Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / Dr. Cobble Q&A for June 25th, 2025

Transcript

Dr. Cobble Q&A for June 25th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: All right, doctor Kabble, good morning. How are you?
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: Good morning? I'm great, Thank you.
• 0:04
  Speaker 1: Hey, before we go to questions, you can text questions
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: too if you like. There's a story in the news
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: today that I'm kind of puzzled by slightly and maybe
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: you do or do not know the answer. It's about
• 0:16
  Speaker 1: a liver transplant. What it says Inner Mountain Help patient
• 0:21
  Speaker 1: first to be treated with external bioengineered liver, and I'm
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: trying to figure out you grow it in a lab. Well, No,
• 0:32
  Speaker 1: the patient is treated with what's called a mirror lever
• 0:37
  Speaker 1: e LAP experiencing liver failure, not eligible for a transplant.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: So what they've done is they've taken a pig liver material.
• 0:51
  Speaker 1: But I'm trying to figure out if if this is
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: an external like it's outside of I think it's outside
• 0:56
  Speaker 1: of the paper.
• 0:57
  Speaker 3: No, I think what that means is they constructed it
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: outside of the patient and then put it in the patient.
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: What do you think, doctor Carble.
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: I think that's correct.
• 1:08
  Speaker 1: It's it's really unclear in this story. I get the
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: sense that they that periodically they hook this up to
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: the patient's current liver and give it a boost of
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: some sort like jumper cables.
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think it's a pig liver transplantation, and
• 1:28
  Speaker 2: so it's called geno transplantation. But I haven't read the
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: article that I think it's probably gene edited pig liver
• 1:37
  Speaker 2: that has been put into a human that couldn't qualify
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: for a transplant from a human.
• 1:44
  Speaker 1: Well, all right, well we'll look. I think he's I
• 1:47
  Speaker 1: think they're carrying around a little bag with him that's
• 1:49
  Speaker 1: got a pig liver in it. Anyway, i'd just like
• 1:53
  Speaker 1: it to be there, That's what I'd like to believe.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: It's it's it's kind of creepier.
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: Eight six.
• 1:59
  Speaker 1: Do we have any texts? We've got to have. Alex
• 2:03
  Speaker 1: is here? Hi, Alex, how are you?
• 2:06
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 2:06
  Speaker 1: Just great? How are you good? I guess, Well, go
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: ahead and ask your question of doctor Cobble.
• 2:12
  Speaker 4: Okay, so here's a question I have and uh uh
• 2:16
  Speaker 4: maybe tm I. But so I just want to know
• 2:19
  Speaker 4: the difference between like a malignant growth and like a
• 2:22
  Speaker 4: benign growth or like something that could be cancerous, something
• 2:25
  Speaker 4: that's under the skin. And uh.
• 2:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if benign is not bad and malignant is cancerous.
• 2:38
  Speaker 2: So a tumor is just any growth, but a benign
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: tumor is like a you know, a non cancerous growth
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: can be a tumor or yeah yeah yeah yeah, or
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: skin growth. It's not cancer.
• 2:54
  Speaker 3: Are you wondering You have a growth that you're wondering
• 2:57
  Speaker 3: if you can tell just by looking at it, whether
• 2:59
  Speaker 3: that Yeah.
• 3:01
  Speaker 4: It's been going for a few years and it's big,
• 3:04
  Speaker 4: and it's like on my rib cage. It's like the
• 3:06
  Speaker 4: size of like a baseball almost.
• 3:08
  Speaker 1: And you've never had anybody take a look at that.
• 3:11
  Speaker 4: No, No, I would advise you to do though.
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's probably a life home fatty tumor like Bill mentioned,
• 3:19
  Speaker 2: but it's worthwhile having a clinician take a look at
• 3:23
  Speaker 2: it and just confirm what it is, okay.
• 3:25
  Speaker 1: And if it's a if it's a if it's a
• 3:26
  Speaker 1: fatty tumor and I've had them, you can either just
• 3:30
  Speaker 1: leave it if it doesn't bother you, or or they
• 3:33
  Speaker 1: can still they can remove it if it bugs you.
