WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:06.320 Initial Life Sequenzy coming to you live from Houston, Texas, 2 00:00:06.519 --> 00:00:08.519 home to the world's largest medical. 3 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:10.880 Center, Chase. Everything looking a really gremonial. 4 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:23.640 This is Your Health First, the most beneficial health program 5 00:00:23.679 --> 00:00:26.879 on radio with doctor Joe Bellotti. During the next hour, 6 00:00:26.960 --> 00:00:30.280 you'll learn about health, wellness and the provention of disease. 7 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:33.439 Now here's your host, doctor Joe Bellotti. 8 00:00:40.439 --> 00:00:44.640 Well, a good Sunday evening too, everybody, Thanks very much 9 00:00:44.679 --> 00:00:49.759 for tuning in on this glorious Sunday evening to Your 10 00:00:49.799 --> 00:00:56.200 Health First. 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All right, well, 21 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:37.319 thanks very much for tuning in, as I tell everybody, 22 00:01:38.640 --> 00:01:44.760 and we're going to be entering our twenty third year. 23 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:50.359 I believe it's next week is the anniversary, but twenty 24 00:01:50.400 --> 00:01:57.959 three years of Sunday night is really a bit of 25 00:01:57.959 --> 00:02:01.599 a feat for us that we've had the drive an 26 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:06.120 enthusiasm to continue with this, and it is a sheer 27 00:02:06.200 --> 00:02:08.719 labor of love for all of us on the program, 28 00:02:08.800 --> 00:02:12.319 my team, everybody that works with me to get the 29 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:18.039 show put together, share ideas, get in experts. But when 30 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:22.000 you look at your health and wellness, really there's no skimping. 31 00:02:22.159 --> 00:02:25.000 This is what it requires. I went into medicine to 32 00:02:25.039 --> 00:02:28.000 take care of people, and yes, we treat people that 33 00:02:28.039 --> 00:02:31.759 are sick, but it is more important that we take 34 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:36.960 care of people before they get sick. It's easy to 35 00:02:37.039 --> 00:02:41.199 treat somebody that has a disease. It's much more work 36 00:02:41.719 --> 00:02:46.479 for me and you to work on the preventive side 37 00:02:46.479 --> 00:02:51.280 because we have to really break so many bad habits. 38 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:55.039 But we could talk about that a little later, all right. 39 00:02:55.080 --> 00:02:57.159 So to be part of the program, our website Doctor 40 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:01.520 Joegalotti dot com, d rjoeg A l a TI dot 41 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:04.319 com that is where you can find all of our 42 00:03:04.360 --> 00:03:09.319 social media links, Send me a message, signer for our newsletter, 43 00:03:09.439 --> 00:03:12.719 get a copy of my book Eating Yourself Sick. Take 44 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:18.360 a look at our practice website for liver specialists of Texas. 45 00:03:18.400 --> 00:03:19.360 When we're not on the radio. 46 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:22.960 We are taking care of people at liver disease, liver cancer, 47 00:03:23.000 --> 00:03:28.800 sohrosis i'll call related liver disease and other digestive type problems. 48 00:03:28.800 --> 00:03:32.759 But you have to go to doctor Joe Galotti dot com. 49 00:03:32.840 --> 00:03:35.400 That's where it's all at all right, So for the 50 00:03:35.599 --> 00:03:37.159 UH and we were talking about this a couple of 51 00:03:37.199 --> 00:03:42.039 weeks ago. The month, the month of March is colon 52 00:03:42.120 --> 00:03:47.919 cancer Awareness Month or colon cancer Cancer Prevention Month, and 53 00:03:47.960 --> 00:03:51.960 certainly that's what I do. I screen people for colon 54 00:03:52.319 --> 00:03:57.719 cancer with colon oscoby. We talk about diet. Unfortunately, people 55 00:03:57.759 --> 00:04:01.639 that do develop colon cancer, so we're involved in their 56 00:04:01.719 --> 00:04:08.639 care and follow up, working with our oncology and surgical associates. 