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Speaker 1: Well, a good Sunday evening to everybody. Doctor Joe Galotti.
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Speaker 1: this marvelous, this marvelous evening. My sister Celeste from New
Speaker 1: York is going to be calling in. So Lessa's been
Speaker 1: on the program before. She is a very articulate nurse.
Speaker 1: She's been really her whole career has been in nursing
Speaker 1: and direct patient care, and she truly is an expert
Speaker 1: in this health and wellness space and really understanding it
Speaker 1: and trying to share with all of you her many
Speaker 1: many years of experience with patient care and looking at
Speaker 1: things from the patient perspective. It's really very important, and
Speaker 1: we're going to be talking about why is it that
Speaker 1: so many people just simply don't have a good knowledge
Speaker 1: base of medicine, how their body works, and how to
Speaker 1: stay healthy. Because, as I'll probably share with Celes later on,
Speaker 1: eighty five percent of all the chronic disease that we
Speaker 1: see and it is the same castra characters. It is obesity, diabetes,
Speaker 1: heart disease, stroke, cancer, liver disease, mental health issues. It's
Speaker 1: made worse by the lifestyle choices that we make. Now,
Speaker 1: the vast majority of the lifestyle choices we make are
Speaker 1: partially out of convenience, but partially out of not really understanding.
Speaker 1: So Celeste, we'll be on and we'll have what I
Speaker 1: believe will be a lively conversation on this. Now really
Speaker 1: along the same lines here, Okay, I was perusing the
Speaker 1: Internet and social media and I came across a website
Speaker 1: by the name of biome viom E and it is
Speaker 1: a company where you pay for a kit where they
Speaker 1: will test your intestinal microbiome. I am most likely believing
Speaker 1: that you're going to send a small a small stool
Speaker 1: sample to them and they will analyze the bacteria. Now,
Speaker 1: there is no doubt, and we've talked about this before
Speaker 1: and we've had experts on the program that the intestinal microbiome,
Speaker 1: and the intestinal microbiome is the trillions of bacteria that
Speaker 1: normally reside in all of our intestines, our small bowel,
Speaker 1: our colon that are truly vital for good health. If
Speaker 1: you have an intestinal microbiome that is off kilter, meaning
Speaker 1: more bad bacteria and not enough of the good bacteria,
Speaker 1: a whole set of health related complications will ensue. Everything
Speaker 1: from the development of cancer, the development of depression and
Speaker 1: mental health and mood issues. There is now an awful
Speaker 1: lot of data and research going on with the role
Speaker 1: of the intestinal microbiome and obesity and fatty liver disease
Speaker 1: and inflammation in the body. So without a doubt, this
Speaker 1: is really very very important to understand now for you
Speaker 1: the consumer, okay, and here again the knowledge base that
Speaker 1: we would all want you to have, and part of
Speaker 1: it is understanding it yourself, sort of that organic understanding
Speaker 1: of how the world works, how your body works, but
Speaker 1: also a certain understanding to be able to call out
Speaker 1: the bs when you're confronted with it. So this particular
Speaker 1: company Biome, you send a stool and they give you
Speaker 1: an analysis of your microbiome. And there are people online
Speaker 1: giving testimonials that are saying, you know what, I sent
Speaker 1: in my test, I got the results, and you know what,
Speaker 1: I should not be eating spinach. I should not be
Speaker 1: eating broccoli. I should not be eating oranges. I should
Speaker 1: not be eating Brussels sprouts. That's my problem. And people
Speaker 1: will sort of look at this and say, well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's my problem. I'm eating too many brush sprouts or
Speaker 1: I'm eating too much spinach. Now, I don't know about you,
Speaker 1: but when was the last time you saw a person
Speaker 1: that claim to be eating a bowl of spinach, two
Speaker 1: to three servings of asparagus every day, Brussels sprouts, oranges,
Speaker 1: and we're morbidly obese with diabetes and heart disease. It's
Speaker 1: just not going to happen. And so to think that
Speaker 1: your human body somehow is going to react poorly to
Speaker 1: unprocessed vegetables and or fruits is basically taking you for
Speaker 1: a fool and your money. Okay, So these are the
Speaker 1: types of things to say. Aha, the reason I am
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty pounds is because I'm eating too
Speaker 1: much spinach, or you know what, I'm eating too much broccoli.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. I don't think so. And people
