WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:06.759 Initialize sequencing coming to you live from Houston, Texas, home 2 00:00:06.799 --> 00:00:08.519 to the world's largest medical. 3 00:00:08.240 --> 00:00:10.000 Center, and the approach brays everything looking. 4 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:23.640 This is your Health First, the most beneficial health program 5 00:00:23.640 --> 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 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:53.520 Well a good Sunday evening to everybody, Doctor Joe Galotti. 9 00:00:53.600 --> 00:00:56.240 Every Sunday between seven and eight pm, we're here bringing 10 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:00.799 you all the best in health and wellness. And our mission, 11 00:01:00.880 --> 00:01:04.359 which is pretty clear cut, I'd like to think it's 12 00:01:04.359 --> 00:01:07.799 pretty simple, is to make you better consumers of healthcare. 13 00:01:07.959 --> 00:01:12.079 We say this and we mean it because every single 14 00:01:12.120 --> 00:01:16.599 day that I'm seeing patients in clinic or in the hospital, 15 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:22.920 there is always some deficiency in what people understand. They 16 00:01:23.000 --> 00:01:26.680 do not have a clear sense of what a particular 17 00:01:27.239 --> 00:01:35.159 pain or complaint means, and so these rather basic and 18 00:01:35.319 --> 00:01:41.319 early signs and symptoms go ignored until weeks, months, years 19 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:46.280 later they turn into a colossal problem. So being a 20 00:01:46.319 --> 00:01:50.480 better consumer, raising your health i QS, we'd like to say, 21 00:01:51.079 --> 00:01:55.120 really is important. So to follow along our website Doctor 22 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:58.400 Joegalotti dot com d R J O E G A 23 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:03.159 L A T. I is is our website and you 24 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:05.799 can sign up for our newsletter. All of our social 25 00:02:05.879 --> 00:02:11.599 media is there. You could send me a message, YouTube, Instagram, 26 00:02:11.639 --> 00:02:15.639 Facebook is all there, but you have to go to 27 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:19.000 doctor Joeglotti dot com and don't forget. You can pick 28 00:02:19.080 --> 00:02:21.400 up a copy of my book Eating Yourself Sick and 29 00:02:21.560 --> 00:02:27.719 is now coming out in paperback form, and pick up 30 00:02:27.879 --> 00:02:35.599 a paperback version for family and friends and of course yourself. 31 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:39.919 So today is Father's Day and coming up in a 32 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:45.199 few minutes, Dan Ostrander, who is a dear friend of mine, 33 00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:51.719 and as I like to describe Dan, he is a 34 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:59.000 wise gentleman. He has insight. He has a very clear 35 00:02:59.080 --> 00:03:05.199 perspective on on family and health and life and being 36 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:10.360 a parent, communicating with one another, be it family or 37 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:14.879 neighbors or friends. And I'm gonna have Dan drop in 38 00:03:15.080 --> 00:03:21.960 and talk about the role of fathers in health and wellness. 39 00:03:22.159 --> 00:03:28.400 I believe that all of us need to empower dads. 40 00:03:28.680 --> 00:03:31.639 And a lot of people have talked about written about 41 00:03:31.759 --> 00:03:38.599 that the American father is under attack. They are looked 42 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:43.280 at and ridiculed on TV shows and in movies and 43 00:03:43.319 --> 00:03:46.639 in the press. But that is not a good look. 44 00:03:46.719 --> 00:03:53.159 We have to really continue to support dads and make 45 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:57.039 sure that they are playing the vital role that they 46 00:03:57.159 --> 00:04:02.000 need to play in their family, the role of uh, 47 00:04:02.680 --> 00:04:06.639 you know, really communicating with their children, with their spouses, 48 00:04:06.719 --> 00:04:10.599 significant others, and other family members. It is really vital. 