to think
that FOBO players are usually underpaid, not overpaid, at least in my opinion.
All Right, the health alternative up next. I'm doctor Bob Martin.
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Doctor Bob. It is time now, ladies and zoning for this week's
installment of the health Alternative of the Week. Oh it's coming, Yes,
it's coming. In fact, it's coming this week Wednesday, don't you know?
February the fourteenth, Valentine's Day, the second most participated in sugar orgy
that we have here in the United States. I think Halloween is number one.
Number two is, of course Valentine's Day. And I don't want to
take anything away from Valentine's Day. It's a great day. It's a great
day to show your love towards others and who's your Valentine. Well, we
have an option here. We know that there's going to be a lot of
chocolate, chocolate consumed. Well, it's already begun. People buying large bags
of chocolates way ahead of and getting out in front of Valentine's Day because they're
going to give something special to somebody, and we want you to have the
opportunity to give something healthier. If you're going to gift or give or give
yourself some chocolate, why not make it organic chocolate. Sweeten up Valentine's Day.
Get over to Natural Grosser stores and purchase their brand of organic chocolate bars
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crafted in France for this coming Valentine's Day, which is Wednesday this coming week,
February the fourteenth. You can gift a box of chocolates if you choose
to for somebody, eat it and then get off of it. I mean,
yeah, it has a little bit of sugar. Or you can bake
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Oh so good for Valentine's Day. So why natural grocers chocolate, you might
ask, and their treats well, one reason is they are organic, and
that means you don't have to worry about pesticides and other things that are going
to go into your body that are undesirable. And they are created using cocoa
beans which have not been treated with synthetic fertilizers, synthetic herbicides or synthetic pesticides,
toxins that will accumulate in your body. That's what you get with organic
chocolate at all natural grocery stores. And if you're lucky to have a natural
grocery store near you, great, If you're not, hit their website naturalgrocers
dot com. Now. One of the most shocking discoveries for me was to
find out that conventionally grown cocoa is one of the highest pesticide using crops out
there. I did not know that that in order to keep the bugs away
from the cocoa plant, they use a ton of pesticides, and in these
other countries where a lot of it comes from, you don't even know what's
happening. Organic chocolate is much more satisfying, obviously a lot healthier for you.
And I remember back in the day, I could devour an entire big
chocolate bar in one sitting. I loved eating chocolate when I was young,
but with organic chocolate, the pure, smooth and mouthwatering flavors, you know,
you can get it in squares, you can get in all kinds of
different forms, and yeah, there's gonna be a little bit of shoe gar
in it, but you know, if you do it mildly and maybe once
in a while once a year's so, I think, no big deal.
So Wednesday, this coming Wednesday, February the fourteenth, is Valentine's Day,
and what's more perfect than chocolate. Here's the really good news, though,
if you happen to be lucky enough to be near a natural grocery store on
the fourteenth of February Valentine's date, you walk into the store and they will
tell you how to obtain a free chocolate bar for just walking into the store
at a natural grocer's store. Now, you might want to find out where
the natural grocery store is located. I think they're up to around one hundred
and sixty or seventy stores nationwide, but you can certainly find that out and
what's going on over there as far as the free chocolate bar giveaway by going
to their website at natural Grocers dot com. Naturalgrocers dot com. Now,
I'm not sure about all the details about what you have to do to get
that free chocolate bar, but it can't be much. They're giving them away
free on Valentine's Day the fourteenth, this coming Wednesday, So take advantage of
all of that. And if you do go end of the store and you
see somebody telling me you heard about it on the Doctor Bob Martin Show,
that'll be great. All right. Now, as I mentioned earlier in the
hour coming up this hour, still we're going to be have for you the
feature the Health Outrage of the Week that's coming up. That'll be followed by
the product recall of the week. And this is something that we usually stay
on top of when there's a major recall that might be injuring or hurting or
killing people. And there's a lot of reasons and I see them all the
time. We try to pick the best one. So we've got that.
That'll be followed by the health Mystery of the Week, and then we're we're
also going to finish this hour with a discussion of or two if we have
time. One, I'm going to be talking about a new study which discusses
how a dirt cheap vitamin that you should be taking every single day has been
discovered and found to be scientifically able to reduce your risk of heart attack.
I mean, who wouldn't want to know that information when heart attacks heart disease
is the number two killer of man, only second to medical miscare the number
one killer of man in the United States. So we'll have that information.
And again one of those opportunities after the health outrage at the bottom of the
hour, which we're going to get to, will delve into this latest study
finding about a dirt cheap vitamin to reduce the number two killer of man.
