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Speaker 2: My mouth runs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my mouth runs far quicker than does my brain.
Speaker 1: And so that's always a lot of fun. It's the
Speaker 1: third go round on that.
Speaker 2: We'll see how that goes.
Speaker 1: All right, this is a story out of CNN cnn
Speaker 1: dot com, so take consider where it came from. And
Speaker 1: it's a story about Mark Zuckerberg, who at one point
Speaker 1: was dissolution with politics.
Speaker 2: He at once promoted and he was just over it.
Speaker 1: Now let's just say he is trying to smooth over
Speaker 1: his relationship with Donald Trump that has not been particularly good.
Speaker 2: And now it's being reported that Zuck Sucker calls Zuck.
Speaker 1: For short, I calls him Zuck is angling for an
Speaker 1: active role in shaping tech policy in the new administration,
Speaker 1: basically setting himself up to work directly with the president
Speaker 1: who recently threatened to jail.
Speaker 2: Him for life.
Speaker 1: Okay, and that gets interesting, and his rival, working with
Speaker 1: his rival Musk Elon Musk, who challenged him to a
Speaker 1: cage match. I mean this gets really interesting to say
Speaker 1: the least. Now, does he have much of a choice, Well,
Speaker 1: a cage match, not so necessarily, but he doesn't have
Speaker 1: much choice but to lay it on and lay it
Speaker 1: on thick with Donald Trump, as most of not only
Speaker 1: political characters do, especially the Republicans. I mean you, the
Speaker 1: sucking up to Trump is beyond anything I've ever seen.
Speaker 1: He can destroy a political career with one post on
Speaker 1: True Social. There was a keep in mind, think of now,
Speaker 1: how big is meta? Is Meta as a company? Right,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you how big. It's a one point five
Speaker 1: trillion dollar company. Trump says something on True Social, nailing
Speaker 1: it and the stock drops like a rock.
Speaker 2: Does it come back?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Probably?
Speaker 1: But Trump has the ability to kill a career if
Speaker 1: someone is a Republican with one post, he can destroy
Speaker 1: business with one posts. I don't think we've ever seen
Speaker 1: such power in a non president, in a non sitting president,
Speaker 1: he can do that. So what are you going to see?
Speaker 1: Sucking up on a level that is almost impossible to
Speaker 1: even understand. Well, you can understand it, but it's almost
Speaker 1: beyond credulity, because Trump is going to be a president
Speaker 1: that we have never seen before. He is as much
Speaker 1: a strong man as we've ever had. It's gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough row to hoe or hoe to row or
Speaker 1: hoes dealing with it. I've ever quite gotten that completely.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna see CEOs like Zuckerberg and Microsoft CEOs
Speaker 1: and all of them sucking up.
Speaker 2: And the other thing is, not only do they.
Speaker 1: Have to suck up the Trump, they have to suck
Speaker 1: up to Elon Musk because Musk is now Trump's best friend.
Speaker 1: So all of a sudden, the executives who heretofore, you know,
Speaker 1: stayed out of politics, right, not so much anymore. And
Speaker 1: now you're seeing the concept of you bend the knee
Speaker 1: or you pray, no one notices if you say nothing.
Speaker 1: And how do we know, well how many companies are
Speaker 1: backtracking on diversity equity inclusion programs, a Trump staple. Last week,
Speaker 1: Walmart said it's ending its employee training programs designed to
Speaker 1: promote racial equity, equity out and evaluate funding for pride events. Now,
Speaker 1: a lot of people are saying, and I tend to
Speaker 1: agree that these diversity, the pro gay rights not that
Speaker 1: I'm not in favor of them, but it has gone
Speaker 1: way too far.
Speaker 2: It has. It's a pendulum, it really is.
Speaker 1: When you look at the Black Lives Matter and the
Speaker 1: anti police movement after after the murder of George Floyd,
Speaker 1: it you could see the pendulum swung too far. Now
Speaker 1: are you hearing defund the police? Are you hearing disband
Speaker 1: the police?
Speaker 2: You are not.
Speaker 1: A few years ago, it was woke, woke, woke. That's disappearing.
Speaker 1: I don't even know how really know how to pronounce
Speaker 1: woke or define woke. I guess sort of, we know
Speaker 1: it when we see It's like Justice Potter during the
Speaker 1: early the early pornography cases in the seventies where First
Speaker 1: Amendment rights were decided in favor basically of pornography, and
Speaker 1: Justice Potter wrote in one of the decisions, the majority
Speaker 1: decisions advocating First Amendment rights. You know, I can't really
Speaker 1: define pornography, but I know it when I see it,
Speaker 1: and I think the same thing goes.
