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Speaker 3: That's where it's all at all right, So for the
Speaker 3: UH and we were talking about this a couple of
Speaker 3: weeks ago. The month, the month of March is colon
Speaker 3: cancer Awareness Month or colon cancer Cancer Prevention Month, and
Speaker 3: certainly that's what I do. I screen people for colon
Speaker 3: cancer with colon oscoby. We talk about diet. Unfortunately, people
Speaker 3: that do develop colon cancer, so we're involved in their
Speaker 3: care and follow up, working with our oncology and surgical associates.
Speaker 3: But the key thing here is that in many, many cases,
Speaker 3: colon cancer can be prevented two ways. One have a
Speaker 3: better diet, and we'll talk about that in a minute.
Speaker 3: The other thing is to know your risk factors, and
Speaker 3: colon cancer is one of these cancers that is genetically linked.
Speaker 3: If you have a parent or a sibling, a brother
Speaker 3: or a sister that has colon cancer or colon polyps,
Speaker 3: you then are at increased risk. So knowing your history,
Speaker 3: you can intervene earlier, intervene maybe more aggressively, and be
Speaker 3: really on top of the game and catch things early.
Speaker 3: When you look at the statistics of how many people
Speaker 3: get colon cancer, there's about well, it's over one hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty thousand new cases in the United States. Men
Speaker 3: are more likely than women to be diagnosed, and your
Speaker 3: lifetime risk is about one in twenty four for men
Speaker 3: and about one in twenty six for women. So that's
Speaker 3: you know, that's a fair amount. And as far as mortality,
Speaker 3: how many people is it killing. There's about fifty five
Speaker 3: thousand deaths in the United States between colon cancer and
Speaker 3: rectal cancer. The average age at diagnosis is sixty six,
Speaker 3: most common in people over sixty five.
Speaker 2: We know that.
Speaker 3: And the five year survival rate ninety one percent for
Speaker 3: early stages, thirteen percent for late stages. So there's a
Speaker 3: tremendous drop off between early and late stage. So conventional
Speaker 3: wisdom would say, get screened, be aware. Now with regard
Speaker 3: to diet, let's just talk about that for a second.
Speaker 3: There is no doubt that diet plays a role in
Speaker 3: the development of colon cancer. And you may be sitting
Speaker 3: there and say, hey, doctor, Galotti. What kind of diet
Speaker 3: should I be on? Well, this is sort of a
Speaker 3: two part answer. There's been research looking at the DASH
Speaker 3: diet DASH dietary approach to stop hypertension. Now, this is
Speaker 3: something that came out of the American Heart Association. So
Speaker 3: if you have hypertension, high blood pressure, you should be
Speaker 3: on the D diet. I don't think that's something that
Speaker 3: we could really argue. But within the DASH diet, you're
Speaker 3: going to have a high intake of fruits and vegetables,
Speaker 3: whole grains, nuts, legomes, and low dietary i'm sorry, low
Speaker 3: fat dairy, and a much lower intake of red and
Speaker 3: processed meats. Processed meats are going to be hot dogs.
Speaker 3: All of your deli meat, I'm sorry to break that
Speaker 3: to you. The bores head counter at your local deli
Speaker 3: or supermarket is no good. And then things like bacon, sausage,
Speaker 3: things like that. So not only will being on a
Speaker 3: DASH diet reduce hypertension, there's some evidence that it will
Speaker 3: reduced the risk of colon cancer. Now, part of it
Speaker 3: is because you're going to be eliminating reducing the carcinogens
Speaker 3: or carcinogen promoting compounds that you get in foods like bacon,
Speaker 3: cold cuts, ham, hot dogs, and sausage. So you're taking
Speaker 3: away the sort of a fuel that stimulates colon cancer,
Speaker 3: and I would say just bad health in general. Okay,
Speaker 3: So now the other thing about diet. So we know
Speaker 3: about the DASH diet, so fruits and vegetables, nuts, beans,
Speaker 3: reduce red meat, eliminate red meat, eliminate processed meats, and
Speaker 3: low fat dairy. Now the other thing is beans. Now
Speaker 3: this is the data is not waterproof or water tight,
Speaker 3: but there is a suggestion that if you have a
Speaker 3: diet high in beans legomes, you will reduce your likelihood
Speaker 3: of colon polyps by sixty five percent. So the beans
Speaker 3: that we're talking about, lentils, garbonzo beans, pinto beans, these
Speaker 3: are excellent foods to get into your diet. They are
Speaker 3: anti carcinogenic, anti inflammatory, They have good sources of dietary fiber,
Speaker 3: lower your cholesterol.
