WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:02.960 Initialize sequencing. 2 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:07.000 Coming to you live from Houston, Texas, home to the 3 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:08.640 world's largest medical centery. 4 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:17.719 Approach pays everything Looking almond. 5 00:00:18.199 --> 00:00:22.960 He this is your Health First. It's the most beneficial 6 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:26.320 health program on radio with doctor Joe Bellotti. During the 7 00:00:26.359 --> 00:00:29.600 next hour, you'll learn about health, wellness and the prevention 8 00:00:29.719 --> 00:00:33.479 of disease. Now here's your host, doctor Joe Galotti. 9 00:00:45.439 --> 00:00:48.920 Well, a good Sunday evening to everybody. Doctor Joe Galotti. 10 00:00:49.039 --> 00:00:52.399 This is Your Health First. 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She is a very articulate nurse. 39 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:44.479 She's been really her whole career has been in nursing 40 00:02:44.520 --> 00:02:50.080 and direct patient care, and she truly is an expert 41 00:02:50.120 --> 00:02:55.159 in this health and wellness space and really understanding it 42 00:02:55.280 --> 00:02:59.360 and trying to share with all of you her many 43 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:03.400 many years of experience with patient care and looking at 44 00:03:03.439 --> 00:03:07.319 things from the patient perspective. It's really very important, and 45 00:03:07.360 --> 00:03:10.960 we're going to be talking about why is it that 46 00:03:11.039 --> 00:03:16.400 so many people just simply don't have a good knowledge 47 00:03:16.439 --> 00:03:21.800 base of medicine, how their body works, and how to 48 00:03:21.919 --> 00:03:27.280 stay healthy. Because, as I'll probably share with Celes later on, 49 00:03:28.319 --> 00:03:31.520 eighty five percent of all the chronic disease that we 50 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:36.039 see and it is the same castra characters. It is obesity, diabetes, 51 00:03:36.120 --> 00:03:41.360 heart disease, stroke, cancer, liver disease, mental health issues. It's 52 00:03:42.319 --> 00:03:47.800 made worse by the lifestyle choices that we make. Now, 53 00:03:48.319 --> 00:03:51.840 the vast majority of the lifestyle choices we make are 54 00:03:52.199 --> 00:03:57.199 partially out of convenience, but partially out of not really understanding. 55 00:03:57.240 --> 00:04:00.159 So Celeste, we'll be on and we'll have what I 56 00:04:00.240 --> 00:04:04.800 believe will be a lively conversation on this. Now really 57 00:04:04.840 --> 00:04:13.080 along the same lines here, Okay, I was perusing the 58 00:04:13.120 --> 00:04:19.600 Internet and social media and I came across a website 59 00:04:20.399 --> 00:04:26.079 by the name of biome viom E and it is 60 00:04:26.120 --> 00:04:32.759 a company where you pay for a kit where they 61 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:38.240 will test your intestinal microbiome. I am most likely believing 62 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:41.959 that you're going to send a small a small stool 63 00:04:42.079 --> 00:04:47.800 sample to them and they will analyze the bacteria. Now, 64 00:04:47.839 --> 00:04:50.120 there is no doubt, and we've talked about this before 65 00:04:50.160 --> 00:04:54.600 and we've had experts on the program that the intestinal microbiome, 66 00:04:54.680 --> 00:05:00.279 and the intestinal microbiome is the trillions of bacteria that 67 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:04.839 normally reside in all of our intestines, our small bowel, 68 00:05:04.920 --> 00:05:10.240 our colon that are truly vital for good health. If 69 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:14.720 you have an intestinal microbiome that is off kilter, meaning 70 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:19.279 more bad bacteria and not enough of the good bacteria, 71 00:05:19.360 --> 00:05:25.439 a whole set of health related complications will ensue. Everything 72 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:29.920 from the development of cancer, the