57 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:14.680 But the key thing here is that in many, many cases, 58 00:04:15.000 --> 00:04:20.399 colon cancer can be prevented two ways. One have a 59 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:23.120 better diet, and we'll talk about that in a minute. 60 00:04:23.800 --> 00:04:27.839 The other thing is to know your risk factors, and 61 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:34.519 colon cancer is one of these cancers that is genetically linked. 62 00:04:34.600 --> 00:04:39.319 If you have a parent or a sibling, a brother 63 00:04:39.519 --> 00:04:44.560 or a sister that has colon cancer or colon polyps, 64 00:04:45.040 --> 00:04:49.720 you then are at increased risk. So knowing your history, 65 00:04:49.759 --> 00:04:57.399 you can intervene earlier, intervene maybe more aggressively, and be 66 00:04:57.519 --> 00:04:59.759 really on top of the game and catch things early. 67 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:03.279 When you look at the statistics of how many people 68 00:05:04.519 --> 00:05:09.480 get colon cancer, there's about well, it's over one hundred 69 00:05:09.920 --> 00:05:13.759 and fifty thousand new cases in the United States. Men 70 00:05:13.879 --> 00:05:17.560 are more likely than women to be diagnosed, and your 71 00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:22.319 lifetime risk is about one in twenty four for men 72 00:05:22.360 --> 00:05:27.279 and about one in twenty six for women. So that's 73 00:05:27.480 --> 00:05:31.279 you know, that's a fair amount. And as far as mortality, 74 00:05:31.279 --> 00:05:35.000 how many people is it killing. There's about fifty five 75 00:05:35.160 --> 00:05:40.560 thousand deaths in the United States between colon cancer and 76 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:44.759 rectal cancer. The average age at diagnosis is sixty six, 77 00:05:45.560 --> 00:05:47.839 most common in people over sixty five. 78 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:48.480 We know that. 79 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:53.279 And the five year survival rate ninety one percent for 80 00:05:53.560 --> 00:05:57.759 early stages, thirteen percent for late stages. So there's a 81 00:05:57.800 --> 00:06:04.279 tremendous drop off between early and late stage. So conventional 82 00:06:04.319 --> 00:06:12.240 wisdom would say, get screened, be aware. Now with regard 83 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:15.000 to diet, let's just talk about that for a second. 84 00:06:16.680 --> 00:06:20.600 There is no doubt that diet plays a role in 85 00:06:20.720 --> 00:06:25.199 the development of colon cancer. And you may be sitting 86 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:28.439 there and say, hey, doctor, Galotti. What kind of diet 87 00:06:28.480 --> 00:06:31.439 should I be on? Well, this is sort of a 88 00:06:31.560 --> 00:06:37.199 two part answer. There's been research looking at the DASH 89 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:41.839 diet DASH dietary approach to stop hypertension. Now, this is 90 00:06:41.879 --> 00:06:44.879 something that came out of the American Heart Association. So 91 00:06:44.920 --> 00:06:49.040 if you have hypertension, high blood pressure, you should be 92 00:06:49.160 --> 00:06:52.319 on the D diet. I don't think that's something that 93 00:06:52.360 --> 00:06:56.439 we could really argue. But within the DASH diet, you're 94 00:06:56.480 --> 00:07:00.680 going to have a high intake of fruits and vegetables, 95 00:07:01.160 --> 00:07:08.360 whole grains, nuts, legomes, and low dietary i'm sorry, low 96 00:07:08.399 --> 00:07:13.800 fat dairy, and a much lower intake of red and 97 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:19.759 processed meats. Processed meats are going to be hot dogs. 98 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:22.399 All of your deli meat, I'm sorry to break that 99 00:07:22.439 --> 00:07:26.959 to you. The bores head counter at your local deli 100 00:07:27.079 --> 00:07:35.120 or supermarket is no good. And then things like bacon, sausage, 101 00:07:35.199 --> 00:07:39.360 things like that. So not only will being on a 102 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:45.199 DASH diet reduce hypertension, there's some evidence that it will 103 00:07:45.199 --> 00:07:49.040 reduced the risk of colon cancer. Now, part of it 104 00:07:49.079 --> 00:07:56.800 is because you're going to be eliminating