Speaker 1: that are going to start eliminating these marvelous fruits and
Speaker 1: vegetables that have all sorts of phido nutrients and fiber
Speaker 1: that actually improve the function of your microbiome. I just
Speaker 1: don't know where this madness is going to end. But
Speaker 1: here again, you have to be able to look at
Speaker 1: this and have enough of a base knowledge to say,
Speaker 1: you know what, this doesn't make sense. Why are they
Speaker 1: doing this? Let me look into this a little bit
Speaker 1: more so. That is what we're trying to do. All right,
Speaker 1: let's take a break now. My sister Celeste Galotti is
Speaker 1: going to be showing up magically on the radio in
Speaker 1: a couple of minutes. I'm doctor Joe Galotti. Doctor Joeglotti
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Speaker 1: welcome back, And as previously told you in the show,
Speaker 1: I have my dear sister Celeste on the radio. She
Speaker 1: is a nurse in New York and she's been on
Speaker 1: the program before, and the one topic we've been talking
Speaker 1: about is why is it that people have such a
Speaker 1: low understanding of their health and wellness and that this
Speaker 1: lack of better word, ignorance leads to chronic disease. So Celeste,
Speaker 1: welcome and thanks as always for coming on tonight. What
Speaker 1: is your take, both as a parent, a consumer in
Speaker 1: their sixties, and a nurse with regard to the level
Speaker 1: of education and understanding that most people have with regard
Speaker 1: to their body and health and wellness.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so again, it's great to be back on with you, Joe.
Speaker 3: And I think you use the word ignorant, and I
Speaker 3: think ignorance has such a negative connotation. It does where,
Speaker 3: but it really is. It is ignorance. It's healthcare ignorance.
Speaker 3: So let's take the negativity out of that. It's just
Speaker 3: that people don't deal with it every day. You and
Speaker 3: I as healthcare professionals, when we deal with this every day.
Speaker 3: We've seen people across the spectrum with different health diseases,
Speaker 3: so it's common knowledge us. For us, it's like breathing,
Speaker 3: but for other people, it is not. And I think
Speaker 3: if you don't have a healthcare professional in your family,
Speaker 3: how many times I'm sure you've seen it in a
Speaker 3: hospital where patients would say, oh, my daughters and nurse,
Speaker 3: thank god, they could decipher everything that's being told, right.
Speaker 3: Not everybody has that, So I think that's where that
Speaker 3: level of let's say, quote unquote ignorance comes from. So
Speaker 3: I think it's our responsibility as healthcare professionals to embark
Speaker 3: our knowledge and just educate people.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what I was going to say, one of the
Speaker 1: slogans that I've been using for this radio program for
Speaker 1: twenty two years now is by tuning in to your
Speaker 1: health first, we are going to raise your health IQ.
Speaker 1: And I think that's what you're getting.
Speaker 3: At, absolutely, yeah, because I think it's out there. We
Speaker 3: could have it, you know on your show. The internet.
Speaker 3: You know, that's endless information. But I think what happens
Speaker 3: with most people you go to the doctor and they say, oh,
Speaker 3: your cholesterol is high, where they've never had a problem before.
Speaker 3: They maybe in their forties or fifties, and they never
Speaker 3: experience that. They go to the internet and then they're
Speaker 3: reading things and then you know how that is everything
Speaker 3: pops up and you don't know how to narrow it
Speaker 3: down to say, well, how can I relate this information
Speaker 3: into my life? It makes sense for me. That's where
Speaker 3: I think people, you know, need a little bit of
Speaker 3: help with that, just deciphering everything that's out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now, one statistic that always I like to talk about,
Speaker 1: and I believe more people need to hear. This is
Speaker 1: eighty five percent of the chronic disease that we see,
Speaker 1: and that is diabetes, heart disease, kidney disease, kidney and
Speaker 1: all of the complications really of obesity and metabolic syndrome,
Speaker 1: high blood pressure. Eighty five percent of these are related
Speaker 1: to lifestyle choices. And lifestyle choices is quite wide ranging,
Speaker 1: but it starts with exercise and diet, the amount of
Speaker 1: sleep we get, how much alcohol we drink, things like that,
Speaker 1: controlling stress and anxiety. So where do you see that
Speaker 1: getting dovetailed into raising your health IQ?