development of depression and 73 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:34.759 mental health and mood issues. There is now an awful 74 00:05:34.800 --> 00:05:38.800 lot of data and research going on with the role 75 00:05:38.839 --> 00:05:42.959 of the intestinal microbiome and obesity and fatty liver disease 76 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:46.240 and inflammation in the body. So without a doubt, this 77 00:05:46.480 --> 00:05:51.120 is really very very important to understand now for you 78 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:57.959 the consumer, okay, and here again the knowledge base that 79 00:05:58.319 --> 00:06:00.600 we would all want you to have, and part of 80 00:06:00.600 --> 00:06:06.000 it is understanding it yourself, sort of that organic understanding 81 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:09.560 of how the world works, how your body works, but 82 00:06:09.800 --> 00:06:13.920 also a certain understanding to be able to call out 83 00:06:13.959 --> 00:06:19.399 the bs when you're confronted with it. So this particular 84 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:24.600 company Biome, you send a stool and they give you 85 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:29.160 an analysis of your microbiome. And there are people online 86 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:35.079 giving testimonials that are saying, you know what, I sent 87 00:06:35.160 --> 00:06:38.920 in my test, I got the results, and you know what, 88 00:06:39.480 --> 00:06:43.279 I should not be eating spinach. I should not be 89 00:06:43.399 --> 00:06:47.040 eating broccoli. I should not be eating oranges. I should 90 00:06:47.079 --> 00:06:54.319 not be eating Brussels sprouts. That's my problem. And people 91 00:06:54.439 --> 00:06:57.959 will sort of look at this and say, well, yeah, 92 00:06:58.120 --> 00:07:00.639 that's my problem. I'm eating too many brush sprouts or 93 00:07:00.639 --> 00:07:04.240 I'm eating too much spinach. Now, I don't know about you, 94 00:07:05.079 --> 00:07:07.920 but when was the last time you saw a person 95 00:07:09.480 --> 00:07:15.800 that claim to be eating a bowl of spinach, two 96 00:07:15.920 --> 00:07:21.000 to three servings of asparagus every day, Brussels sprouts, oranges, 97 00:07:21.920 --> 00:07:25.480 and we're morbidly obese with diabetes and heart disease. It's 98 00:07:25.600 --> 00:07:29.079 just not going to happen. And so to think that 99 00:07:29.959 --> 00:07:36.800 your human body somehow is going to react poorly to 100 00:07:37.199 --> 00:07:43.319 unprocessed vegetables and or fruits is basically taking you for 101 00:07:43.519 --> 00:07:48.879 a fool and your money. Okay, So these are the 102 00:07:48.920 --> 00:07:53.759 types of things to say. Aha, the reason I am 103 00:07:53.839 --> 00:07:58.759 two hundred and forty pounds is because I'm eating too 104 00:07:58.800 --> 00:08:02.800 much spinach, or you know what, I'm eating too much broccoli. 105 00:08:03.759 --> 00:08:07.240 I don't think so. I don't think so. And people 106 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:11.160 that are going to start eliminating these marvelous fruits and 107 00:08:11.279 --> 00:08:14.800 vegetables that have all sorts of phido nutrients and fiber 108 00:08:15.199 --> 00:08:20.439 that actually improve the function of your microbiome. I just 109 00:08:20.480 --> 00:08:25.040 don't know where this madness is going to end. But 110 00:08:25.639 --> 00:08:28.279 here again, you have to be able to look at 111 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:32.360 this and have enough of a base knowledge to say, 112 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:36.679 you know what, this doesn't make sense. Why are they 113 00:08:36.720 --> 00:08:39.559 doing this? Let me look into this a little bit 114 00:08:39.600 --> 00:08:43.320 more so. That is what we're trying to do. All right, 115 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.480 let's take a break now. My sister Celeste Galotti is 116 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:50.320 going to be showing up magically on the radio in 117 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:54.080 a couple of minutes. I'm doctor Joe Galotti. Doctor