And then of course there's it's never a one trick pony. It's never one
thing. It's a combination of things, which I will get into at the
end of that Once you which I disclosed to you what the vitamin is,
you can get it anywhere. It's it's it's inexpensive, but you know there's
more to it than than just that. And then if we have time during
this hour, I'm gonna also try to get into a discussion of this Sheriff
in Louisiana who claims that sleep apnea using a sleep apnea mask one of these
sleep apne machines caused his kidney cancer. Wow, we'll get into that all
right. We're gonna take a break and come back with the health outrage of
the week. Stay with us, you're tuned into the Doctor Bob Martin Show.
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here the health outrage of the week. But first this have you heard of
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are amazed at how small these bees are and how they function and how smart
they are at protecting themselves and their environment. Propolis has been found to have
antimicrobial properties. It plays an important role in the beehives ability to fight off
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Propolis has been reported to have various health benefits related to immunity, gastrointestinal disorders,
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it's time now for the health outrage of the week. She's come on
each time for the health outbreage because it's the tough of budet Well. Apparently
a doctor a doctor discovers a severed snakehead in her bag of Giant food frozen
beans green beans. An MD has taken to Twitter recently to ask her medical
colleagues for help after finding a get this severed snakehead in her frozen beans?
I kid you not, and I actually saw a picture of this and it
was kind of nasty and gross. Doctor Rachel, a pediatrician at Atlanta,
Georgia, posted a photo on x which showed the chopped off reptilian head sat
on top of a pan of frozen green beans. Can you even imagine that,
folks staring at you on your green beans? He severed snakehead. The
beans, she explained, were bought from a grocery chain at Giant Foods,
which has one hundred and sixty six stores across the country asks her colleagues for
advice. I guess In a Twitter formerly twitter x post, she says,
what pathogens should I worry about with a severed snakehead found in my frozen beans?
She asked. The tweet resulted in a flurry of comments from her medical
colleagues in the medical community, debating how risky it was to eat the beans
and whether the surprising find in her veggies was in fact a snakehead. One
response from a doctor, Max Witt, an infectious disease fellow at the University
of Colorado, said on x in response to her post, please cook thoroughly
the beans that had the snakehead in it and you'll be fine. Wash your
hands handling raw snake meat, mainly for salomon Ella. Both reptiles and amphibians
can carry germs that make people ill, with the most common being of bacterial
infectioner salomon Ella. Now can you imagine this is another doctor advising her,
Okay, just go ahead and make sure you cook it. It'll be just
fine with a snakehead in it. Oh ow rageous is that? But doctor
Gail Barnes, on the other hand, a scientist from the Elgin Public Museum
of Natural History and Anthropology in Illinois said in a response to her to this
doctor Rachel's of the pediatrician's post about this snakehead being found in her frozen beans,
she said, pathogens are the least of your worries with severed snake in
your green beans. Don't try to find any more body parts, throw them
away. Throw everything away, plus any similar products that you may have.
That was the good doctor the scientists recommendations which I concur with. Why would
anybody contemplate keeping a food if it was known to be contaminated with a snake
head in it? Why would you think about, I'll just cook it out.
Well, one of the doctors recommend you do just that. Why would
she even ask a question that's outrages on its face? And according to Outdoor
Publication Action Hub, all snakes in North America are They're just fine to eat,
but it advised caution when eating venomous snakes to avoid eating the head where
the venom is stored, as the venom can get into any open wound in
your mouth as you're chowing down on it, or throat or any of your
bloodstream. Oh my gosh, this thing is so fraught with outrages. I
don't even know where to begin. But I think you figured it out.
If you find a snakehead, severed snakehead in your bag of frozen food,
I don't care if it's green beads, toss it, go back, take
it back to the store, take picture of it, get your money back.
But don't eat it. Please don't eat it. It would be outrages
to eat it. And that's why it qualified as the health outrage of the
week. We move right from the health outrage to the product recall of the
week. Here we go product recalled the week Now, Trader Joe's issues a
nationwide recall of four Cocha cochia cheese products that may be contaminated with deadly Listeria
bacteria after two Americans died from food poisoning from that food poisoning bud. But
Trader Joe's has recalled four products that contain Listeria amid a nationwide outbreak linked to
the contaminated cheeses. They recalled the chicken edtg, Gelata verde, the cilantro
salad dressing. I'm not a big fan of Trader Joe's period. The number
one health concern and as we move toward and beyond the age of retirement,
is fear of losing our vision and therefore the ability to remain independent. Most
of us, at some point in time have uttered the words I'm not seeing
as well as I used to, or I think I need stronger glasses.
