WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.679 --> 00:00:03.319 Initialize sequence. 2 00:00:04.400 --> 00:00:07.000 Coming to you live from Houston, Texas, home to the 3 00:00:07.000 --> 00:00:08.480 world's largest medical center. 4 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:16.440 In the bunch of days. On the day we're leave Dremont. 5 00:00:13.519 --> 00:00:18.839 Island, right Coty. 6 00:00:19.559 --> 00:00:23.640 This is Your Health First, the most beneficial health program 7 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:25.640 on radio with doctor Joe Galotti. 8 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:26.839 During the next. 9 00:00:26.640 --> 00:00:30.280 Hour you'll learn about health, wellness and the prevention of disease. 10 00:00:30.719 --> 00:00:33.439 Now here's your host, doctor Joe Bellotti. 11 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:46.119 Well, a good Sunday evening to everybody, doctor Joe Galotti. 12 00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:52.799 If it's Sunday evening at seven pm Central time, of 13 00:00:52.840 --> 00:00:55.159 course I want all of you listening to your Health First. 14 00:00:55.200 --> 00:01:00.159 We hear every Sunday evening, and our single mind the 15 00:01:00.320 --> 00:01:04.719 goal is to make you better consumers of healthcare, period, 16 00:01:05.079 --> 00:01:09.200 end of story. That is our sole mission. We've been 17 00:01:09.239 --> 00:01:14.319 on the air for twenty two years every Sunday, and 18 00:01:16.519 --> 00:01:19.799 we'll be getting into some other items here a little 19 00:01:19.799 --> 00:01:23.680 bit later in the program. But I always have looked 20 00:01:23.680 --> 00:01:28.480 at the value of a program like this as educating 21 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:31.840 the public. We're not selling anything. We're not trying to 22 00:01:32.480 --> 00:01:35.799 have you do anything out of the ordinary other than 23 00:01:36.799 --> 00:01:41.840 arm you with information you could use to take care 24 00:01:41.840 --> 00:01:47.200 of yourselves, yourself, your family, your best friends, your co workers, 25 00:01:47.280 --> 00:01:51.079 your community. So that is what we're all about. Your 26 00:01:51.319 --> 00:01:56.959 health first. Our website doctor Jogalotti dot com, Doctor Joegalotti 27 00:01:57.040 --> 00:02:02.640 dot com. And I would say say, if you wanted 28 00:02:02.640 --> 00:02:05.319 to find out about us, that is the place to go. 29 00:02:07.120 --> 00:02:10.919 There's a link to Soner for our weekly newsletter, send 30 00:02:10.919 --> 00:02:15.039 me a message. All of our social media is posted there, 31 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:20.240 doctor Joegalotti dot com. Now on the program tonight one 32 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:25.400 of my favorite experts, doctor Mike Wilson. He is a 33 00:02:25.479 --> 00:02:29.759 cardiologist here in the Texas Medical Center. I actually think Mike, 34 00:02:29.840 --> 00:02:32.800 and I'll have to ask him. I think Mike dabbled 35 00:02:32.840 --> 00:02:37.599 in radio in college. That that fact sort of sits 36 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:39.919 in the back of my head. And so he's got 37 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:45.000 a great, great radio presence. He speaks clearly, he's knowledgeable, 38 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:49.680 and he's able to explain complicated things. That's what that's 39 00:02:49.680 --> 00:02:52.039 what this program was all about. We don't want to 40 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:54.560 throw a bunch of doctor talk at you. Just keep 41 00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:58.759 it simple and actionable things that we can share with 42 00:02:58.840 --> 00:03:00.680 you tonight. You should be able to who put into 43 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:07.360 play immediately. So the election is over, my goodness, now 44 00:03:08.240 --> 00:03:13.560 not getting into the politics. You love Trump, you don't 45 00:03:13.599 --> 00:03:16.159 like them you voted for him, you didn't vote for him. Etc. 46 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:23.680 But one of the themes that came out of the campaign, 47 00:03:24.159 --> 00:03:29.800 and it really was once RFK Junior joined in and 48 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:34.879 became part of the campaign, was this slogan of make 49 00:03:35.000 --> 00:03:41.240 America healthy again, Make America healthy again. I would say, 50 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:43.439 as simple as that is. Now, some of you may 51 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:48.000 think it's a little bit corny. For years we've been 52 00:03:48.039 --> 00:03:52.520 hearing make America great again, make America safe again, make 53 00:03:52.639 --> 00:03:57.159 America prosperous again. Now we have make America healthy again. 