Joeglotti 118 00:08:54.120 --> 00:08:57.799 dot com is our website. Go there and check us out, 119 00:08:57.840 --> 00:09:00.600 and don't forget. Christmas time is just around corner. Pick 120 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:04.679 up a copy of Eating Yourself Sick, my book Great 121 00:09:04.720 --> 00:09:08.399 stocking Stuffer. Stay tuned, we'll brite back all right, every already, 122 00:09:08.399 --> 00:09:12.000 welcome back, And as previously told you in the show, 123 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:15.320 I have my dear sister Celeste on the radio. She 124 00:09:15.559 --> 00:09:19.000 is a nurse in New York and she's been on 125 00:09:19.039 --> 00:09:22.320 the program before, and the one topic we've been talking 126 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:28.159 about is why is it that people have such a 127 00:09:28.360 --> 00:09:32.320 low understanding of their health and wellness and that this 128 00:09:33.159 --> 00:09:37.440 lack of better word, ignorance leads to chronic disease. So Celeste, 129 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:41.200 welcome and thanks as always for coming on tonight. What 130 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:47.639 is your take, both as a parent, a consumer in 131 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:52.960 their sixties, and a nurse with regard to the level 132 00:09:53.000 --> 00:09:57.440 of education and understanding that most people have with regard 133 00:09:57.480 --> 00:09:59.799 to their body and health and wellness. 134 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:04.559 Yeah, so again, it's great to be back on with you, Joe. 135 00:10:05.320 --> 00:10:07.159 And I think you use the word ignorant, and I 136 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:10.360 think ignorance has such a negative connotation. It does where, 137 00:10:10.679 --> 00:10:14.240 but it really is. It is ignorance. It's healthcare ignorance. 138 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:17.639 So let's take the negativity out of that. It's just 139 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:20.720 that people don't deal with it every day. You and 140 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:23.320 I as healthcare professionals, when we deal with this every day. 141 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:27.360 We've seen people across the spectrum with different health diseases, 142 00:10:28.120 --> 00:10:30.519 so it's common knowledge us. For us, it's like breathing, 143 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:32.960 but for other people, it is not. And I think 144 00:10:33.000 --> 00:10:35.960 if you don't have a healthcare professional in your family, 145 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:37.759 how many times I'm sure you've seen it in a 146 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:41.679 hospital where patients would say, oh, my daughters and nurse, 147 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:44.440 thank god, they could decipher everything that's being told, right. 148 00:10:45.120 --> 00:10:47.480 Not everybody has that, So I think that's where that 149 00:10:47.559 --> 00:10:50.759 level of let's say, quote unquote ignorance comes from. So 150 00:10:50.840 --> 00:10:55.480 I think it's our responsibility as healthcare professionals to embark 151 00:10:55.519 --> 00:10:58.120 our knowledge and just educate people. 152 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:02.600 Yeah, what I was going to say, one of the 153 00:11:02.639 --> 00:11:05.840 slogans that I've been using for this radio program for 154 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:09.120 twenty two years now is by tuning in to your 155 00:11:09.200 --> 00:11:12.759 health first, we are going to raise your health IQ. 156 00:11:13.279 --> 00:11:14.879 And I think that's what you're getting. 157 00:11:14.639 --> 00:11:19.440 At, absolutely, yeah, because I think it's out there. We 158 00:11:19.480 --> 00:11:22.639 could have it, you know on your show. The internet. 159 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:26.600 You know, that's endless information. But I think what happens 160 00:11:26.600 --> 00:11:30.080 with most people you go to the doctor and they say, oh, 161 00:11:30.120 --> 00:11:33.320 your cholesterol is high, where they've never had a problem before. 