Speaker 2: I think when it comes to diversity programs that woke.
Speaker 2: At what point do they go too far?
Speaker 1: I really don't know, but uh, I know it when
Speaker 1: I see it, and I think that's what's going on?
Speaker 1: All right, I want to switch over to some of
Speaker 1: the nominees again. I want to spend a little bit
Speaker 1: of time talking about Donald Trump.
Speaker 2: I'm having a great time talking about that.
Speaker 1: I'm being more fair. You have to admit I'm coming down.
Speaker 1: I'm now coming back to reality and taught or Yeah. No,
Speaker 1: I was pretty anti Trump. I'm not a big fan now.
Speaker 1: But what I do is I took his statements as gospel, right,
Speaker 1: and I didn't. I really didn't think his statements were gospel.
Speaker 1: And I'm now looking at it and trying to analyzeing.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's let's get real. We've got four years coming up.
Speaker 1: Well, one of these segments that I want to do
Speaker 1: that is still kind of nuts is coming up in
Speaker 1: that At the bottom of the hour, we'll go to
Speaker 1: doctor Jim Katy.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 4: six forty.
Speaker 2: It's a hum day, all right. What are we looking at?
Speaker 1: Oh, Pastathon, let's talk about that for a moment.
Speaker 2: A report.
Speaker 1: As of ten pm last night, the numbers were Pastathon,
Speaker 1: we had raised nine hundred and forty five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: about one hundred thousand dollars over where we were same
Speaker 1: time last year, and about eighty thousand pounds of pasta
Speaker 1: and sauce, so that's forty tons. We hit fifty tons
Speaker 1: last year, so we're a little behind on that, but
Speaker 1: I haad of last year in terms of money. And
Speaker 1: you can still get involved if you would please. You
Speaker 1: can go to any Smart and Final store and at
Speaker 1: checkout just go ahead and put some money on the table.
Speaker 2: Or you can donate pasta and sauce.
Speaker 1: You'll see a video of me filling up a shopping cart,
Speaker 1: going through the checkout, and of course then having all
Speaker 1: the pasta sauce return to the shells.
Speaker 2: But the video looks great, doesn't it. And you can go.
Speaker 1: To any Wendy's five dollars donation or more a coupon
Speaker 1: book for a lot more than five bucks, and or
Speaker 1: go to the website and you can do that, and
Speaker 1: that's Pastathon. Our pastathon website is kfiam six forty dot
Speaker 1: com slash pastathon.
Speaker 2: And that's this of ten.
Speaker 1: O'clock last night, and I don't want to wake up
Speaker 1: Michelle to get the last numbers.
Speaker 2: Michelle worked twenty hours yesterday to putting this thing together
Speaker 2: and running it.
Speaker 1: So Michelle does that every year. Okay, real quickly, and
Speaker 1: I wish I had more time. But this has to
Speaker 1: do with another cabinet pick. Now you know that Matt
Speaker 1: Gates is gone, Pete Hegswith is probably going to be
Speaker 1: gone as Defense secretary. And now we have a pick
Speaker 1: of Tulci Gabbard who has been picked as head of
Speaker 1: National Intelligence.
Speaker 2: And she is not going to make it either.
Speaker 1: Oversight of eighteen intelligence agencies, no, oversight of coordination between
Speaker 1: US intelligence communities.
Speaker 2: And foreign governments.
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: What has been the.
Speaker 1: Response in Washington among the security people. We're not happy
Speaker 1: with it. No, it's a bad choice. How about this one?
Speaker 1: Utter panic is what's going on? One of the things
Speaker 1: that Trump is doing and I don't know, really know
Speaker 1: the motivation is He's throwing people up there for cabinet position,
Speaker 1: for Senate confirmation, needed positions that are just insane. It's
Speaker 1: all a question of loyalty. I mean, what's her experience.
Speaker 1: She is Fox News contributor. She ran for Congress in Hawaii, lost,
Speaker 1: an Iraq war veteran, a very well decorated one, a
Speaker 1: staunch critic of US foreign policy. Yeah, was a surrogate
Speaker 1: for Bernie Sanders twenty sixteen presidential campaign and then switched
Speaker 1: sides and became a staunch, staunch Megaite and Trump's supporter.