54 00:03:57.199 --> 00:04:03.800 But I do believe and serely that we have a 55 00:04:04.039 --> 00:04:12.159 great opportunity to keep pushing this narrative forward because we 56 00:04:12.439 --> 00:04:17.759 have to. We absolutely have to commit ourselves to making 57 00:04:17.879 --> 00:04:25.399 America healthy because really there's a lot of unhealthiness that 58 00:04:25.639 --> 00:04:28.120 I see every day that doctor Wilson sees every day, 59 00:04:28.160 --> 00:04:30.879 all of my colleagues in the Texas Medical Center, doctors 60 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:34.879 across the country, and I'd say, sadly a lot have 61 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:40.240 thrown their arms up to say, yeah, everybody out there 62 00:04:40.319 --> 00:04:43.680 is too damn unhealthy. I can't fix it myself, so 63 00:04:43.800 --> 00:04:46.639 let's just kick the can down the road. But that's 64 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:50.879 not what we're going to do. So second, next segment. 65 00:04:50.959 --> 00:04:53.399 After we get done here, I'll be giving a little 66 00:04:53.439 --> 00:04:55.680 bit of an intro of what I think make America 67 00:04:55.720 --> 00:04:58.600 healthy is, and then doctor Wilson will be joining me 68 00:04:58.759 --> 00:05:01.199 just a little bit later on. But don't forget go 69 00:05:01.240 --> 00:05:04.720 to doctor Joeglotti dot com. All right, So today I 70 00:05:04.759 --> 00:05:06.639 went on a field trip with my wife. We went 71 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:11.160 to Trader Joe's. Now, I have always liked Trader Joe's 72 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:15.959 going to shop there. I think they have a good 73 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:25.000 selection of vegetables, fruit, some select items that we like 74 00:05:25.120 --> 00:05:28.439 to get. But for some reason, it was sort of 75 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:32.480 at about twelve one o'clock today, the store was absolutely mobbed. 76 00:05:33.360 --> 00:05:36.920 And I when it was that crowded, I had a 77 00:05:37.040 --> 00:05:41.199 chance to sort of look at what other people were buying. 78 00:05:41.199 --> 00:05:43.199 And I've said this before in the radio. I do 79 00:05:43.279 --> 00:05:46.199 some of my best research at the grocery store. You 80 00:05:46.240 --> 00:05:49.879 get to check out what everybody is buying. It's my 81 00:05:50.000 --> 00:05:55.199 consumer research in a sense. And the most crowded aisle 82 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:03.680 was the processed food. Well, all of these frozen meals, 83 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:11.480 frozen pizza, frozen lasagna. And while Trader Joe's has this 84 00:06:11.680 --> 00:06:16.920 sense that it is maybe a little better quality, it 85 00:06:17.040 --> 00:06:22.000 is exactly the same it is a highly processed meal, 86 00:06:23.000 --> 00:06:29.160 high in fat, sugar, and salt, and responsible for all 87 00:06:29.199 --> 00:06:32.319 of the obesity and chronic disease that we're seeing now. 88 00:06:33.240 --> 00:06:39.079 For me, when I go to Trader Joe's, the majority 89 00:06:39.120 --> 00:06:42.519 of things that I buy were my family buys frozen fruit, 90 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:49.879 frozen vegetables. We buy some canned goods there that are 91 00:06:50.720 --> 00:06:55.319 not very processed at all. We'll get some dairy products there. 