If you are nearing or past age forty, it's not your imagination that your
vision is getting worse. What is likely causing your vision to deteriorate is cataract
formation. Cataracts occur when the lens of the eye becomes cloudy and blocks light
from entering, which interferes with sharp, clear vision. A science based cataract
reversal eye drop called can See is changing lives of people with poor vision caused
by cataract. Learn more about can See eye drops at Wisechoice Medicine dot com
or call eight hundred eighty six one four nine three six eight hundred eighty six
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six or wischoice Medicine dot com. Life would not exist if humans were unable
to make nitric oxide within our blood vessel walls. There are many factors that
reduce our ability to produce enough nitric oxide to enjoy optimal health. Contributors to
the development of nitric oxide deficiency include consumption of sugar, unhealthy facts, inflammation,
age, and unhealthy lifestyle. Here's the great news about re establishing optimal
nitric oxide levels. Doctor Nathan Bryan, a leading world authority on nitric oxide
supplementation, developed the best, great tasting nitric oxide lozenge called N one oh
one, back by twenty years of science. Beware of companies trying to capitalize
on doctor Brian's work selling imitation products claiming to increase nitric oxide. If you
are concerned about heart health, diabetes, libido, poor circulation, memory users,
and fatigue, take N one oh one lozenges and feel good again.
Order N one oh one Lozenges toll free eight seven seven four seven six three
eight six two eight seven seven four seven six three eight six two or N
one oh one dot com. All Americans are exposed daily to toxic chemicals and
environmental pollution in the air we breathe, the water we drink, food clothes
we wear, the places we work, and in our homes. Environmental pollutants
are even present in the umbilical cord blood of newborns. From the Root Brands
company introducing clean Slate, a patented green detox technology that addresses the causes of
environmental pollution in people. Your opportunity to feel, function and perform better is
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Forward Slash product. Clean Slate a science based liquid supplement safely ridge you of
heavy metals and environmental toxins from head to toe by simply taking ten drops of
clean Slate twice daily. Remove the bad stuff in your body, put amazing
stuff in and allow your body to heal. Go to Droot Brands dot com
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doubus and I welcome you back to this hour and the doctor Bobmark's hope you're
just tuning into the program. I want to let you know we have a
health phole question going on based on the latest news out A Florida woman dies
after surgical robot burned a hole in her intestine. Now that's not an isolated
case. There are thousands of people who since robotic surgery has come about have
been injured from robotic surgery. Surgery in general's risky, whether it be a
robot or human, but more and more we're seeing more robot surgery employed in
the operatory. And there's also, of course hundreds of deaths reported as well.
But I want to get your opinion of this on our health poll posted
up on my website at doctor bob dot com. Would you allow a surgical
robot to operate on you? Yes? Or no? In other words,
you might have an elective surgery or not an emergency surgery, but an elective
surgery where your doctor says, okay, So I want to let you know,
need to disclose to you that we're going to be using robotic surgery in
doing your procedure. Now, would you put the brakes on that and leave
the building or would you say, okay, fine, I'm good with that.
I'll sign off on that, doc, no problem. Whatever you think
I believe in you, would you go along with robotic surgery? Yes or
no? Please vote on my website at doctor Bob dot com docto r bob
dot com. All right, now, I want to get into this thing
about dirt cheap, a dirt cheap vitamin, because after all, February is
a National Heart Awareness month, and a dirt cheap vitamin found to reduce the
risk of the number two killer of man, number one being, of course,
medical miscare. The vitamin I'm talking about is vitamin D as in dog.
Vitamin D three, commonly referred to as the sunshine vitamin, is a
fat soluble vitamin that your body naturally produces, of course, when your skin
is exposed to sunlight. But despite having the machinery to synthesize this vitamin,
vitamin D deficiency is still very very common as a health problem. In fact,
here in the US alone, it is predicted that forty two percent of
adults and fifty percent of children between the ages of one and five are said
to have a vitamin D three deficiency, and around seventy percent of children between
the ages of six and eleven also have poor vitamin D status, which means
they're deficient. And that's the worst time of your life. You want to
get vitamin D status when you're growing in trying to repair and expand. Being
deficient in vitamin D leads to very serious health problems, such as something called
hypocalcemia, low blood calcium, hyper parathyroidism, overactive parathyroid glands, rickets,
weak bones. In children, there's a condition called osteomylacious soft bones and adults
or osteoporosis brittle bone disease. And this is why getting sufficient amounts of vitamin
D through sun exposure and your diet is crucial in optimal health. So maintaining
healthy vitamin D levels not only helps you to avoid all the aforementioned diseases,
but also, according to a recent study by Australian researchers, it could also
help you cut your risk of major heart problems cardiovascular events. Can you say
heart attack? The cells of the top layer of your skin naturally contain this
pro vitamin D three and when ultra violet radiation from the sunlight hits your skin,
it causes this pro vitamin D three to be converted to pre vitamin D
three, which ultimately is transformed to what we really need, vitamin D three.