162 00:11:33.360 --> 00:11:35.519 They maybe in their forties or fifties, and they never 163 00:11:35.799 --> 00:11:38.679 experience that. They go to the internet and then they're 164 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:41.320 reading things and then you know how that is everything 165 00:11:41.639 --> 00:11:44.120 pops up and you don't know how to narrow it 166 00:11:44.159 --> 00:11:47.200 down to say, well, how can I relate this information 167 00:11:47.559 --> 00:11:50.559 into my life? It makes sense for me. That's where 168 00:11:50.600 --> 00:11:52.919 I think people, you know, need a little bit of 169 00:11:52.960 --> 00:11:56.399 help with that, just deciphering everything that's out there. 170 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:01.320 Yeah. Now, one statistic that always I like to talk about, 171 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:04.120 and I believe more people need to hear. This is 172 00:12:04.840 --> 00:12:10.039 eighty five percent of the chronic disease that we see, 173 00:12:10.080 --> 00:12:16.919 and that is diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, kidney and 174 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:22.240 all of the complications really of obesity and metabolic syndrome, 175 00:12:22.360 --> 00:12:26.360 high blood pressure. Eighty five percent of these are related 176 00:12:26.480 --> 00:12:33.000 to lifestyle choices. And lifestyle choices is quite wide ranging, 177 00:12:33.159 --> 00:12:38.120 but it starts with exercise and diet, the amount of 178 00:12:38.159 --> 00:12:42.879 sleep we get, how much alcohol we drink, things like that, 179 00:12:42.960 --> 00:12:47.159 controlling stress and anxiety. So where do you see that 180 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:51.279 getting dovetailed into raising your health IQ? 181 00:12:52.240 --> 00:12:53.799 Well, I think a lot of it has to do 182 00:12:54.080 --> 00:12:57.200 with maybe our I don't want to say our mental health, 183 00:12:57.240 --> 00:12:59.559 but I think we have these roadblocks that we put 184 00:12:59.559 --> 00:13:04.879 into place. I was just with an elderly family member 185 00:13:05.360 --> 00:13:08.159 just today actually, and she start her health as starting 186 00:13:08.159 --> 00:13:10.159 to fail a little bit, and I said to her, listen, 187 00:13:10.279 --> 00:13:12.320 you need to She's walking with a walker now, and 188 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:14.519 I'm like, you need to get up and just walk 189 00:13:14.559 --> 00:13:16.559 a little bit more. Set your alarm on your phone 190 00:13:16.600 --> 00:13:18.919 for every hour, get up, do two laps around the 191 00:13:18.960 --> 00:13:22.159 living room. Oh, I know, you're right, I should do that. 192 00:13:22.679 --> 00:13:25.240 So I think people have these blocks, like I know 193 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:27.480 what I have to do. I know I have to 194 00:13:27.480 --> 00:13:29.960 eat better, but it's just getting over that hump. And 195 00:13:30.000 --> 00:13:31.639 I think a lot of it that has to do 196 00:13:31.720 --> 00:13:37.039 with either our mental health or past experiences or past 197 00:13:37.759 --> 00:13:40.440 things that feel good for us. Well, I'm safe sitting 198 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:42.840 here in my chair, so I don't want to get 199 00:13:42.879 --> 00:13:44.759 up because I don't want to hurt more. So I 200 00:13:44.799 --> 00:13:48.759 think we have to cross over those roadblocks somehow. And 201 00:13:48.759 --> 00:13:52.320 it's hard, Joe, it's a hard thing to And I'm 202 00:13:52.320 --> 00:13:54.840 big on empowering. I talk to my patients all the time, 203 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:57.039 saying you were in charge of your life. You need 204 00:13:57.039 --> 00:14:00.799 to empower yourself, right, And once they get it, they 205 00:14:00.840 --> 00:14:04.559 get it. But it's jumping over that hurdle that's where 206 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:06.320 I find is the biggest problem. 