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Speaker 1: of disease. Now here's your host, doctor Joe Bellotti.
Speaker 2: H Well, a wonderful Sunday evening, everybody dot Joe Galotti.
Speaker 2: Hope you're doing well. Hope you have a great weekend
Speaker 2: and enjoyed some of the hot, humid weather that Houston,
Speaker 2: Texas dishes out this time of the year. And if
Speaker 2: you're in another part of the country, I know the
Speaker 2: Northeast was getting a little bit of a cooler weather
Speaker 2: pattern out there. But we are happier all here this
Speaker 2: Sunday evening. We're here every Sunday evening between seven and
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Speaker 2: unfiltered health and wellness information, strategies to stay healthy, strategies
Speaker 2: to stay out of the hospital, and hopefully, with a
Speaker 2: little bit of luck, have a long, healthy and healthy life.
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Speaker 2: want to pick up a copy of my book Eating
Speaker 2: Yourself Sick, which now more than ever makes sense for
Speaker 2: you to have, it is available on Amazon. And actually
Speaker 2: some good news, I am in the process of writing
Speaker 2: another book, so stay tuned on that in the weeks
Speaker 2: and months to come. All right, So some talk about
Speaker 2: but what I want to really focus on for a
Speaker 2: little while tonight is you the patient, You the family member,
Speaker 2: being an advocate for yourself. And the reason this is
Speaker 2: coming up now. And as I've said many many times,
Speaker 2: the content for this radio program is not something that
Speaker 2: is necessarily handed to me and they say you've got
Speaker 2: to talk about this. It comes from real life experience.
Speaker 2: In our clinical practice, we take care of people with
Speaker 2: liver disease. I'm a hepatologist by the way, Liver Specialists
Speaker 2: of Texas. The website is posted on our doctor Joe
Speaker 2: Glotti website, So we take care of a lot of
Speaker 2: sick patients, and I have always always stressed the need
Speaker 2: for you to be an advocate for yourself. Now, you
Speaker 2: cannot advocate for yourself if you don't understand what the
Speaker 2: issue is. If you are with your family practitioner and
Speaker 2: they say, look, Frank, you now have diabetes and I
Speaker 2: am going to put you on this pill, all right,
Speaker 2: may seem innocent enough. Oh jeeh, I've got diabetes. But
Speaker 2: a well informed consumer, Well, first of all, say why
Speaker 2: am I going on this medicine? Number two, what is
Speaker 2: the implication of me having diabetes? Am I in a
Speaker 2: situation where through lifestyle, diet, weight loss, exercise, I can
Speaker 2: turn this around? Doctor, I know, because you should be
Speaker 2: a good consumer. You know that diabetes can cause damage
Speaker 2: to your kidneys, It can cause damage to your blood vessels,
Speaker 2: It can cause damage to your nerves. I like to
Speaker 2: say that diabetes takes no prisoner. You want to have
Speaker 2: the conversation, say, doctor, what is the state of my kidney?
Speaker 2: Am I spilling protein in my kidney? Am I having
Speaker 2: problems with high blood pressure? What is my cholesterol and triglyceride?
Speaker 2: Am I showing any abnormal EKG findings? Now this would
Speaker 2: be advocating for yourself. Now. It is a sad state
Speaker 2: of affairs where doctors are not providing this information up front. Frank,
Speaker 2: let's sit down and spend ten minutes starting to educate
Speaker 2: you on diabetes. No, this is not happening. Why do
Speaker 2: I know it's not happening. Patients are telling me because
Speaker 2: they're coming uninformed, and so you the informed customer, to
Speaker 2: advocate for yourself. You have to ask all these questions
Speaker 2: because you don't want to strictly go get the prescription
Speaker 2: that Walgreens take your pills as ordered and business as usual.
Speaker 2: You want to have that attitude of Okay, maybe I
Speaker 2: need these medicines for a short while to correct some
Speaker 2: blood sugar issues. But being able to advocate means you
Speaker 2: have to understand you need to be schooled. And if
Speaker 2: your doctor and his or her nurse and the team
Speaker 2: is not going to school you, you have to seek
Speaker 2: out information on your own and advocate for yourself. That
Speaker 2: is what I am talking about, and you can. You
Speaker 2: can substitute a new diagnosis of fatty liver, a new
Speaker 2: diagnosis of high cholesterol, a new diagnosis of migraine, a
Speaker 2: new diagnosis of really anything, and advocate for yourself now
Speaker 2: case and point. I received a call yesterday from a
Speaker 2: patient's wife. This is a gentleman that has multiple medical
Speaker 2: problems related to his liver disease. We have been seeing
Speaker 2: this gentleman for a good number of years and we
Speaker 2: have i'd like to think, educated both him and his
Speaker 2: wife on the rules of the road. If you get
Speaker 2: this problem, call us. If you get this problem, do
Speaker 2: not let anybody do this. They have very good boundaries.
