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Speaker 2: which eighty to eighty five percent could have been either
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Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody. Thanks for tuning in. I'm doctor Joe Galotti.
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Speaker 2: dot com. Are right, So in the news, I like
Speaker 2: to scour the news and sort of fill you in
Speaker 2: on some of the things that are going on. Articles
Speaker 2: that you may have seen, things that you may say, gee,
Speaker 2: it's interesting, but this really doesn't really apply to me,
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Speaker 2: to go through things and fill in some of the
Speaker 2: blanks for you. All Right, The first article was published
Speaker 2: in I think it was the Washington Post, but I'm
Speaker 2: going to post these on the Facebook page. All right,
Speaker 2: So go to the doctor Joeglotti dot com and the
Speaker 2: Facebook page. The first one, the title is the gender
Speaker 2: gap and heart Disease Research treatment leaves Women behind. And
Speaker 2: we've talked about this a lot over the years, how
Speaker 2: several things. Heart disease in men is very different than
Speaker 2: heart disease in women. A little fun fact, women are
Speaker 2: more likely to die after a first heart attack or
Speaker 2: stroke than men. The other thing that we always want
Speaker 2: to talk about and sort of ring home to everybody,
Speaker 2: is that women are also more likely to have additional
Speaker 2: or different heart attack symptoms. Instead of the crushing chest
Speaker 2: pain that radiates up to your neck and goes down
Speaker 2: your left arm, which we've all been taught that this
Speaker 2: is a sign of a heart attack, women have much
Speaker 2: more nausea, dizziness, fatigue, just as general abdominal discomfort, which
Speaker 2: could be blown off as indigestion, you ate too many
Speaker 2: Tamali's last night, you're constipated, you've got gas, you've got
Speaker 2: acid ref and all of that delays getting people, the
Speaker 2: women into the healthcare system calling nine eleven, nine to
Speaker 2: one one. Uh. So you have to keep aware of that.
Speaker 2: The other thing is, if a woman has type two diabetes,
Speaker 2: her risk of heart attack accelerates to be equivalent to
Speaker 2: that of men, even if the woman with diabetes has
Speaker 2: not yet gone through menopause. Okay, keep in mind, heart attack, stroke,
Speaker 2: and other forms of cardio cardiovascular disease are still the
Speaker 2: leading cause of death for all people, both men and women.
Speaker 2: And so I think what you have to do is
Speaker 2: again being a good consumer, realizing that if you are
Speaker 2: a woman, or you're taking care of your mom or
Speaker 2: your sister and they start having some of these unusual
Speaker 2: pains and you're like, gee, could be heart attack. It
Speaker 2: sounds more like acid reflox. You should take you know,
Speaker 2: a Tom's or a may Lox or a zantac. It
Speaker 2: could be the heart. So that is the message. Women
Speaker 2: and heart disease are different, yet the risk of something
Speaker 2: bad happening remains quite real. Now. The other next article
Speaker 2: This comes from Yahoo. Five fruit myths. Now what kind
Speaker 2: of myths can be surrounding the poor fruits? Okay, five
Speaker 2: fruit myths. Dietitians want you to stop believing, including that
Speaker 2: it's bad for you because it contains sugar. So again
Speaker 2: this article I'm going to post on the Facebook page.
Speaker 2: But the first myth number one, fruit isn't healthy because
Speaker 2: it contains sugar. Well, that is a lot of boloney. Yes,
Speaker 2: it has sugar, but you're eating the fruit with fiber,
Speaker 2: you're getting other phytronutrients. The fiber in the fruit is
Speaker 2: not going to be absorbed as quickly as a processed
Speaker 2: food such as a cake or a donut. And we
Speaker 2: also know that the fiber in the fruit, So don't
Speaker 2: let the sugar thing get in the way. You're eating
Speaker 2: the fruit because it has all of these added fhitro nutrients,
Speaker 2: So do not get too hung up on the sugar
Speaker 2: part of it. You do need sugar for energy and metabolism,
Speaker 2: but there's so much more besides sugar that shouldn't get
Speaker 2: in the way. The other thing is that berries are
Speaker 2: healthier than other fruit. Now, while berries, you know, they
Speaker 2: really do steal the spotlight for their sort of low sugar,
Speaker 2: high fiber, and anti oxigen contact. That doesn't mean that
Speaker 2: they're the only fruit. For fruits that really are worth your
Speaker 2: love and attention. They quote here that saying just eating
Speaker 2: two gold kiwi fruit a day has been shown to
Speaker 2: help relieve constipation, while mangos provide copper and foliate. So again,
Speaker 2: you want this whole sort of rainbow of fruit that
Speaker 2: you're going to eat. Number three, canned fruit is less
Speaker 2: nutritious than fresh or frozen. Totally debunked. These are equally nutritious,
Speaker 2: So don't be afraid to eat canned fruit. Now you
Speaker 2: have to be careful how they are packed. Are they
Speaker 2: packed with a lot of sugar? You may want to
Speaker 2: get the ones that are just packed in water mith
Speaker 2: Number four, fruit should not be eaten on an empty stomach. Again,
Speaker 2: I never heard where that came from, but there is
Speaker 2: nothing wrong with eating fruit on an empty stomach. The body.