207 00:14:06.799 --> 00:14:08.960 You know, one of the things. And I'm sure you 208 00:14:08.960 --> 00:14:11.480 see it in your day to day nursing with the 209 00:14:11.519 --> 00:14:16.840 patients you see. But the general public out there, I 210 00:14:17.000 --> 00:14:23.759 believe has lowered the bar with regard to what health 211 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:29.399 and wellness means to them. They are you know, as 212 00:14:29.440 --> 00:14:32.159 so many people come into me and they say, doctor Galotti, 213 00:14:32.240 --> 00:14:36.159 you know I just turned fifty, what do you expect? 214 00:14:36.320 --> 00:14:40.159 Or I just turned sixty and I can't exercise the 215 00:14:40.200 --> 00:14:45.039 way I used to. So they, they themselves are lowering 216 00:14:45.080 --> 00:14:49.759 the bar and the expectations. And that is where they 217 00:14:49.759 --> 00:14:51.840 do not look at it to say, hey, I'm fifty 218 00:14:51.919 --> 00:14:56.960 or fifty five, or I'm sixty or seventy. Why can't 219 00:14:57.080 --> 00:15:00.759 I go for a one hour walk. You know, my 220 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:04.039 legs are week or I'm sure of breath? Maybe I 221 00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:10.080 should think about what strategies I need to take a 222 00:15:10.120 --> 00:15:14.639 look at, get help, physical therapy, eat better and yeah. 223 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:19.600 And so they're creating the roadblock themselves. I think, what 224 00:15:19.639 --> 00:15:20.120 do you think? 225 00:15:20.559 --> 00:15:23.519 Well, I agree with that, and I think that in 226 00:15:23.799 --> 00:15:26.639 lies the problem because it's changing your mindset. 227 00:15:27.320 --> 00:15:27.600 For me. 228 00:15:27.759 --> 00:15:31.399 For example, so you know, recently I had my and 229 00:15:31.440 --> 00:15:33.840 I'm sixty three years old and I'm in good health, 230 00:15:33.840 --> 00:15:36.240 but I had my hip replaced in June, and then 231 00:15:36.240 --> 00:15:39.320 I had my knee replaced in October. Right, so for 232 00:15:39.360 --> 00:15:41.519 about a year I was really in Oh you know, 233 00:15:41.559 --> 00:15:42.960 I was in a lot of pain and I couldn't 234 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:44.519 do a lot of the exercise I used to do. 235 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:46.879 And I kind of had in my mind, like right 236 00:15:46.919 --> 00:15:49.000 before the knee replacement, I don't know if I'm going 237 00:15:49.039 --> 00:15:50.200 to be able to do this. I don't know if 238 00:15:50.200 --> 00:15:51.720 I'm going to be able to rehab. I don't know 239 00:15:51.720 --> 00:15:53.240 if I'm going to be able to get back to 240 00:15:53.279 --> 00:15:55.639 the gym. And I had all these doubts in my mind, 241 00:15:55.679 --> 00:15:58.639 but I didn't let that take over. I said to myself, 242 00:15:58.679 --> 00:16:00.879 you know what, I'm still young, I'm still healthy, I'm 243 00:16:00.919 --> 00:16:02.720 in decent shape. I'm going to work. I'm going to 244 00:16:02.759 --> 00:16:04.600 put the work in and I did and now I'm 245 00:16:04.600 --> 00:16:06.799 reaping the benefits. But I think a lot of people 246 00:16:06.840 --> 00:16:10.120 don't have that mindset. So that's what we have to change. 247 00:16:10.159 --> 00:16:12.279 We have to get people to think about, you know what, 248 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:15.080 God darn it, I'm going to do this. I'm going 249 00:16:15.120 --> 00:16:16.600 to take care of I'm going to take the bull 250 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:19.080 by the horns, as mom would always say, and just 251 00:16:19.399 --> 00:16:20.159 and just do it. 252 00:16:20.480 --> 00:16:24.879 But what is that obstacle out there? Is it a 253 00:16:24.960 --> 00:16:30.200 mental health challenge? Is it that people just don't want 254 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:31.120 to put in the work. 255 00:16:31.600 --> 00:16:34.240 I think people are overwhelmed. Everybody's lives are busy now. 256 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:37.440 Everybody's working, you know, two jobs, and people are working 257 00:16:37.440 --> 00:16:39.679 two jobs out there. You