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Speaker 3: So today is Father's Day and coming up in a
Speaker 3: few minutes, Dan Ostrander, who is a dear friend of mine,
Speaker 3: and as I like to describe Dan, he is a
Speaker 3: wise gentleman. He has insight. He has a very clear
Speaker 3: perspective on on family and health and life and being
Speaker 3: a parent, communicating with one another, be it family or
Speaker 3: neighbors or friends. And I'm gonna have Dan drop in
Speaker 3: and talk about the role of fathers in health and wellness.
Speaker 3: I believe that all of us need to empower dads.
Speaker 3: And a lot of people have talked about written about
Speaker 3: that the American father is under attack. They are looked
Speaker 3: at and ridiculed on TV shows and in movies and
Speaker 3: in the press. But that is not a good look.
Speaker 3: We have to really continue to support dads and make
Speaker 3: sure that they are playing the vital role that they
Speaker 3: need to play in their family, the role of uh,
Speaker 3: you know, really communicating with their children, with their spouses,
Speaker 3: significant others, and other family members. It is really vital.
Speaker 3: So Dan will be coming up and always interesting to
Speaker 3: have him on the program. But you know, certainly even
Speaker 3: in our dads that are no longer here, my father,
Speaker 3: I was exquisitely lucky to.
Speaker 2: Have a.
Speaker 3: Father that was there for me, there for my two sisters,
Speaker 3: there for my mom. He was a member of the
Speaker 3: community at large, our church, and if you know, to
Speaker 3: this day as a parent, as a husband, I'm not
Speaker 3: quite sure I have been able to live up to
Speaker 3: all of the things that he was able to do.
Speaker 3: He was just an amazing man, and he taught me
Speaker 3: so much, not only about being a good son, but
Speaker 3: teaching me to be a good husband and father, but
Speaker 3: simply how to manage myself, how to communicate, how to
Speaker 3: be good to other people. My father was he was
Speaker 3: in sales. Many of you have heard me talk about
Speaker 3: my dad in the past, and he's actually been on
Speaker 3: the radio a number of times, and because of the
Speaker 3: digital age we live in, he relives on replays of
Speaker 3: the radio program, but you could actually go to our
Speaker 3: podcast and there is a lengthy interview with my dad,
Speaker 3: which is always lovely to hear. But my father made
Speaker 3: sure that we were able to communicate. We were able
Speaker 3: to be friendly, we could still be firm, we could
Speaker 3: be stern, but we were able to be good children,
Speaker 3: good young adults, good adults, good leaders in our field,
Speaker 3: and we desperately, desperately need more strong father figures. It
Speaker 3: is I cannot really place the amount of importance that
Speaker 3: we have to And so for all of the dads
Speaker 3: tuning in tonight, reevaluate your role, the impact that you
Speaker 3: have on your children, the impact that you have on
Speaker 3: your spouses. It really is important, and I would look
Speaker 3: at it to say, one of the reasons there is
Speaker 3: so much chronic disease is that nobody is communicating with
Speaker 3: each other. You may have a child, you may have
Speaker 3: a spouse, you may have a relative that really is
Speaker 3: not taking care of themselves, and nobody is stepping up
Speaker 3: and intervening. So we have children that have families and
Speaker 3: the parents have absolutely no idea what they're doing. They're
Speaker 3: not communicating, they're not realizing that they're smoking, they're not
Speaker 3: realizing that they're drinking, they're not realizing that they're eating
Speaker 3: fast food twenty four hours a day. We need our
Speaker 3: dads and our moms as well. It sort of falls
Speaker 3: under this tough love situation. But we need to lead
Speaker 3: by example. Now, for you to lead by example with
Speaker 3: your kids as a father, you cannot basically say do
Speaker 3: as I say, not as I do. If you're going
Speaker 3: to want your children to take care of themselves, you
Speaker 3: have to show the example that you are taking care
Speaker 3: of yourself. You are going to the doctor, you are
Speaker 3: following directions, You are learning how to eat and cook
Speaker 3: and exercise and get to bet on a decent time
Speaker 3: of the night. You are not in coesting excessive amounts
Speaker 3: of alcohol, and that you're not gaining weight. Because if
Speaker 3: you're doing all of these things wrong in a sense
Speaker 3: according to my standards, how are your children going to
Speaker 3: get these healthy habits to follow. It all starts with
Speaker 3: the parents, and today, on Father's Day, we need to
Speaker 3: talk about the important role. So with that said, Dan
Speaker 3: Ostrander is going to be coming on in just a
Speaker 3: few minutes. He is on hold. I'm doctor Joglotti. This
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Speaker 3: million times over the years, if you are all better consumers,
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Speaker 3: you will be healthier. You'll be out of the doctor's office,
Speaker 3: be out of the er and really just see your
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Speaker 3: Joe Galotti dot com. So on this Father's Day night,
Speaker 3: we never rest. I have a a dear friend, Dan Ostrander.