Speaker 2: So again, all in all, a very.
Speaker 3: Nutritious food that you should definitely be eating. The third
Speaker 3: thing to think about is really getting ultra processed foods
Speaker 3: out of your diet. We've talked about this a whole bunch.
Speaker 3: You may want to look back on articles in our
Speaker 3: newsletter and radio episodes. But ultraprocessed foods do lots of
Speaker 3: things to us. Changed the bacteria in our gut. We've
Speaker 3: talked many times about the intestinal microbiome and how having
Speaker 3: a proper set of bacteria in your gut reduces cancer,
Speaker 3: cuts down on inflammation in the gut, and just keeps
Speaker 3: us all the more healthier. So ultra processed foods, stay
Speaker 3: away from foods that have emulsifiers, Stay away from all
Speaker 3: of these preservatives, artificial colors, artificial flavors. These are all
Speaker 3: ultra processed foods, and ultra processed foods are basically stripped
Speaker 3: of all of the nutritious elements of what that food
Speaker 3: is supposed to have. Or you know, look the it's
Speaker 3: Frankenstein food. This is completely manufactured food. It looks nothing
Speaker 3: like what it originally started out to be. So again,
Speaker 3: dash diet beans eliminate ultra processed food, and uh, you
Speaker 3: know that will not only reduce your chance of colon cancer,
Speaker 3: but also reduce your inflammation and keep you healthy or
Speaker 3: in general, reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease,
Speaker 3: fatty liver.
Speaker 2: What I take care of every single day.
Speaker 3: And then as far as appropriate screening, certainly colonoscopy is
Speaker 3: the gold standard. It's going to visually look at the
Speaker 3: inside of the colon and if we see polyps, we
Speaker 3: take them out. It's that easy. Now a lot of
Speaker 3: people say the bowel prep it's a whole new sense. Yes,
Speaker 3: it is a minor pain in the neck, pain in
Speaker 3: the butt. If you want to say that you have
Speaker 3: to take the day off, you give an anesthesia. But again,
Speaker 3: these are procedures that are safe and effective and meant
Speaker 3: to be a screening test meaning get you in, get
Speaker 3: you out with limited risk, view tremendous benefit, tremendous benefit
Speaker 3: of a screen and colonoscopy with minimal risk to you.
Speaker 3: The other is, and you see these on TV for
Speaker 3: things like colon guard.
Speaker 2: So colon guard is.
Speaker 3: A test that you submit a sample of stool and
Speaker 3: it is looking for DNA, genetic material and blood in
Speaker 3: your stool, looking for a genetic signature, genetic profile of
Speaker 3: a polyp or early colon cancer. If you have no
Speaker 3: risk factors, your father didn't have colon cancer, your kids
Speaker 3: didn't have colon cancer, you didn't have a brother with
Speaker 3: colon cancer or colon pops, you would be an appropriate candidate.
Speaker 3: If you have abdominal pain, weight loss, blod your stool.
Speaker 3: Colon gart is not the test you need to go
Speaker 3: for a colonoscopy.
Speaker 2: All right. So that's it.
Speaker 3: We're gonna take a quick break here and we will
Speaker 3: be back a few more, few more things on colonoscopy.
Speaker 3: The month of March is colon cancer Awareness month, and
Speaker 3: the screening for colon cancer now is forty five, not fifty.
Speaker 2: For decades it was fifty years old.
Speaker 3: It was sort of part of your fifty year old
Speaker 3: birthday year, your birthday party, lots of jazzaying that, oh now, Bob,
Speaker 3: you're fifty, you need to get a colonoscopy. Now it's
Speaker 3: forty five, So keep that in mind for everybody listening tonight.
Speaker 3: Are you forty five? Are you going to be forty five?
Speaker 3: You need to start screening for colon cancer?
Speaker 2: All right, Doctor Joe Galotti, this is your hell first.
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Speaker 3: To make you better consumers of healthcare, and really, have
Speaker 3: you understand the you know, really what's at stake here.
Speaker 2: I see patients.