92 00:06:56.639 --> 00:07:00.199 But when you really really take a look, and it 93 00:07:00.240 --> 00:07:03.439 really dawned on me and my wife today that there 94 00:07:03.480 --> 00:07:11.439 are a lot of candy, sweets, chips, frozen dinners, And 95 00:07:11.480 --> 00:07:16.240 again they're laid out from a marketing standpoint, very very 96 00:07:16.240 --> 00:07:20.079 well with these end caps. The end caps are the 97 00:07:20.120 --> 00:07:22.879 displays that aren't on the end of the aisle that 98 00:07:22.920 --> 00:07:25.720 they want to lure you in and buy stuff that 99 00:07:25.759 --> 00:07:29.720 you have no intention of buying, but your hand just 100 00:07:29.920 --> 00:07:35.439 gravitates and pulls it in and you buy it. But 101 00:07:35.560 --> 00:07:40.000 a lot of it is cheap, highly flavored foods that 102 00:07:40.480 --> 00:07:43.040 you're tempted to buy. And when you go shopping to 103 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:45.519 a place like Trader Joe's or any supermarket, you have 104 00:07:45.600 --> 00:07:48.120 to have a strategy. All Right, We're going to take 105 00:07:48.120 --> 00:07:51.639 a break, Doctor Joe Galotti. This is your health First. 106 00:07:51.639 --> 00:07:55.839 Stay tuned. We will be right back every Sunday between 107 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:59.480 seven and eight pm. I'm doctor Joe Galotti. You should 108 00:07:59.480 --> 00:08:06.959 be tuned in your health first. And our website is 109 00:08:07.079 --> 00:08:11.000 doctor Joegalotti dot com. Sign up for our newsletter. All 110 00:08:11.040 --> 00:08:13.920 of our social media is there. You get send me 111 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:19.199 a message. This is a two way street, says contact us. 112 00:08:19.879 --> 00:08:22.639 Pull it up, send me a message, hit send, I 113 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:28.360 get it, and we'll communicate back with you. Coming up 114 00:08:28.560 --> 00:08:32.039 in just a short bit, doctor Mike Wilson will be 115 00:08:32.120 --> 00:08:35.240 joining us a cardiologist here in the Texas Medical Center. 116 00:08:35.399 --> 00:08:38.679 He and I are going to get a little bit 117 00:08:38.720 --> 00:08:44.000 more in depth on this whole notion of make America 118 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:52.279 healthy again. And I firmly believe that for those of 119 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:55.279 us that are in healthcare, those of us that truly 120 00:08:55.440 --> 00:09:02.120 want to prevent disease. See the missing link here is 121 00:09:02.360 --> 00:09:08.639 in many cases, we're good at fixing stuff that's broken. Okay, 122 00:09:09.519 --> 00:09:15.440 how do we seriously, in a big, big way, prevent 123 00:09:15.919 --> 00:09:19.919 things your body from falling apart in us having to 124 00:09:20.039 --> 00:09:27.279 patch it together with glue, band aids, tape, duct tape. 125 00:09:27.440 --> 00:09:32.080 All right, we have the wrong mentality here, and so 126 00:09:32.240 --> 00:09:35.559 by educating the public, having them understand what their risk 127 00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:40.600 factors are. Early warning signs you get in early, okay, 128 00:09:40.679 --> 00:09:44.159 and I you know, you know, we don't have a 129 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:48.679 check engine light on our body, but if we did, 130 00:09:49.080 --> 00:09:52.080 a lot of people would be walking around with a 131 00:09:52.159 --> 00:09:56.559 red light on their forehead saying that there's something wrong. 132 00:09:56.600 --> 00:10:00.240 You need to go and get checked out. Now, with 133 00:10:00.360 --> 00:10:07.039 this whole make America Healthy again idea, why is it 134 00:10:07.080 --> 00:10:09.559 that we are so unhealthy? Why do we why do 135 00:10:09.639 --> 00:10:15.960 we even have to talk about this? Well, there are 136 00:10:17.039 --> 00:10:20.840 all kinds of I don't want to say theories, but 137 00:10:21.720 --> 00:10:27.279 reasons why our population has become so unhealthy. Is it 138 00:10:27.399 --> 00:10:30.399 just related to the food? Well, I do believe that 139 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:36.519 a large portion of the problems we're seeing are indeed 140 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:41.440 related to what we're eating or not eating. All right, now, again, 141 00:10:41.720 --> 00:10:46.080 looking at Trader Joe's, and I like Trader Joe's, but 142 00:10:46.200 --> 00:10:49.200 it was like a feeding frenzy in that frozen aisle. 143 00:10:49.759 --> 00:10:55.600 People were going for all kinds of frozen crap and 144 00:10:55.639 --> 00:11:00.200 that was their dinner. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and 145 00:11:00.360 --> 00:11:04.000 Saturday and Sunday. They're going to a restaurant. They're not 146 00:11:04.039 --> 00:11:07.080 cooking the fresh fruits and vegetables. It's not portion controlled, 147 00:11:07.080 --> 00:11:10.600 it's not low in salt, it's not high in fiber. 