49 00:04:10.960 --> 00:04:13.680 So Dan will be coming up and always interesting to 50 00:04:13.680 --> 00:04:18.000 have him on the program. But you know, certainly even 51 00:04:18.040 --> 00:04:21.319 in our dads that are no longer here, my father, 52 00:04:21.439 --> 00:04:25.319 I was exquisitely lucky to. 53 00:04:26.000 --> 00:04:26.839 Have a. 54 00:04:28.519 --> 00:04:34.439 Father that was there for me, there for my two sisters, 55 00:04:34.519 --> 00:04:39.399 there for my mom. He was a member of the 56 00:04:39.759 --> 00:04:45.680 community at large, our church, and if you know, to 57 00:04:45.720 --> 00:04:50.000 this day as a parent, as a husband, I'm not 58 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:53.439 quite sure I have been able to live up to 59 00:04:54.079 --> 00:04:56.839 all of the things that he was able to do. 60 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:02.120 He was just an amazing man, and he taught me 61 00:05:02.800 --> 00:05:07.639 so much, not only about being a good son, but 62 00:05:08.399 --> 00:05:11.519 teaching me to be a good husband and father, but 63 00:05:12.439 --> 00:05:19.040 simply how to manage myself, how to communicate, how to 64 00:05:19.120 --> 00:05:21.959 be good to other people. My father was he was 65 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:25.000 in sales. Many of you have heard me talk about 66 00:05:25.000 --> 00:05:26.839 my dad in the past, and he's actually been on 67 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:30.439 the radio a number of times, and because of the 68 00:05:31.160 --> 00:05:35.279 digital age we live in, he relives on replays of 69 00:05:35.319 --> 00:05:38.360 the radio program, but you could actually go to our 70 00:05:38.560 --> 00:05:44.079 podcast and there is a lengthy interview with my dad, 71 00:05:44.120 --> 00:05:48.120 which is always lovely to hear. But my father made 72 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:53.720 sure that we were able to communicate. We were able 73 00:05:53.839 --> 00:05:57.720 to be friendly, we could still be firm, we could 74 00:05:57.720 --> 00:06:05.560 be stern, but we were able to be good children, 75 00:06:05.720 --> 00:06:09.959 good young adults, good adults, good leaders in our field, 76 00:06:10.720 --> 00:06:19.120 and we desperately, desperately need more strong father figures. It 77 00:06:19.199 --> 00:06:25.199 is I cannot really place the amount of importance that 78 00:06:25.240 --> 00:06:27.959 we have to And so for all of the dads 79 00:06:28.040 --> 00:06:33.399 tuning in tonight, reevaluate your role, the impact that you 80 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:35.519 have on your children, the impact that you have on 81 00:06:35.560 --> 00:06:40.199 your spouses. It really is important, and I would look 82 00:06:40.240 --> 00:06:43.279 at it to say, one of the reasons there is 83 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:47.800 so much chronic disease is that nobody is communicating with 84 00:06:48.519 --> 00:06:52.639 each other. You may have a child, you may have 85 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:56.000 a spouse, you may have a relative that really is 86 00:06:56.040 --> 00:06:59.000 not taking care of themselves, and nobody is stepping up 87 00:06:59.079 --> 00:07:04.759 and intervening. So we have children that have families and 88 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:07.959 the parents have absolutely no idea what they're doing. They're 89 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:10.800 not communicating, they're not realizing that they're smoking, they're not 90 00:07:10.839 --> 00:07:13.560 realizing that they're drinking, they're not realizing that they're eating 91 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:18.360 fast food twenty four hours a day. We need our 92 00:07:19.279 --> 00:07:22.720 dads and our moms as well. It sort of falls 93 00:07:22.800 --> 00:07:27.399 under this tough love situation. But we need to lead 94 00:07:27.439 --> 00:07:31.240 by example. Now, for you to lead by example with 95 00:07:31.279 --> 00:07:36.600 your kids as a father, you cannot basically say do 96 00:07:37.480 --> 00:07:39.959 as I say, not as I do. If you're going 97 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:42.920 to want your children to take care of themselves, you 98 00:07:43.079 --> 00:07:46.040 have to show the example that you are taking care 99 00:07:46.079 --> 00:07:48.399 of yourself. You are going to the doctor, you are 100 00:07:48.480 --> 00:07:53.000 following directions, You are