Speaker 3: I've been seeing patients for a very long time, and
Speaker 3: I have seen everything. I've heard every story. I have
Speaker 3: heard every situation, heartbreaking stories, and so much of it
Speaker 3: comes down to not so much not being aware, but
Speaker 3: it's not being aware to tie all of the dots together.
Speaker 3: People generally want to be well, and I have this
Speaker 3: conversation with them, but part of it is they don't
Speaker 3: really see what is in front of them. They have
Speaker 3: a particular symptom, something hurts, something is not right. They
Speaker 3: realize it, but they're not quite sure how to take
Speaker 3: it to the next step. And then ultimately, when it's
Speaker 3: obvious that something is horribly wrong, they go to the er,
Speaker 3: they go to their doctor. They come in and then
Speaker 3: you're basically saying, where the hell have you been for
Speaker 3: six months? Why hasn't anybody in your family, wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend?
Speaker 3: What are your kids realize that you've lost fifty pounds
Speaker 3: which didn't happen overnight, It took place over six months.
Speaker 3: Everybody at work is like, gee, Bob's not looking good.
Speaker 3: What the hell's going on with him?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: I don't want to ask and be nosy. Well be nosy,
Speaker 3: butt in, speak up, pull them aside and say, hey,
Speaker 3: what the hell's going on with you? Why do you
Speaker 3: look the way you do it? That's something that could
Speaker 3: save somebody's life. But we don't like to butt in
Speaker 3: and be nosy and stuff like that.
Speaker 2: So be aware.
Speaker 3: If you see something, you know this whole thing. You
Speaker 3: see something, call something, see something, do something. Yeah, same
Speaker 3: thing for health, same thing for health.
Speaker 2: All right. In the final couple of minutes here.
Speaker 3: Before we take another break, what you know we've been
Speaker 3: talking about colon cants. What are some of the colon
Speaker 3: cancer symptoms? How do you know that you might have
Speaker 3: colon cancer? Or time to hit the red button and
Speaker 3: say hey, I gotta get some help. One is diarrhea
Speaker 3: or constipation. Now, if you eat too many beef burritos
Speaker 3: and have diarrhea the next morning, that's okay, that doesn't
Speaker 3: mean you have colon cancer. But if it goes on
Speaker 3: the next day and the next day, and then you
Speaker 3: get a little relief, and then five days later you
Speaker 3: get diarrhea for three days, and it seems your new
Speaker 3: normal is diarrhea. For Pete's sakes, you've got to get attention.
Speaker 3: Same thing constipation.
Speaker 2: Again.
Speaker 3: We all get constipated. We eat too much cheese, we
Speaker 3: get constipated. A lot of people get constipated when they travel,
Speaker 3: they're out of their routine. But if constipation goes on
Speaker 3: for three days, five days, ten days a month, and
Speaker 3: you're saying to yourself, man, I am constipated. This is
Speaker 3: totally out of bounds for me. It's not just so
Speaker 3: you haven't had enough fiber. Depending on how old you are,
Speaker 3: that's a problem. Next thing is sort of this weird
Speaker 3: feeling that your bowels don't completely empty. You have the urge,
Speaker 3: you have a bowel movement, you go to the bathroom,
Speaker 3: you sit down, something comes out, but you're like, I
Speaker 3: still feel like there's a whole bunch of stuff in
Speaker 3: there still. And then maybe you go back an hour
Speaker 3: later and you still feel like you're not fully evacuated.
Speaker 3: That could be a sign. Any blood in your stool,
Speaker 3: and you can't sign it off to well, well I
Speaker 3: got hemorrhoids. Yeah, that'll be okay for like a couple
Speaker 3: of days. But if you repeatedly have blood in your stool,
Speaker 3: it needs to be checked out. The other thing is
Speaker 3: narrowing of the stool. We say a change in the
Speaker 3: caliber of the stool. So now you have a normal
Speaker 3: turd that comes out, but now it is narrow we
Speaker 3: say pencil like or ribbon like. No good, have to
Speaker 3: get it checked out. Cramps are bloating, sort of general complaints.
Speaker 3: Got to take a look at it. Unintended weight loss
Speaker 3: or a decrease appetite. Those are the things that you
Speaker 3: have to be on the lookout for, okay, and just
Speaker 3: simply be aware. All right, quick break coming up here,
Speaker 3: Doctor Joe Golotti. Always a real pleasure to be here
Speaker 3: Sunday evening, sharing part of your weekend with you. Dr
Speaker 3: Jogolotti dot com is our website.
