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Dr. Cobble Q&A from September 16th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right, give me a second, and I'll get Dr.
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  Speaker 1: Cobble's theme up and going here.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll clip my nails while you're doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, do that.
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  Speaker 4: Don't do that in here.
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  Speaker 2: No, I'm catching them. I'm catching them. I'm putting them
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  Speaker 2: in my shirt pocket.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, jeez.
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  Speaker 2: Here he is. I really wasn't doing that.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Dr. Cobble.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Cobble.
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  Speaker 6: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Cobble has joined us.
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  Speaker 5: I'm doing the exact same thing. I've got my fingernail
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  Speaker 5: clippers right here.
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  Speaker 7: And you're putting the clippings in your shirt pocket.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so I can snack on them later.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, geez.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's a lot of collagen in those, I think.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's good for your hair.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Michael Cobble is with us. He can answer medical questions
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What's good for your hair? Eat your fingernails. What ails you?
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  Speaker 2: Let Dr.
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  Speaker 7: Cobble take a stab at it. Well, maybe that's not
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  Speaker 7: a good way to put it. Let him see if
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  Speaker 7: he can answer your medical questions. Is something bothering you?
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  Speaker 7: Something is unhelpful in your life right now? I was looking, Dr. Cobble,
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  Speaker 7: at a story this morning, if I can find it
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  Speaker 7: really quickly.
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  Speaker 2: Here, about.
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  Speaker 2: A new peptide that is being pushed by... It's all
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  Speaker 2: about the peptides. Yeah, that's being pushed by.
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  Speaker 3: Joe Rogan.
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  Speaker 2: No, Kennedy. Excuse me, Dr.
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  Speaker 8: Joe Rogan.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Kennedy.
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  Speaker 7: An experimental peptide backed by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F.
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  Speaker 7: Kennedy Jr.
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  Speaker 2: And marketed online for pain, healing, and performance enhancement is
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  Speaker 2: being used for a wide range of ailments despite little
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  Speaker 2: safety and efficacy evidence from human studies.
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  Speaker 7: It's a peptide called BPC-157. I think they call it
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  Speaker 7: Wolverine Stack.
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  Speaker 4: Is that right?
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  Speaker 3: Are you familiar with this, Dr.
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  Speaker 4: Powell?
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  Speaker 5: I do have patients who have been using that for
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  Speaker 5: the last year or so, but I didn't know it
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  Speaker 5: was called Wolverine Stack.
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  Speaker 7: They've put it together with another peptide. So it's BPC-157
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  Speaker 7: put together with TB-500, and that's what they call it,
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  Speaker 7: a Wolverine Stack. So you have patients who've used the BPC-157.
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  Speaker 7: Has it shown help to them?
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  Speaker 5: Well, it's hard to say because anecdotally some of them
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  Speaker 5: find value with it and some don't. So I don't
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  Speaker 5: know what percentage of them continue on with it. I
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  Speaker 5: think most of the peptides are probably safe short-term. We
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  Speaker 5: don't know what they are long-term. But I think if
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  Speaker 5: somebody tries it, you know, it's not regulated. If somebody
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  Speaker 5: tries it and they find some value from it, then
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  Speaker 5: I think it's worth trying and continuing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's interesting.
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  Speaker 5: It's not regulated.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting. By the way, again, if you have questions
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  Speaker 2: for Dr. Cobble, 877-602-9696.
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  Speaker 7: It's interesting that vitamins, for instance, supplements. Years and years ago,
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  Speaker 7: my mother-in-law, who is a nutritionist, trained as a nutritionist,
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  Speaker 7: When I told her I took a bunch of vitamins,
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  Speaker 7: and she said, oh, you don't need to take vitamins.
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  Speaker 7: Just get your vitamins from what you eat. But then
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  Speaker 7: as years have gone on, and she got more and
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  Speaker 7: more educated about it, it seems that vitamins and supplements
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  Speaker 7: have become some of them. Some of them I think
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  Speaker 7: you're probably still throwing your money away, but there are
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  Speaker 7: some that are. I mean, for instance, is it vitamin
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  Speaker 7: D that you always tell me to make sure I take?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think vitamin D is really important and very
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  Speaker 5: hard to get through your diet or through sun exposure.
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  Speaker 7: And then my eye specialist, he says, take those eye caps,
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  Speaker 7: those preservation eye caps. He said, take them every day,
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  Speaker 7: and they help.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, lutein and zeaxanthine showed a 43% reduction in macular degeneration.
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  Speaker 5: A study a long time ago at the Journal of
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  Speaker 5: American Medicine. So I think there's some value in certain by,
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  Speaker 5: you know, B12, of course, B vitamins, methylfolate. And I
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  Speaker 5: think the hard part with the peptides is there's just
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  Speaker 5: very little data. I mean, some of these peptides have
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  Speaker 5: been studied in 12 people. The one peptide that's had
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  Speaker 5: a lot of studying is the GLP-1s. Those are peptides.
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  Speaker 5: Those were identified in 1964 and came to the diabetes
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  Speaker 5: treatment market in 2004. So a lot of study and
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  Speaker 5: registration data on those. But like BP-157 might have studies
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  Speaker 5: with 12 people.
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  Speaker 2: We've got some callers here.
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  Speaker 3: We'll have to take those after the break.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: You guys hang on. Michael Brody.
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  Speaker 7: All right, we're back with Dr. Michael Cobble, and you
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  Speaker 7: can ask questions. We have several people on the phone,
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  Speaker 7: so let's go.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to Michael.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Michael, what's your question for the doctor?