have kids to feed, you 258 00:16:39.799 --> 00:16:41.960 have mortgages to pay. You know, a lot of people 259 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:45.440 are living paycheck to paycheck, and it's hard to fit 260 00:16:45.639 --> 00:16:49.159 in an hour for yourselves. The hour is there, let's 261 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:50.960 face it. You could get up an hour earlier, you 262 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:53.080 could do something after the kids are in bed, so 263 00:16:53.159 --> 00:16:55.720 everybody could find an hour somewhere. But I think it 264 00:16:55.879 --> 00:16:59.600 just gets so overwhelming where it's just easy to say, 265 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:02.279 you know what, Okay, I just cleaned the kitchen. The kitchen, right, 266 00:17:02.320 --> 00:17:05.599 I just want to sit down and watch TV. So 267 00:17:05.640 --> 00:17:09.759 it's pushing. It's the roadblock is just pushing yourself keeping 268 00:17:09.920 --> 00:17:13.519 to a schedule. I know, for myself, I the night 269 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:16.640 before I think, okay, tomorrow's Monday, I have a meeting 270 00:17:16.839 --> 00:17:18.759 at four thirty, but I'm gonna be ready to go 271 00:17:18.799 --> 00:17:20.039 to the gym. I'm going to the gym. I'm going 272 00:17:20.119 --> 00:17:22.440 to be dressed and ready to go at five. You know, 273 00:17:22.480 --> 00:17:24.599 so you have to plan it out and stick to 274 00:17:24.640 --> 00:17:27.240 that plan. That's that's. If you do that, I think 275 00:17:27.279 --> 00:17:27.599 you're goal. 276 00:17:27.920 --> 00:17:30.599 Okay, so let's hold that note for right now. We're 277 00:17:30.640 --> 00:17:32.920 going to take a quick break. You are tuned into 278 00:17:33.000 --> 00:17:35.240 your Health First. I'm doctor Joe Galotti. I am on 279 00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:40.359 the air with my sister Celeste Galotti talking about strategies 280 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:45.559 to improve our health. Don't forget go to doctor Joegalotti 281 00:17:45.599 --> 00:17:47.599 dot com, sound a prown newsletter, and all of our 282 00:17:47.640 --> 00:17:52.279 social media there. Stay tuned, We'll be right back. Welcome back, everybody, 283 00:17:52.319 --> 00:17:55.039 Doctor Joe Galotti. Your tune to your Health First every 284 00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:59.039 Sunday between seven and eight pm. Don't forget go to 285 00:17:59.079 --> 00:18:02.319 your health first dot com to find out all about 286 00:18:03.240 --> 00:18:06.400 what me and my team do to keep you healthy 287 00:18:07.160 --> 00:18:11.039 and to make you better consumers of healthcare doctor Joeglotti 288 00:18:11.119 --> 00:18:14.200 dot com. And for those that are just joining us, 289 00:18:14.359 --> 00:18:18.359 my sister Celeste, who is a nurse back in New York, 290 00:18:18.480 --> 00:18:21.240 is on the phone with me and we're trying to 291 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:25.519 come up with a strategy on how do we turn 292 00:18:26.839 --> 00:18:33.359 this tsunami of chronic disease around and empower the community, 293 00:18:33.440 --> 00:18:37.559 empower our patients to take a bigger stance in their 294 00:18:37.599 --> 00:18:41.960 own health and wellness. You know the other thing that 295 00:18:42.039 --> 00:18:46.839 I see and I am truly saddened by this when 296 00:18:46.839 --> 00:18:51.920 I'm talking with my patients. So they have worked their 297 00:18:52.359 --> 00:18:57.039 entire life at for many a hard job. Not to 298 00:18:57.079 --> 00:18:59.079 say that, you know, if you're an executive, it's not 299 00:18:59.119 --> 00:19:02.079 a hard job, but a lot of people have done 300 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:04.640 a lot of hard work. They put in hours, they 301 00:19:04.640 --> 00:19:09.119 had a second job, physical labor. They try to save up. 302 00:19:09.200 --> 00:19:13.720 And when I'm talking with them, they're telling me, well, 303 00:19:13.799 --> 00:19:17.839 I'm retiring next year and I plan on traveling, taking 304 00:19:17.880 --> 00:19:20.279 the kids to Disney. I'm just going to sit in 305 00:19:20.319 --> 00:19:26.759 the backyard and fish. But but that reality turns upside 306 00:19:26.799 --> 00:19:31.400 down when they now have bad heart disease and they're 307 00:19:31.400 --> 00:19:36.000 not able to travel. And so those are situations in 308 00:19:36.079 --> 00:19:41.000 conversations that I absolutely don't want to have. They're so sad. 309 00:19:41.519 --> 00:19:44.920 And again, from your perspective, what do you see out there? 