• 3:35
  Speaker 1: But but it's okay, but it's not dangerous. It's just there.
• 3:40
  Speaker 1: It's your body hurt. Yeah, it doesn't hurt. Yeah, your
• 3:44
  Speaker 1: body just saying we're gonna do something. I'm gonna screw
• 3:47
  Speaker 1: you up. Have a looked at.
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: I well, thank you, kay, thank you.
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I mean, anything you're worried about like that.
• 3:56
  Speaker 1: Eight seven seven six oh two nine six nine six
• 3:59
  Speaker 1: is the number to call in doctor doctor cobble.
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: I think there are people that are hesitant to go
• 4:04
  Speaker 3: to the doctor because they're like, I'm worried. They're just
• 4:06
  Speaker 3: going to tell me it's nothing and it will be
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: a waste of my time in their time.
• 4:09
  Speaker 1: Always go get it checked. That's fine.
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: I like seeing those people. They're they're fund to see
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: and you're not interrupting our day and we're happy to
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: give an opinion. So please don't be afraid of going
• 4:21
  Speaker 2: to the clinician.
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I like it when the doctor says, oh,
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: don't worry about that bill, that's nothing. Oh whoo, thank god.
• 4:31
  Speaker 1: I was sure it was something. It's usually something.
• 4:34
  Speaker 3: Darryl and Roy texted in and said, does this look infected?
• 4:38
  Speaker 3: We can't see on your text, Darryl got you gotta call.
• 4:42
  Speaker 1: Us, although Gene I would point out, we won't be
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: able to see it on the phone either.
• 4:46
  Speaker 3: No.
• 4:47
  Speaker 1: Eight seven seven six oh two nine six nine six.
• 4:51
  Speaker 1: If you want to ask a question for doctor Cobble,
• 4:53
  Speaker 1: we've got text questions. I know people seem to be
• 4:56
  Speaker 1: shy about calling in today, but give us a call.
• 4:59
  Speaker 1: Eight seven seven six oh two nine six nine. This
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: is a good question.
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: I'm fifty six and got vaccinated against measles as a baby.
• 5:08
  Speaker 3: With the recent cases being reported, would you recommend that
• 5:12
  Speaker 3: I get a booster?
• 5:14
  Speaker 2: Oh, you should be immune. If you're remarkably nervous about it.
• 5:18
  Speaker 2: You can go in and get a measles tighter from
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: your clinician. Measles what the lab tighter. They can see
• 5:24
  Speaker 2: if you have immunity. If you have the immunity, so
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: you can get a measles tighter and make sure that
• 5:31
  Speaker 2: you're immune. If you're not, then you could get the booster.
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I'm assuming I'm immune because I had measles when
• 5:38
  Speaker 1: I was a kid, So.
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: You're immune to everything though.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: They'll never get sick. Ever, I wish this is a
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: you probably had that go to liver transplant or the
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: pig transplant, right, I have no no, it was It
• 5:53
  Speaker 1: wasn't me. I wasn't asking any consent.
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: Don't understand.
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: I wasn't asking a personal question on us. Uh, this
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: is this is weird. No matter how many times I
• 6:04
  Speaker 1: wash behind my ears, there's always a funky smell. What
• 6:08
  Speaker 1: can be causing that? You think that's a legitimate question. Yes,
• 6:13
  Speaker 1: I think that's.
• 6:16
  Speaker 2: I wonder what they're washing with, Yeah, if you're using, yeah,
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: change your soap.
• 6:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean if could it be could it be
• 6:22
  Speaker 3: doctor Cobble a yeast infection?
• 6:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 6:26
  Speaker 2: Oh well yeah, anything's possible. I mean, see a dermatologist.
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's see doctor Cobble. When I move or walk
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: around my gallstones jingle white keys.
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: We'll take them out of your pocket. Is that around with?
• 6:43
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: Some people take their gallstones home with them after surgery.
• 6:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah. If I've heard they make jewelry out of it sometimes.
• 6:49
  Speaker 1: Is that that's crazy? Now? Is that possible that you
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: could hear your your gallstones jingling.