Speaker 1: And she just wants the United States to get out
Speaker 1: of everything we do internationally. She formally joined the Republican Party,
Speaker 1: was a Trump rallies, offering praise for his diplomacy. America first,
Speaker 1: get out of any involvement with foreign foreign interests, but not.
Speaker 2: Just get out.
Speaker 1: She has said publicly that the invasion of Ukraine is
Speaker 1: Joe Biden's fault. He starred the invasion. Putin is innocent.
Speaker 1: He was simply defending his interests. Now there's a little
Speaker 1: bit more of that, and that's the push that Ukraine
Speaker 1: wanted to join NATO. The United States was not pushing
Speaker 1: for that, and therefore Putin, in response to that, invaded
Speaker 1: Ukraine and Joe Biden somehow is to blame.
Speaker 2: She's close to Vladimir Putin.
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, during the twenty twenty presidential campaign, she
Speaker 1: was a favorite of the Russian propaganda machine. A month
Speaker 1: into her run, there were twenty Gabbard related stories on
Speaker 1: three major Moscow based English language website. She used her
Speaker 1: platform to, in fact promote Russian interests, unflitching support for
Speaker 1: the Israel campaign in Gaza, which allowed us are going
Speaker 1: to say you betcha. And Western leaders have failed to
Speaker 1: defeat this threat because they refuse to acknowledge it must
Speaker 1: be defeated ideologically and militarily. I think the United States
Speaker 1: has said that backing up Israel on that one. The
Speaker 1: issue with the United States has was with Israel is
Speaker 1: the humanitarian aid and the utter destruction of every building
Speaker 1: in Gaza, which, by the way, I'm fine with. The
Speaker 1: problem is national security and doesn't believe, does not believe
Speaker 1: in any of our security apparatus, the national security agencies.
Speaker 1: The Pentagon has one, certainly, you've.
Speaker 2: Got the national security agencies in and.
Speaker 1: Of themselves all have There're seventeen agencies that deal with
Speaker 1: national security.
Speaker 2: She has said they are all part of the deep state.
Speaker 1: And they must be either making a part or completely
Speaker 1: redone with loyalists. I gotta tell you if I think
Speaker 1: she's gonna have a hard time in the Senate in
Speaker 1: the confirmation.
Speaker 2: Now, there will be people.
Speaker 1: There are Republicans out there who have said public it
Speaker 1: does not matter who Trump nominates, doesn't matter whatever his
Speaker 1: choice is.
Speaker 2: We are backing, we are.
Speaker 1: Voting for that person, no matter what. We don't even
Speaker 1: need Senate hearings. Let's just vote right now. Yes, yes, yes.
Speaker 1: If Charles Manson were alive and he was named attorney general,
Speaker 1: there are Republican there are Republican members, the Senate would go.
Speaker 1: I am not going to argue with President Trump's choice.
Speaker 1: It is his choice, and it is a Senate's job
Speaker 1: to confirm his choice, not to investigate, not to vote well,
Speaker 1: to vote, certainly, not to vet. It is to confirm.
Speaker 1: The Senate is simply an arm of the presidency.
Speaker 2: It's insane. It's insane. Okay that one.
Speaker 1: By the way, for those of you that are Trump
Speaker 1: supporters who scream at me, refute this one.
Speaker 2: Okay, that one.
Speaker 1: I want you to say, Oh, you're absolutely wrong. She
Speaker 1: is qualified. Matt Gates is qualified. We want people who
Speaker 1: have no experience as long as they're ideologically correct. Coming up,
Speaker 1: doctor Jim Keiney, who is well. I'll tell you his credentials.
Speaker 1: I always do to try to impress you. We have
Speaker 1: a couple of segments with Jim, and a lot of
Speaker 1: it has to.
Speaker 2: Do with fat. I love talking about fat brain decay. Alzheimer's.
Speaker 2: I love talking about that too. We'll be back.
Speaker 4: You're listening to Bill Handle on demand from KFI AM
Speaker 4: six forty.
Speaker 1: As We and the program on Wednesday, and we do
Speaker 1: it every Wednesday with doctor Jim Keeney. Jim is the
Speaker 1: chief medical officer for Dignity Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center
Speaker 1: in Long Beach and a board certified er.
Speaker 2: Doc Jim, Good morning, Good morning, Bill.
Speaker 1: Okay, we have some good news and we have some
Speaker 1: bad news. Let's start with let me see if I
Speaker 1: can make.