Speaker 3: He's been on before, and Dan, I would look at
Speaker 3: you as one of those great voices of reason, and
Speaker 3: that's why I love to have you on the program.
Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate it, doctor Colotti.
Speaker 3: Well, now tell us tell everybody a little bit about
Speaker 3: your your fatherhood and your kid kids and your family.
Speaker 3: Give us a quick thirty thousand foot views, so everybody
Speaker 3: sort of has a sense of who you are.
Speaker 2: I appreciate it. I have two beautiful daughters in Dallas,
Speaker 2: one thirty five, one thirty three. I have three beautiful grandkids.
Speaker 2: The youngest is he's about eight months now, and they're
Speaker 2: all doing incredibly well. They have mom's jeans, so we're
Speaker 2: in great shape.
Speaker 3: Well that's that's good. You know, just you mentioned the grandkids,
Speaker 3: and lots for us to talk about here about Father's Day,
Speaker 3: the role of father's and the role of dads in
Speaker 3: the wellness of the family. But you know, it's very
Speaker 3: interesting when I come across patients that are facing some
Speaker 3: sort of a medical crisis and they are potentially looking
Speaker 3: at a shortened life, or they may they may die
Speaker 3: from their liver disease or some other problem. They will
Speaker 3: look at me to say, doctor Galatti, my goal here
Speaker 3: if I could live another one year, three year, five year,
Speaker 3: ten years to see my grandkids graduate high school, or
Speaker 3: I have a granddaughter that I want to see her
Speaker 3: get married. It is amazing that. And I joke around
Speaker 3: in a very very caring way with the families I
Speaker 3: take care of. I say, look, especially if the kids
Speaker 3: are in the room, the parents of the grandchildren. I say, look,
Speaker 3: your dad, your mom doesn't care about you. They're more
Speaker 3: worried about the grandchildren. So I do not have any
Speaker 3: grandchildren yet, but the bond it is enough to want
Speaker 3: to have you live. What do you think of that?
Speaker 2: You know, that's such a great question. I guess something
Speaker 2: that is kind of you know, propelled me into a
Speaker 2: real strong, healthy position is the fact that both of
Speaker 2: my parents never made it to age seventy. Oh my yes.
Speaker 2: Actually my dad passed away at sixty nine and my
Speaker 2: mom passed away at age sixty seven unexpectedly. And then
Speaker 2: as my kids got a little older and started having grandkids,
Speaker 2: I said to myself, I have to make it past
Speaker 2: age seventy. I mean, that's a goal. There's no doubt.
Speaker 2: I've got to make it past age seventy. And with
Speaker 2: a six year old, a three year old, and a
Speaker 2: eight minth old, I'm in my mid sixties. I got
Speaker 2: a ways to go. But that is something that I
Speaker 2: think about on a daily and a weekly basis. What
Speaker 2: can I do personally to make sure both my wife
Speaker 2: and I that we're going to be around past age
Speaker 2: seventy and then some to be there for our grandkids.
Speaker 3: You know, I think that's very important. And really this
Speaker 3: begs a bigger question to say, what is it really that?