learning how to eat and cook 101 00:07:53.079 --> 00:07:56.920 and exercise and get to bet on a decent time 102 00:07:57.000 --> 00:08:01.720 of the night. You are not in coesting excessive amounts 103 00:08:02.240 --> 00:08:06.839 of alcohol, and that you're not gaining weight. Because if 104 00:08:06.839 --> 00:08:09.360 you're doing all of these things wrong in a sense 105 00:08:09.360 --> 00:08:14.040 according to my standards, how are your children going to 106 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:19.920 get these healthy habits to follow. It all starts with 107 00:08:20.399 --> 00:08:23.160 the parents, and today, on Father's Day, we need to 108 00:08:23.199 --> 00:08:28.000 talk about the important role. So with that said, Dan 109 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:30.160 Ostrander is going to be coming on in just a 110 00:08:30.160 --> 00:08:34.360 few minutes. He is on hold. I'm doctor Joglotti. This 111 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:37.159 is your health first, and we really mean it. We 112 00:08:37.399 --> 00:08:42.320 want to put your health first. So don't forget doctor 113 00:08:42.360 --> 00:08:45.960 Joglotti dot com. It's our website. We'll worry back every 114 00:08:45.960 --> 00:08:51.559 single Sunday evening. You should be tuned into your health first. 115 00:08:55.679 --> 00:08:59.080 Our goal is to raise your health IQ, one listener 116 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:03.840 at a time. I am and as I've said a 117 00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:08.279 million times over the years, if you are all better consumers, 118 00:09:08.360 --> 00:09:12.879 you have a good sense of how your body works, 119 00:09:12.919 --> 00:09:15.440 you will be healthier. You'll be out of the doctor's office, 120 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:17.559 be out of the er and really just see your 121 00:09:17.600 --> 00:09:22.879 doctor for an annual or twice a year check up. 122 00:09:23.000 --> 00:09:26.039 But that is our belief and our website is doctor 123 00:09:26.120 --> 00:09:30.960 Joe Galotti dot com. So on this Father's Day night, 124 00:09:31.720 --> 00:09:36.120 we never rest. I have a a dear friend, Dan Ostrander. 125 00:09:36.200 --> 00:09:40.919 He's been on before, and Dan, I would look at 126 00:09:40.960 --> 00:09:46.360 you as one of those great voices of reason, and 127 00:09:46.399 --> 00:09:48.799 that's why I love to have you on the program. 128 00:09:49.240 --> 00:09:50.840 Well, I appreciate it, doctor Colotti. 129 00:09:51.399 --> 00:09:56.159 Well, now tell us tell everybody a little bit about 130 00:09:56.159 --> 00:10:01.080 your your fatherhood and your kid kids and your family. 131 00:10:01.159 --> 00:10:05.600 Give us a quick thirty thousand foot views, so everybody 132 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:06.919 sort of has a sense of who you are. 133 00:10:07.399 --> 00:10:10.879 I appreciate it. I have two beautiful daughters in Dallas, 134 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:16.320 one thirty five, one thirty three. I have three beautiful grandkids. 135 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:22.679 The youngest is he's about eight months now, and they're 136 00:10:22.720 --> 00:10:27.759 all doing incredibly well. They have mom's jeans, so we're 137 00:10:27.799 --> 00:10:28.759 in great shape. 138 00:10:28.840 --> 00:10:32.240 Well that's that's good. You know, just you mentioned the grandkids, 139 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:35.679 and lots for us to talk about here about Father's Day, 140 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:39.559 the role of father's and the role of dads in 141 00:10:39.960 --> 00:10:42.320 the wellness of the family. But you know, it's very 142 00:10:42.320 --> 00:10:47.639 interesting when I come across patients that are facing some 143 00:10:47.759 --> 00:10:54.519 sort of a medical crisis and they are potentially looking 144 00:10:54.600 --> 00:10:58.720 at a shortened life, or they may they may die 145 00:10:58.879 --> 00:11:03.039 from their liver disease or some other problem. They will 146 00:11:03.039 --> 00:11:07.120 look at me to say, doctor Galatti, my goal here 147 00:11:07.759 --> 00:11:13.080 if I could live another one year, three year, five year, 148 00:11:13.200 --> 00:11:19.360 ten years to see my grandkids graduate high school, or 149 00:11:19.879 --> 00:11:22.440 I have a granddaughter that I want to see her 150 00:11:22.480 --> 