reducing the carcinogens 105 00:07:56.920 --> 00:08:04.560 or carcinogen promoting compounds that you get in foods like bacon, 106 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:08.639 cold cuts, ham, hot dogs, and sausage. So you're taking 107 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:15.879 away the sort of a fuel that stimulates colon cancer, 108 00:08:16.439 --> 00:08:21.120 and I would say just bad health in general. Okay, 109 00:08:21.319 --> 00:08:23.480 So now the other thing about diet. So we know 110 00:08:23.480 --> 00:08:27.120 about the DASH diet, so fruits and vegetables, nuts, beans, 111 00:08:27.600 --> 00:08:34.039 reduce red meat, eliminate red meat, eliminate processed meats, and 112 00:08:36.039 --> 00:08:41.360 low fat dairy. Now the other thing is beans. Now 113 00:08:42.919 --> 00:08:50.480 this is the data is not waterproof or water tight, 114 00:08:50.559 --> 00:08:55.240 but there is a suggestion that if you have a 115 00:08:55.279 --> 00:09:03.279 diet high in beans legomes, you will reduce your likelihood 116 00:09:04.279 --> 00:09:10.759 of colon polyps by sixty five percent. So the beans 117 00:09:10.799 --> 00:09:15.080 that we're talking about, lentils, garbonzo beans, pinto beans, these 118 00:09:15.120 --> 00:09:21.240 are excellent foods to get into your diet. They are 119 00:09:21.639 --> 00:09:29.480 anti carcinogenic, anti inflammatory, They have good sources of dietary fiber, 120 00:09:30.639 --> 00:09:31.799 lower your cholesterol. 121 00:09:31.840 --> 00:09:36.000 So again, all in all, a very. 122 00:09:35.879 --> 00:09:41.320 Nutritious food that you should definitely be eating. The third 123 00:09:41.360 --> 00:09:46.080 thing to think about is really getting ultra processed foods 124 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:49.039 out of your diet. We've talked about this a whole bunch. 125 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:52.279 You may want to look back on articles in our 126 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:59.360 newsletter and radio episodes. But ultraprocessed foods do lots of 127 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:01.879 things to us. Changed the bacteria in our gut. We've 128 00:10:01.919 --> 00:10:06.840 talked many times about the intestinal microbiome and how having 129 00:10:07.720 --> 00:10:13.879 a proper set of bacteria in your gut reduces cancer, 130 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:17.759 cuts down on inflammation in the gut, and just keeps 131 00:10:17.840 --> 00:10:24.000 us all the more healthier. So ultra processed foods, stay 132 00:10:24.000 --> 00:10:27.759 away from foods that have emulsifiers, Stay away from all 133 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:32.080 of these preservatives, artificial colors, artificial flavors. These are all 134 00:10:32.159 --> 00:10:35.600 ultra processed foods, and ultra processed foods are basically stripped 135 00:10:35.679 --> 00:10:41.679 of all of the nutritious elements of what that food 136 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:45.080 is supposed to have. Or you know, look the it's 137 00:10:45.080 --> 00:10:50.759 Frankenstein food. This is completely manufactured food. It looks nothing 138 00:10:51.000 --> 00:10:54.120 like what it originally started out to be. So again, 139 00:10:54.639 --> 00:11:02.080 dash diet beans eliminate ultra processed food, and uh, you 140 00:11:02.120 --> 00:11:05.440 know that will not only reduce your chance of colon cancer, 141 00:11:05.840 --> 00:11:09.600 but also reduce your inflammation and keep you healthy or 142 00:11:09.639 --> 00:11:13.519 in general, reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, 143 00:11:13.720 --> 00:11:14.480 fatty liver. 144 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:18.080 What I take care of every single day. 145 00:11:18.879 --> 00:11:24.679 And then as far as appropriate screening, certainly colonoscopy is 146 00:11:25.080 --> 00:11:31.480 the gold standard. It's going to visually look at the 147 00:11:31.519 --> 00:11:34.759 inside of the colon and if we see polyps, we 148 00:11:34.840 --> 00:11:37.399 take them out. It's that easy. Now a lot of 149 00:11:37.399 --> 00:11:40.600 people say the bowel prep it's a whole new sense. Yes, 150 00:11:41.480 --> 00:11:46.159 it is a minor pain in the neck, pain in 151 00:11:46.200 --> 00:11:49.080 the butt. If you want to say that you have 152 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:52.360 to take the day off, you give an anesthesia. But again, 153 00:11:52.759 --> 00:11:56.559 these are procedures that are safe and effective and meant 154 00:11:56.600 --> 00:11:59.600 to be a screening test meaning get you in, get 155 00:11:59.600 --> 00:12:05.440 you out with limited risk, view tremendous benefit, tremendous benefit 156 00:12:05.559 --> 00:12:10.159 of a screen and colonoscopy with minimal risk to you. 157 00:12:11.120 --> 00:12:14.519 The other is, and you see these on TV for 158 00:12:15.840 --> 00:12:17.600 things like colon guard. 