Speaker 3: Well, I think a lot of it has to do
Speaker 3: with maybe our I don't want to say our mental health,
Speaker 3: but I think we have these roadblocks that we put
Speaker 3: into place. I was just with an elderly family member
Speaker 3: just today actually, and she start her health as starting
Speaker 3: to fail a little bit, and I said to her, listen,
Speaker 3: you need to She's walking with a walker now, and
Speaker 3: I'm like, you need to get up and just walk
Speaker 3: a little bit more. Set your alarm on your phone
Speaker 3: for every hour, get up, do two laps around the
Speaker 3: living room. Oh, I know, you're right, I should do that.
Speaker 3: So I think people have these blocks, like I know
Speaker 3: what I have to do. I know I have to
Speaker 3: eat better, but it's just getting over that hump. And
Speaker 3: I think a lot of it that has to do
Speaker 3: with either our mental health or past experiences or past
Speaker 3: things that feel good for us. Well, I'm safe sitting
Speaker 3: here in my chair, so I don't want to get
Speaker 3: up because I don't want to hurt more. So I
Speaker 3: think we have to cross over those roadblocks somehow. And
Speaker 3: it's hard, Joe, it's a hard thing to And I'm
Speaker 3: big on empowering. I talk to my patients all the time,
Speaker 3: saying you were in charge of your life. You need
Speaker 3: to empower yourself, right, And once they get it, they
Speaker 3: get it. But it's jumping over that hurdle that's where
Speaker 3: I find is the biggest problem.
Speaker 1: You know, one of the things. And I'm sure you
Speaker 1: see it in your day to day nursing with the
Speaker 1: patients you see. But the general public out there, I
Speaker 1: believe has lowered the bar with regard to what health
Speaker 1: and wellness means to them. They are you know, as
Speaker 1: so many people come into me and they say, doctor Galotti,
Speaker 1: you know I just turned fifty, what do you expect?
Speaker 1: Or I just turned sixty and I can't exercise the
Speaker 1: way I used to. So they, they themselves are lowering
Speaker 1: the bar and the expectations. And that is where they
Speaker 1: do not look at it to say, hey, I'm fifty
Speaker 1: or fifty five, or I'm sixty or seventy. Why can't
Speaker 1: I go for a one hour walk. You know, my
Speaker 1: legs are week or I'm sure of breath? Maybe I
Speaker 1: should think about what strategies I need to take a
Speaker 1: look at, get help, physical therapy, eat better and yeah.
Speaker 1: And so they're creating the roadblock themselves. I think, what
Speaker 1: do you think?
Speaker 3: Well, I agree with that, and I think that in
Speaker 3: lies the problem because it's changing your mindset.
Speaker 2: For me.
Speaker 3: For example, so you know, recently I had my and
Speaker 3: I'm sixty three years old and I'm in good health,
Speaker 3: but I had my hip replaced in June, and then
Speaker 3: I had my knee replaced in October. Right, so for
Speaker 3: about a year I was really in Oh you know,
Speaker 3: I was in a lot of pain and I couldn't
Speaker 3: do a lot of the exercise I used to do.
Speaker 3: And I kind of had in my mind, like right
Speaker 3: before the knee replacement, I don't know if I'm going
Speaker 3: to be able to do this. I don't know if
Speaker 3: I'm going to be able to rehab. I don't know
Speaker 3: if I'm going to be able to get back to
Speaker 3: the gym. And I had all these doubts in my mind,
Speaker 3: but I didn't let that take over. I said to myself,
Speaker 3: you know what, I'm still young, I'm still healthy, I'm
Speaker 3: in decent shape. I'm going to work. I'm going to
Speaker 3: put the work in and I did and now I'm
Speaker 3: reaping the benefits. But I think a lot of people
Speaker 3: don't have that mindset. So that's what we have to change.
Speaker 3: We have to get people to think about, you know what,
Speaker 3: God darn it, I'm going to do this. I'm going
Speaker 3: to take care of I'm going to take the bull
Speaker 3: by the horns, as mom would always say, and just
Speaker 3: and just do it.
Speaker 1: But what is that obstacle out there? Is it a
Speaker 1: mental health challenge? Is it that people just don't want
Speaker 1: to put in the work.
Speaker 3: I think people are overwhelmed. Everybody's lives are busy now.