Speaker 2: The body is designed to digest and absorb the nutrients
Speaker 2: regarding what you eat it with, so don't worry about that.
Speaker 2: And then the last one, number five, which is probably
Speaker 2: the most the most readily discussed and is a myth.
Speaker 2: Avoid fruit if you have diabetes so experts will certainly
Speaker 2: say people with diabetes can enjoy fruit just like everybody else.
Speaker 2: The natural sugar in the fruit doesn't mean it will
Speaker 2: cause a rapid rise in blood sugar. Fruit provides a
Speaker 2: natural sweet treat for those with diabetes and should be
Speaker 2: enjoyed daily. In fact, a recent meta analysis, which is
Speaker 2: basically a large number of research studies that are all
Speaker 2: sort of analyzed together, found that higher fruit intake was
Speaker 2: linked to lower fasting blood sugar levels in those with diabetes.
Speaker 2: So again, all these somewhat crazy ideas, you need to
Speaker 2: get to the source, become a good student, become a
Speaker 2: good consumer, and realize that having fruit in your diet
Speaker 2: is a key part of wellness. All right, we're going
Speaker 2: to take a break. News, weather, and traffic are coming up. Now,
Speaker 2: stay tuned. I'm doctor Joe Glotti. We'll bright back. Welcome back, everybody,
Speaker 2: Doctor Joe Glotti. Thanks for spending a little bit of
Speaker 2: your weekend with us. We're here every Sunday between seven
Speaker 2: and eight pm bringing you the best in health and wellness.
Speaker 2: We try to filter it. We have a team of
Speaker 2: people that review articles, send information to me, and we
Speaker 2: try to give you the information that is really very
Speaker 2: relevant to all of you. We don't try to get
Speaker 2: too esoteric and off the grid on things that you
Speaker 2: may never hear of or things that are so ridiculous,
Speaker 2: but it really is things that we could use immediately.
Speaker 2: And I like to say that listening to this program
Speaker 2: is going to give you actionable information that you could
Speaker 2: hear it right now and make a decision, make an intervention,
Speaker 2: and do something positive for yourself. Now. The you know,
Speaker 2: the last article we were talking about with regard to
Speaker 2: fruit and these various myths that were associated with it,
Speaker 2: there is a sense that we are criminalizing certain foods
Speaker 2: that we eat, especially fruit, and people worry about I'm
Speaker 2: going to get overweight and I'm going to get fat.
Speaker 2: Don't eat fruit. I have diabetes, don't eat fruit. Well,
Speaker 2: what is the alternative? Many of you, in maybe fear
Speaker 2: or out of not knowing, or just out of really
Speaker 2: sheer ignorance not knowing, you're eating some other sugar free,
Speaker 2: diabetic controlled food, which is number one, stripped of fiber,
Speaker 2: stripped of real God given nutrients, all kinds of artificial
Speaker 2: stuff in it that our body was not meant to
Speaker 2: handle or process. All right, So think about it. On
Speaker 2: one end, you say no, no, no, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to eat those berries because I have diabetes, I'm overweight,
Speaker 2: my bleecher is going to go crazy. But at the
Speaker 2: same time, you have absolutely no qualms buying into this
Speaker 2: consumerism of buying processed, man made food. I call it
Speaker 2: Frankenstein food. This is stuff that's made in a laboratory.