Speaker 2: And so his wife called our office on Saturday morning
Speaker 2: and he had presented with what appears to be a
Speaker 2: gastro intestinal bleed. He had rectal bleeding, a fair amount
Speaker 2: of it, and he is known to have diverticulosis. And
Speaker 2: he went to the hospital and they looked at him
Speaker 2: and they said, you know what, go home. So here's
Speaker 2: a gentleman that is a bit older, he has underlying
Speaker 2: liver disease, and he's bleeding, and the emergency room is
Speaker 2: saying go home. And that is a bad move. This
Speaker 2: is not somebody you want to send home. This is
Speaker 2: a person that is potentially going to rebleed and have
Speaker 2: a catastrophic set of complications which may be life threatening.
Speaker 2: This is critical. So his wife stood up and said,
Speaker 2: you are not sending him home. We are going to stay.
Speaker 2: I want you to call a gastroneurologist that is familiar
Speaker 2: with him, get evaluated. He may need a colonoscopy, he
Speaker 2: may need closer observation. And that is exactly what happened.
Speaker 2: A life saved. And so it is this wife's aggressiveness
Speaker 2: in advocating for her husband. She has done her homework,
Speaker 2: she has listened to me and my team, and I'd
Speaker 2: like to think that they were going to have a
Speaker 2: far better outcome. But I can tell you everybody, many
Speaker 2: times this doesn't happen. Patients will be discharged, things are
Speaker 2: not done, and it's a bad outcome, including the loss
Speaker 2: of life, and that is horrible. And so the bottom
Speaker 2: line here, as we begin to take a break here,
Speaker 2: advocate for yourself. But to advocate, you have to know
Speaker 2: what you're advocating about. And that's why you need to
Speaker 2: be knowledgeable on this whole health and wellness landscape so
Speaker 2: that you can advocate. That is the word of the day, advocate.
Speaker 2: All right, we're going to take a break here. I'm
Speaker 2: doctor Joe Galotti. You are tuned into your health first,
Speaker 2: which when we say your health First, we are saying
Speaker 2: please advocate for yourself. We'll be right back to stay tuned.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody to your health First. It's always a
Speaker 2: great pleasure being here every Sunday evening between seven and
Speaker 2: eight Central Time, broadcasting from our home radio station seven
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Speaker 2: Make sure this summer, as you're traveling around you say, hey,
Speaker 2: it's Sunday night, doctor Galotti. We may be camping in Sedona,
Speaker 2: but you can still get the program seven o'clock Central Time.
Speaker 2: And don't forget doctor Joeglotti dot com is our website.
Speaker 2: Send me a message. I love, love, love to hear
Speaker 2: from everybody, and also all of our social media is there.
Speaker 2: Pick up a copy of my book Eating Yourself Sick
Speaker 2: and Again. In that book, I talked about how to
Speaker 2: be an advocate for yourself. It is really really the
Speaker 2: most important thing we can do, all right, So to
Speaker 2: follow up on this personal advocacy, which really is very key.
Speaker 2: So we talked about this wife yesterday Saturday who called
Speaker 2: us to get really confirmation that she was right that
Speaker 2: her husband needed to stay in the emergency room after
Speaker 2: he came in with a gastro intestinal bleed. Please please,
Speaker 2: please please. If that isn't grounds to admit somebody, an
Speaker 2: older gentleman with multiple organ problems, then I don't know
Speaker 2: what does. So she advocated happy outcome. Second thing is
Speaker 2: we received a rather circuitous set of phone calls text messages.
Speaker 2: It started off with a friend of a patient who
Speaker 2: knows a doctor who knows me, and then we got involved.
Speaker 2: So this was a gentleman with advanced livid disease. And
Speaker 2: when I say advanced livid disease, I am talking about
Speaker 2: life threatening livid disease. This is not ingrown toenail type material.