159 00:12:18.159 --> 00:12:19.879 So colon guard is. 160 00:12:19.919 --> 00:12:25.559 A test that you submit a sample of stool and 161 00:12:25.679 --> 00:12:32.159 it is looking for DNA, genetic material and blood in 162 00:12:32.240 --> 00:12:40.480 your stool, looking for a genetic signature, genetic profile of 163 00:12:40.679 --> 00:12:45.039 a polyp or early colon cancer. If you have no 164 00:12:45.480 --> 00:12:49.759 risk factors, your father didn't have colon cancer, your kids 165 00:12:49.799 --> 00:12:52.279 didn't have colon cancer, you didn't have a brother with 166 00:12:52.840 --> 00:12:57.039 colon cancer or colon pops, you would be an appropriate candidate. 167 00:12:57.080 --> 00:13:00.679 If you have abdominal pain, weight loss, blod your stool. 168 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:04.200 Colon gart is not the test you need to go 169 00:13:04.279 --> 00:13:05.399 for a colonoscopy. 170 00:13:05.600 --> 00:13:06.799 All right. So that's it. 171 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:12.279 We're gonna take a quick break here and we will 172 00:13:12.320 --> 00:13:18.600 be back a few more, few more things on colonoscopy. 173 00:13:18.639 --> 00:13:23.960 The month of March is colon cancer Awareness month, and 174 00:13:24.320 --> 00:13:28.679 the screening for colon cancer now is forty five, not fifty. 175 00:13:29.519 --> 00:13:31.320 For decades it was fifty years old. 176 00:13:31.360 --> 00:13:35.240 It was sort of part of your fifty year old 177 00:13:35.399 --> 00:13:40.879 birthday year, your birthday party, lots of jazzaying that, oh now, Bob, 178 00:13:40.879 --> 00:13:43.039 you're fifty, you need to get a colonoscopy. Now it's 179 00:13:43.080 --> 00:13:47.720 forty five, So keep that in mind for everybody listening tonight. 180 00:13:47.799 --> 00:13:49.799 Are you forty five? Are you going to be forty five? 181 00:13:49.840 --> 00:13:51.480 You need to start screening for colon cancer? 182 00:13:51.840 --> 00:13:54.039 All right, Doctor Joe Galotti, this is your hell first. 183 00:13:54.039 --> 00:13:58.120 Every Sunday between seven and eight pm, don't forget go 184 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:02.559 to doctor Joe Glotti dot com. Stay tuned up right back, 185 00:14:03.039 --> 00:14:05.559 raising your health. Iich one listener at a time. I'm 186 00:14:05.600 --> 00:14:06.600 doctor Joe Galotti. 187 00:14:06.759 --> 00:14:09.519 This is your health first. 188 00:14:10.919 --> 00:14:15.840 Visit our website, doctor Joglotti dot com, signer for oug newsletter. 189 00:14:16.799 --> 00:14:19.559 If you got a problem, don't care what it is. 190 00:14:20.639 --> 00:14:22.759 If you're made a hem, I'm not gonna show you. 191 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:29.039 And this song is afrofos. Yes we can help. We're 192 00:14:29.080 --> 00:14:30.559 here as a resource. 193 00:14:32.000 --> 00:14:34.879 To make you better consumers of healthcare, and really, have 194 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:42.039 you understand the you know, really what's at stake here. 195 00:14:43.840 --> 00:14:44.639 I see patients. 196 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.960 I've been seeing patients for a very long time, and 197 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:51.080 I have seen everything. I've heard every story. I have 198 00:14:51.200 --> 00:14:59.200 heard every situation, heartbreaking stories, and so much of it 199 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:05.639 comes down to not so much not being aware, but 200 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:09.759 it's not being aware to tie all of the dots together. 