• 6:55
  Speaker 2: Only if you have them in a in a in
• 6:57
  Speaker 2: your pocket? Yeah, after surgery?
• 6:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've been taking what is that? Just soul fit fram.
• 7:05
  Speaker 3: This is why you should call D s U L F.
• 7:08
  Speaker 1: I R A m Okay taking it for a while
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: now it's working great. However, I'm going to a beer
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: tasting event in a few weeks. How long in advance
• 7:18
  Speaker 1: do I need to stop taking it? Then? Can I
• 7:20
  Speaker 1: start it back up? Afterwards. First of all, do you
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: know what that is, doctor Cobble.
• 7:24
  Speaker 2: Well, I think that's generic for an abuse. So and
• 7:29
  Speaker 2: people if they combine those two alcohol with an abuse,
• 7:33
  Speaker 2: they get remarkably sick. I don't know what the half
• 7:36
  Speaker 2: life is. I think that typically people taking an abuse
• 7:40
  Speaker 2: are taking it to stay away from alcohol because they
• 7:43
  Speaker 2: have an alcohol dependency DRON issue. My recommendation would be
• 7:49
  Speaker 2: to go to the beer tasting program. Smell the beer,
• 7:53
  Speaker 2: drink water, don't drink the beer. But I think if
• 7:56
  Speaker 2: you stopped it a week before you go, if you
• 7:59
  Speaker 2: feel like you're you have to definitely taste the beer
• 8:03
  Speaker 2: as long as it doesn't re you know, restart the addiction.
• 8:08
  Speaker 2: And that's always my concern. You know, people quit smoking,
• 8:11
  Speaker 2: if they borrow a cigarette from a friend, they're back
• 8:14
  Speaker 2: smoking again, And I think, yeah, I just hate to
• 8:18
  Speaker 2: see people get pulled back into an addictive behavior.
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I quit smoking probably four times, I would think
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: before I finally really quit. And once i'd quit for
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: two or three years and then started up again, it's.
• 8:35
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, didn't you start, Like when you were at
• 8:37
  Speaker 3: the Olympics in Japan and that was.
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: The last That was the last time I smoked, yeah,
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: and I didn't really start up. Again. I was in Japan.
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: Everybody in Japan smokes. I said to myself, what the hell?
• 8:48
  Speaker 1: And so while I was there for two weeks, I smoked,
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: and then you didn't, and then I stopped.
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: When I stopped, yeah, So I looked it up in
• 8:55
  Speaker 2: the elimination half left sixty to one hundred and twenty hours,
• 8:58
  Speaker 2: so three to six days. So probably have to stop
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: that drug two weeks before you want to go to
• 9:03
  Speaker 2: the beer tasting. But I would recommend not drinking the beer.
• 9:09
  Speaker 3: This is a good question. I haven't seen any type
• 9:13
  Speaker 3: of doctor in several years. Should I find a normal
• 9:16
  Speaker 3: doctor or a gynecologist first?
• 9:18
  Speaker 1: A normal or just a GP A straight A. I
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: dare you to a normal doctor. There's no such thing.
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: If you're over sixty five. They don't recommend PAP tests anymore.
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: If you're under sixty five, you should get a PAP
• 9:32
  Speaker 2: test every two to five years. Gynecologists could do that.
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: You can order your own mammogram. A gynecologists can order
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: the bone density. But I think you can see a
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: regular doctor, normal doctor, or again, if this is a
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: woman sending it in, I think a gynecologist does a
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: lot of primary care, so they should be able to
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: manage you know, they could check your cholesterol and your
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: liver and kidney, and they do blood work there. So
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: I think either way, either way you feel most comfortable.
• 9:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I had. I had a female friend who's uh,
• 10:03
  Speaker 1: that's the only doctor she had was her gynecologist. A
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: lot of women.
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: If you don't have any chronic problems, other problems, that
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: that's a good.
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: Way to go.
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: Bill, I thought you were going to say you had
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: your PAP test at the college.
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: No, my primary care doctor used to be my gynecologist.