Speaker 2: We're talking If you are not careful, this person probably
Speaker 2: will not live another thirty to forty five days. There
Speaker 2: is the risk of going into kidney failure, respiratory failure,
Speaker 2: cardiac failure. You're already in liver failure lights out. So
Speaker 2: now this person is in a let's just say a
Speaker 2: secondary hospital in San Antonio. Now San Antonio is simply
Speaker 2: a stone's throw from Houston, Texas, the Texas Medical Center,
Speaker 2: largest complex in the world, and our liver transplant team
Speaker 2: practically number one in the country. So within within site
Speaker 2: is the place that you want your loved one to go.
Speaker 2: And so originally the the the information came through this
Speaker 2: very convoluted set of of of communic case. Get to
Speaker 2: doctor Galotti. This guy will help you out and his
Speaker 2: team of course, and so he you know, the problem
Speaker 2: is trying to get patients from outside facilities into the
Speaker 2: medical center can take several days. It's the nature of
Speaker 2: the beast here. And so my recommendation was there are
Speaker 2: physicians in the San Antonio area that can really take
Speaker 2: care of this issue at a higher level than where
Speaker 2: he was at. We gave names, we gave numbers, we
Speaker 2: gave websites to to make this happen, because literally it's
Speaker 2: easier to try to move latterly in the neighborhood rather
Speaker 2: than pick up and drive across the state. So we
Speaker 2: gave them all this information and they that the team
Speaker 2: at this other program was unwilling or incapable of evaluating
Speaker 2: this patient. And so this patient was stock languishing, dying
Speaker 2: in this other hospital. So the advocating part was this
Speaker 2: gentleman's family was unrelenting. They stayed in touch with us,
Speaker 2: They were giving us updates hour by hour, giving us
Speaker 2: the information we need. We had already tried to get
Speaker 2: the person transferred into Houston Methodist, and again I am
Speaker 2: at the mercy of availability of beds, though we can
Speaker 2: certainly work to make the system be a little bit
Speaker 2: more efficient. But this family was advocating for their family
Speaker 2: member and because of their unrelenting pressure in a very
Speaker 2: very loving way with us, with the doctors at the
Speaker 2: other hospital. Good news. This person arrived last evening to
Speaker 2: the place, the location this person needs to be, and
Speaker 2: I would say there is a much higher probability, much
Speaker 2: higher percentage that this person is going to do well
Speaker 2: and get the care they need. This family advocated for
Speaker 2: their loved one. And so many times we cannot advocate
Speaker 2: for ourselves. You're sick, you're you know, you're out of
Speaker 2: the loop, you're incapable of making all of these high
Speaker 2: level decisions and communications. But here again, and I could
Speaker 2: write a book about this. Patients and family members, loved ones,
Speaker 2: BFFs that have advocated for somebody else, And it is
Speaker 2: so so so important. And when you talk about a
Speaker 2: good outcome, you talk about a lousy outcome. At the
Speaker 2: center of all this, it is people advocating for themselves.
Speaker 2: And not taking no for an answer, but again advocating
Speaker 2: realizing that they understand what livered. You know, end stage
Speaker 2: liver disease means they understand when the kidneys start going bad,
Speaker 2: that that's going to have a bad out come. If
Speaker 2: you are sort of neutral and you say, well, I
Speaker 2: don't know what the hell's going on, and that's like
Speaker 2: why did dad die? Well, I don't know. Nobody told me. No,
Speaker 2: I would say, yes, nobody told you, but you did
Speaker 2: not take the effort to learn and editate yourself.
Speaker 1: So that is it?
Speaker 2: All right? We're going to take a break right now,
Speaker 2: doctor Joe Galotti every Sunday between seven and APM on
Speaker 2: your Health First. Don't forget doctor Joegalotti dot com. Stay tuned,
Speaker 2: we will go it back. Welcome back everybody, doctor Joe Galotti.
Speaker 2: You're tuned into your Health First every Sunday between seven
Speaker 2: and a PM, trying to raise your health IQ, one
Speaker 2: listener at a time. We want to I guess, as
Speaker 2: we've been talking about earlier, raising your advocacy IQ, advocate
Speaker 2: for yourself. Don't just be a cow and take every
Speaker 2: prescription you're given and not saying what the hell is this?