148 00:11:12.639 --> 00:11:15.679 So the food is an issue. The second thing is 149 00:11:15.759 --> 00:11:19.679 lack of exercise. People are not walking around the way 150 00:11:19.720 --> 00:11:24.960 they used to, especially in Houston or other big metropolitan cities. 151 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:29.919 We drive around everywhere. The thought of walking just doesn't 152 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:33.480 even cross our mind. When I travel to other cities 153 00:11:33.519 --> 00:11:35.720 and you realize, A, the people are thin. B you 154 00:11:35.720 --> 00:11:40.399 got to walk everywhere, and just being in a city 155 00:11:40.480 --> 00:11:45.720 at a meeting, I'm putting on twelve thirteen thousand steps. 156 00:11:45.720 --> 00:11:51.200 In Europe, forget about it. Everybody's walking everywhere. I do 157 00:11:51.240 --> 00:11:55.639 think that stress, we are stressing ourselves out part of it. 158 00:11:56.600 --> 00:12:00.600 There is a basis for it. Other would just worrying 159 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:04.440 about stuff that doesn't need to be worried about. And 160 00:12:04.480 --> 00:12:08.480 we have basically taken our eye off the ball, meaning 161 00:12:09.440 --> 00:12:16.720 we're not really paying attention to symptoms. Everybody I see 162 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:19.120 in not everybody should. That's a broad statement. A lot 163 00:12:19.120 --> 00:12:22.840 of my patients they are chronically fatigued, and they are 164 00:12:23.879 --> 00:12:28.080 accepting of it. They get home from work, they fall asleep. 165 00:12:29.480 --> 00:12:32.039 I get some of my best work done after I 166 00:12:32.080 --> 00:12:37.000 get home after twelve fourteen hours I come home, I 167 00:12:37.000 --> 00:12:39.720 will still exercise even if it's in the early evening 168 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:43.399 because I have to to stay healthy. I don't want 169 00:12:43.399 --> 00:12:48.919 to get chronically ill. And the bigger question, which I'll 170 00:12:49.039 --> 00:12:51.080 get around to doctor Wilson, what do we have to 171 00:12:51.080 --> 00:12:54.600 do to get back on track and how long will 172 00:12:54.720 --> 00:13:03.639 it take? Now? With RFK Junior, and again he at 173 00:13:03.679 --> 00:13:08.440 times has been controversial on some items. I think we're 174 00:13:08.440 --> 00:13:11.080 going to have to really listen to if he's given 175 00:13:11.159 --> 00:13:14.399 some sort of a platform in the administration, what does 176 00:13:14.440 --> 00:13:17.519 he say. But when you look at the numbers, the 177 00:13:17.639 --> 00:13:22.279 numbers are staggering as far as the amount of chronic disease. 178 00:13:22.399 --> 00:13:25.080 If you look at the numbers for the CDC Centers 179 00:13:25.080 --> 00:13:28.720 for Disease Control and Prevention, around one hundred and twenty 180 00:13:28.960 --> 00:13:33.879 nine million Americans are living with at least one chronic 181 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:38.080 disease such as heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, or 182 00:13:38.120 --> 00:13:43.879 fatty lever. Chronic conditions account for five of the top 183 00:13:43.960 --> 00:13:47.279 ten leading causes of death. So this is not a 184 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:52.759 benign problem. Key thing, vast majority of these can be 185 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:58.759 prevented with lifestyle modification. Lifestyle choices which is what do 186 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:00.840 we eat, how much will we x, what time do 187 00:14:00.919 --> 00:14:03.960 we go to bed, do we drink too much alcohol? 188 00:14:04.039 --> 00:14:10.039 We're taking too many pills prescription or not prescription. And 189 00:14:10.279 --> 00:14:13.960 these numbers over the past twenty years just continue to increase, 190 00:14:14.000 --> 00:14:18.759 and so there's no no end in sight. These numbers 191 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:22.480 are going to continue. And my biggest concern, and if 192 00:14:22.519 --> 00:14:27.320 you have children or grandchildren, here's the guilt trip. When 193 00:14:27.320 --> 00:14:30.120 you see your grandchildren next time, you could look at 194 00:14:30.159 --> 00:14:33.279 them and essentially say you are not going to live 195 00:14:33.320 --> 00:14:36.679 as long as mom or dad because