201 00:15:12.159 --> 00:15:14.679 People generally want to be well, and I have this 202 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:20.080 conversation with them, but part of it is they don't 203 00:15:20.120 --> 00:15:24.799 really see what is in front of them. They have 204 00:15:24.840 --> 00:15:29.000 a particular symptom, something hurts, something is not right. They 205 00:15:29.080 --> 00:15:34.000 realize it, but they're not quite sure how to take 206 00:15:34.039 --> 00:15:37.360 it to the next step. And then ultimately, when it's 207 00:15:37.440 --> 00:15:40.879 obvious that something is horribly wrong, they go to the er, 208 00:15:40.960 --> 00:15:44.559 they go to their doctor. They come in and then 209 00:15:44.759 --> 00:15:47.240 you're basically saying, where the hell have you been for 210 00:15:47.320 --> 00:15:53.840 six months? Why hasn't anybody in your family, wife, husband, boyfriend, girlfriend? 211 00:15:53.840 --> 00:15:57.639 What are your kids realize that you've lost fifty pounds 212 00:15:59.200 --> 00:16:01.919 which didn't happen overnight, It took place over six months. 213 00:16:03.440 --> 00:16:05.759 Everybody at work is like, gee, Bob's not looking good. 214 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:06.919 What the hell's going on with him? 215 00:16:06.919 --> 00:16:07.080 Well? 216 00:16:07.120 --> 00:16:11.840 I don't want to ask and be nosy. Well be nosy, 217 00:16:12.080 --> 00:16:15.720 butt in, speak up, pull them aside and say, hey, 218 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:19.559 what the hell's going on with you? Why do you 219 00:16:19.639 --> 00:16:22.639 look the way you do it? That's something that could 220 00:16:22.679 --> 00:16:27.279 save somebody's life. But we don't like to butt in 221 00:16:27.399 --> 00:16:30.240 and be nosy and stuff like that. 222 00:16:30.320 --> 00:16:32.039 So be aware. 223 00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:34.440 If you see something, you know this whole thing. You 224 00:16:34.480 --> 00:16:38.519 see something, call something, see something, do something. Yeah, same 225 00:16:38.519 --> 00:16:41.399 thing for health, same thing for health. 226 00:16:41.399 --> 00:16:44.080 All right. In the final couple of minutes here. 227 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:48.200 Before we take another break, what you know we've been 228 00:16:48.240 --> 00:16:51.120 talking about colon cants. What are some of the colon 229 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:54.879 cancer symptoms? How do you know that you might have 230 00:16:55.000 --> 00:16:59.120 colon cancer? Or time to hit the red button and 231 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:02.440 say hey, I gotta get some help. One is diarrhea 232 00:17:02.519 --> 00:17:07.279 or constipation. Now, if you eat too many beef burritos 233 00:17:08.400 --> 00:17:13.200 and have diarrhea the next morning, that's okay, that doesn't 234 00:17:13.200 --> 00:17:14.839 mean you have colon cancer. But if it goes on 235 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:17.400 the next day and the next day, and then you 236 00:17:17.440 --> 00:17:20.480 get a little relief, and then five days later you 237 00:17:20.480 --> 00:17:24.640 get diarrhea for three days, and it seems your new 238 00:17:24.720 --> 00:17:28.519 normal is diarrhea. For Pete's sakes, you've got to get attention. 239 00:17:28.680 --> 00:17:30.640 Same thing constipation. 240 00:17:32.519 --> 00:17:32.799 Again. 241 00:17:32.839 --> 00:17:35.440 We all get constipated. We eat too much cheese, we 242 00:17:35.519 --> 00:17:38.039 get constipated. A lot of people get constipated when they travel, 243 00:17:38.200 --> 00:17:42.200 they're out of their routine. But if constipation goes on 244 00:17:42.359 --> 00:17:48.000 for three days, five days, ten days a month, and 245 00:17:48.039 --> 00:17:50.440 you're saying to yourself, man, I am constipated. This is 246 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:54.480 totally out of bounds for me. It's not just so 247 00:17:54.559 --> 00:17:57.119 you haven't had enough fiber. Depending on how old you are, 248 00:17:58.799 --> 00:18:02.480 that's a problem. Next thing is sort of this weird 249 00:18:02.599 --> 00:18:06.680 feeling that your bowels don't completely empty. You have the urge, 250 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:08.359 you have a bowel movement, you go to the bathroom, 251 00:18:08.359 --> 00:18:12.279 you sit down, something comes out, but you're like, I 252 00:18:12.319 --> 00:18:15.000 still feel like there's a whole bunch of stuff in 253 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:17.880 there still. And then maybe you go back an hour 254 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:20.880 later and you still feel like you're not fully evacuated. 