Speaker 2: It's made in a laboratory. It there's nothing natural about this.
Speaker 2: So just really do try to keep all of this
Speaker 2: in context and look at your habits. And it's okay
Speaker 2: to say to yourself, you know what, I got this
Speaker 2: one wrong. I should increase the amount of fruit that
Speaker 2: I need. All Right, more articles to talk about, and
Speaker 2: as had mentioned before, we're going to post these on
Speaker 2: the Facebook page again website doctor Joeglotti dot com. All right,
Speaker 2: so this one has to do with standing and a
Speaker 2: lot of effort really has been placed on these standing desks. Okay,
Speaker 2: some people in my own office have a standing workstation,
Speaker 2: and there is this general concept that man standing is
Speaker 2: fantastic for my health, and so I need to get
Speaker 2: on that standing bandwagon. All right. So this is a
Speaker 2: an article that was just published the International Journal of epidemiology,
Speaker 2: And the bottom line is they suggest that prolonged standing
Speaker 2: may not offer as much in the way of health
Speaker 2: benefits and raise the risk of what they call orthostatic
Speaker 2: circulatory disease. And so here once again we have to
Speaker 2: proceed with some caution and understanding what the benefit is
Speaker 2: and what the downfall is. So standing, although it is
Speaker 2: not associated with a higher risk of having heart disease
Speaker 2: or heart attack, it was not associated with lowering the risk, okay.
Speaker 2: And so what they say in the article is that
Speaker 2: more time spent standing, and I'll say standing still was
Speaker 2: associated with a higher risk of circulatory conditions, okay. And
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what they are in a second. So
Speaker 2: orthostatic circulatory disease. You may not have heard this. It's
Speaker 2: really not the most common thing you'll talk about. It
Speaker 2: includes orthostatic hypotension where when people stand up, their blood
Speaker 2: pressure drops and they get a little light headed and
Speaker 2: they just don't feel that well, as well as Verico's veins. Now,
Speaker 2: Verico's veins over time can be quite problematic for people. Now,
Speaker 2: what they found with regard to the risk of sitting, okay,
Speaker 2: sitting for more than ten hours per day increase both
Speaker 2: cardiovascular and orthostatic risk. For every hour of sitting above
Speaker 2: ten hours, cardiovascular disease risk increased by fifteen percent and
Speaker 2: orthostatic disease risk increased by twenty six percent. So really
Speaker 2: what they're getting at is this sedentary behavior, which includes
Speaker 2: both standing and sitting without movement. That is the key.
Speaker 2: If you're just standing still and not moving, you're not
Speaker 2: really doing much for yourself, and so that is the key.
Speaker 2: So after two hours of standing every day, after two
Speaker 2: hours of standing every day, every addition thirty minutes was
Speaker 2: associated with an eleven percent increased risk of orthostatic disease.
Speaker 2: So it's not sitting or standing, it is the lack
Speaker 2: of movement or continuous, uninterrupted sedentary behavior. So standing certainly
Speaker 2: is better than sitting down. But I and I would
Speaker 2: say most would agree that there's an increased risk of
Speaker 2: cardiovascular disease risk if you're just sitting versus standing. But
Speaker 2: it is the movement that is the key thing. So
Speaker 2: I would say standing is better than sitting. But now,
Speaker 2: how do you offset this sedentary behavior? This is this
Speaker 2: is the root of so much evil that we see
Speaker 2: from a healthcare standpoint. Now, keep in mind some statistics here.
Speaker 2: According to the CDC, about one in four American city
Speaker 2: for more than eight hours a day, and the average
Speaker 2: US citizen sits between six point five to eight hours
Speaker 2: a day. That is a hell of a lot of
Speaker 2: time on your butt and it's not good. So ways
Speaker 2: to get around this sedentary behavior while working? Okay? Number one,
Speaker 2: use a treadmill desk desk, So a treadmill desk, you're standing,
Speaker 2: but you're also moving. Number two, change your position at
Speaker 2: regular intervals using a convertible sit to stand desk. Okay.
Speaker 2: Number three, set an alarm reminding you to get up
Speaker 2: and move around every hour. Be active at work i e.