• 10:21
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 10:22
  Speaker 1: Oh, somebody says, Bill, I read that liver story, and
• 10:25
  Speaker 1: then later on they said, I read the liver story.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: I was particularly interested because I have stage four cirrhosis
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: of the liver.
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 10:34
  Speaker 1: I read the liver story story. And this thing that
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: they're talking about is only good for forty eight hours
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: if you're in liver failure. It's for patients who are
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: waiting to get a liver.
• 10:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, it's a stop stop gap.
• 10:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're waiting for your liver to become available. And
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: if you if your liver fails, they can hook you
• 10:52
  Speaker 1: up to this thing and it will I guess, you know,
• 10:55
  Speaker 1: bring it, bring you back for bring your liver back
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: for a certain period of time.
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: Shoot, well that's terrible.
• 11:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I mean it's a good This is a
• 11:04
  Speaker 1: good thing that they have this this available at the
• 11:07
  Speaker 1: Inner Mountain. I and I'm sure it's I'm sure it's inexpensive.
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: You know. Let's see, I'm twenty three years old, five
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: feet eight, one hundred and thirty pounds. On a good day,
• 11:20
  Speaker 1: I'm experiencing severe tension in my neck around my right
• 11:23
  Speaker 1: shoulder blade leading to the back of my head. Sometimes
• 11:26
  Speaker 1: it'll become so tense it'll restrict my neck from moving
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: and lock it in place. What can I do to
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: reveal this tension? Ad relieve this tension? Advil, don't do nothing.
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: I think it's reasonable to see a clinician and have
• 11:44
  Speaker 2: an evaluation. But physical therapy typically could help a lot.
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: Massage therapy, chiropractic therapy, maybe a prescription strength anti inflammatory,
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: muscle relaxant. But I think it's worth going and seeing somebody.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you can make it. Used to be that
• 11:59
  Speaker 1: you had to have your primary care physician refer you
• 12:02
  Speaker 1: to a physical therapist. But I think you can just
• 12:05
  Speaker 1: find one and.
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: Go depends on your insurance.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: Oh it doesn't. Yeah, yeah, I think our insurance you
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: can just go to a physical therapist. So I think
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: those are all the questions we have. There is one
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: that I am curious about.
• 12:17
  Speaker 4: When is regular gastro in gastro issues distress or diarrhea
• 12:23
  Speaker 4: warrant a visit to the doctor.
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: That's tough. You know, if it's gone more than two weeks,
• 12:32
  Speaker 2: I think it's reasonable to see a doctor. You have fevers, chills,
• 12:35
  Speaker 2: black or blood, definitely would see a doctor. Age might
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: dictate too, But a third of people with diarrhea, alternating constipation,
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: bloating gas. If it's a chronic illness, it's usually irritable
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: bowel or spastic colon in. I think seeing a gastroenrologist
• 12:54
  Speaker 2: just to make sure it's not something more serious is reasonable.
• 12:58
  Speaker 2: But as people get older, I get more worried about it.
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: But younger people could have Crohn's disease or alterer of
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: colitis or autoimmune inflammatory bowel disease. So I think if
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: it's gone more than two weeks, then it's reasonable to
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: see a clinician for an evaluation. If it's acute with fever, chills,
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: black or blood. Then it's an emergency and you got
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: to be seen right away.
• 13:21
  Speaker 3: What about at what age should you start having colonoscopies?
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: Depends on your family history, but the recommendation is forty
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: five if you're low risk, probably at thirty if you're
• 13:32
  Speaker 2: high risk. So if there's a family history of colon cancer.
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: Have you had one? But I have to this year. Yeah,
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: it's time for I blame my brother. Oh it's a
• 13:41
  Speaker 1: lot of fun. All right, I'm not prepared for it.
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: All right, we've done. Yes, it all right, thank you doctor,
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: Thank you. Lay down, Put a cold, damp rag on
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: your forehead and think good thoughts. It's going to Heber.
• 13:56
  Speaker 1: He doesn't have a few.
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: I think Tobra.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: Well, then then put a cold rag on your head
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: and when you get there, stop you layer