they're going to 196 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:44.200 be afflicted with chronic disease decades earlier. And the sad 197 00:14:44.240 --> 00:14:48.120 thing is, so I practice live a disease. That is 198 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:53.799 my day job, if you want to say. And so, 199 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:59.799 we have fifteen, sixteen, seventeen year old kids I'll call 200 00:14:59.840 --> 00:15:04.639 them kids coming in with abnormal liver chemistries. Their blood 201 00:15:04.639 --> 00:15:07.360 work is abnormal, they have an ultrasound that shows a 202 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:11.720 fatty liver, and we investigate it further and we find 203 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:19.000 out that they are on the verge of developing soorrosis. 204 00:15:19.480 --> 00:15:22.519 And he said, oh wait a second, doctor Galotti, cirrhosis 205 00:15:22.639 --> 00:15:28.200 is only in alcoholics alcohol use disorder, well alcohol only 206 00:15:28.240 --> 00:15:30.799 accounts for about forty nine percent of all the cirrhosis 207 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:33.639 we see. The other fifty percent or fifty one if 208 00:15:33.679 --> 00:15:37.960 you're really listening, is due to things like hepatitis B, 209 00:15:38.120 --> 00:15:44.159 hepatitis C, autoimmune disease. But fatty liver is a major 210 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:49.600 major cause of chronic liver disease. So now you've got 211 00:15:49.639 --> 00:15:52.039 an eighteen year old that either is on the verge 212 00:15:52.080 --> 00:15:55.799 of sorosis or does have cirrhosis, and it may be 213 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:59.120 too late to turn around. And this is unrelated to 214 00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:02.519 alcohol or drug use. This is related to what you ate. 215 00:16:05.000 --> 00:16:09.639 And now these people they graduate high school, they want 216 00:16:09.679 --> 00:16:13.799 to get into the workforce, they want to go to college, 217 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:18.759 and they're chronically ill. They have a lot of symptoms, 218 00:16:18.759 --> 00:16:23.879 they're on medications. Medications give you maybe side effects. You 219 00:16:23.960 --> 00:16:29.399 have appointments with one doctor after another. So instead of 220 00:16:29.399 --> 00:16:34.240 strategizing on your school work, your career, your occupation, the 221 00:16:34.320 --> 00:16:39.639 skills that you're going to develop, you're spending time in 222 00:16:39.679 --> 00:16:43.200 the office with me or doctor Wilson or any other 223 00:16:43.360 --> 00:16:49.240 physician around the country on medicine's side effect. So it 224 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:53.799 is it. And look, I'm not here to paint a 225 00:16:53.960 --> 00:16:57.480 bleak picture and have you all get depressed and tune 226 00:16:57.519 --> 00:17:02.080 off the radio. Is that this is a wake up call, 227 00:17:02.200 --> 00:17:06.039 to energize you to say, Okay, enough is enough. This 228 00:17:06.279 --> 00:17:09.440 is the wake up call. And my sense is that 229 00:17:09.559 --> 00:17:16.680 if what the administration does or can do, if it 230 00:17:16.759 --> 00:17:22.720 is executed properly, make America healthy again, this could be 231 00:17:22.960 --> 00:17:30.640 an amazing wake up call that can transform the United States. 232 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:34.519 And I do mean that now. I came across earlier 233 00:17:34.519 --> 00:17:40.519 today a video on President Kennedy in nineteen sixty two, 234 00:17:42.039 --> 00:17:46.720 and what I'll do. I'll probably post it, but it 235 00:17:46.759 --> 00:17:49.039 may take time to get posted up. But one of 236 00:17:49.119 --> 00:17:52.079 the things he said, a country is as strong as 237 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:55.759 its citizens. And I think that mental and physical vigor 238 00:17:55.880 --> 00:17:59.240 go hand in hand. So back in nineteen sixty two, 239 00:17:59.279 --> 00:18:02.799 when we didn't have have these problems, he nailed it. 240 00:18:02.920 --> 00:18:08.720 A strong and healthy citizenship means a strong, healthy country. 241 00:18:09.720 --> 00:18:11.599 We'll leave it at that. Doctor Mike Wilson is coming 242 00:18:11.680 --> 00:18:14.119 up after news, weather and traffic. I'm doctor Joe Glotti. 