Speaker 2: The good news bad news. You know, I just I
Speaker 2: can't on this one. A non opioid pain killer.
Speaker 1: Now hopefully it is completely addictive and it will half
Speaker 1: kill you or is that not the case?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we don't know yet, right. So the
Speaker 3: theory is this is not a narcotic. Narcotics work by
Speaker 3: altering you know, chemicals in your brain and they actually
Speaker 3: create kind of a feedback where you enjoy that feeling,
Speaker 3: and so that's what kind of is addicting. It impacts
Speaker 3: the brain. This new substance is called souzetra gene is
Speaker 3: an investigational you know medicine right now, oral pain reliever
Speaker 3: and it inhibits the sodium channels that transmit nerve impulses
Speaker 3: before the brain, like at the peripheral nerves and in
Speaker 3: the spinal cord, and so that theoretically should stop that
Speaker 3: addictive nature that's created in the brain, but it also
Speaker 3: blocks pain, So we don't know how effective it is.
Speaker 3: It's supposed to be comparable to oral opioids like you know,
Speaker 3: hydro codone or you know vicodin, norco those type of medications,
Speaker 3: but we'll see if this is.
Speaker 1: If it does pan out, this becomes a blockbuster, This
Speaker 1: becomes along the lines of viagra, along the lines of
Speaker 1: the opioids where Purdue you know, created OxyContin and just
Speaker 1: I mean it was just billions and billions of dollars.
Speaker 2: I assume I'm right on that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, of course, those of us
Speaker 3: who've been in the field for a while, we always
Speaker 3: have this reservation, right because about twenty years ago there
Speaker 3: was an inhaled pain reliever called penthros and that one
Speaker 3: is also not a narcotic, and we thought this was
Speaker 3: going to be the greatest thing ever. It works immediately,
Speaker 3: it's you know, in Australia, it's currently used by ambulances
Speaker 3: and like sports teams where if you have an injury
Speaker 3: and you need relief right away, the stuff works. It's
Speaker 3: known as green Whistle. I don't know where it got
Speaker 3: that name, but it also it seemed to at the
Speaker 3: higher doses we were using twenty years ago, cause liver damage,
Speaker 3: kidney damage, and so the FDA banned it in the
Speaker 3: United States, but they've altered the formulation and they've used
Speaker 3: it at lower doses and in Australia they're using it.
Speaker 3: So you know, you know, again, was that the opioid industry,
Speaker 3: the pharmaceutical industry blocking this thing or was it really
Speaker 3: that dangerous back then and now it's been improved. There's
Speaker 3: a lot of ways. Is that something like this can
Speaker 3: get tripped up before it gets to the patients.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in terms of drug clearances, the FDA and Australia
Speaker 1: has its equivalent of the FDA, and it's I'm assuming
Speaker 1: Australia provides world class medicine, just the first world medical country.
Speaker 2: How do they do it? And the FDA says no.
Speaker 3: So yeah, they I don't know, you know, there's different regulations,
Speaker 3: different ways that people look at things, and I think
Speaker 3: in our country it sounds like this particular drug anyway
Speaker 3: got banned early on, and the ability to reverse a
Speaker 3: band is a lot of you know, there's a headwind
Speaker 3: to that that you have to overcome, as opposed to
Speaker 3: maybe in a country in Australia where it wasn't banned
Speaker 3: and it was just not approved, then they were able
Speaker 3: to continue working with it, improve some efficacy and reduced
Speaker 3: impact on patients. So again, and with this other drug
Speaker 3: that we're and at the suzetro dene, you know, we
Speaker 3: don't know yet. Maybe that'll have some side effects as
Speaker 3: it comes out that are going to be unacceptable and
Speaker 3: people won't like. So we'll see. I mean, anytime a
Speaker 3: new drug, gump comes out again, I reserve judgment on
Speaker 3: it until we start seeing it in the population.
Speaker 1: Yeah, one of the stories about drugs being okay and
Speaker 1: the FDA in their version of the FDA in Europe
Speaker 1: allowed poldimide to be used right and pregnant women.
Speaker 2: I mean, there are still people around that have.
Speaker 1: These very shortened limbs where you know, I was about
Speaker 1: to make a horrible joke, by the way, I mean,
Speaker 1: do I go there, Neil and make a horrible joke
Speaker 1: about politimide victims. You know what. The minute you ask
Speaker 1: me is like one of my brothers saying, Hey, smell this.