Speaker 3: And this sounds like either it's a very esoteric question
Speaker 3: or too philosophical, But really I do think it has
Speaker 3: real world implication. What motivates you to want to live?
Speaker 3: What motivates you to want to stay healthy? Now Here
Speaker 3: we're talking stay healthy for our grandkids, but I'm sure
Speaker 3: equally you want to be there for your two girls,
Speaker 3: You want to be there for your wife, you want
Speaker 3: to be there for You're in a circle of friends
Speaker 3: that you so care about and people that care about you.
Speaker 3: So I think we all have to look when we
Speaker 3: look at our own health and wellness what motivates us.
Speaker 3: So besides grandkids, what else do you think motivates people
Speaker 3: to stay well well?
Speaker 2: I think there's a number of things. Not too long ago,
Speaker 2: which I had shared with you, I was diagnosed as
Speaker 2: a diabetic patient, which was really quite shocking to me,
Speaker 2: given the fact as an ex college athlete, I've been
Speaker 2: fairly active on a weekly basis. But when I went in,
Speaker 2: all my cardiovascular parameters were relatively normal, except for the
Speaker 2: fact that my pasting glucose was was somewhat elevated in
Speaker 2: the morning, and when I got that diagnosis, it just
Speaker 2: made me think. Look, I asked the doctor, what can
Speaker 2: I do personally? We will give me a couple things
Speaker 2: I can do when I walk out of this office
Speaker 2: that I can do to change the course or direction
Speaker 2: of what you've just made a diagnosis off. And I
Speaker 2: think that was a kind of a wake up moment
Speaker 2: for me, given the fact that I've been doing some things,
Speaker 2: but in retrospect, I really needed to intensify and pick
Speaker 2: it up a little right.
Speaker 3: And you know, for you and for all transparency, I
Speaker 3: see you an awful lot at the at the gym
Speaker 3: and your beast on on on the elliptical. I've never
Speaker 3: seen anybody go on the elliptical like that. But you
Speaker 3: were confronted with a medical issue and you took ownership
Speaker 3: of it, and you are essentially doing everything you can
Speaker 3: to reverse this or stop it. And in a sense,
Speaker 3: what is what is the light in your head that
Speaker 3: went off that maybe the guy next door it doesn't
Speaker 3: What's what's the what's the gene trait that allows that?
Speaker 2: Well, I don't know if it's a gene trait I
Speaker 2: kind of sat.
Speaker 3: Down the personality maybe more personality, Well, yeah.
Speaker 2: I think, I think I kind of you know, sometimes
Speaker 2: you think about these things when you go into the
Speaker 2: doctor's office and he says, hey, here's your diagnosis. I
Speaker 2: think when you leave the doctors, you know, the next
Speaker 2: few days you really start to reflect. All right, Right
Speaker 2: he said this. I took some notes and I go, Okay,
Speaker 2: what do I need to do personally to kind of
Speaker 2: change his course?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: And that's kind of how I looked at it. I
Speaker 2: was saying to myself, I need to be coachable, I
Speaker 2: need to listen to the doctor of what he says,
Speaker 2: and then I need to buy into what he thinks
Speaker 2: I need to do to kind of change his course.
Speaker 3: Right. So you're you know, you go all in. And
Speaker 3: we have certainly a lot of patients that we have
Speaker 3: not not to have everybody listening tonight think that we
Speaker 3: have some cookie cutter menu or script that we give patients.
Speaker 3: But for the most part, it's a similar message that
Speaker 3: we tell our patients with regard to their livid disease
Speaker 3: or their cirrhosis. And the issue is we'll see somebody
Speaker 3: back four to six weeks later and they bought into
Speaker 3: this full force, and they have lost weight, their blood
Speaker 3: sugar is better, their liver numbers are better. But yet
Speaker 3: the same script to somebody else, the same conversation, and
Speaker 3: we could be three four years later and they still
Speaker 3: have not made one positive step in that health journey.
Speaker 3: So that's that's what's fascinating. We look at it with
Speaker 3: our staff and we're like, why did this lady do
Speaker 3: exactly as we had asked? And then somebody else just
Speaker 3: really didn't seem to care.