243 00:18:14.160 --> 00:18:18.680 Stay tuned, we will be right back. Welcome back, everybody, 244 00:18:18.720 --> 00:18:22.519 Doctor Joe Galotti. And tomorrow you should all know this. 245 00:18:22.640 --> 00:18:31.720 It is Veterans Day and we'd like to say thank 246 00:18:31.759 --> 00:18:38.200 you to all of the veterans that have served to 247 00:18:38.279 --> 00:18:41.799 make our country great. And you know, it's funny. My 248 00:18:41.920 --> 00:18:45.440 father was a World War Two veteran and actually in 249 00:18:45.519 --> 00:18:48.400 a couple of weeks he's he died a couple of 250 00:18:48.440 --> 00:18:51.039 years ago, but he's going to be celebrating in heaven. 251 00:18:51.079 --> 00:18:55.559 I guess his one hundredth birthday, and all the years 252 00:18:56.400 --> 00:18:59.200 that it would be Veterans Day or fourth of July, 253 00:18:59.319 --> 00:19:02.359 i'd play this patriarch music and he would get such 254 00:19:02.839 --> 00:19:06.519 a kick out of it, as do I. We're all 255 00:19:06.599 --> 00:19:08.880 kids at heart. But thank you again to all of 256 00:19:08.920 --> 00:19:12.279 our veterans, and our hats off to you, and thank 257 00:19:12.319 --> 00:19:19.440 you for your service that we so preciously need. All right, well, 258 00:19:21.160 --> 00:19:24.640 doctor Joeglotti dot com is our website. Let us get 259 00:19:24.720 --> 00:19:29.119 doctor Mike Wilson on the line. Mike, carry you tonight. 260 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:32.200 Wonderful. Thanks for having me. 261 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:34.559 Oh absolutely. Now, at the beginning of the program, I 262 00:19:34.559 --> 00:19:36.759 don't know if you heard this, but I had thought 263 00:19:36.880 --> 00:19:41.039 years ago you had said that in college you dabbled 264 00:19:41.079 --> 00:19:43.039 in college radio. Is that true? 265 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:46.880 Well, yeah, it was a little I was a little 266 00:19:46.880 --> 00:19:50.160 bit younger, but yes, I was a disc jockey for 267 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:52.000 a country music station. How old? 268 00:19:52.039 --> 00:19:53.359 How old were you at that time? 269 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:57.759 I was from the time I was fifteen until I 270 00:19:57.799 --> 00:19:58.279 was eighteen? 271 00:19:58.480 --> 00:20:01.799 Wow, Like, did you have an on air handle or 272 00:20:01.880 --> 00:20:04.960 name or did you just go as Mike? This is 273 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:06.440 Mike Wilson on the air. 274 00:20:07.319 --> 00:20:12.880 I've mostly stayed nameless. They kept a pretty firm handle 275 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:13.240 on me. 276 00:20:13.480 --> 00:20:16.400 All right, Well, we love having you on. You always 277 00:20:16.400 --> 00:20:20.559 do such a great job. And you know, for those 278 00:20:20.839 --> 00:20:23.359 for those that are new to the program or old 279 00:20:23.359 --> 00:20:26.240 to the program, I love to tune in every Sunday evening. 280 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:30.359 The whole goal here is to have experts and guests 281 00:20:30.359 --> 00:20:35.079 that I bring on that can speak common sense, common language. 282 00:20:35.119 --> 00:20:37.880 And I'd have to think that, Mike, you're one of 283 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:41.240 the best we have. So thank you for coming on. 284 00:20:42.119 --> 00:20:43.200 Oh well, I appreciate it. 285 00:20:43.839 --> 00:20:50.359 So, uh, make America healthy again. Now we'll get into 286 00:20:50.440 --> 00:20:53.000 the heart disease part and you know where you get 287 00:20:53.000 --> 00:20:57.039 your hands dirty. But what is your take on this? 288 00:20:58.079 --> 00:21:01.559 We could call it a slogan, but I really would 289 00:21:01.680 --> 00:21:05.880 like to think that we do have an opportunity to 290 00:21:06.039 --> 00:21:11.240 raise awareness to make the country healthy. What what is 291 00:21:11.279 --> 00:21:13.640 your take with all of the years and all that 292 00:21:13.680 --> 00:21:17.839 you've seen, explain to us where you know really what 293 00:21:17.920 --> 00:21:18.480 you're thinking. 294 00:21:20.160 --> 00:21:23.279 I think you really hit the nail on the head 295 00:21:23.319 --> 00:21:27.240 with your opening segment and discussing much of what you 296 00:21:27.400 --> 00:21:32.640 found in Trader Joe's. And as you said, you find 297 00:21:32.680 --> 00:21:35.039 a lot of material for your show by walking through 298 00:21:35.079 --> 00:21:35.680 the grocery store. 