Speaker 3: Everybody's working, you know, two jobs, and people are working
Speaker 3: two jobs out there. You have kids to feed, you
Speaker 3: have mortgages to pay. You know, a lot of people
Speaker 3: are living paycheck to paycheck, and it's hard to fit
Speaker 3: in an hour for yourselves. The hour is there, let's
Speaker 3: face it. You could get up an hour earlier, you
Speaker 3: could do something after the kids are in bed, so
Speaker 3: everybody could find an hour somewhere. But I think it
Speaker 3: just gets so overwhelming where it's just easy to say,
Speaker 3: you know what, Okay, I just cleaned the kitchen. The kitchen, right,
Speaker 3: I just want to sit down and watch TV. So
Speaker 3: it's pushing. It's the roadblock is just pushing yourself keeping
Speaker 3: to a schedule. I know, for myself, I the night
Speaker 3: before I think, okay, tomorrow's Monday, I have a meeting
Speaker 3: at four thirty, but I'm gonna be ready to go
Speaker 3: to the gym. I'm going to the gym. I'm going
Speaker 3: to be dressed and ready to go at five. You know,
Speaker 3: so you have to plan it out and stick to
Speaker 3: that plan. That's that's. If you do that, I think
Speaker 3: you're goal.
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's hold that note for right now. We're
Speaker 1: going to take a quick break. You are tuned into
Speaker 1: your Health First. I'm doctor Joe Galotti. I am on
Speaker 1: the air with my sister Celeste Galotti talking about strategies
Speaker 1: to improve our health. Don't forget go to doctor Joegalotti
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Speaker 1: Doctor Joe Galotti. Your tune to your Health First every
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Speaker 1: your health first dot com to find out all about
Speaker 1: what me and my team do to keep you healthy
Speaker 1: and to make you better consumers of healthcare doctor Joeglotti
Speaker 1: dot com. And for those that are just joining us,
Speaker 1: my sister Celeste, who is a nurse back in New York,
Speaker 1: is on the phone with me and we're trying to
Speaker 1: come up with a strategy on how do we turn
Speaker 1: this tsunami of chronic disease around and empower the community,
Speaker 1: empower our patients to take a bigger stance in their
Speaker 1: own health and wellness. You know the other thing that
Speaker 1: I see and I am truly saddened by this when
Speaker 1: I'm talking with my patients. So they have worked their
Speaker 1: entire life at for many a hard job. Not to
Speaker 1: say that, you know, if you're an executive, it's not
Speaker 1: a hard job, but a lot of people have done
Speaker 1: a lot of hard work. They put in hours, they
Speaker 1: had a second job, physical labor. They try to save up.
Speaker 1: And when I'm talking with them, they're telling me, well,
Speaker 1: I'm retiring next year and I plan on traveling, taking
Speaker 1: the kids to Disney. I'm just going to sit in
Speaker 1: the backyard and fish. But but that reality turns upside
Speaker 1: down when they now have bad heart disease and they're
Speaker 1: not able to travel. And so those are situations in
Speaker 1: conversations that I absolutely don't want to have. They're so sad.
Speaker 1: And again, from your perspective, what do you see out there?
Speaker 3: Well, I think there are a lot of people who Yeah,
Speaker 3: I think people just kind of give up and say, well,
Speaker 3: this is the way my life is going to be.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to be in good shape, and you know,
Speaker 3: they give up. But there are other people where I
Speaker 3: saw this lady. She actually was on Instagram and her
Speaker 3: granddaughter was a train She was seventy years old, a
Speaker 3: little bit on the heavyset side. Looks like she never
Speaker 3: worked out a day in our life, right, Her granddaughter
Speaker 3: started training her and let me tell you, after a year,
Speaker 3: and it took a good year, this woman looked fantastic
Speaker 3: and you could see the smile in her face. You know,
Speaker 3: so it can be done. It's never too late, you know,
Speaker 3: even if you're opies or you have bad eating habits,
Speaker 3: there is that ability to change. But it's it's we
Speaker 3: got to figure out that roadblock, Joe. We got to
Speaker 3: figure out like how to get people to overcome that.