Speaker 2: What do you think then, Now, that's a great question.
Speaker 2: I've often thought about that, and the only thing I
Speaker 2: can think of, doctor Glotti, is I think you get
Speaker 2: to a certain point in life where you just say,
Speaker 2: it's really not about me, right, It's about me being
Speaker 2: around healthy for my grandkids and my wife and my friends.
Speaker 2: And the only way to do that, I really believe,
Speaker 2: is make that commitment to yourself and say I'm gonna
Speaker 2: do it for me. I'm not going to do it
Speaker 2: for my wife. I'm not gonna do it for my grandkids.
Speaker 2: But I know if I do it for myself, I
Speaker 2: will be there for my grandkids and for my wife,
Speaker 2: and for my friends in my community and I think
Speaker 2: that's the only way you can really do it. No,
Speaker 2: I would you just have to say, I've got to
Speaker 2: do it for me. I'm the patient, I'm the CEO,
Speaker 2: I'm in charge. Nobody else is in charge.
Speaker 3: It has to be me exactly all right. On that note,
Speaker 3: let's take a quick break. Come doctor Joe Glotti, this
Speaker 3: is your health first. Don't forget doctor Joeglotti dot com.
Speaker 3: We're talking with dan Ostrander on this Father's Day evening.
Speaker 3: Stay tuned, we will be right back. Welcome back everybody,
Speaker 3: Doctor Joe Glotti. Thanks for tuning in on this Father's
Speaker 3: Day evening. It's great to have you with us. Don't
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Speaker 3: of my book Eating Yourself Sick. And on the program tonight,
Speaker 3: we are continuing with doctor not doctor, just playing o
Speaker 3: dan Ostrander. He could be a doctor talking about the
Speaker 3: role father's play in the health and wellness of their
Speaker 3: family and the health of men in general. It's such
Speaker 3: a important topic. Now switching gears to Father's Day and
Speaker 3: it's of course, every day is Mother's day, every day
Speaker 3: is Father's Day, et cetera. But for tonight and today
Speaker 3: and fathers are on our mind. I have always wanted
Speaker 3: to promote the idea that for the men that are listening,
Speaker 3: the men's in the men in our lives, the men
Speaker 3: in our communities, the dads, that they need to step
Speaker 3: up and become, as you said, the CEO of their
Speaker 3: health plan for their family by not only taking care
Speaker 3: of themselves, making sure that they're taking care of themselves.
Speaker 3: Are they eating properly, They're not consuming too much alcohol,
Speaker 3: they're sleeping, they're keeping their weight down, good lifestyle habits
Speaker 3: for themselves, but for their significant others, their children, their grandchildren.
Speaker 3: And some people would say, look, you know, the American
Speaker 3: male is under attack, and now here I am saying,
Speaker 3: there's one more piece of their job description. They have
Speaker 3: to be the health and wellness champion for their family.
Speaker 3: But I do believe that if you have parents, and
Speaker 3: now we're talking about dads now, and it is a
Speaker 3: mother and father type of family situation where you have
Speaker 3: the dad checking in with their kids, the dad checking
Speaker 3: in with their with their wife or girlfriend or whatever
Speaker 3: it may be. In that family, and they are encouraging
Speaker 3: good nutrition, encouraging exercise, encouraging getting your checkups. I do
Speaker 3: think that we would be healthier if we had that leadership.
Speaker 3: So with that, Dan, what do you think I'd say?
Speaker 2: First of all, I think our wives are incredibly great,
Speaker 2: compliant patients right with their doctor. I would say, males
Speaker 2: as a general, and I'm only speaking for my self,
Speaker 2: at times we're absolutely horrible.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, you know what I mean, right, don't.
Speaker 2: We just don't comply for whatever reason. I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's our pride, I don't know what it is,
Speaker 2: but we just don't do exactly what the doctor asked
Speaker 2: us to do right until we get to that situation
Speaker 2: when when the hood goes up and he goes we
Speaker 2: got a problem, right, and this could happen if you
Speaker 2: don't take care of it. That's kind of when we
Speaker 2: decide to respond to what the doctor.