00:11:26.000 get married. It is amazing that. And I joke around 151 00:11:26.039 --> 00:11:28.639 in a very very caring way with the families I 152 00:11:28.639 --> 00:11:31.919 take care of. I say, look, especially if the kids 153 00:11:31.960 --> 00:11:36.279 are in the room, the parents of the grandchildren. I say, look, 154 00:11:36.320 --> 00:11:39.159 your dad, your mom doesn't care about you. They're more 155 00:11:39.200 --> 00:11:42.440 worried about the grandchildren. So I do not have any 156 00:11:42.480 --> 00:11:47.200 grandchildren yet, but the bond it is enough to want 157 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:49.639 to have you live. What do you think of that? 158 00:11:50.440 --> 00:11:54.679 You know, that's such a great question. I guess something 159 00:11:54.720 --> 00:11:59.600 that is kind of you know, propelled me into a 160 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:03.840 real strong, healthy position is the fact that both of 161 00:12:03.879 --> 00:12:08.360 my parents never made it to age seventy. Oh my yes. 162 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:11.000 Actually my dad passed away at sixty nine and my 163 00:12:11.080 --> 00:12:16.600 mom passed away at age sixty seven unexpectedly. And then 164 00:12:17.279 --> 00:12:19.720 as my kids got a little older and started having grandkids, 165 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:23.480 I said to myself, I have to make it past 166 00:12:23.639 --> 00:12:27.039 age seventy. I mean, that's a goal. There's no doubt. 167 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:30.159 I've got to make it past age seventy. And with 168 00:12:30.279 --> 00:12:32.919 a six year old, a three year old, and a 169 00:12:32.960 --> 00:12:37.159 eight minth old, I'm in my mid sixties. I got 170 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:41.360 a ways to go. But that is something that I 171 00:12:41.440 --> 00:12:45.080 think about on a daily and a weekly basis. What 172 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:48.600 can I do personally to make sure both my wife 173 00:12:48.600 --> 00:12:51.879 and I that we're going to be around past age 174 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:55.600 seventy and then some to be there for our grandkids. 175 00:12:56.159 --> 00:12:58.159 You know, I think that's very important. And really this 176 00:12:58.360 --> 00:13:05.600 begs a bigger question to say, what is it really that? 177 00:13:05.679 --> 00:13:10.639 And this sounds like either it's a very esoteric question 178 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:13.879 or too philosophical, But really I do think it has 179 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:18.200 real world implication. What motivates you to want to live? 180 00:13:18.799 --> 00:13:21.759 What motivates you to want to stay healthy? Now Here 181 00:13:21.799 --> 00:13:26.200 we're talking stay healthy for our grandkids, but I'm sure 182 00:13:26.240 --> 00:13:28.440 equally you want to be there for your two girls, 183 00:13:28.440 --> 00:13:30.919 You want to be there for your wife, you want 184 00:13:30.960 --> 00:13:34.320 to be there for You're in a circle of friends 185 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:38.639 that you so care about and people that care about you. 186 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:41.159 So I think we all have to look when we 187 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:44.480 look at our own health and wellness what motivates us. 188 00:13:44.519 --> 00:13:51.440 So besides grandkids, what else do you think motivates people 189 00:13:51.480 --> 00:13:52.720 to stay well well? 190 00:13:52.759 --> 00:13:56.679 I think there's a number of things. Not too long ago, 191 00:13:56.960 --> 00:13:59.799 which I had shared with you, I was diagnosed as 192 00:13:59.799 --> 00:14:04.600 a diabetic patient, which was really quite shocking to me, 193 00:14:04.720 --> 00:14:07.679 given the fact as an ex college athlete, I've been 194 00:14:08.080 --> 00:14:11.840 fairly active on a weekly basis. But when I went in, 195 00:14:12.879 --> 00:14:17.320 all my cardiovascular parameters were relatively normal, except for the 196 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:21.919 fact that my pasting glucose was was somewhat elevated in 197 00:14:21.919 --> 00:14:26.200 the morning, and when I got that diagnosis, it just 198 00:14:26.320 --> 00:14:30.519 made me think. Look, I asked the doctor, what can 