Speaker 1: I know and I know we've we've had on an
Speaker 1: un calculated number of conversations, you and I and I
Speaker 1: I I this is really a passion of ours. Now,
Speaker 1: if you if you had to pick one area to
Speaker 1: concentrate on for those listening tonight, what what would you
Speaker 1: say is that first step to tape because it really
Speaker 1: will require one step at a time. Okay, you can't,
Speaker 1: you know, we can't solve all of these issues in
Speaker 1: one decision that somebody is going to make. So if
Speaker 1: you had to say one thing tonight, what do you
Speaker 1: think would be the most logical but also the most
Speaker 1: actionable that they can actually not be intimidated by.
Speaker 3: Well, I think it depends on the person. So but
Speaker 3: I totally agree with you because I think if you
Speaker 3: say to people you got to eat right, you got
Speaker 3: to exercise, you got to do this, you got to
Speaker 3: drink more water, it's too much. It's like information overload.
Speaker 3: So I think with each individual person, you have to say, Okay,
Speaker 3: this is a bad health habit I have right now,
Speaker 3: so I eat way too much sugar. I am a
Speaker 3: sugar junkie. So that person you have to say, you know,
Speaker 3: new Year's resolution, I'm cutting down on the amount of sugar.
Speaker 3: Maybe not cutting it out altogether, but I'm cutting down.
Speaker 3: I'm not going to drink coke anymore. I Am not
Speaker 3: going to have dessert anymore because that right there will
Speaker 3: drop some weight. Yes, if it's a person that used
Speaker 3: to be active that maybe isn't active anymore, those are
Speaker 3: the people that should say, all right, you know what,
Speaker 3: I'm going to join the gym, and not ald gyms
Speaker 3: are expensive. I belong to plan a fitness for I
Speaker 3: think it's thirteen dollars a month, you know. So you
Speaker 3: know what, I'm going to join the gym, and I'm
Speaker 3: going to commit to going to the gym three times
Speaker 3: a week, not five times a week, and working out
Speaker 3: and getting muscles, you know. So I think it's got
Speaker 3: to be these baby steps. But you have to figure
Speaker 3: out internally what is important to you? Is it? Do
Speaker 3: I know I'm eating too much sugar or I'm eating
Speaker 3: too much fast food. I'm eating too much fast food.
Speaker 3: Stop And it's hard to do it, but once you
Speaker 3: start the pattern, it will just spend snowball. So I
Speaker 3: think each person has to take a deep dive into
Speaker 3: their habits because you know what's wrong for you, you know
Speaker 3: what you shouldn't be doing, you know, right, right, and
Speaker 3: figure it out.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, but I would I would also say,
Speaker 1: you're this is a very good starting point. But I
Speaker 1: would also say there is a knowledge gap. So if
Speaker 1: we don't use ignorance, we have to come up with
Speaker 1: a prettier word for ignorance. Maybe it's a well, what
Speaker 1: would be the word.
Speaker 3: It's some knowledge gap. It would be uh, well, we
Speaker 3: use like health literacy.
Speaker 1: Health literacy. Okay, So so yeah, so with this lack
Speaker 1: of health literacy, people I do believe generally want to
Speaker 1: do the right thing for themselves and their family, but
Speaker 1: so many times I will this is I hate to
Speaker 1: laugh at this, but people that drink a lot of alcohol,
Speaker 1: they think that whiskey and the more distilled spirits okay, vodka, tequila, Scotch, rye, whiskey,
Speaker 1: et cetera, those are the really toxic beverages to drink.
Speaker 1: And they will say, oh no, I don't that I
Speaker 1: quit drinking ten years ago. I mean, you're like, okay, great,
Speaker 1: but you have a six pack Thursday, Friday and Saturday
Speaker 1: night and they don't connect that. And so those are
Speaker 1: little that these are those gaps in help literacy where
Speaker 1: just knowing that can save you a ton of problems.
Speaker 1: So we have to, you know, sort of raise everybody's
Speaker 1: health IQ. That really is a good way to approach this.
Speaker 3: I think so. And I think as a nurse, you know,
Speaker 3: I'm always going to be rare od nurses. But there
Speaker 3: are a lot of insurance companies out there. I happen
Speaker 3: to work right now for the State of Connecticut their
Speaker 3: Medicaid program, but there are a lot of insurance companies
Speaker 3: that have case management where you could call them up
Speaker 3: and say, hey, I want to start a diet plan.