Speaker 3: Asked us to do right right. And I would say,
Speaker 3: while I don't have an exact percent, I would say,
Speaker 3: by far more women come with their husbands to see
Speaker 3: me and they're there. They're there. They are are there
Speaker 3: not just as the driver or the companion to help
Speaker 3: with directions. They are there because they are insisting that
Speaker 3: their husband get their liver checked. The reverse of that
Speaker 3: is much less. It is usually the guy is the
Speaker 3: driver and the woman is concerned about her liver, and
Speaker 3: he's there just sort of as moral support, not really
Speaker 3: the active driver. But I would you know what you
Speaker 3: said is correct, and that's where this uh doctor mom
Speaker 3: sort of saying came from. But how do you think
Speaker 3: we can turn this around? And do you think a
Speaker 3: little bit of a rhetorical question here for you, Dan,
Speaker 3: do you think if men took a more active role,
Speaker 3: not only in their own health but of their family's health,
Speaker 3: we could move the needle and make things better.
Speaker 2: I think that's an awesome question. How the way I
Speaker 2: respond to that would be personally given the fact that
Speaker 2: I am a pre diabetic now, both my wife and
Speaker 2: I have made a commitment to eat more clean, to
Speaker 2: avoid what we should avoid, and eat what we should eat.
Speaker 2: And about two weeks ago, I got a call from
Speaker 2: my youngest daughter who said to me on the phone,
Speaker 2: I'm not going to quote word for a word, but
Speaker 2: it'll be real close. She said, Dad, I'm so proud
Speaker 2: of you and mom eating clean and trying to be
Speaker 2: incredibly healthy for me, for my husband, and for my
Speaker 2: newly born young son, and that personally kind of hit me, Like,
Speaker 2: our kids pay attention to our behavior, and I think
Speaker 2: behavior is probably the greatest gift that we can give
Speaker 2: other people without words. Our behavior as we display it
Speaker 2: in front of others, that really writes the paragraphs of
Speaker 2: who we are and where we're going with respect to
Speaker 2: our health exactly. And it was awesome to me to
Speaker 2: hear from my daughter and I put her on speakerphones
Speaker 2: so my wife could hear. It's like, Okay, you guys
Speaker 2: are really trying and trying to do the best you can,
Speaker 2: and we notice it. We see you, and we hear you.
Speaker 2: And so I think the behavior component of it for
Speaker 2: men on Father's Day is something don't forget about. Just
Speaker 2: know people are watching you, and if you're making these changes,
Speaker 2: you're going to inspire your own kids and the others
Speaker 2: around you and your family.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly. Now, with that said, and there's always a
Speaker 3: lot of talk about men's health, and there is a
Speaker 3: men's Health Month and Men's Health Week and prostate cancer
Speaker 3: awareness and men's health in general, and more men are
Speaker 3: going to be affected by hypertension and obesity and the
Speaker 3: the scourge of you know, diabetes. But from your standpoint,
Speaker 3: somebody that is in the trenches doing a heck of
Speaker 3: a good job as a model. I mean, I would say, Dan,
Speaker 3: and not because I know you, and not because I'm
Speaker 3: trying to, you know, boast on you here. You really
Speaker 3: are a model citizen when it comes to the exercise component.
Speaker 3: And really when we talk on the parking lot, you're
Speaker 3: telling me with enthusiasm your blood results and what this
Speaker 3: doctor is saying, and I'm going to this specialist. You're
Speaker 3: really all in head first, which is really we need
Speaker 3: more people to be like that. But for the dads
Speaker 3: or just men in general that are listening tonight, what
Speaker 3: would you say are a few actionable steps so that
Speaker 3: number one, they can take better care of themselves. And
Speaker 3: number two maybe the tougher thing, how do they lead
Speaker 3: by example for their family.