Speaker 2: Why do I need to take it now. I am
Speaker 2: not anti drug. I'm not telling you to drink an
Speaker 2: oxtail soup to cure your diabetes. Okay, But you have
Speaker 2: to be a good consumer. And I've been saying this
Speaker 2: for twenty three years, to make you a better consumer,
Speaker 2: in other words, to advocate for yourself. All right, And look,
Speaker 2: I could get as ridiculous as you want here on
Speaker 2: the radio tonight. Remember the days when we would go
Speaker 2: to a department store or how many out there, remember Sears,
Speaker 2: and you would go and you would say, hey, honey,
Speaker 2: we need a new refrigerator. And you will go and
Speaker 2: you will read the labels. You will go to consumer
Speaker 2: Report and you will talk to the salesperson to say
Speaker 2: ice maker, no ice maker, front load, whatever the feature is. Capacity,
Speaker 2: you're being a good consumer. You don't want to buy
Speaker 2: something and just take it home and have buyers remorse.
Speaker 2: And we spend more time researching out the refrigerator we're
Speaker 2: going to buy than researching out our medical conditions, or
Speaker 2: our medical maladies, or the medicine we are taking. People
Speaker 2: come in with zip lock bags full of pills and
Speaker 2: they don't know what the hell they are. All they
Speaker 2: know is that this is a blue one, this is
Speaker 2: a pink capsule, this is a small white tablet. What
Speaker 2: is it for? They don't know. And many times they
Speaker 2: go to multiple doctors, they go to different specialists, and
Speaker 2: they're get any prescriptions from everybody, and they may go
Speaker 2: to different pharmacies. Now the pharmacy regulation is far better
Speaker 2: today where there is cross talking. But if you go
Speaker 2: to a Sam's Club to get a prescription and then
Speaker 2: you go to Costco and they may not talk to
Speaker 2: each other. But many drugs are generic or brand name,
Speaker 2: and they're taking two of the same medicines. One is
Speaker 2: generic and one is brand name, and all they know
Speaker 2: is that I take one of these at eight o'clock
Speaker 2: and I take this at eight o'clock or in the
Speaker 2: morning as well. It is the same damn drug. And
Speaker 2: you wonder why people don't feel good. So again, advocating
Speaker 2: for yourself, do your research now and do if you
Speaker 2: get doctor Joeglotti dot com is our website. So last
Speaker 2: thing I'll talk about, and this is not so much
Speaker 2: a rant. I get very passionate about this, and don't
Speaker 2: take my passionate tone here, as you know, being angry.
Speaker 2: I'm not an angry guy. I love what I do.
Speaker 2: I love to take care of patients. I love to
Speaker 2: see that they do well. I love to see when
Speaker 2: patients come and their families come and they are really
Speaker 2: informed and they're advocating for themselves. So here's another one.
Speaker 2: So lady comes mid forties. I would say with her husband,
Speaker 2: she is a professional. Her husband is a professional, well educated,
Speaker 2: But that really doesn't that's not the whole story here.
Speaker 2: And I would say that they or she has a
Speaker 2: rather serious, potentially life threatening problem with her liver. Okay,
Speaker 2: And so because of that problem, she self advocated for herself.
Speaker 2: She saw local experts where she lives. She came to
Speaker 2: Euston to seek out other expert opinion, but really was
Speaker 2: not getting the detailed answers that she and her husband
Speaker 2: were looking for. The care was not bad, it was
Speaker 2: not malpractice, but it it was that sort of deeply
Speaker 2: understood description that they were not getting. It was sort
Speaker 2: of superficial, Yes you have this and you have to
Speaker 2: do that well at forty three years old. That doesn't
Speaker 2: usually settle well with people. They want to know what
Speaker 2: are the next steps, what can happen? Really, they're advocating
Speaker 2: for themselves, and so what they do is they pick
Speaker 2: up and head to the male clinic in Rochester, Minnesota,
Speaker 2: which is not a bad idea. The male clinic for
Speaker 2: this particular liver disease, they are I would say, world renowned.
Speaker 2: So they go there and they sort of get a direction,
Speaker 2: but they still are not quite settled, and so they
Speaker 2: let their fingers do the walking. They get on the
Speaker 2: internet and my name pops up and they come and
Speaker 2: see me earlier last week, and we go through our
Speaker 2: head to toe evaluation. We look at about I think
Speaker 2: it was three hundred and eighty pages worth of medical records.