Speaker 3: I don't know what to do. They have, not all
Speaker 3: of them, but a lot of them have nurses that
Speaker 3: are available to teach you and educate you and just
Speaker 3: have that person to help you through these changes, and
Speaker 3: they could send you articles, they could you know, talk
Speaker 3: to you about how to achieve those goals. So I
Speaker 3: think it's a good idea to maybe look up your
Speaker 3: insurance plan or through your company.
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 3: A lot of companies offer this, So utilize those programs
Speaker 3: that you have in front of you. They're usually free,
Speaker 3: and they're great resources to just kind of jumpstart your
Speaker 3: goal to being healthier.
Speaker 1: Right, right. And I do believe that if you're sitting
Speaker 1: home tonight listening and you're saying, oh boy, you know
Speaker 1: Celesta's right, I do know what's wrong. I eat too much,
Speaker 1: you know, too much fast food, or I don't exercise enough.
Speaker 1: I do believe that there is a lot to be
Speaker 1: said for looking at other success stories to say that
Speaker 1: person sort of was like me, they did it. That
Speaker 1: is motivation for me to try the exact same thing.
Speaker 3: And listen, it's all out there. We're all into social media,
Speaker 3: and I see, you know, I could be scrolling through
Speaker 3: Instagram for ten minutes and I could come across four
Speaker 3: different people who have gone from you know, being morbidly
Speaker 3: obese to skinny doing it on their own through exercise
Speaker 3: and eating. So I think, and it's not about being skinny,
Speaker 3: it's about being healthy, you know. And I think we
Speaker 3: just need to take advantage of what's out there. But
Speaker 3: I really am a firm believer of using you know,
Speaker 3: your insurance company and your own companies. If you work
Speaker 3: for a big company, they always have these health initiatives.
Speaker 3: So I think it's something to look into and take
Speaker 3: advantage of.
Speaker 1: All Right, Celeste, just because you're my sister and you're
Speaker 1: the guest tonight, final thirty seconds on if you had
Speaker 1: to summarize your thoughts on all this to the listening
Speaker 1: public tonight.
Speaker 3: I mean, I'm a real person and it's hard. I
Speaker 3: have gone through times. I haven't always been in great shape,
Speaker 3: you know. I've ebbed and flowed and there have been
Speaker 3: times where I'm like, oh my god, can I ever
Speaker 3: do this? But I think it's just that matter of persevering.
Speaker 3: And I am my biggest word is empowering. I love
Speaker 3: to see my patients empowered by taking charge of their
Speaker 3: own health, their own life, whether it be your mental health,
Speaker 3: your physical health, your diet, exercise. Once you achieve that,
Speaker 3: I think you know, the sky's the limit at that point,
Speaker 3: and then you could start empowering other people and that's
Speaker 3: what that's what makes the world go around, right, yeah,
Speaker 3: to help each other.
Speaker 1: It is all right, Celeste Galotti, thank you very much
Speaker 1: for coming on. And I think this conversation and I've
Speaker 1: got other medical and non medical people that really really
Speaker 1: want to weigh in on this topic. So I believe
Speaker 1: that this is a good jump start, especially as we
Speaker 1: get into the new year and sort of turn over
Speaker 1: the soil, we get some great ideas.
Speaker 3: It's a new start now, the new year, twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: All right, Celeste, all right, so last thanks the maid
Speaker 1: alright by now all right, Well, that was my dear
Speaker 1: sister Celeste calling in from the Metro New York area
Speaker 1: where she's a nurse. And I do believe that to
Speaker 1: tackle this issue of health and wellness and the bigger picture,
Speaker 1: and I've been talking about this for a few weeks now.
Speaker 1: The notion of make America healthy again. It's going to
Speaker 1: take personal responsibility on our part to look at the MIRA,
Speaker 1: realize the changes that we have to make, make them
Speaker 1: one step at a time, a slow step. There's a
Speaker 1: great book I would recommend you read called Atomic Habits,
Speaker 1: and his whole premise is that taking small steps, almost
Speaker 1: at the atomic level, will build up to greater things.
Speaker 1: But considering the amount of chronic disease that we have,
Speaker 1: the cost of it all, both in dollars and cents
Speaker 1: and in human suffering, we all have to do something.