299 00:21:35.960 --> 00:21:36.599 Absolutely. 300 00:21:37.880 --> 00:21:41.000 A few years ago, I worked briefly with a guy 301 00:21:41.079 --> 00:21:45.720 who did some studies with adolescents and with long term 302 00:21:45.799 --> 00:21:50.359 health with the Bogaloosa Heart Study in South Louisiana, and 303 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:54.000 one of their discoveries that was, if you'll pardon the pun, 304 00:21:54.200 --> 00:22:00.319 very disheartening, was that our trend towards ill health actually 305 00:22:00.400 --> 00:22:05.880 begins when you're twelve, thirteen, fourteen years old. That excess 306 00:22:05.920 --> 00:22:10.519 body weights started then, and the habits started then. Even 307 00:22:10.640 --> 00:22:13.400 high blood pressure, not the kind you and I treat, 308 00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:19.200 but high for that age range, was already appearing in adolescence. Right. 309 00:22:19.240 --> 00:22:23.319 And what we need to get back to is the 310 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:33.480 education and giving a good example to our children. Eating right, exercising, 311 00:22:33.720 --> 00:22:36.920 doing the very simple things right pay off in a 312 00:22:36.960 --> 00:22:37.559 long term. 313 00:22:37.680 --> 00:22:42.279 Right now, my goal here is not to make this 314 00:22:42.440 --> 00:22:46.160 a political statement. As I was saying earlier, it's make 315 00:22:46.200 --> 00:22:50.599 America great again, make America safe again, make America healthy again. 316 00:22:50.640 --> 00:22:55.599 But if you could, just like off the off the 317 00:22:55.640 --> 00:23:00.319 top of your head here, give a grade from A 318 00:23:00.559 --> 00:23:07.640 to F on the general state of health of our country. 319 00:23:08.440 --> 00:23:10.279 Now again, we're a little bit skewed. We're in the 320 00:23:10.279 --> 00:23:13.599 Texas Medical Center. We tend to see the sick of 321 00:23:13.680 --> 00:23:16.240 the sick, and so you know, we don't see really 322 00:23:16.279 --> 00:23:20.200 healthy people. But you're gestaled on this. Where do you 323 00:23:20.240 --> 00:23:22.640 think we're really at? 324 00:23:23.680 --> 00:23:26.720 You know, I would put us at about a C minus. 325 00:23:27.000 --> 00:23:28.759 Okay, that's what I would say. 326 00:23:30.319 --> 00:23:34.240 You know, there is there are the acquired illnesses that 327 00:23:34.720 --> 00:23:37.599 nature has waiting out there for us. And there are 328 00:23:37.599 --> 00:23:40.519 a lot of places on Earth that are suffering or 329 00:23:40.599 --> 00:23:45.440 great deal from those type of illnesses, from malnutrition, malaria, 330 00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:49.599 all kinds of awful illnesses. They're in a much worse way. 331 00:23:49.799 --> 00:23:57.720 Where we're suffering is really from the opposite, from excess and. 332 00:23:58.119 --> 00:24:02.240 Sloth, right, sloppy. I mean, it's the truth. 333 00:24:03.559 --> 00:24:07.880 And we're going to we're living healthy through many of 334 00:24:07.920 --> 00:24:11.519 our productive years, but where we're going to pay the 335 00:24:11.559 --> 00:24:13.119 price is in longevity. 336 00:24:13.680 --> 00:24:18.559 Yeah. And you know, you know the type of patients 337 00:24:18.680 --> 00:24:22.319 you see in the cardiovascular realm are very similar to 338 00:24:22.720 --> 00:24:25.799 the ones that I see on the liver front, and 339 00:24:26.440 --> 00:24:30.599 my patients when I see them, some of them or 340 00:24:30.640 --> 00:24:35.240 many of them are later fifties, early sixties, and retirement 341 00:24:35.480 --> 00:24:39.400 is sort of just around the corner. They're starting to 342 00:24:39.960 --> 00:24:43.200 project what they want to do, and it is everything 343 00:24:43.240 --> 00:24:47.880 from just you know, go fishing every afternoon, to travel 344 00:24:47.920 --> 00:24:52.559 with their grandchildren or pick up a new hobby. And 345 00:24:53.240 --> 00:24:55.279 I have to look at them and say, you know 346 00:24:56.359 --> 00:24:59.240 you're here with me now because you have a serious, 347 00:24:59.279 --> 00:25:04.119 potentially life threatening disease that may, if it does not 348 00:25:04.480 --> 00:25:08.720 kill you prematurely, you're going to be severely disabled in 349 00:25:08.720 --> 00:25:11.599 a sense. And what do you see and how do 350 00:25:11.640 --> 00:25:15.240 you articulate that to everybody tonight on the radio. 