199 00:14:30.600 --> 00:14:34.080 I do personally? We will give me a couple things 200 00:14:34.120 --> 00:14:35.960 I can do when I walk out of this office 201 00:14:36.399 --> 00:14:40.360 that I can do to change the course or direction 202 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:44.799 of what you've just made a diagnosis off. And I 203 00:14:44.840 --> 00:14:47.159 think that was a kind of a wake up moment 204 00:14:47.240 --> 00:14:50.440 for me, given the fact that I've been doing some things, 205 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:55.440 but in retrospect, I really needed to intensify and pick 206 00:14:55.480 --> 00:14:56.480 it up a little right. 207 00:14:57.480 --> 00:15:02.399 And you know, for you and for all transparency, I 208 00:15:02.519 --> 00:15:05.320 see you an awful lot at the at the gym 209 00:15:05.559 --> 00:15:09.320 and your beast on on on the elliptical. I've never 210 00:15:09.320 --> 00:15:12.879 seen anybody go on the elliptical like that. But you 211 00:15:14.000 --> 00:15:18.919 were confronted with a medical issue and you took ownership 212 00:15:18.960 --> 00:15:24.200 of it, and you are essentially doing everything you can 213 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:30.639 to reverse this or stop it. And in a sense, 214 00:15:30.759 --> 00:15:33.799 what is what is the light in your head that 215 00:15:33.879 --> 00:15:38.000 went off that maybe the guy next door it doesn't 216 00:15:38.159 --> 00:15:42.000 What's what's the what's the gene trait that allows that? 217 00:15:42.679 --> 00:15:44.440 Well, I don't know if it's a gene trait I 218 00:15:44.960 --> 00:15:45.679 kind of sat. 219 00:15:45.559 --> 00:15:49.000 Down the personality maybe more personality, Well, yeah. 220 00:15:48.840 --> 00:15:51.279 I think, I think I kind of you know, sometimes 221 00:15:51.279 --> 00:15:53.080 you think about these things when you go into the 222 00:15:53.120 --> 00:15:57.240 doctor's office and he says, hey, here's your diagnosis. I 223 00:15:57.240 --> 00:16:02.360 think when you leave the doctors, you know, the next 224 00:16:02.360 --> 00:16:04.840 few days you really start to reflect. All right, Right 225 00:16:05.559 --> 00:16:09.320 he said this. I took some notes and I go, Okay, 226 00:16:09.639 --> 00:16:12.960 what do I need to do personally to kind of 227 00:16:13.039 --> 00:16:13.879 change his course? 228 00:16:14.039 --> 00:16:14.279 Right? 229 00:16:14.960 --> 00:16:17.080 And that's kind of how I looked at it. I 230 00:16:17.120 --> 00:16:20.679 was saying to myself, I need to be coachable, I 231 00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:23.039 need to listen to the doctor of what he says, 232 00:16:23.600 --> 00:16:27.080 and then I need to buy into what he thinks 233 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:29.559 I need to do to kind of change his course. 234 00:16:29.799 --> 00:16:33.279 Right. So you're you know, you go all in. And 235 00:16:33.320 --> 00:16:36.000 we have certainly a lot of patients that we have 236 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:41.200 not not to have everybody listening tonight think that we 237 00:16:41.360 --> 00:16:47.039 have some cookie cutter menu or script that we give patients. 238 00:16:47.080 --> 00:16:50.919 But for the most part, it's a similar message that 239 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:54.159 we tell our patients with regard to their livid disease 240 00:16:54.360 --> 00:17:01.080 or their cirrhosis. And the issue is we'll see somebody 241 00:17:01.120 --> 00:17:05.000 back four to six weeks later and they bought into 242 00:17:05.079 --> 00:17:09.119 this full force, and they have lost weight, their blood 243 00:17:09.119 --> 00:17:12.039 sugar is better, their liver numbers are better. But yet 244 00:17:12.359 --> 00:17:16.880 the same script to somebody else, the same conversation, and 245 00:17:18.039 --> 00:17:21.240 we could be three four years later and they still 246 00:17:21.359 --> 00:17:27.279 have not made one positive step in that health journey. 247 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:30.200 So that's that's what's fascinating. We look at it with 248 00:17:30.240 --> 00:17:33.039 our staff and we're like, why did this lady do 249 00:17:33.880 --> 00:17:37.680 exactly as we had asked? And then somebody else just 250 00:17:38.079 --> 00:17:39.519 really didn't seem to care. 251 00:17:39.640 --> 00:17:42.720 What do you think then, Now, that's a great question. 