Speaker 1: I want no part of it.
Speaker 2: Leave me out of this, all right, Jim, I'll tell you,
Speaker 2: you know what.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you the joke at the at the break,
Speaker 1: and you tell me if you're offended by that.
Speaker 2: Okay, that sounds good, Yeah it does Okay.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Pelinimide was okayed for use for
Speaker 1: I think it was a headache or a painkiller or
Speaker 1: whatever it was. And pregnant women who took it, the
Speaker 1: children were born deformed, severely deformed. And I think there
Speaker 1: was one person in the FDA that shut it down,
Speaker 1: one who said I'm not letting this in. And it
Speaker 1: saved a whole lot of people's well, a whole lot
Speaker 1: of deformed otherwise would be deformed kids not being deformed. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna come back. I'm gonna tell Jim the joke,
Speaker 1: So keep me going with Jim. And then weight loss
Speaker 1: drugs they really be maybe a miracle drug, don't know.
Speaker 1: We'll finish it up with that and a couple other
Speaker 1: things with Jim Kinney.
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Speaker 1: Looking at the store R Supreme Court diving into the
Speaker 1: issue of transgender rights. There's a challenge to Tennessee's ban
Speaker 1: on gender affirming care for minors, and the court is
Speaker 1: going to rule on that. Have no idea which way
Speaker 1: they're going to go. Also, ask handle anything. We're going
Speaker 1: to do that on Friday. And here's how you get involved.
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Speaker 2: That's not what it's.
Speaker 1: About, all right, Back we go to doctor Jim Keeney
Speaker 1: where we have medical news every Wednesday. Jim, I'm looking
Speaker 1: at a story about waste weight loss drugs, and every
Speaker 1: single week it seems to be that they're doing more
Speaker 1: and more.
Speaker 2: To help people.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is beyond a magic bullet. This could
Speaker 1: actually be the kind of snake oil that they sold
Speaker 1: at the turn of the century or last century that
Speaker 1: cured everything. Except this may not be snake oil. Oh
Speaker 1: we know it's not snake oil. I mean it is
Speaker 1: Is it that good?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean last time we saw something like this
Speaker 3: was statins, where they seem to you know, they reduce
Speaker 3: your cholesterol, they reduce your chancel stroke, they reduce your
Speaker 3: chance of heart attack, and it just went on on on,
Speaker 3: and of course, you know, as we went on with those,
Speaker 3: we learn more about some side effects that might limit
Speaker 3: your use. But again also these you know, drugs that
Speaker 3: seem to treat multiple things. But yeah, so this has
Speaker 3: been I've heard whispers of this for a while now,
Speaker 3: and the studies are now starting to come out to
Speaker 3: confirm it, which is that these weight loss drugs that
Speaker 3: seem to reduce your cravings for food also seem to
Speaker 3: reduce cravings for other things. So I don't really know
Speaker 3: where this is going to end. Right now. They're saying
Speaker 3: that it reduces alcohol use because people are reporting that
Speaker 3: when they're on weight loss programs, but I bet you
Speaker 3: people are not reporting drug use in those settings. And
Speaker 3: I'm wondering if that's going to be the next thing,
Speaker 3: right that it reduces cravings for certain drugs in addition
Speaker 3: to alcohol. Who knows it might help you quit smoking.
Speaker 3: We'll see what happens in the future. But it does
Speaker 3: seem to you know, we have the satiety center in
Speaker 3: our brain where we feel satisfied, and I think that's
Speaker 3: the little trigger that tickles your brain when you use
Speaker 3: certain substances like alcohol, tobacco, or other drugs, and this
Speaker 3: seems to be impacting that that feedback center that makes
Speaker 3: you crave those things.
Speaker 1: And statins have become well, virtually everybody I know who's
Speaker 1: ever had a risk for heart cholesterol issues is taking statin.
Speaker 2: I'm certainly taking a statin.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, they talked about creating a pill, especially
Speaker 3: in Europe. They were they were thinking about making this
Speaker 3: over the counter that was low dose asprian low dose
Speaker 3: beta blockers and low dose statin, so that people if
Speaker 3: they wanted to reduce their risk for heart attacks and
Speaker 3: stroke to just grab this and take it over the counter.
Speaker 3: But you know, that hasn't really taken on in the US.
Speaker 3: I don't know that it's really taken on in Europe.