Speaker 2: Myself and my nurse practitioner. We looked through every single page.
Speaker 2: We got her into a gown, we examined her, tried
Speaker 2: to see what extent her liver disease was, and we
Speaker 2: went from there. And then we sat down, the two
Speaker 2: of us, and really the first thing I said is, look,
Speaker 2: you've been to several different centers, you've been to a
Speaker 2: world famous center at the Mail Clinic. You've come and
Speaker 2: seen me now. And the question I had for her
Speaker 2: is how how does she feel about the conversation we're
Speaker 2: having so far? And is anything that I am saying
Speaker 2: or doing or thinking different than what has already taken
Speaker 2: place over the past four years. This has been a
Speaker 2: four year journey for this lady. And you know what
Speaker 2: she said, She said, in all these years, all the specialists,
Speaker 2: all the expert locations, you are the first person that
Speaker 2: got me into a gown and examined me. All I
Speaker 2: did was a physical examination, an old fashioned physical examination.
Speaker 2: And I said, now, wait, wait, you're telling me this
Speaker 2: team that you saw did not examine you. No, they
Speaker 2: did not. Okay, you went to the male clinic, the
Speaker 2: world famous male clinic. They never got you into a
Speaker 2: gown to even feel your abdomen and your liver and
Speaker 2: your spleen which are enlarged. No, didn't listen to your
Speaker 2: heart or lungs. No. And she said, and the husband said,
Speaker 2: for this reason, we are staying with you now here Again,
Speaker 2: I'm not here to give accolades to myself. That is
Speaker 2: not the point here. I have been doing this with
Speaker 2: or without accolades for thirty five years. It was just
Speaker 2: the way I was trained, and it was partially the
Speaker 2: way I was brought up, that we really really take
Speaker 2: care of patients. But this lady advocated for herself and
Speaker 2: her husband. They were trapesing all over the place to
Speaker 2: get answers, and they were right, there was something that
Speaker 2: was not right with this case. And many others just
Speaker 2: basically said, this is your diagnosis, this is the therapy,
Speaker 2: don't smoke, don't drink, and that was it. And so
Speaker 2: for tonight, three illustrative cases of people advocating for themselves.
Speaker 2: And all I would say is that it is so
Speaker 2: sad when we see cases that get to us late
Speaker 2: and there are bad outcomes, and families will sit there
Speaker 2: and say, if we had only known, if I had
Speaker 2: only done this sooner, if I had only sought out
Speaker 2: a second opinion sooner, we would not be sitting here,
Speaker 2: really in a pre morbid situation where literally nothing can
Speaker 2: be done. So advocate for yourselves, advocate for each other.
Speaker 2: If you know, maybe you're not the patient, but you
Speaker 2: have a relative, a friend, a coworker, somebody within your
Speaker 2: circle of influence, and you know that they are struggling,
Speaker 2: and look everybody, at least everybody. A lot of people
Speaker 2: I talk to, they talk about their medical conditions. That's
Speaker 2: sort of the water cooler discussion. Ugh went to a
Speaker 2: gynecologist and I got fibroids, or I have a murmur
Speaker 2: in my heart, or I have some COPD from smoking
Speaker 2: for thirty five years. Whatever it is. People like to
Speaker 2: talk about that medical problems. And if you pick up
Speaker 2: and hear that something ain't right, that they're struggling being
Speaker 2: that bff, you should guide them to advocate for themselves.
Speaker 2: That is the message. All right, Final segment for this
Speaker 2: week's Your Health First. I have some miscellaneous items in
Speaker 2: the news we're going to chat about, and don't forget
Speaker 2: Eating Yourself Sick. Amazon bestseller available on our website, Doctor
Speaker 2: Joegalotti dot com. New book coming out sometime later this year.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the title will be, but it's
Speaker 2: going to be a smash. Stay tuned, we'll brite down. Okay.