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Speaker 3: Check out my book Eating Yourself Sick. Pick it out
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Speaker 3: Doctor Joe Glotti.
Speaker 2: This is your health First.
Speaker 3: We're here every Sunday evening between the hour of seven
Speaker 3: and a pm. I'm do mystic about the way that
Speaker 3: things are going.
Speaker 2: In And.
Speaker 3: You know, this is a great song from the UH
Speaker 3: nineteen seventy three, I think by Chicago. Name of the
Speaker 3: song this dialogue and it's a so back and forth
Speaker 3: conversation about things are good, things are bad. One person
Speaker 3: sees things on the sunny side, the other one sees
Speaker 3: things as being pretty bad.
Speaker 2: But it's a great little song.
Speaker 3: I think it was on Chicago five for you children
Speaker 3: of the seventies. All right, well, doctor Joe Glotti, your
Speaker 3: hell first, every Sunday between seven and eight pm. And
Speaker 3: as we always say, trying to make you better consumers
Speaker 3: of healthcare. Last segment, we were talking about colon cancer.
Speaker 3: Do really do pay attention to it in that you
Speaker 3: may be sitting on the fence, not sure do I
Speaker 3: need it or do you have enough nerve to get up.
Speaker 2: And do the test.
Speaker 3: People find it invasive, which I could understand that, And
Speaker 3: people don't like having their buttocks touched and their rectum
Speaker 3: and scopes going in. They find that really sort of horrible. Now,
Speaker 3: as as somebody that does this procedure.
Speaker 2: Believe it or not.
Speaker 3: I have a number of colleagues, friends, neighbors, men and
Speaker 3: women that will call up and say, hey, I need
Speaker 3: to have this test done and I trust you and
Speaker 3: I know you, and et cetera, et cetera, and they
Speaker 3: have no problem coming for the test. That sort of
Speaker 3: I don't want to say shame, but that embarrassment that
Speaker 3: we all create on ourselves. There are some people and
Speaker 3: others just show me, Hey, I got to get this done.
Speaker 3: I have to stay healthy for myself, my husband, my wife,
Speaker 3: my kids.
Speaker 2: Just go and do it.
Speaker 3: But colon cancer is one of those things that we
Speaker 3: certainly can impact and cut down on. All right, So,
Speaker 3: and an article that I came across, and for many
Speaker 3: of you that you know may be familiar with me
Speaker 3: in the program, I literally try and scour all various
Speaker 3: news sources radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, other newsletters. And now,
Speaker 3: of course we have to pay attention to what people
Speaker 3: are saying online. And that is really a double edged
Speaker 3: sword in that there's good material out there that is
Speaker 3: thought provoking, provocative things that we need to know. It
Speaker 3: will stimulate conversation sort of like this and others that
Speaker 3: are not all that good, and they are more sensational,
Speaker 3: and they are frightening and a little put offish to
Speaker 3: say that. And so it's really really hard to figure
Speaker 3: out for you, the consumer. You're not in healthcare, you
Speaker 3: are most people are just casual consumers of this information,
Speaker 3: and you're just trying your damnedest to make sense of it.
Speaker 3: So a post that was made by doctor Mark Hyman,
Speaker 3: m D. Now his credentials are fifteen New York Times
Speaker 3: best selling author, co founder and director of Ultra Wellness Center,
Speaker 3: co founder of at Functional Medicine, and founder of Functional
Speaker 3: Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. Now you would think that
Speaker 3: this is somebody we need to pay attention to. And
Speaker 3: I'm not saying not to. I am not saying anything
Speaker 3: about doctor Hyman, And in fact, I will be reaching
Speaker 3: out to him this coming week to see if he
Speaker 3: can on the program and just sort of explain where
Speaker 3: he's coming from. But uh, and and again, this is
Speaker 3: somebody that was way out ahead of the pack before
Speaker 3: Make America Healthy Again, before the MAHA movement. He was
Speaker 3: out there talking about food and preservatives and artificial flavors
Speaker 3: and the like. But anyway, he posted something with it
Speaker 3: was a list of pictures and I'm going to face
Speaker 3: this face post this on Facebook later tonight, which is
Speaker 3: at doctor Joe Galotti on Facebook at doctor Joe Glotti
Speaker 3: on Facebook.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: And of course you go to my website doctor Joglotti
Speaker 3: dot com and the links to social media there. But
Speaker 3: he has a list of foods which contain a food additive.