Speaker 1: And I really do believe it is a two part
Speaker 1: mission here. Number one, raising your health IQ. You need
Speaker 1: to be a better consumer of healthcare. Understand the perils
Speaker 1: and truly understand, not just have sort of a casual understanding,
Speaker 1: a deep understanding or a really good working understanding of
Speaker 1: the perils of being overweight, the perils of having high
Speaker 1: blood pressure that is not controlled, not exercising, the trouble
Speaker 1: that results from not getting enough sleep and being stressed out,
Speaker 1: and having blood sugars that are just too high, And
Speaker 1: how to understand the difference between a plant based diet
Speaker 1: eating fresh fruits and vegetables versus eating out and maybe
Speaker 1: getting these fruits and vegetables at a restaurant, how they're
Speaker 1: adult rated up. And then the other part is that
Speaker 1: personal introspection that you have to take control of things yourself.
Speaker 1: So that is it, all right, Stay tuned more to
Speaker 1: come on this Week's Your Health First. I'm doctor Joe Glotti.
Speaker 1: Don't forget doctor Joglotti dot com. Stay tuned, will be
Speaker 1: right back. Welcome back, everybody, final segment of Tonight's Your
Speaker 1: Health First. And I love to have a little bit
Speaker 1: of fun on the radio. So what we're going to do,
Speaker 1: We're going to have a giveaway. The first person that
Speaker 1: emails me the name of this song and or who
Speaker 1: sings it, you will get a copy of my book
Speaker 1: Eating Yourself Sick. Who's the artist? And or I'll be
Speaker 1: easy on you, and or the name of the song.
Speaker 1: Now the song, of course, I played it for a
Speaker 1: reason my sister who is just on the program, Celeste.
Speaker 1: Growing up, this was a favorite song that we heard
Speaker 1: playing around the house. So a little bit of nostalgia
Speaker 1: and looking back is good for the heart and soul
Speaker 1: to foster good memories, That's what I would say. And
Speaker 1: these good memories are very important for your own health
Speaker 1: and wellness and most importantly for your ar insanity. But
Speaker 1: go to doctor Joe Galotti dot com and try to
Speaker 1: get your free copy of Eating Yourself Sick. All right.
Speaker 1: In the final few minutes that we have tonight, there
Speaker 1: was an article in I think it was Today's New
Speaker 1: York Times and the title is why aging experts are
Speaker 1: obsessed with health span. So something that we've talked about.
Speaker 1: So health span is different than life expectancy. So you
Speaker 1: may say the life expectancy is eighty years. Let's just
Speaker 1: say that, but you're living to eighty what kind of
Speaker 1: shape of you in? Are you ridden in a wheelchair?
Speaker 1: Are you bedbound? Do you need twenty four hour care?
Speaker 1: Are you chronically ill? And so most experts, and I
Speaker 1: am one of them, would say, yes, we could say
Speaker 1: that that life expectancy is eighty or eighty three or
Speaker 1: seventy eight years old, but the health span is the quality,
Speaker 1: and that is what we are looking for. So similar
Speaker 1: to what we were just talking about with celest a
Speaker 1: few moments ago, we have to look at and understand
Speaker 1: what can prevent chronic disease, because it is the chronic
Speaker 1: disease that's going to impact not only life expectancy, but
Speaker 1: your health span. And so there's no doubt that if
Speaker 1: you're paying attention to this area of health and wellness,
Speaker 1: there are longevity influencers that really are focusing on what
Speaker 1: you need to extend human life, but also to be
Speaker 1: functional and enjoying things, being able to go on airplanes,
Speaker 1: go on cruises, go hiking at the Grand Canyon. These
Speaker 1: are the things that we have to do. Now. What
Speaker 1: I think is what I believe is for us to
Speaker 1: have an improved health span, it needs to start today.
Speaker 1: So if you're listening today and you're thirty years old,
Speaker 1: or you're fifty years old or seventy, we need to
Speaker 1: make these changes now. The first thing is to adopt
Speaker 1: every day healthy behaviors. As we've been talking about earlier.
Speaker 1: We need to exercise regularly, and there were a number
Speaker 1: of studies i'd say within the last couple of years
Speaker 1: that if there's any one thing that is going to
Speaker 1: cut down on dementia, it is daily exercise. So that
Speaker 1: is number one. Umber two eating nutritious food, and it's
Speaker 1: something I have talked about. I learned from my parents
Speaker 1: and my family, and I try to instill in my
Speaker 1: patience eating nutritious foods, meaning not process that plant based
Speaker 1: whole food diet, not eating a steady routine of drive
Speaker 1: through hamburgers, fried chicken, all of this gobbly goop food
Speaker 1: that we're eating good, healthy, nutritious food. Getting good sleep
Speaker 1: is another really really big important of getting these healthy behaviors.