Speaker 2: Final segment for this week's Your Health First. Every Sunday
Speaker 2: we're here between seven and eight. Tell your friends and
Speaker 2: relatives about us, and of course, go to our website
Speaker 2: doctor Joeglotti dot com center for a newsletter. All of
Speaker 2: our social media is there. Pick up a copy of
Speaker 2: my book, Eating Yourself Sick. It is a guideline. We've
Speaker 2: been talking about advocacy for yourself. The book really does
Speaker 2: that very well, giving you the tools to understand you
Speaker 2: have to understand what the heck is going on. We
Speaker 2: don't have an owner's manual for the human body.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 2: My sense is that eating yourself sick is the groundwork
Speaker 2: that you need to understand how the body works and
Speaker 2: what you need to know. Again, it goes along with
Speaker 2: raising your health at Q, making you better consumers. That's
Speaker 2: what it is all about. But go to doctor Joglotti
Speaker 2: dot com. Uh and of course if you have any
Speaker 2: liver or digestive issues, our practice Specialists of Texas is available.
Speaker 2: We see patients coast to coast. Now, in the world
Speaker 2: of telemedicine, we are able to see anybody from anywhere.
Speaker 2: But certainly reach out to us and one of our
Speaker 2: team members will get back with you that I promise.
Speaker 2: All right. So in the news, how how can we
Speaker 2: have a program without talking about obesity? So this week
Speaker 2: the American Diabetes Association Heather Annual meeting, and as you
Speaker 2: can expect, the buzz about weight loss and the ozepics
Speaker 2: and the w Goovis of the world were there. But
Speaker 2: drum roll, there is now a pill. Isn't that what
Speaker 2: we have always shot for? A pill? Part of the
Speaker 2: pill mentality that I talked about in Eating Yourself Sick.
Speaker 2: But anyway, there is a new drug called Ready for this.
Speaker 2: It's a tongue twister or fog leapron or fog lepron.
Speaker 2: Even my New York accent sort of stumbles over it.
Speaker 2: But anyway, it's an oral medicine that works similar to ozempic,
Speaker 2: the GLP one agonist type drug, and the amount of
Speaker 2: weight loss is very similar to ozempic over a nine
Speaker 2: month period based on the preliminary research, and they are
Speaker 2: thinking that sometime later this year it may be FDA approved. Now,
Speaker 2: at one end, you could say, hey, it's good because
Speaker 2: we could ditch ditch the shot, right, nobody likes taking injections,
Speaker 2: and because it is a pill, it is much easier
Speaker 2: and much cheaper, less expensive to make pills rather than
Speaker 2: syringes and that whole delivery system just it takes more time,
Speaker 2: a little more specialized, more labor, and it's more expensive
Speaker 2: rather than a pill that they could just run off
Speaker 2: the assembly line. And I would say, look, that is
Speaker 2: good considering the millions upon millions of Americans and people
Speaker 2: around the world that are obese and having trouble with
Speaker 2: metabolic syndrome, which is the killer. Eighty five percent of
Speaker 2: chronic disease is related to lifestyle changes or lifestyle choices.
Speaker 2: This sounds like it's a good idea, but I will
Speaker 2: still bring up my pet peeve. With all this, we
Speaker 2: are not teaching people or I should look. Look, I
Speaker 2: could stand here with a megaphone as big as man
Speaker 2: could make. People won't listen. You are going to have
Speaker 2: to make the decision to advocate for yourself. Advocating for
Speaker 2: yourself is not necessarily taking a pill. It is taking
Speaker 2: a pill learning how to eat better. That is, we
Speaker 2: got here by eating ourselves into a corner, eating ourselves sick.
Speaker 2: It's a good book. We have to get ourselves out
Speaker 2: by not eating ourselves sick, by learning how to look
Speaker 2: at food and realize what is nutritious, being able to
Speaker 2: look at a a processed food product and say, you
Speaker 2: know what. First of all, the ad is a bit
Speaker 2: of a come on. I don't really care that it
Speaker 2: has more protein than an egg. I really don't care
Speaker 2: that it is low fat because they probably added sugar
Speaker 2: and salt to it to make it taste better. And
Speaker 2: so that is the first level understanding the consumerism, Understanding
Speaker 2: different foods and their nutritional content, Understanding the role of
Speaker 2: dietary fiber. Where do you get fiber from. It's not
Speaker 2: from just taking a cup of metamucil, It's from getting
Speaker 2: beans and nuts and fruits and vegetables. Understanding portion control,
Speaker 2: Understanding how to prepare food. That is what is going
Speaker 2: to change the needle. And instead of a country addicted
Speaker 2: to their pills, we get people addicted to the foods
Speaker 2: they eat and create a certain ground swell of enthusiasm.