Speaker 3: It is considered an emulsifier with mono and die glycerides,
Speaker 3: and the name of it is karriganan c A R
Speaker 3: R A G E E N A N karragienan, and
Speaker 3: he basically says, do not eat these foods. Discard immediately.
Speaker 3: If you recognize any of these in your or loved
Speaker 3: one's kitchen, throw it out. It's the easiest act of
Speaker 3: love you can do for them today. So you read that,
Speaker 3: you say, wow, I love my wife. I'm going to
Speaker 3: start throwing out all his food. But the the foods
Speaker 3: that he has here, in no particular order, the fair Light,
Speaker 3: Core Power Beverages, a McCafe. It's a McDonald's sweetened coffee drink.
Speaker 3: I don't believe it's butter butter coffee, Mate, Premiere Protein,
Speaker 3: Muscle Milk, Ben and Jerry's Activia, which is a yogurt
Speaker 3: with probiotics in it, Jiffy Peanut butter, Burger King Skippy
Speaker 3: Peanut butter, and Mission organic tortillas. And there are studying
Speaker 3: and really referencing a French study that looked at the
Speaker 3: impact of emulsifiers, which are as I said earlier, food
Speaker 3: additives used to improve the texture and extend the shelf
Speaker 3: life on the cancer risk. So now here again you
Speaker 3: hear cancer risk, everybody's attention is going to be on edge.
Speaker 3: So this particular study research has analyzed ninety two thousand
Speaker 3: adults over nearly seven years and found that certain emulsifiers
Speaker 3: the ones I just mentioned significantly increase cancer risk. And
Speaker 3: they're saying here that mono and diglycerides of fatty acids
Speaker 3: found in processed baked goods margarine ice cream were linked
Speaker 3: to a fifteen percent higher risk of overall cancer, twenty
Speaker 3: four percent higher risk of breast cancer, and forty six
Speaker 3: percent higher risk of prostate cancer. And they go on
Speaker 3: to say that kraginan a thickening agent in dairy alternatives,
Speaker 3: deli meats and plant based products, were linked to thirty
Speaker 3: two percent higher risk of breast cancer. Now, this is
Speaker 3: a post that he made on Instagram, and it had
Speaker 3: seventeen or it has seventeen hundred comments. And when you
Speaker 3: read through them, some are in agreement. Some are saying,
Speaker 3: there's no way I'm going to stop eating these products.
Speaker 3: They wish that he put a post up with some
Speaker 3: healthy alternatives. Others get into the detail of looking at
Speaker 3: the study, which the statistical analysis of it was not
Speaker 3: up to their liking, and thus the statistics are a
Speaker 3: bit off.
Speaker 2: And so really, what do you do? What do I do?
Speaker 3: I'm sitting here saying, yes, I have had, on occasion
Speaker 3: some of these products. I have consumed Jiff and Skippy
Speaker 3: peanut butter from time to time. I have had Premiere
Speaker 3: protein from time to time. I really never use like coffee, mate,
Speaker 3: I find that is so disgusting. But anyway, these are
Speaker 3: foods that any of us could have in our kitchen.
Speaker 3: So what, you know, what the hell are we supposed
Speaker 3: to do? Well, first of all, looking into it further myself,
Speaker 3: these naturally occurring food additives are not banned by any
Speaker 3: health or food organization to say they cause cancer. Now,
Speaker 3: that's not licensed to go eat this stuff NonStop. Number two,
Speaker 3: of course, they're going to say more research is needed.
Speaker 3: Number three, the statistical analysis of these ninety two thousand people,
Speaker 3: they don't really tell you how much of this they
Speaker 3: drink or consumed. Now, were these people eating a pint
Speaker 3: of Ben and Jerry every night? Or are they having
Speaker 3: it once a month on a Saturday night with the grandkids. Now,
Speaker 3: the other thing you could say is if you were
Speaker 3: eating a ton of Burger king a ton of Ben
Speaker 3: and Jerry, maybe you are already obese, Maybe you have diabetes,
Speaker 3: maybe you have high cholesterol. These conditions are known to
Speaker 3: cause cancer, including prostate, breast and other causes.
Speaker 2: So what is it Is the.