255 00:18:21.319 --> 00:18:23.880 That could be a sign. Any blood in your stool, 256 00:18:24.799 --> 00:18:26.519 and you can't sign it off to well, well I 257 00:18:26.519 --> 00:18:30.200 got hemorrhoids. Yeah, that'll be okay for like a couple 258 00:18:30.200 --> 00:18:33.000 of days. But if you repeatedly have blood in your stool, 259 00:18:33.039 --> 00:18:34.920 it needs to be checked out. The other thing is 260 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:37.640 narrowing of the stool. We say a change in the 261 00:18:37.640 --> 00:18:40.759 caliber of the stool. So now you have a normal 262 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:44.279 turd that comes out, but now it is narrow we 263 00:18:44.359 --> 00:18:48.839 say pencil like or ribbon like. No good, have to 264 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:53.440 get it checked out. Cramps are bloating, sort of general complaints. 265 00:18:54.359 --> 00:18:56.960 Got to take a look at it. Unintended weight loss 266 00:18:57.400 --> 00:19:00.839 or a decrease appetite. Those are the things that you 267 00:19:00.920 --> 00:19:09.200 have to be on the lookout for, okay, and just 268 00:19:09.279 --> 00:19:13.880 simply be aware. All right, quick break coming up here, 269 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:17.400 Doctor Joe Golotti. Always a real pleasure to be here 270 00:19:17.440 --> 00:19:21.319 Sunday evening, sharing part of your weekend with you. Dr 271 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:23.200 Jogolotti dot com is our website. 272 00:19:24.440 --> 00:19:25.440 Sign up for our newsletter. 273 00:19:25.519 --> 00:19:28.720 Check out my book Eating Yourself Sick. Pick it out 274 00:19:28.720 --> 00:19:33.000 on Amazon. I'll bright back all right, Well, welcome back, everybody, 275 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:34.920 Doctor Joe Glotti. 276 00:19:35.000 --> 00:19:35.960 This is your health First. 277 00:19:36.000 --> 00:19:40.079 We're here every Sunday evening between the hour of seven 278 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:43.319 and a pm. I'm do mystic about the way that 279 00:19:43.559 --> 00:19:44.839 things are going. 280 00:19:44.559 --> 00:19:48.000 In And. 281 00:19:49.279 --> 00:19:52.599 You know, this is a great song from the UH 282 00:19:54.160 --> 00:19:57.480 nineteen seventy three, I think by Chicago. Name of the 283 00:19:57.519 --> 00:20:01.079 song this dialogue and it's a so back and forth 284 00:20:03.119 --> 00:20:10.039 conversation about things are good, things are bad. One person 285 00:20:10.119 --> 00:20:12.720 sees things on the sunny side, the other one sees 286 00:20:12.759 --> 00:20:14.720 things as being pretty bad. 287 00:20:15.480 --> 00:20:16.720 But it's a great little song. 288 00:20:17.599 --> 00:20:21.640 I think it was on Chicago five for you children 289 00:20:21.680 --> 00:20:25.599 of the seventies. All right, well, doctor Joe Glotti, your 290 00:20:25.720 --> 00:20:30.160 hell first, every Sunday between seven and eight pm. And 291 00:20:30.440 --> 00:20:32.880 as we always say, trying to make you better consumers 292 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:38.319 of healthcare. Last segment, we were talking about colon cancer. 293 00:20:38.480 --> 00:20:45.119 Do really do pay attention to it in that you 294 00:20:45.160 --> 00:20:49.559 may be sitting on the fence, not sure do I 295 00:20:49.640 --> 00:20:54.400 need it or do you have enough nerve to get up. 296 00:20:54.319 --> 00:20:55.480 And do the test. 297 00:20:55.559 --> 00:21:02.319 People find it invasive, which I could understand that, And 298 00:21:02.640 --> 00:21:06.960 people don't like having their buttocks touched and their rectum 299 00:21:07.039 --> 00:21:11.559 and scopes going in. They find that really sort of horrible. Now, 300 00:21:11.599 --> 00:21:13.720 as as somebody that does this procedure. 