Speaker 2: Getting phone calls while walking or walking around to meetings. Okay,
Speaker 2: other things getting up and walking for coffee, walking for lunch,
Speaker 2: or incorporate chores like laundry or things outside through the
Speaker 2: day to prevent you from being sedentary. So I think
Speaker 2: the bottom line here is, do not think you have
Speaker 2: a stand up desk that it is some panacea for
Speaker 2: taking good care of yourself. Yes, it is better than sitting,
Speaker 2: but you're not really getting that big bang for your
Speaker 2: buck by just standing at your desk. You have to
Speaker 2: move period. End of story. All right. The next study
Speaker 2: has to do with our friend ozempic and the GLP
Speaker 2: one drugs that are out there. You know that they're
Speaker 2: all being used for weight loss, they are for diabetes
Speaker 2: and blood sugar control. Well, this is a very very
Speaker 2: fascinating story, and I think it is really worth all
Speaker 2: of you knowing about this because I would think in
Speaker 2: the months and years to come, you're going to hear
Speaker 2: a lot more about this. And so when you look
Speaker 2: at these drugs, these GLP one agonist drugs, yes, they
Speaker 2: were originally marketed for diabetes control, and now with the
Speaker 2: weight loss benefit that you're all so familiar with, they
Speaker 2: are finding that it cuts down on the risk of
Speaker 2: heart disease and heart failure that these you know, it
Speaker 2: really is pretty amazing and you almost have to wonder
Speaker 2: where is the health benefit of these drugs going to end.
Speaker 2: It seems like it's helping so much. So. Now, this
Speaker 2: is a new article that was published this past week
Speaker 2: in the journal Addiction, and what they did was they
Speaker 2: analyzed five hundred thousand people with a history of opioid
Speaker 2: use disorder, of which about eight thousand of these people
Speaker 2: were taking a weight loss drug such as ozepic or
Speaker 2: one of the ozempic lookalike drugs, And what they found
Speaker 2: is that when you're taking ozempic, it can cut drug
Speaker 2: and alcohol abuse by up to fifty percent, which which
Speaker 2: just further is mind blowing, adding to the mounting evidence
Speaker 2: that this drugs yield health benefits way before, way beyond
Speaker 2: diabetes and weight loss. And so in the study of
Speaker 2: these half a million people, five hundred thousand people, eight
Speaker 2: thousand of the opioid users, okay, we're taking one of
Speaker 2: the GLP one drugs such as Manjaro or ozempic, and
Speaker 2: the study found that when they were on this drug,
Speaker 2: they had a forty percent lower rate of epoid overdose
Speaker 2: compared to those that did not take it. Okay, pretty
Speaker 2: pretty amazing. In a similar analysis of fifty six hundred
Speaker 2: people out of the half a million with a history
Speaker 2: of alcohol use disorder and who took the drug right,
Speaker 2: they had a fifty percent lower rate of intoxication compared
Speaker 2: to those that did not take it. So now we're
Speaker 2: opening up a whole new chapter in the use of
Speaker 2: these GLP one drugs to say, if you have alcohol
Speaker 2: use disorder, should you be on a GOLP one agonist.
Speaker 2: Will this reduce your risk of intoxication? And how it
Speaker 2: works with your brain and the addiction center in your
Speaker 2: body is probably not fully ironed out. Same thing for
Speaker 2: those with opioid dependent and type problems. They're also looking
Speaker 2: at the use of semiglutide for the treatment of Alzheimer's. Again,
Speaker 2: how does this all neurologically work in your brain? I
Speaker 2: think there is a lot more to look at, and
Speaker 2: for all of you as consumers, it's something that you
Speaker 2: probably should be aware of. All right, final segment coming
Speaker 2: up Doctor Joe Galotti and our website is doctor Joglotti
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Speaker 2: or seven minutes tonight, and again, as we're sitting here
Speaker 2: Sunday evening and it's almost eight o'clock Central time, winding down,
Speaker 2: maybe you're watching a little baseball tonight, do think what
Speaker 2: am I going to do this week for myself? Do
Speaker 2: I have an exercise schedule? Am I going to walk
Speaker 2: for an hour Monday after work? Or is Monday the
Speaker 2: day I go to the gym and do a little
Speaker 2: strength training? Am I going to ride my bike? Am
Speaker 2: I going to go on the treadmill? What about the
Speaker 2: food you're going to eat? Do you need to sit
Speaker 2: now and make a little bit of a shopping list
Speaker 2: for yourself to make sure that you have the fresh
Speaker 2: fish that you need, a few different vegetables, the condiments,
Speaker 2: the fruits and vegetables, like we talked about early in
Speaker 2: the program. So do make it a conscious effort to
Speaker 2: think about that. So in the final segment here, you
Speaker 2: know a lot of people that I see, especially my patients,
Speaker 2: they want to try and work out, They try to exercise.