Speaker 2: This will be somewhat kind of intuitive, but I would
Speaker 2: say one thing is when you deny yourself of something
Speaker 2: that you really like and you don't participate in it,
Speaker 2: that's powerful. And what I mean by that is when
Speaker 2: you do it once, you kind of go all right,
Speaker 2: I can do it again. And so in the same
Speaker 2: way for the guys that are maybe hearing this tonight
Speaker 2: on Father's Day, I would say, you know, challenge yourself
Speaker 2: personally to deny yourself. And so if you have a
Speaker 2: habit that's not really healthy, just deny yourself of it
Speaker 2: and see what your response is and then you realize
Speaker 2: so you actually can do it. And so you kind
Speaker 2: of have to get your mind around the fact of
Speaker 2: denying yourself of whatever that is, and then once you
Speaker 2: get past that, you'll go, well, I can continue to
Speaker 2: do that. And so if it's just a matter of, hey,
Speaker 2: today I'm going to go out and I carry my
Speaker 2: phone with me when I walk, and I monitor my steps, okay,
Speaker 2: and so on a daily basis, and so I kind
Speaker 2: of feel, you know, trying to get an idea where
Speaker 2: I'm at. I mean, my goal is personally each day
Speaker 2: is ten thousand steps. But if you're listening to this
Speaker 2: and you've never walked before, I mean, just go out
Speaker 2: and walk for twenty minutes and see what your steps
Speaker 2: are and let that be a starting point. Get your
Speaker 2: foot in the game and kind of see where you
Speaker 2: are and evaluate. And the one thing that I have
Speaker 2: learned doctor Glotti is that when you do properly get
Speaker 2: enough steps and get enough exercise in the day, I
Speaker 2: promise you sleep significantly better at night and you just
Speaker 2: feel better.
Speaker 3: Yeah, without a doubt. And we tell our patients all
Speaker 3: the time, just you know, you don't need an expensive
Speaker 3: gym membership, You don't need to buy expensive pieces of equipment.
Speaker 3: Just buy a good pair of shoes and start walking.
Speaker 3: Like you said, get literally get your foot into the game.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I couldn't agree more. That's it. Just move your feet.
Speaker 2: So they told me a long time ago, Hey Dan,
Speaker 2: how do I need to do this? And they would
Speaker 2: say to me, I don't really know, But what I
Speaker 2: do know is just move your feet right now. So
Speaker 2: just get a moving and then you will figure it out.
Speaker 2: And your iPhone has that little app on it, which
Speaker 2: is really great, the one that has a heart on it,
Speaker 2: at least in mind. Yeah, and it just monitors my steps. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and in the day's simon tells me how many miles
Speaker 2: I've walked. And it's not crazy. You're not running when
Speaker 2: you're in your mid sixties. You can't run anymore like
Speaker 2: you used to, however, but you're moving your body and
Speaker 2: you're moving your feet right and you're moving your steps,
Speaker 2: and it kind of gives you a goal, so you say, Okay,
Speaker 2: today I want to try to get X amount of
Speaker 2: steps or this week, and it monitors it for you.
Speaker 2: And then more importantly, doctor Glady, I think, is how
Speaker 2: do you feel once you do that over a day,
Speaker 2: two days, or a week's time, and the way you
Speaker 2: feel will probably move your behavior to say, hey, I
Speaker 2: got to continue to do this because I feel really
Speaker 2: good and I've really struggled with sleeping and I'm sleeping
Speaker 2: significantly better now than I did before.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know exactly, and I'm sure you talk with
Speaker 3: friends and colleagues. There are so many people that just
Speaker 3: don't feel well. They don't sleep well, they wake up tired,
Speaker 3: they have no energy, they are poofed out with everything.
Speaker 3: And I do think it's tied to lack of exercise,
Speaker 3: lack of movement, the food, the process food that they're eating.
Speaker 3: And you just have to make these small steps to
Speaker 3: make meaningful change. Last thing, Dan, and this sort of
Speaker 3: gets back to the father's day and father's responsibility. When
Speaker 3: your daughters were younger or here they are as adults
Speaker 3: and parents, do you feel a certain obligation to comment
Speaker 3: and encourage them on certain health issues or just talk
Speaker 3: about health. You spent your I believe most of your
Speaker 3: career in the medical pharmaceutical field. You're a knowledgeable guy.