351 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:22.960 Yeah, you're absolutely right. And what I'm seeing more and 352 00:25:23.039 --> 00:25:28.400 more of, along with the excess body weight obesity, is 353 00:25:28.559 --> 00:25:32.480 a type of heart disease that I think the best 354 00:25:32.599 --> 00:25:36.720 term for it is called failed aging. It is a 355 00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:42.039 heart that has gone through life without being challenged, without 356 00:25:42.039 --> 00:25:46.359 being exercised, without being work and it's then adapted to 357 00:25:46.400 --> 00:25:50.039 its workload so that as age comes or as other 358 00:25:50.079 --> 00:25:54.519 illness comes, the heart can't really help and becomes an impediment. 359 00:25:54.680 --> 00:25:58.000 So many people develop a form of heart disease that 360 00:25:58.039 --> 00:26:02.880 we're labeling heart failure that is severely limiting and very 361 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:06.160 difficult to treat and not something that you can really 362 00:26:06.279 --> 00:26:07.039 undo later. 363 00:26:07.319 --> 00:26:11.559 Right, And it really is, in a sense a disease 364 00:26:11.599 --> 00:26:18.079 of neglect, people not checking in on things until the hubcaps, 365 00:26:18.079 --> 00:26:20.720 the wheels start falling off, and then you say, oh gee, 366 00:26:20.799 --> 00:26:24.440 I have to go see doctor Wilson now, right, Yeah, 367 00:26:24.839 --> 00:26:26.720 all right, Well what we're gonna do, Mike, We're going 368 00:26:26.799 --> 00:26:32.319 to take a quick break. I'm with doctor Mike Wilson. 369 00:26:32.480 --> 00:26:35.359 For those that want to learn more about doctor Wilson 370 00:26:35.359 --> 00:26:39.640 in his practice. Euston MDS dot org is the website. 371 00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:42.319 I'm doctor Joeglotti. Stay tuned. Final segment coming up in 372 00:26:42.319 --> 00:26:47.079 a minute final segment of this week's Your Health First, 373 00:26:47.079 --> 00:26:51.640 Doctor Joe Galotti our website Doctor Joglotti dot com. We 374 00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:59.359 are talking about make America healthy again, and I think 375 00:26:59.400 --> 00:27:01.039 we've got a lot of work to do. Him on 376 00:27:01.559 --> 00:27:06.519 with doctor Mike Wilson. Mike, you know a lot of 377 00:27:06.559 --> 00:27:10.680 doctors by yeah, I don't want to say by experience, 378 00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:14.720 they they tend to be a bit a political. I 379 00:27:14.759 --> 00:27:17.160 don't think I saw anybody around the hospital wearing a 380 00:27:17.200 --> 00:27:21.359 button on any candidate which way or the other. But 381 00:27:23.200 --> 00:27:27.960 you know, I I you know, after uh Donald Trump 382 00:27:28.160 --> 00:27:33.559 won with such huge margins the other day, I really 383 00:27:33.559 --> 00:27:35.960 started to think about this to say, if there is 384 00:27:36.279 --> 00:27:42.279 the quote unquote mandate that you know, maybe this little 385 00:27:42.400 --> 00:27:45.920 little piece of the puzzle here could get pushed through 386 00:27:46.119 --> 00:27:48.680 and and pick up some steam. What what do you think? 387 00:27:50.519 --> 00:27:54.960 I sure, I certainly hope. So it's it's uh uh 388 00:27:55.160 --> 00:28:02.079 many many initiatives like this, uh false for just a 389 00:28:02.200 --> 00:28:05.799 variety of reasons. But I don't know if you remember 390 00:28:05.960 --> 00:28:08.920 so many years ago when the government decided they were 391 00:28:08.960 --> 00:28:10.920 going to try to help us out with our diet, 392 00:28:10.960 --> 00:28:13.960 and they came up with this whole food group business. 393 00:28:14.680 --> 00:28:18.839 Many of the nutritionists when you mentioned that, their hair 394 00:28:18.960 --> 00:28:24.640 stands straight up right. But the initiative has stuck around. 395 00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:30.440 It had a great deal of impact. And if the 396 00:28:30.920 --> 00:28:34.640 initiative has no more impact, then to get people to 397 00:28:34.759 --> 00:28:37.759 pay a little closer attention to their diet like you 398 00:28:37.799 --> 00:28:41.799 were talking about with processed foods, and to get out 399 00:28:41.839 --> 00:28:45.079 and take a walk for twenty minutes every day, it's 400 00:28:45.119 --> 00:28:46.720 going to have a big impact. 401 00:28:46.720 --> 00:28:49.960