252 00:17:44.319 --> 00:17:47.599 I've often thought about that, and the only thing I 253 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:51.160 can think of, doctor Glotti, is I think you get 254 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:53.440 to a certain point in life where you just say, 255 00:17:53.880 --> 00:17:58.599 it's really not about me, right, It's about me being 256 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:06.200 around healthy for my grandkids and my wife and my friends. 257 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:09.720 And the only way to do that, I really believe, 258 00:18:10.160 --> 00:18:14.119 is make that commitment to yourself and say I'm gonna 259 00:18:14.200 --> 00:18:16.720 do it for me. I'm not going to do it 260 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:19.200 for my wife. I'm not gonna do it for my grandkids. 261 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:22.720 But I know if I do it for myself, I 262 00:18:22.759 --> 00:18:26.759 will be there for my grandkids and for my wife, 263 00:18:26.799 --> 00:18:31.279 and for my friends in my community and I think 264 00:18:31.319 --> 00:18:33.440 that's the only way you can really do it. No, 265 00:18:33.559 --> 00:18:36.160 I would you just have to say, I've got to 266 00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:40.200 do it for me. I'm the patient, I'm the CEO, 267 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:43.799 I'm in charge. Nobody else is in charge. 268 00:18:44.079 --> 00:18:46.599 It has to be me exactly all right. On that note, 269 00:18:46.720 --> 00:18:49.319 let's take a quick break. Come doctor Joe Glotti, this 270 00:18:49.359 --> 00:18:52.960 is your health first. Don't forget doctor Joeglotti dot com. 271 00:18:53.039 --> 00:18:57.160 We're talking with dan Ostrander on this Father's Day evening. 272 00:18:57.200 --> 00:19:01.000 Stay tuned, we will be right back. Welcome back everybody, 273 00:19:01.000 --> 00:19:04.519 Doctor Joe Glotti. Thanks for tuning in on this Father's 274 00:19:04.599 --> 00:19:07.799 Day evening. It's great to have you with us. Don't 275 00:19:07.839 --> 00:19:12.240 forget doctor Joegalotti dot com is our website. Sign up 276 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:16.599 for our newsletter. All of our social media is available 277 00:19:16.680 --> 00:19:19.000 on the newsletter. You could also pick up a copy 278 00:19:19.039 --> 00:19:24.000 of my book Eating Yourself Sick. And on the program tonight, 279 00:19:24.079 --> 00:19:28.119 we are continuing with doctor not doctor, just playing o 280 00:19:28.240 --> 00:19:33.680 dan Ostrander. He could be a doctor talking about the 281 00:19:33.799 --> 00:19:38.680 role father's play in the health and wellness of their 282 00:19:39.799 --> 00:19:44.720 family and the health of men in general. It's such 283 00:19:45.039 --> 00:19:50.759 a important topic. Now switching gears to Father's Day and 284 00:19:50.960 --> 00:19:55.480 it's of course, every day is Mother's day, every day 285 00:19:55.519 --> 00:20:00.400 is Father's Day, et cetera. But for tonight and today 286 00:20:00.440 --> 00:20:05.079 and fathers are on our mind. I have always wanted 287 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:10.880 to promote the idea that for the men that are listening, 288 00:20:10.920 --> 00:20:13.799 the men's in the men in our lives, the men 289 00:20:13.839 --> 00:20:19.880 in our communities, the dads, that they need to step 290 00:20:19.960 --> 00:20:25.519 up and become, as you said, the CEO of their 291 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:32.519 health plan for their family by not only taking care 292 00:20:32.599 --> 00:20:37.440 of themselves, making sure that they're taking care of themselves. 293 00:20:37.519 --> 00:20:40.759 Are they eating properly, They're not consuming too much alcohol, 294 00:20:40.839 --> 00:20:45.759 they're sleeping, they're keeping their weight down, good lifestyle habits 295 00:20:46.480 --> 00:20:52.839 for themselves, but for their significant others, their children, their grandchildren. 296 00:20:53.839 --> 00:20:57.720 And some people would say, look, you know, the American 297 00:20:57.759 --> 00:21:00.960 male is under attack, and now here I am saying, 298 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:04.480 there's one more piece of their job description. They have 299 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:08.599 to be the health and wellness champion for their family. 