Speaker 3: If you come across an article or a study on
Speaker 3: condition X, do you send it up to your kids
Speaker 3: and say, hey, FYI, this might be interesting something you
Speaker 3: can look into.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Actually, it kind of works both ways. Now, since
Speaker 2: we've really tried to eat clean and try to work
Speaker 2: both my wife and I have a couple of health issues.
Speaker 2: We've kind of you know, tried to work on those,
Speaker 2: and then my daughters will in turn send things that
Speaker 2: they see out there back to us, right, and so
Speaker 2: there's an open communication on it, which which I think
Speaker 2: is great. So it kind of reminds them that, hey,
Speaker 2: we're trying to make some changes on our side, and
Speaker 2: if you see something on your side that would be helpful,
Speaker 2: police forward it on or vice versa. And you know, Joe,
Speaker 2: I have to tell you, I shared this with you
Speaker 2: a while back, but I just really believe, you know,
Speaker 2: for the men that are out there listening tonight and
Speaker 2: maybe their their spouse is listening to their girlfriend or
Speaker 2: what have you. But I think the cool part is
Speaker 2: both my wife and I have committed to ourselves personally
Speaker 2: and committed to our kids and to our grandkids. We
Speaker 2: are not going to let the old man or the
Speaker 2: old lady into our lives.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 2: And what I mean by that is we're going to
Speaker 2: move and we're going to move our feet, and we're
Speaker 2: not going to be seditary. We're not going to sit
Speaker 2: on the couch. We're going to be active where when
Speaker 2: you have conversations with other people are gonna go, oh,
Speaker 2: my goodness, you're really that old, right, And yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: really that old. But my behavior and my wife's behavior
Speaker 2: reflects people that are significantly younger. And that's our commitment
Speaker 2: to our kids and to our grandkids. So we can
Speaker 2: be around for them and enjoy and participate in the
Speaker 2: things that they want to do. From an activity standpoint,
Speaker 2: and personally, it's much better for us and our health
Speaker 2: component as well.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 2: Ultimately, that's what it's all about.
Speaker 3: It is, and that is so encouraging. And you know,
Speaker 3: look the people that are listening tonight or they listen
Speaker 3: to it on a replay, if we could just touch
Speaker 3: one person, one family at a time, I would say
Speaker 3: you and I would look at this and say success.
Speaker 3: We did our job tonight.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and I would encourage all the men out there
Speaker 2: on Father's Day enjoy the US Open. I love golf. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's just a beautiful Sunday afternoon. Enjoy that, and either
Speaker 2: before the US Open starts or afterwards, get out, put
Speaker 2: your phone in your pocket and start moving your feet
Speaker 2: and get some steps in before the evening and the
Speaker 2: sun goes down.
Speaker 3: All right, Dan Ostranda, always fantastic to have you on
Speaker 3: the program. Your wisdom is second to none. And let
Speaker 3: me wish you a happy Father's Day.
Speaker 2: Dan, back at you, Joe, thank you so much. All right, meon,
Speaker 2: I appreciate it, and have a bluck eving.
Speaker 3: All right, we'll talk to you soon. That's final segment
Speaker 3: of this week's Your Health first. On Father's they hope
Speaker 3: you were all having a blessed Father's Day with your family,
Speaker 3: your children, and of course keeping in mind all of
Speaker 3: the dads that have passed. Certainly, my dad passed a
Speaker 3: few years ago, and he lived at ninety seven years
Speaker 3: old because he followed the Mediterranean diet, no surprise there.
Speaker 3: And he was such a wonderful man and such a
Speaker 3: big impact on me and my two sisters and grandchildren
Speaker 3: that he has remembered every day. Hopefully, hopefully all of
Speaker 3: you can continue to make massive strides to gain not
Speaker 3: so much importance to say my family loves me and
Speaker 3: I've done so much for them. It is really respect.