And the research has found that your vascular system is also a sight of
conversion of vitamin D. The active form of D three not only reduces inflammation,
but it also helps regulate blood pressure. So this crucial vitamin which is
found everywhere and inexpensive vitamin D suggests that it could influence your cardiovascular disease,
and it does. Observational studies have found an inverse association between blood calcifherol levels
and the risk of cardiovascular disease. Now some of the other benefits of vitamin
D, and I think everybody over the age of twenty ought to have their
twenty five hydroxy vitamin D blood tested on a pretty regular basis. And getting
enough vitamin D can reduce your risk of multiple sclerosis. It helps boost immunity,
it helps provide a positive mood. It even supports weight loss. It's
one of those vitamins you absolutely have. We have it on board to make
it. We just don't get enough sunlight. And so five to fifteen minutes
of sunlight a few times a week between the hours of ten am and one
pm. That's what you need to do. Not getting a sun tan or
a sunburn. Never ever, ever do that. And according to researchers,
this is the best time to get vitamin C synthesis with a minimal minimal risk
of any skin cancer issues or concerns. So you can also get vitamin D
of course through fatty foods, fatty fish, also mushrooms, white mushrooms and
creminy mushrooms, eggs, cheese, and of course quality vitamin D three supplements
found at all health food stores. But that's not the you know, the
long and the short of it. I mean, we still need to exercise,
we still need to lower our stress, We still needed to eat a
decent diet like a Mediterranean diet. But there are also other supplements you can
take to ensure good heart health, like nitric oxide lozenges. We talked about
that with doctor Brian Doctor Nathan Bryant in the first hour of the show.
Nitricoxide lozenges N one O one dot com, N one o one dot com,
co Q ten very important d ribos love that for heart issues, Magnesium
hawthorne, omega three. These are the things that clinicians who are in the
trenches in functional medicine and integrated medicine know about. So you can do these
things if you know about them, and help those patients you're responsible for.
But how hard would it be just to take one thousand to two thousand,
up to five thousand international units of vitamin D three per day found at the
health foods Do Dirt cheap, Go get it. I'm doctor Bob Martin.
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resulting in many practices either refusing to take new patients or even closing their
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concern as we move toward and beyond the age of retirement is fear of losing
our vision and therefore the ability to remain independent. Most of us at some
point in time have uttered the words I'm not seeing as well as I used
to, or I think I need stronger glasses. If you are nearing or
past age forty, it's not your imagination that your vision is getting worse.
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com. Spell out doctor that's doc t O R Bob dot com. All
right, doctor Bob, marching back with you in our final segment of the
show, and I want to one last time mention that we do have a
health poll question we'd love to get your opinion of over on my website at
doctor Bob dot com, and it goes like this, would you allow a
surgical robot to operate on you? Yes? Or no? And next week
when we get our polling data, I'm gonna get into the reason why we
posted up that question and the story behind this woman who died from a surgical
robot mistake burning a hole in her intestine area. We'll get into that next
week. All right, it is time now, ladies and gentlemen, for
this week's installment of the health Mystery of the Week. Millions and millions of
people suffer from headaches, and one of the most excruciating form of headaches,
of course, is migraine headaches. I've recently read how Simon Cowell, famous
person, television person, American idol Simon cow found a way to relieve his
migraine headaches with a twenty two dollars pair of orange specs to beat migraine headaches
for less than twenty two dollars a pair Simon Cow's orange tinted sunglasses he's now
wearing. I see that are likely to be one of the cheapest fashion accessories
he's ever purchased. Yet the pop industry icon has rarely been seen in public
without them since they first made an appearance during a recording of America's Got Talent
last autumn, and with good reason. Kyles insists the spectacles that he's not
wearing, which he is said to have purchased online for about twenty two dollars,
helped him to combat at crippling migraine headaches that have been apparently affecting him
for many years. Although the TV personality last week missed an audition filming Britain's
Got Talent due to a sudden onset of a painful migraine, he insists the
spectacles are still a big help and have cut down his migraine headaches greatly over
time since he's been wearing them. But can a cheap pair of brightly colored
shades really provides simple solution to a condition that affects forty million people alone in
the United States. The main symptom, of course, is intense, often
one sided headache that can be agonizing, leaving the affected person literally in capacity.
Such is the effect of light sensitivity known as photophobia. That some patients
have to take to a darkened room for hours sometimes, and a lot of
people who have migrant headaches have to take prescription drugs like a triptans, which
can shorten the length of the attack. But who cares? If Simon Kyle
is getting relief by wearing these red shaded sunglasses and his migrant headaches have gone
down, even though we can't figure out what's causing it, it's a mystery.
Who cares? He's better off as a result of it, and that's
all that matters. So that's the health mystery of the week. Stay healthy,
I'm doctor Bob Martin. Be well.