Speaker 2: But I would say that after a certain point in
Speaker 2: your life, it is going to be far more efficient
Speaker 2: and far more helpful if you get connected with a
Speaker 2: personal trainer to help you in that training process. Now,
Speaker 2: unless you are an absolute student of physiology of the
Speaker 2: human body, how the joints and the muscles and the
Speaker 2: tendons all work together, it's going to be a bit
Speaker 2: more difficult for you. And so I would think that
Speaker 2: while it may be a little bit of an investment
Speaker 2: to pay for a personal trainer, many times, and I
Speaker 2: know from personal experience, you can get a personal trainer
Speaker 2: and get a bit of a discount. When you go
Speaker 2: with one or two other people and you have a
Speaker 2: one hour session that is divided up by three people,
Speaker 2: you'll get a little bit of attention. They'll tell you
Speaker 2: to do an exercise, then they'll work with somebody else,
Speaker 2: and then they'll come back to you. Because the main
Speaker 2: thing as we all get older, it is we are
Speaker 2: losing muscle, we are losing strength, we are losing flexibility,
Speaker 2: and we are losing balance. And I think when you
Speaker 2: add all of those things up, if you are not
Speaker 2: paying attention to the muscle mass that you may be
Speaker 2: losing and the strength that you're losing which will result
Speaker 2: in you know, lower bone density, and if you do fall,
Speaker 2: god forbid, you're going to break your hip or your shoulder,
Speaker 2: your arm, or your wrist. And the improved stability and balance, Okay,
Speaker 2: you need that joint mobility and strength, and so it
Speaker 2: is important to think about, you know, getting connected with
Speaker 2: a personal trainer. Now, a lot of the commercial gems
Speaker 2: that we all go to, we're talking about YMCA, Lifetime Fitness,
Speaker 2: Crunch Planet Fitness, Okay, amongst many others, they have opportunities
Speaker 2: for a personal trainer, or in many cases you could
Speaker 2: maybe get into a group training class that we'll talk
Speaker 2: about flexibility and strength and maybe they'll focus on your
Speaker 2: back muscles, your legs, your thighs, your arms, your chest.
Speaker 2: So it's really really very important and you know, really
Speaker 2: I look at it from a scientific standpoint when you
Speaker 2: look at overall survival, there is no doubt that when
Speaker 2: you have maintained strength, flexibility and balance, your life expectancy
Speaker 2: is better. But also something that we talked about, and
Speaker 2: we've talked about this before, life span. So that you
Speaker 2: may be living to sixty five, seventy five, eighty five,
Speaker 2: ninety five, but the life span is the quality of
Speaker 2: life that you are up and around, You are taking
Speaker 2: care of yourself, You are able to drive around, you
Speaker 2: go shopping for yourself, you go on vacation without much assistance.
Speaker 2: So we're looking not only for life expectancy, we're looking
Speaker 2: for life span and that's going to come with having
Speaker 2: that strength and flexibility and balance. So it is important.
Speaker 2: But I would say getting a trainer for at least
Speaker 2: twice a week is something that you probably need to
Speaker 2: invest in, and I would highly highly recommend it. And
Speaker 2: wherever you go, work out, find out and ask and say, Look,
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter if you're seventy years old, you have
Speaker 2: every right in the world, if not more, to get
Speaker 2: a personal trainer. All right. That is going to wrap
Speaker 2: it up for me and all of you and our
Speaker 2: your health first team here this evening. Don't forget doctor
Speaker 2: Joeglotti dot com is our website. We do want to
Speaker 2: hear from you. Send me an email. Anything that's on
Speaker 2: your mind is of value to me and we try
Speaker 2: to share it back with all of you. So until
Speaker 2: next Sunday evening, have a great rest of the rest
Speaker 2: of the night, and have a really, really helpful and
Speaker 2: happy week. Ahead,