310 00:19:45.839 --> 00:19:48.000 Well, I think there are a lot of people who Yeah, 311 00:19:48.039 --> 00:19:49.880 I think people just kind of give up and say, well, 312 00:19:49.880 --> 00:19:51.200 this is the way my life is going to be. 313 00:19:51.359 --> 00:19:53.240 I'm not going to be in good shape, and you know, 314 00:19:53.359 --> 00:19:55.640 they give up. But there are other people where I 315 00:19:55.680 --> 00:19:58.400 saw this lady. She actually was on Instagram and her 316 00:19:58.960 --> 00:20:01.759 granddaughter was a train She was seventy years old, a 317 00:20:01.799 --> 00:20:04.160 little bit on the heavyset side. Looks like she never 318 00:20:04.200 --> 00:20:06.599 worked out a day in our life, right, Her granddaughter 319 00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:08.880 started training her and let me tell you, after a year, 320 00:20:08.920 --> 00:20:11.799 and it took a good year, this woman looked fantastic 321 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:14.920 and you could see the smile in her face. You know, 322 00:20:14.960 --> 00:20:17.440 so it can be done. It's never too late, you know, 323 00:20:17.680 --> 00:20:21.000 even if you're opies or you have bad eating habits, 324 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:24.240 there is that ability to change. But it's it's we 325 00:20:24.359 --> 00:20:26.279 got to figure out that roadblock, Joe. We got to 326 00:20:26.279 --> 00:20:28.480 figure out like how to get people to overcome that. 327 00:20:28.880 --> 00:20:35.279 I know and I know we've we've had on an 328 00:20:35.400 --> 00:20:41.000 un calculated number of conversations, you and I and I 329 00:20:41.640 --> 00:20:44.759 I I this is really a passion of ours. Now, 330 00:20:45.200 --> 00:20:49.240 if you if you had to pick one area to 331 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:54.160 concentrate on for those listening tonight, what what would you 332 00:20:54.279 --> 00:20:57.599 say is that first step to tape because it really 333 00:20:58.440 --> 00:21:02.599 will require one step at a time. Okay, you can't, 334 00:21:03.000 --> 00:21:06.279 you know, we can't solve all of these issues in 335 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:10.559 one decision that somebody is going to make. So if 336 00:21:10.599 --> 00:21:15.599 you had to say one thing tonight, what do you 337 00:21:15.640 --> 00:21:18.839 think would be the most logical but also the most 338 00:21:19.240 --> 00:21:23.039 actionable that they can actually not be intimidated by. 339 00:21:23.920 --> 00:21:25.839 Well, I think it depends on the person. So but 340 00:21:25.920 --> 00:21:27.720 I totally agree with you because I think if you 341 00:21:27.759 --> 00:21:29.720 say to people you got to eat right, you got 342 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:31.319 to exercise, you got to do this, you got to 343 00:21:31.400 --> 00:21:34.599 drink more water, it's too much. It's like information overload. 344 00:21:34.920 --> 00:21:37.480 So I think with each individual person, you have to say, Okay, 345 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:39.799 this is a bad health habit I have right now, 346 00:21:39.839 --> 00:21:42.079 so I eat way too much sugar. I am a 347 00:21:42.160 --> 00:21:45.960 sugar junkie. So that person you have to say, you know, 348 00:21:45.960 --> 00:21:49.359 new Year's resolution, I'm cutting down on the amount of sugar. 