Speaker 3: Fact that you had muscle milk once a week, or
Speaker 3: is it the fact that you have pre diabetes, high
Speaker 3: cholesterol and you're forty pounds overweight. I don't know that,
Speaker 3: but I think the other take home message here is
Speaker 3: we have to really take stock in the amount of
Speaker 3: processed and or ultra processed foods we are eating. So
Speaker 3: one of the people said, what's a healthy alternative to
Speaker 3: muscle milk? What's an alternative to muscle milk? Well, muscle
Speaker 3: milk comes in vanilla strawberry chocolate.
Speaker 2: I would assume.
Speaker 3: After a workout, because a lot of people say, you know,
Speaker 3: after you work out, after you hit the gym, after
Speaker 3: you run your you know, five miles, you should have
Speaker 3: some muscle milk.
Speaker 2: To replace protein.
Speaker 3: You know, do you really need that? If you want
Speaker 3: some added protein and you're not lactose intolerant, why don't
Speaker 3: you have some plain greek yogurt, smash up some nuts
Speaker 3: in it, a little flax seed, a little chia seed,
Speaker 3: and you're beginning as much protein, more nutrients than this
Speaker 3: man made thing. Why don't you have a small amount
Speaker 3: of hummus. Why don't you have a serving of beans,
Speaker 3: Why don't you have a piece of fish. So again,
Speaker 3: it is the convenience of just having this in the fridge,
Speaker 3: pick up and go, and you don't have to worry
Speaker 3: about it. So are these products that are ultra processed
Speaker 3: that have these mono and diglyceride emulsifiers good for us? No,
Speaker 3: they're probably not good. I think if we look at
Speaker 3: just eating natural food that is minimally processed, we are
Speaker 3: going to be far better off. And if we look
Speaker 3: at it that way, we're probably going to be better
Speaker 3: off ourselves and healthier. Eliminating all of these easy to
Speaker 3: grab foods because that's what really they are, sort of
Speaker 3: snack food being marketed as some sort of nutritious source
Speaker 3: of protein, and we all fall prey to it, the
Speaker 3: best of us get in trouble that way, all right,
Speaker 3: Final segment coming up, Doctor Joe Goloti, don't forget Dodorjogalotti
Speaker 3: dot com is our website and on our Facebook page,
Speaker 3: I'm going to post information about what I just talked about.
Speaker 3: Final segment coming up. We'll right back. Welcome back everybody
Speaker 3: dot your Joe GOLII.
Speaker 2: It's always a pleasure.
Speaker 3: To be here on Sunday evenings. You know, it's nice
Speaker 3: to be able to do the show on Sunday evening
Speaker 3: with daylight savings and it's springtime. Weather's getting better and
Speaker 3: it's not pitched blackout when I get to the to
Speaker 3: the studios. But anyway, every Sunday, don't forget Doctor Jogalotti
Speaker 3: dot com is our website and we want to serve
Speaker 3: as a reference for all of you with regard to
Speaker 3: health and wellness and trying to do our best to
Speaker 3: keep everybody healthy. It is a big task.
Speaker 2: We are not.
Speaker 3: Fooling ourselves that to just think how big of a problem.
Speaker 2: This is, and it really is.
Speaker 3: The amount of chronic disease that we are surrounded by
Speaker 3: is overwhelming. But we have to take the bull by
Speaker 3: the hands, and this is why we are here every Sunday.
Speaker 3: We're entering out twenty third year every Sunday producing this program,
Speaker 3: coming out here, talking and everybody through the radio and
Speaker 3: all of the online sources that we have. But it
Speaker 3: is that important. When I decided as a very very
Speaker 3: young kid to go into medicine to help people, I
Speaker 3: pretty much went all in.
Speaker 2: At five o'clock.
Speaker 3: It doesn't end for me, it doesn't end for my team.
Speaker 3: We are completely committed to making this a better place.
Speaker 3: This is our mission, It is our ministry in a
Speaker 3: sense that we want to help all of you. All Right,
Speaker 3: final few minutes here, So you know, one thing that
Speaker 3: I talk about a lot is is food and cooking.
Speaker 3: And we are not selling supplements. I am not selling
Speaker 3: a Joe Galotti frying pan that I want you to buy.
Speaker 3: We are just really providing information. And the one thing
Speaker 3: that I have fun with is cooking, and I do
Speaker 3: not mind putting in the time because I know the
Speaker 3: end result is going to be that we're going to
Speaker 3: be breaking bread with friends or family or just myself
Speaker 3: and realize that I am doing something to take care
Speaker 3: of myself. All right, I have to walk the walk.