301 00:21:15.519 --> 00:21:16.240 Believe it or not. 302 00:21:16.400 --> 00:21:21.640 I have a number of colleagues, friends, neighbors, men and 303 00:21:21.680 --> 00:21:25.039 women that will call up and say, hey, I need 304 00:21:25.079 --> 00:21:28.039 to have this test done and I trust you and 305 00:21:28.200 --> 00:21:31.640 I know you, and et cetera, et cetera, and they 306 00:21:31.680 --> 00:21:37.720 have no problem coming for the test. That sort of 307 00:21:38.000 --> 00:21:41.000 I don't want to say shame, but that embarrassment that 308 00:21:41.039 --> 00:21:44.519 we all create on ourselves. There are some people and 309 00:21:44.599 --> 00:21:46.559 others just show me, Hey, I got to get this done. 310 00:21:46.599 --> 00:21:49.119 I have to stay healthy for myself, my husband, my wife, 311 00:21:49.319 --> 00:21:49.839 my kids. 312 00:21:50.559 --> 00:21:51.119 Just go and do it. 313 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:54.200 But colon cancer is one of those things that we 314 00:21:54.319 --> 00:21:58.680 certainly can impact and cut down on. All right, So, 315 00:22:00.680 --> 00:22:05.359 and an article that I came across, and for many 316 00:22:05.400 --> 00:22:08.400 of you that you know may be familiar with me 317 00:22:08.440 --> 00:22:14.799 in the program, I literally try and scour all various 318 00:22:15.119 --> 00:22:22.359 news sources radio, TV, newspapers, magazines, other newsletters. And now, 319 00:22:22.400 --> 00:22:25.480 of course we have to pay attention to what people 320 00:22:25.519 --> 00:22:28.319 are saying online. And that is really a double edged 321 00:22:29.160 --> 00:22:33.640 sword in that there's good material out there that is 322 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:37.359 thought provoking, provocative things that we need to know. It 323 00:22:37.519 --> 00:22:42.079 will stimulate conversation sort of like this and others that 324 00:22:42.240 --> 00:22:46.079 are not all that good, and they are more sensational, 325 00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:52.240 and they are frightening and a little put offish to 326 00:22:52.319 --> 00:22:56.880 say that. And so it's really really hard to figure 327 00:22:56.920 --> 00:23:00.279 out for you, the consumer. You're not in healthcare, you 328 00:23:00.319 --> 00:23:04.920 are most people are just casual consumers of this information, 329 00:23:05.960 --> 00:23:10.079 and you're just trying your damnedest to make sense of it. 330 00:23:10.160 --> 00:23:16.839 So a post that was made by doctor Mark Hyman, 331 00:23:17.279 --> 00:23:23.440 m D. Now his credentials are fifteen New York Times 332 00:23:24.759 --> 00:23:30.680 best selling author, co founder and director of Ultra Wellness Center, 333 00:23:31.279 --> 00:23:37.880 co founder of at Functional Medicine, and founder of Functional 334 00:23:37.920 --> 00:23:41.599 Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic. Now you would think that 335 00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:46.160 this is somebody we need to pay attention to. And 336 00:23:46.200 --> 00:23:50.559 I'm not saying not to. I am not saying anything 337 00:23:51.119 --> 00:23:55.000 about doctor Hyman, And in fact, I will be reaching 338 00:23:55.079 --> 00:23:59.119 out to him this coming week to see if he 339 00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:03.880 can on the program and just sort of explain where 340 00:24:03.880 --> 00:24:07.160 he's coming from. But uh, and and again, this is 341 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:10.039 somebody that was way out ahead of the pack before 342 00:24:10.759 --> 00:24:19.960 Make America Healthy Again, before the MAHA movement. He was 343 00:24:20.119 --> 00:24:25.079 out there talking about food and preservatives and artificial flavors 344 00:24:25.119 --> 00:24:32.680 and the like. But anyway, he posted something with it 345 00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:35.920 was a list of pictures and I'm going to face 346 00:24:35.960 --> 00:24:39.880 this face post this on Facebook later tonight, which is 347 00:24:39.920 --> 00:24:43.000 at doctor Joe Galotti on Facebook at doctor Joe Glotti 348 00:24:43.319 --> 00:24:44.000 on Facebook. 349 00:24:45.160 --> 00:24:45.240 Uh. 350 00:24:45.359 --> 00:24:47.559 And of course you go to my website doctor Joglotti 351 00:24:47.599 --> 00:24:50.640 dot com and the links to social media there. But 352 00:24:50.880 --> 00:25:00.559 he has a list of foods which contain a food additive. 353 00:25:00.680 --> 00:25:07.519 It is considered an emulsifier with mono and die glycerides, 354 00:25:09.039 --> 00:25:12.920 and the name of it is karriganan c A R 355 00:25:13.160 --> 00:25:18.759 R A G E E N A N karragienan, and 356 00:25:19.079 --> 00:25:24.799 he basically says, do not eat these foods. Discard immediately. 