Speaker 2: So there is a lot of new data, a lot
Speaker 2: of new technology on the rise. But at the end
Speaker 2: of the day, doctor Galotti, here my voice, we have
Speaker 2: to change behavior and become better consumers and understand food
Speaker 2: got us into the problem. Food can get us out
Speaker 2: of this big hole.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Another sort of final thought here, it's summertime, it's travel time.
Speaker 2: And there were a couple of articles that I came
Speaker 2: across over the last couple of weeks about when you're traveling,
Speaker 2: traveling yourself, traveling with your significant other, traveling with your kids,
Speaker 2: the whole idea of what to bring in a little
Speaker 2: mini first aid kit. And I really should get my wife,
Speaker 2: Geraldine on here because she is really the planner for
Speaker 2: the first aid stuff that we take. She happens to
Speaker 2: be a nurse, but I think she would have done
Speaker 2: this anyway. So the main thing if you're traveling, if
Speaker 2: you're traveling for a long weekend, or you're traveling on
Speaker 2: a two week trip, even if you go into Disneyland,
Speaker 2: or if you're going overseas somewhere or somewhere more exotic.
Speaker 2: First of all, make sure you have enough medicine, your
Speaker 2: own prescription medicine. Plan on flights being delayed, getting detoured,
Speaker 2: and so don't say, look, we're going to be gone
Speaker 2: fourteen days. I'm going to take fourteen days of medicine
Speaker 2: and then I run out. You probably need at least
Speaker 2: another week or ten days of backup medicine. Number two,
Speaker 2: here is a chance to make sure you understand all
Speaker 2: of the medicines you're taking. What are they? Number three,
Speaker 2: bring a print out of all of your medications, the name,
Speaker 2: the dose, and the frequency. You should be able to
Speaker 2: do this. Pharmacies will do this for you. Make sure
Speaker 2: you carry some over the counter medicine, so a little
Speaker 2: bit of a pseudo metafine, some ibuprofen in case you
Speaker 2: get a sprain or a headache or something hurts, bring
Speaker 2: some allergy medicine in case you have some sort of reaction.
Speaker 2: Make sure you bring some GI products, be it something
Speaker 2: as simple as toms may milanta, things like that. Maybe
Speaker 2: a little bit of zantac pepsid over the counter if
Speaker 2: you get some GI distress, and a little bit of
Speaker 2: amodium in case you get some traveler's diarrhea. Talk with
Speaker 2: your doctors about taking any antibiotics with you in case
Speaker 2: you get hit with some traveler's diarrhea. Also, make sure
Speaker 2: you take a thermometer. I cannot tell you how many
Speaker 2: people travel without a thermometer. That is really important. If
Speaker 2: you have trouble with high blood pressure or cardiac issues,
Speaker 2: take your blood pressure cuff with you. That would be important.
Speaker 2: The other is the usual band aids, bandages, gauze pads,
Speaker 2: some antibiotic ointment, things like that in case you get sprains, cuts,
Speaker 2: at least something to tide you over until you could
Speaker 2: get to a hospital, urgent care center, or see a
Speaker 2: doctor in town with out of doubt. If you're traveling
Speaker 2: into more exotic places, you want to make sure you
Speaker 2: have appropriate repellent against mosquitoes. And other little things that
Speaker 2: you may run into the wild. Here again, I would say,
Speaker 2: make sure you check in with a travel medicine physician.
Speaker 2: We did it when we went to Africa last year.
Speaker 2: It was amazing. They have maps of the world different diseases,
Speaker 2: be it anything from hepatitis A to various water born problems, ticks, fleas, bugs,
Speaker 2: all kinds of things. So travel medicine is a good idea,
Speaker 2: So stay up to date on that. You want to
Speaker 2: be able to go on vacation and have it stress
Speaker 2: free and not worry about somebody getting sick. All right,
Speaker 2: That is it for this Sunday evening. I hope you
Speaker 2: have a great rest of the evening, a powerful week.
Speaker 2: Take a look what you're eating, Take a look at
Speaker 2: how much you're sleeping. Take a look at the food
Speaker 2: you're eating. Stay away from junk food and to drive throughs.
Speaker 2: It's better if you could cook it at home. Put
Speaker 2: your health first. That's what we're all about.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 2: Until next Sunday evening, I'm doctor Joe Galotti. God bless everybody.
Speaker 2: Stay well, be an advocate for yourself. That's all I'll say.
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