Speaker 3: I'm not here on top of a mountain yelling down
Speaker 3: to you, wagging my finger at you to say do
Speaker 3: this or do that. I truly, every single day try
Speaker 3: to do exactly what I tell my patients or friends
Speaker 3: or any advice that I could give.
Speaker 2: But yesterday, for.
Speaker 3: Instance, on Saturday afternoon, we had some some of our
Speaker 3: best friends over the house for the weekend, and we
Speaker 3: cooked and we made pizza, which many of you know
Speaker 3: I love to do, and we had left over tomato sauce,
Speaker 3: We had left over tomatoes, we had left over peppers,
Speaker 3: and I had a.
Speaker 2: Little bit of leftover chicken.
Speaker 3: And so my wife and I were exhausted, and I said, look,
Speaker 3: you know, A, we're not going to go out to
Speaker 3: eat b Let's just take it easy. So I took
Speaker 3: the leftover tomato sauce, the leftover tomatoes, cut up tomatoes,
Speaker 3: the leftover peppers, a little bit of garlic, and I
Speaker 3: threw something together. I threw a meal together. So I
Speaker 3: took the sauce, the other tomatoes, the peppers, some onion,
Speaker 3: a little bit of chicken, and I cooked a little
Speaker 3: bit of fresh pasta, just a little bit, not pounds
Speaker 3: and pounds and pounds, just a little bit, and in
Speaker 3: all of about twenty minutes, recreated a meal with leftovers.
Speaker 3: Now I feel very comfortable doing that. I'm not at
Speaker 3: all intimidated on how I'm going to do it. But
Speaker 3: it comes with practice, and I read and I get
Speaker 3: new techniques and new ideas and I incorporate them. So
Speaker 3: despite all the years that I've been doing this, I
Speaker 3: am still learning and I'm still playing around in the kitchen.
Speaker 3: I experiment and that is one thing I would really
Speaker 3: want to ask all of you to do. Do you
Speaker 3: feel comfortable experimenting in the kitchen, experimenting making some sort
Speaker 3: of new food. We have to raise food up to
Speaker 3: the level. And this has been said before, food as medicine,
Speaker 3: food as health, food as wellness. With the opposite of
Speaker 3: that process, food equals chronic disease, artificial Frankenstein. Food equals
Speaker 3: chronic disease illness, and you're not going to feel good.
Speaker 3: So what I will be trying to do as the
Speaker 3: summer rolls around, trying to put more content for all
Speaker 3: of you, be it through webinars that we're doing YouTube
Speaker 3: videos on how do you create a very simple meal?
Speaker 3: And I do know that everybody's pressed for time and
Speaker 3: you don't want this big, long drawn out cookie. But
Speaker 3: I think if there's two really two things that you do.
Speaker 2: One is.
Speaker 3: Admit to the fact that what you eat definitely impacts
Speaker 3: your wellness with regard to your diabetes, your high blood pressure,
Speaker 3: your kidney disease, your liver disease, cancer risky, skeeterer. So
Speaker 3: you have to make that leap across the chasm to
Speaker 3: face the reality and believe that the food we eat,
Speaker 3: the quality of the food, and it doesn't have to
Speaker 3: be overly expensive. You can get reasonably priced food. So
Speaker 3: that's one thing. Realize that food is the pathway, is
Speaker 3: the gateway to your good health. Number two is that
Speaker 3: how do you commit yourselves to take interest in the
Speaker 3: preparation of food, Because preparation of food is not opening
Speaker 3: a jar or cracking open a can and opening the
Speaker 3: microwave door and hitting a number. It takes a little
Speaker 3: bit of time. So if you realize the connection between
Speaker 3: the food we eat and our health, and the commitment
Speaker 3: to learn how to make these foods, I think we
Speaker 3: will all be a whole heck of a lot healthier.
Speaker 3: All right, That is it for this Sunday. The hour
Speaker 3: just flies by. I'm doctor Joe Galotti. Don't forget doctor
Speaker 3: Joegalotti dot com. Lots of information on web page, our newsletter,
Speaker 3: old podcast episodes or new podcast episodes.
Speaker 2: All of our social.
Speaker 3: Media is there, and of course you could send me
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Speaker 3: look at the food you're eating and how are you making,
Speaker 3: and take care.
Speaker 2: We'll see you the