357 00:25:25.960 --> 00:25:30.279 If you recognize any of these in your or loved 358 00:25:30.319 --> 00:25:34.440 one's kitchen, throw it out. It's the easiest act of 359 00:25:34.599 --> 00:25:37.519 love you can do for them today. So you read that, 360 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:39.799 you say, wow, I love my wife. I'm going to 361 00:25:39.880 --> 00:25:43.839 start throwing out all his food. But the the foods 362 00:25:43.880 --> 00:25:49.680 that he has here, in no particular order, the fair Light, 363 00:25:50.319 --> 00:25:59.279 Core Power Beverages, a McCafe. It's a McDonald's sweetened coffee drink. 364 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:05.519 I don't believe it's butter butter coffee, Mate, Premiere Protein, 365 00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:12.920 Muscle Milk, Ben and Jerry's Activia, which is a yogurt 366 00:26:12.920 --> 00:26:16.880 with probiotics in it, Jiffy Peanut butter, Burger King Skippy 367 00:26:17.359 --> 00:26:26.920 Peanut butter, and Mission organic tortillas. And there are studying 368 00:26:27.240 --> 00:26:32.079 and really referencing a French study that looked at the 369 00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:36.839 impact of emulsifiers, which are as I said earlier, food 370 00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:40.440 additives used to improve the texture and extend the shelf 371 00:26:40.480 --> 00:26:44.000 life on the cancer risk. So now here again you 372 00:26:44.079 --> 00:26:48.319 hear cancer risk, everybody's attention is going to be on edge. 373 00:26:48.680 --> 00:26:53.559 So this particular study research has analyzed ninety two thousand 374 00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:58.119 adults over nearly seven years and found that certain emulsifiers 375 00:26:58.440 --> 00:27:02.599 the ones I just mentioned significantly increase cancer risk. And 376 00:27:02.599 --> 00:27:06.160 they're saying here that mono and diglycerides of fatty acids 377 00:27:06.200 --> 00:27:10.400 found in processed baked goods margarine ice cream were linked 378 00:27:10.440 --> 00:27:16.200 to a fifteen percent higher risk of overall cancer, twenty 379 00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:21.200 four percent higher risk of breast cancer, and forty six 380 00:27:21.359 --> 00:27:27.160 percent higher risk of prostate cancer. And they go on 381 00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:32.079 to say that kraginan a thickening agent in dairy alternatives, 382 00:27:32.119 --> 00:27:35.599 deli meats and plant based products, were linked to thirty 383 00:27:35.640 --> 00:27:39.960 two percent higher risk of breast cancer. Now, this is 384 00:27:40.000 --> 00:27:44.039 a post that he made on Instagram, and it had 385 00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:48.920 seventeen or it has seventeen hundred comments. And when you 386 00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:53.920 read through them, some are in agreement. Some are saying, 387 00:27:54.279 --> 00:28:00.000 there's no way I'm going to stop eating these products. 388 00:28:00.240 --> 00:28:03.839 They wish that he put a post up with some 389 00:28:04.000 --> 00:28:10.440 healthy alternatives. Others get into the detail of looking at 390 00:28:10.440 --> 00:28:16.519 the study, which the statistical analysis of it was not 391 00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:20.319 up to their liking, and thus the statistics are a 392 00:28:20.359 --> 00:28:21.079 bit off. 393 00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:24.160 And so really, what do you do? What do I do? 394 00:28:24.240 --> 00:28:28.519 I'm sitting here saying, yes, I have had, on occasion 395 00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:33.279 some of these products. I have consumed Jiff and Skippy 396 00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:38.039 peanut butter from time to time. I have had Premiere 397 00:28:38.039 --> 00:28:43.880 protein from time to time. I really never use like coffee, mate, 398 00:28:44.000 --> 00:28:48.359 I find that is so disgusting. But anyway, these are 399 00:28:48.440 --> 00:28:51.119 foods that any of us could have in our kitchen. 400 00:28:51.160 --> 00:28:53.119 So what, you know, what the hell are we supposed 401 00:28:53.119 --> 00:28:58.480