Speaker 3: Have you gained the respect of your children by being
Speaker 3: a leader and having them follow by example? That really
Speaker 3: is the key thing. And don't forget our webs doctor
Speaker 3: Joegalotti dot com. We're all information related to our medical practice,
Speaker 3: which is Liver Specialists of Texas's posted and all of
Speaker 3: our social media. You can communicate back with me if
Speaker 3: you have any topics or things that you want to
Speaker 3: run by me. Certainly we are available to help you
Speaker 3: with second opinions, even outside of something liver related. If
Speaker 3: you need a name of a consultant really anywhere in
Speaker 3: the country, we can help get you connected with them.
Speaker 3: And again thanks to Dan Ostrander for such great interview
Speaker 3: see such a marvelous friend of mine. All right in
Speaker 3: the final few minutes here, there was a sort of
Speaker 3: a nice article that was in the New York Times
Speaker 3: earlier this week, and it's titled the Five Keys to
Speaker 3: a Healthy Diet and if you could master this, forget
Speaker 3: about the complicated diets and the juicing and all of
Speaker 3: the crazy things that you see on social media. But
Speaker 3: if you keep this, if you keep it honest to
Speaker 3: these five topics, guaranteed, I give you a guarantee, you
Speaker 3: will feel better. So the five things. Number one, prioritize
Speaker 3: whole foods. You want to surround yourself with whole foods. Now,
Speaker 3: what this means is number one, none of these foods
Speaker 3: are going to be processed or ultra processed. They are
Speaker 3: going to be fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and whole grains
Speaker 3: that are just packed with important nutrients, including fiber. All
Speaker 3: of these whole foods are going to supply you with
Speaker 3: the fiber that you need. And the research is beyond
Speaker 3: reproach with the reduction in heart disease, type two diabetes,
Speaker 3: fatty liver disease, and certain cancers. The fresh fruits and vegetables,
Speaker 3: especially the green leafy vegetables and the berries are very
Speaker 3: very beneficial compounds for all of us to eat. Number two,
Speaker 3: eat more healthy fats. Very simply put, we're talking about nuts, avocado, fish,
Speaker 3: and olive oil. Okay, it improves your cholesterol reduces the
Speaker 3: risk of heart attack and very very important in your
Speaker 3: overall metabolism. Number three, watch out for added sugar. If
Speaker 3: there's anything that's going to kill you, it is the
Speaker 3: food it's going to be processed or ultra process that
Speaker 3: has added sugar. You need to read labels and look
Speaker 3: not only the amount of naturally occurring sugar, because certain
Speaker 3: foods will have sugar that is part of the world
Speaker 3: we live in, but it's the added sugar. It should
Speaker 3: make up less than ten percent of your daily calories
Speaker 3: and no more than fifty grams per day, though I
Speaker 3: would say it should be no more than twenty five
Speaker 3: grams of added sugar and as close to zero as possible.
Speaker 3: But it is added sugar that is the killer, especially
Speaker 3: for your liver. Number four, you want to try to
Speaker 3: cook more at home. This is what I thoroughly believe in.
Speaker 3: If there was one thing that you said, hey, what
Speaker 3: is doctor Galottio all about, it is eating at home.
Speaker 3: When you eat at home, when you cook it home,
Speaker 3: you're going to have better ingredients and you're going to
Speaker 3: eat and prepare meals that are lower in calories. Period.
Speaker 3: The last thing is they talk about finding joy and
Speaker 3: flavor in healthy eating. A lot of people, a lot
Speaker 3: of my patients say, well, if I try to eat healthy,
Speaker 3: it doesn't taste good. You need to learn how to
Speaker 3: master adding spices and herbs and really really jazzing up
Speaker 3: your food with garlic and onions and all of these
Speaker 3: fantastic things that are available out there. So those are
Speaker 3: the five things. I'm going to post this article on
Speaker 3: our Facebook page for you to take a look at. Anyway,
Speaker 3: Happy Father's Day to everybody, Thanks again to Dan Ostrander.
Speaker 3: I'm doctor Joe Glotti. Don't forget doctor Joeglotti dot com
Speaker 3: and we'll be back next Sunday evening.
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