Speaker 1: And I would say we've been blessed at least the
Speaker 1: last ten years the detrimental effects of not getting enough
Speaker 1: sleep or poor quality sleep. And of course, where there
Speaker 1: has been the rise in obesity, we are seeing a
Speaker 1: rise in a constructive sleep apnea. Obstructive sleep apnea leads
Speaker 1: to hypertension, it leads to obesity, it leads to diabetes,
Speaker 1: it leads to an assortment of heart and cardiac and
Speaker 1: arrhythmia problems, which is not good. And the other thing
Speaker 1: is investing in our social bonds, the human being. Let's
Speaker 1: face it, we were meant to communicate, we were meant
Speaker 1: to huddle with each other, either in a family or
Speaker 1: this extended community. It really really is very important for
Speaker 1: us to do this. Now. The researchers are looking at
Speaker 1: a wide range of what I would say manipulative type things.
Speaker 1: They're looking at targeting cellular process. There are some medications
Speaker 1: that are currently available, and one of them is an
Speaker 1: anti rejection medicine that we use for liver transplant and
Speaker 1: most solid organ transfer plants called sirolamis. And the research
Speaker 1: has shown, and it's really, really very fascinating, that small
Speaker 1: doses of sirolamis can reduce the aging and the dying
Speaker 1: out of ourselves. And that is what really aging is.
Speaker 1: It is the sinescence of our cells, be it your brain,
Speaker 1: be it your heart beat, your muscles, blood cells, et cetera.
Speaker 1: So there is a lot of work that is being done.
Speaker 1: But for all of you at the more simple elementary state,
Speaker 1: which I think is the best place to start, you
Speaker 1: have to take stock in yourself and say, wherever you
Speaker 1: are in life, whatever station you're at, you have to say, yes,
Speaker 1: I have aspirations of living a long life. I have
Speaker 1: a lot to do now. Even though people retire, in
Speaker 1: many cases, when people retire, this second win, this second wave,
Speaker 1: there are countless people books are written about them where
Speaker 1: in their retirement they make the greatest contribution to society,
Speaker 1: or the greatest contribution to their community or to their family.
Speaker 1: So do not look at retirement as the final act
Speaker 1: of your life. Okay, it is not the conclusion for
Speaker 1: many people, including myself. I think you have to look
Speaker 1: at it that this is just the beginning. It's an
Speaker 1: opportunity to do something great. But the key thing here.
Speaker 1: You could have the best of ideas, but if you
Speaker 1: were in really crappy shape and it gets you know,
Speaker 1: I just don't know what to say. It gets down
Speaker 1: to the basics. Are you battling a host of chronic
Speaker 1: disease diseases or are you free of chronic disease? Or
Speaker 1: are you putting all of your effort to reversing these
Speaker 1: chronic diseases? And that really is the mentality. There are
Speaker 1: people out there that work on a day to day
Speaker 1: basis ensuring that they remain healthy. Everything they do is
Speaker 1: geared towards is this going to be good for me?
Speaker 1: Is this going to have a neutral effect or is
Speaker 1: this going to have a detrimental effect? And I believe
Speaker 1: that you can do this without driving yourself crazy or
Speaker 1: driving those around you crazy. You just have to have
Speaker 1: in your heart and soul a game plan, a roadmap.
Speaker 1: And if you don't have a roadmap, you know what
Speaker 1: you're lost. And that is where people get into trouble,
Speaker 1: so let us close out for this Sunday evening. It's
Speaker 1: always such a great pleasure to share my time with
Speaker 1: all of you. Hopefully it was worthwhile. And the whole
Speaker 1: key here is we want to make this program actionable,
Speaker 1: that you can hear things and take action. So until
Speaker 1: next Sunday seven pm Central Time, tune into your Health First.
Speaker 1: I will be here and don't forget visit us your
Speaker 1: health first dot com or doctor Joeglotti dot com. Stay tuned,
Speaker 1: be well, and God bless