300 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:11.640 But I do believe that if you have parents, and 301 00:21:11.680 --> 00:21:13.559 now we're talking about dads now, and it is a 302 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:19.119 mother and father type of family situation where you have 303 00:21:20.039 --> 00:21:23.759 the dad checking in with their kids, the dad checking 304 00:21:23.839 --> 00:21:27.920 in with their with their wife or girlfriend or whatever 305 00:21:27.920 --> 00:21:32.279 it may be. In that family, and they are encouraging 306 00:21:32.359 --> 00:21:38.839 good nutrition, encouraging exercise, encouraging getting your checkups. I do 307 00:21:38.920 --> 00:21:42.319 think that we would be healthier if we had that leadership. 308 00:21:43.039 --> 00:21:46.240 So with that, Dan, what do you think I'd say? 309 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:52.319 First of all, I think our wives are incredibly great, 310 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:57.880 compliant patients right with their doctor. I would say, males 311 00:21:57.920 --> 00:22:00.480 as a general, and I'm only speaking for my self, 312 00:22:01.359 --> 00:22:03.880 at times we're absolutely horrible. 313 00:22:04.079 --> 00:22:06.920 Yes, yeah, you know what I mean, right, don't. 314 00:22:06.720 --> 00:22:09.799 We just don't comply for whatever reason. I don't know 315 00:22:09.799 --> 00:22:11.400 if it's our pride, I don't know what it is, 316 00:22:11.440 --> 00:22:16.720 but we just don't do exactly what the doctor asked 317 00:22:16.759 --> 00:22:20.119 us to do right until we get to that situation 318 00:22:20.279 --> 00:22:23.000 when when the hood goes up and he goes we 319 00:22:23.119 --> 00:22:26.519 got a problem, right, and this could happen if you 320 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:29.480 don't take care of it. That's kind of when we 321 00:22:29.640 --> 00:22:32.440 decide to respond to what the doctor. 322 00:22:32.119 --> 00:22:34.960 Asked us to do right right. And I would say, 323 00:22:35.559 --> 00:22:38.559 while I don't have an exact percent, I would say, 324 00:22:39.279 --> 00:22:45.440 by far more women come with their husbands to see 325 00:22:45.519 --> 00:22:49.160 me and they're there. They're there. They are are there 326 00:22:49.160 --> 00:22:52.880 not just as the driver or the companion to help 327 00:22:52.920 --> 00:22:59.079 with directions. They are there because they are insisting that 328 00:22:59.160 --> 00:23:04.039 their husband get their liver checked. The reverse of that 329 00:23:04.720 --> 00:23:08.359 is much less. It is usually the guy is the 330 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:12.759 driver and the woman is concerned about her liver, and 331 00:23:13.200 --> 00:23:16.359 he's there just sort of as moral support, not really 332 00:23:16.400 --> 00:23:20.680 the active driver. But I would you know what you 333 00:23:20.720 --> 00:23:24.000 said is correct, and that's where this uh doctor mom 334 00:23:24.920 --> 00:23:28.759 sort of saying came from. But how do you think 335 00:23:28.920 --> 00:23:32.359 we can turn this around? And do you think a 336 00:23:32.400 --> 00:23:34.640 little bit of a rhetorical question here for you, Dan, 337 00:23:35.880 --> 00:23:38.920 do you think if men took a more active role, 338 00:23:39.039 --> 00:23:43.359 not only in their own health but of their family's health, 339 00:23:44.400 --> 00:23:47.839 we could move the needle and make things better. 340 00:23:48.640 --> 00:23:53.000 I think that's an awesome question. How the way I 341 00:23:53.160 --> 00:23:57.799 respond to that would be personally given the fact that 342 00:23:58.000 --> 00:24:01.920 I am a pre diabetic now, both my wife and 343 00:24:01.960 --> 00:24:06.319 I have made a commitment to eat more clean, to 344 00:24:06.400 --> 00:24:10.240 avoid what we should avoid, and eat what we should eat. 345 00:24:11.160 --> 00:24:14.200 And about two weeks ago, I got a call from 346 00:24:14.240 --> 00:24:16.759 my youngest daughter who said to me on the phone, 347 00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:19.279 I'm not going to quote word for a word, but 348 00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:22.079 it'll be real close. She said, Dad, I'm so proud 349 00:24:22.160 --> 00:24:26.319 of you and mom eating clean and trying to be 350 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:32.079 incredibly healthy for me, for my husband, and for my 351 00:24:32.759 --> 00:24:40.799 newly born young son, and that personally kind of hit me, Like, 352 00:24:41.400 --> 00:24:45.720 our kids pay attention to our behavior, and I think 353 00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:50.480 behavior is probably the greatest gift that we can give 354 00:24:50.599 --> 00:24:55.319 other people without words. Our behavior as we display it 355 00:24:55.319 --> 00:24:59.279 in front of others, that really writes the paragraphs of 356 00:24:59.319 --> 00:25:02.240 who we are and where we're going with respect to 357 00:25:02.279 --> 00:25:06.200 our health exactly. And it was awesome to me to 358 00:25:06.279 --> 00:25:08.880 hear from my daughter and I put her on speakerphones 359 00:25:08.920 --> 00:25:11.759 so my wife could hear. It's like, Okay, you guys 360 00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:14.400 are really trying and trying to do the best you can, 361 00:25:15.119 --> 00:25:19.039 and we notice it. We see you, and we hear you. 362 00:25:19.599 --> 00:25:22.720 And so I think the behavior component of it for 363 00:25:22.920 --> 00:25:28.039 men on Father's Day is something don't forget about. Just 364 00:25:28.160 --> 00:25:31.359 know people are watching you, and if you're making these changes, 365 00:25:31.400 --> 00:25:34.880 you're going to inspire your own kids and the others 366 00:25:34.920 --> 00:25:36.039 around you and your family. 367 00:25:36.200 --> 00:25:41.759 Yeah, exactly. Now, with that said, and there's always a 368 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:45.640 lot of talk about men's health, and there is a 369 00:25:45.680 --> 00:25:50.039 men's Health Month and Men's Health Week and prostate cancer 370 00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:56.400 awareness and men's health in general, and more men are 371 00:25:56.440 --> 00:26:02.680 going to be affected by hypertension and obesity and the 372 00:26:02.680 --> 00:26:09.119 the scourge of you know, diabetes. But from your standpoint, 373 00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:14.319 somebody that is in the trenches doing a heck of 374 00:26:14.359 --> 00:26:18.160 a good job as a model. I mean, I would say, Dan, 375 00:26:18.440 --> 00:26:20.640 and not because I know you, and not because I'm 376 00:26:20.680 --> 00:26:25.559 trying to, you know, boast on you here. You really 377 00:26:25.640 --> 00:26:30.599 are a model citizen when it comes to the exercise component. 378 00:26:30.720 --> 00:26:33.079 And really when we talk on the parking lot, you're 379 00:26:33.119 --> 00:26:37.079 telling me with enthusiasm your blood results and what this 380 00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:39.839 doctor is saying, and I'm going to this specialist. You're 381 00:26:39.880 --> 00:26:45.160 really all in head first, which is really we need 382 00:26:45.200 --> 00:26:47.960 more people to be like that. But for the dads 383 00:26:48.119 --> 00:26:51.680 or just men in general that are listening tonight, what 384 00:26:51.680 --> 00:26:56.079 would you say are a few actionable steps so that 385 00:26:56.279 --> 00:27:01.400 number one, they can take better care of themselves. And 386 00:27:01.519 --> 00:27:05.039 number two maybe the tougher thing, how do they lead 387 00:27:05.119 --> 00:27:08.279 by example for their family. 388 00:27:08.839 --> 00:27:13.599 This will be somewhat kind of intuitive, but I would 389 00:27:13.680 --> 00:27:19.240 say one thing is when you deny yourself of something 390 00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:24.200 that you really like and you don't participate in it, 391 00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:28.599 that's powerful. And what I mean by that is when 392 00:27:28.640 --> 00:27:30.759 you do it once, you kind of go all right, 393 00:27:30.839 --> 00:27:33.680 I can do it again. And so in the same 394 00:27:33.720 --> 00:27:36.319 way for the guys that are maybe hearing this tonight 395 00:27:36.480 --> 00:27:41.559 on Father's Day, I would say, you know, challenge yourself 396 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:45.759 personally to deny yourself. And so if you have a 397 00:27:45.839 --> 00:27:49.519 habit that's not really healthy, just deny yourself of it 398 00:27:50.119 --> 00:27:52.759 and see what your response is and then you realize 399 00:27:53.440 --> 00:27:56.680 so you actually can do it. And so you kind 400 00:27:56.680 --> 00:27:58.960 of have to get your mind around the fact of 401 00:27:59.000 --> 00:28:03.000