Speaker 3: You know, it's really caught on in Europe. So, but
Speaker 3: but you're right, there's there's these kind of drugs just
Speaker 3: seem to have a life of their own.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 3: You know, I think you try and avoid taking medications
Speaker 3: when at all possible. Uh, and that's sometimes it's not possible.
Speaker 3: Or you know, you try and address these issues of
Speaker 3: heart attack, stroke and weight loss using more natural methods.
Speaker 3: But if that's not working for you, we do have options.
Speaker 3: And for a lot of people that's not working for them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm thinking low dose aspirin and the state and
Speaker 1: all you have to do is add sidentophil, viagra, generic viagra,
Speaker 1: andnox monoxidant or monoxophill and you cover all the bases.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we're a pill popping society and that definitely,
Speaker 3: you know, hits all the triggers.
Speaker 1: All right, talking about fat, we're going to end it
Speaker 1: with this belly fat. We've talked about belly fat not
Speaker 1: being particularly healthy for you.
Speaker 2: And now that goes on. This is exactly the.
Speaker 1: Opposite of the weight loss drugs, and that is belly
Speaker 1: fat now linked to brain decay and early signs of Alzheimer's.
Speaker 2: That's a tough one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So this is not just no belly fat, right.
Speaker 3: So we all have subcutaneous fat, and that's the primary
Speaker 3: fat that you see when you look at somebody who
Speaker 3: is overweight or even just a normal person, the smoothness
Speaker 3: of their skin is created by subcutaneous fat. That does
Speaker 3: cause the more fat you have under your skin and
Speaker 3: in your body, the more inflammation you have. But visceral fat,
Speaker 3: which is the fat that surrounds your organs, it's not
Speaker 3: the fat you're looking at. It's a little bit harder
Speaker 3: to detect. It does correlate. I mean, if you're overweight
Speaker 3: and you have a large waste circumference, you probably have
Speaker 3: a lot of visceral fat. But that fat is much
Speaker 3: more inflammatory. It's much more active hormonally, and it's much
Speaker 3: more disruptive to your metabolic system. So we know it
Speaker 3: creates inflammation. We think that it's the inflammation created by
Speaker 3: that visceral fat. It's also creating inflammation in the blood
Speaker 3: vessels at your brain, which lay down all these proteins
Speaker 3: that are precursors for Alzheimer's disease. And ultimately, now in
Speaker 3: this study they're showing becomes Alzheimer's disease. So you know
Speaker 3: that that's kind of the linkage. But it may be
Speaker 3: something else. It may be that that visceral fat is
Speaker 3: impacting your metabolic state or hormonally and that's creating the Alzheimer's.
Speaker 3: We don't know exactly what the link is, but there
Speaker 3: is an association there that if you have a high
Speaker 3: belly fat, you have a much higher risk of Alzheimer's.
Speaker 2: And how do you find out?
Speaker 1: I mean, as you said, looking at fat, If someone's fat,
Speaker 1: you just poke and your finger bows in. But you're
Speaker 1: talking about fat around the organs. Is it easy to determine?
Speaker 2: Well?
Speaker 3: I mean from a medical standpoint, what doctors do is
Speaker 3: they look at your waiste circumference and they say, look,
Speaker 3: you've got to your waist is bigger than your shoulders.
Speaker 3: That's that's not a good ratio. So let's try and
Speaker 3: get that more in line. For research what they do
Speaker 3: as an MRI, and the MRI can show you know,
Speaker 3: different densities based on water content, typically will show you
Speaker 3: what things are. And then an MRI fat has no
Speaker 3: water in it and so it's very easy to see.
Speaker 3: And then they can use programs to calculate the total
Speaker 3: volume that they're seeing on the MRI of fat. And
Speaker 3: that's how they do it in research.
Speaker 1: All right, Jim, thank you always, great stuff.
Speaker 2: We'll catch you again next Wednesday. Take care.
Speaker 1: Hey all right, doctor Jim Keiney, chief medical Officer for
Speaker 1: Dignity Saint Mary Medical Center in Long Beach. I said, guys,
Speaker 1: we're done. Wednesday is done. We're back again tomorrow. Amy
Speaker 1: starts at five am, Neil and I join up at
Speaker 1: six and we go right till just about now. And
Speaker 1: so also a big thank you to Ann and Kono
Speaker 1: who is not here. Elmer, we have you for one
Speaker 1: more day, right, excellent, all right, let's do it.
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