349 00:21:49.400 --> 00:21:51.759 Maybe not cutting it out altogether, but I'm cutting down. 350 00:21:51.799 --> 00:21:54.000 I'm not going to drink coke anymore. I Am not 351 00:21:54.079 --> 00:21:58.920 going to have dessert anymore because that right there will 352 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:02.480 drop some weight. Yes, if it's a person that used 353 00:22:02.519 --> 00:22:05.680 to be active that maybe isn't active anymore, those are 354 00:22:05.680 --> 00:22:07.279 the people that should say, all right, you know what, 355 00:22:07.480 --> 00:22:09.559 I'm going to join the gym, and not ald gyms 356 00:22:09.559 --> 00:22:12.279 are expensive. I belong to plan a fitness for I 357 00:22:12.279 --> 00:22:14.799 think it's thirteen dollars a month, you know. So you 358 00:22:14.839 --> 00:22:16.400 know what, I'm going to join the gym, and I'm 359 00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:18.640 going to commit to going to the gym three times 360 00:22:18.640 --> 00:22:21.559 a week, not five times a week, and working out 361 00:22:21.559 --> 00:22:23.440 and getting muscles, you know. So I think it's got 362 00:22:23.440 --> 00:22:25.960 to be these baby steps. But you have to figure 363 00:22:26.000 --> 00:22:30.079 out internally what is important to you? Is it? Do 364 00:22:30.160 --> 00:22:32.240 I know I'm eating too much sugar or I'm eating 365 00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:34.759 too much fast food. I'm eating too much fast food. 366 00:22:35.000 --> 00:22:37.079 Stop And it's hard to do it, but once you 367 00:22:37.160 --> 00:22:41.200 start the pattern, it will just spend snowball. So I 368 00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:44.400 think each person has to take a deep dive into 369 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:48.400 their habits because you know what's wrong for you, you know 370 00:22:48.480 --> 00:22:51.240 what you shouldn't be doing, you know, right, right, and 371 00:22:52.160 --> 00:22:52.839 figure it out. 372 00:22:53.079 --> 00:22:55.400 Yeah, you know, but I would I would also say, 373 00:22:55.519 --> 00:22:58.799 you're this is a very good starting point. But I 374 00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:03.839 would also say there is a knowledge gap. So if 375 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:06.200 we don't use ignorance, we have to come up with 376 00:23:06.240 --> 00:23:10.240 a prettier word for ignorance. Maybe it's a well, what 377 00:23:10.240 --> 00:23:10.960 would be the word. 378 00:23:12.119 --> 00:23:15.799 It's some knowledge gap. It would be uh, well, we 379 00:23:15.920 --> 00:23:17.880 use like health literacy. 380 00:23:17.359 --> 00:23:22.440 Health literacy. Okay, So so yeah, so with this lack 381 00:23:22.480 --> 00:23:27.960 of health literacy, people I do believe generally want to 382 00:23:27.960 --> 00:23:30.400 do the right thing for themselves and their family, but 383 00:23:30.559 --> 00:23:35.279 so many times I will this is I hate to 384 00:23:35.359 --> 00:23:38.160 laugh at this, but people that drink a lot of alcohol, 385 00:23:39.319 --> 00:23:51.279 they think that whiskey and the more distilled spirits okay, vodka, tequila, Scotch, rye, whiskey, 386 00:23:51.279 --> 00:23:56.640 et cetera, those are the really toxic beverages to drink. 387 00:23:56.960 --> 00:24:00.640 And they will say, oh no, I don't that I 388 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:04.319 quit drinking ten years ago. I mean, you're like, okay, great, 389 00:24:04.880 --> 00:24:09.359 but you have a six pack Thursday, Friday and Saturday 390 00:24:09.480 --> 00:24:14.079 night and they don't connect that. And so those are 391 00:24:14.160 --> 00:24:18.440 little that these are those gaps in help literacy where 392 00:24:19.400 --> 00:24:24.440 just knowing that can save you a ton of problems. 393 00:24:24.640 --> 00:24:28.119 So we have to, you know, sort of raise everybody's 394 00:24:28.119 --> 00:24:31.920 health IQ. That really is a good way to approach this. 395 00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:34.680 I think so. And I think as a nurse, you know, 396 00:24:34.680 --> 00:24:37.119 I'm always going to be rare od nurses. But there 397 00:24:37.119 --> 00:24:39.559 are a lot of insurance companies out there. I happen 398 00:24:39.640 --> 00:24:42.079 to work right now for the State of Connecticut their 399 00:24:42.160 --> 00:24:44.640 Medicaid program, but there are a lot of insurance companies 400 00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:47.519 that have case management where you could call them up 401 00:24:47.559 --> 00:24:49.720