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  Speaker 9: Hi, Dr.
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  Speaker 2: Cobble. I exercise and sweat a lot. Michael, your phone
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  Speaker 2: is cutting out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're going to need to call back.
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  Speaker 7: You keep cutting out. You're on a Bluetooth or something.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, call back.
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  Speaker 8: I'll call back.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we keep losing you, so.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry about that.
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  Speaker 7: Bummer.
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  Speaker 5: It sounded like he says he exercises and swims a lot,
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  Speaker 5: which sounds great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, good for you, Michael.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Call back.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to Jamie.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Jamie, what's up?
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  Speaker 7: Hi.
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  Speaker 10: Yes, I just had a question about a hernia.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 10: We recently noticed that my husband.
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  Speaker 8: Has a bulge.
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  Speaker 10: It is upper abdomen when he was doing some leg lifts.
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  Speaker 10: We assume it's a hernia. It's not causing him any
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  Speaker 10: pain or anything like that. Is the only way to
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  Speaker 10: fix those surgery, and what are the risks if we
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  Speaker 10: don't do surgery?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so that's a ventral hernia. Those are pretty common,
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  Speaker 5: and they sometimes can get bigger with exercise and intra-abdominal pressure.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's always good to get those fixed. I
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  Speaker 5: think it's pretty rare to get an incarcerated intestine or
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  Speaker 5: bowel obstruction with those, but that's always the concern. I
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  Speaker 5: think any general surgeon could give you an opinion and
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  Speaker 5: talk about how to fix it, but pretty straightforward. Again,
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  Speaker 5: those can get remarkably big, and once they get really big,
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  Speaker 5: they're a real complicated to fix.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, it's about the size of a softball.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a pretty good size. Yeah, I would get
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  Speaker 5: it fixed.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: General surgery and.
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  Speaker 2: It's pretty simple surgery too really isn't.
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  Speaker 5: It yeah at that size it is when they get
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  Speaker 5: really big it's it's bad.
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  Speaker 1: And and let's let's reclaim this tell your husband that
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  Speaker 1: he has a hymnia not a hernia.
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  Speaker 10: There you go yeah he's not painful he just now
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  Speaker 10: that he knows it's there it's bothering him.
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  Speaker 7: Thanks thank you so much see ya thank you uh.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to uh brody hi.
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  Speaker 2: Brody go ahead Morning.
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  Speaker 6: I recently started using a neti pot, and I'm having
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  Speaker 6: so much fun using it, but I ran into those
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  Speaker 6: little sachets that come with it. Is it possible that
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  Speaker 6: I can make some of those at home?
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  Speaker 2: Those little powder stuff? Yeah, you don't need that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I like the neti pots. I think those are great,
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  Speaker 5: and I think you can get a home, you can
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  Speaker 5: make home sachets, so you're It seems to me.
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  Speaker 7: We used to just use distilled water and a little
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  Speaker 7: bit of salt.
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  Speaker 2: Salt, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, look up online.
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  Speaker 5: I feel like I'm drowning.
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  Speaker 2: Right now?
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I'm being waterboarded.
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  Speaker 7: Actually, if I have a cold or something, a neti
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  Speaker 7: pot is great.
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  Speaker 2: Just great.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks, Brody.
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  Speaker 2: See you later.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to Elodie.
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  Speaker 2: Is that correct?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: Hi, it's Elodie.
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  Speaker 2: Elodie. What's your question?
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  Speaker 8: So I'm 40 and I have like minor anxiety episodes.
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  Speaker 8: I don't want to get on medication, but I do
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  Speaker 8: want to know if there's like a combination of vitamins
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  Speaker 8: or teas or something that could help me sleep more
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  Speaker 8: at night because I'm running on like four hours a day.
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  Speaker 5: So did you say you're 40 with anxiety or insomnia?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, definitely insomnia. Yeah, I go to sleep really late,
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  Speaker 8: wake up really early. If I wake up in between,
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  Speaker 8: it's hard to go back to sleep. So I just
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  Speaker 8: keep hearing like magnesium and different things.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, herbal and vitamin products can help. Magnesium, melatonin, chamomile, passionflower, passiflora,
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  Speaker 5: valerian root. sometimes tryptophan. Sometimes people find 5-HTP, but tryptophan
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  Speaker 5: you can get from a glass of milk or a
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  Speaker 5: little bit of turkey. My grandma and my mom used
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  Speaker 5: to like to do that, a little turkey snack at
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  Speaker 5: night or a little milk at night. But those would
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  Speaker 5: be the things. So valerian root, chamomile, passionflower, magnesium, melatonin,
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  Speaker 5: 5-HTP or tryptophan, turkey milk type stuff.
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  Speaker 7: I found that melatonin worked a little too well for
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  Speaker 7: me in that it I can't recover from it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would be groggy when I would wake up
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  Speaker 2: and be groggy for a while.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's what I know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I was groggy the whole day after melatonin.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that's rare. A few people can experience that,
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  Speaker 5: but I think you just got to try those. And
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  Speaker 5: there are quite a few combination products on the market
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  Speaker 5: that have several of those products in them.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Bye. Bye, Elodie.
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  Speaker 3: Look for the sleepy time tea with the teddy bear
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  Speaker 3: on the cover. Let's go to Michael. Hello, Michael.
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  Speaker 2: You're back.
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  Speaker 4: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: Hello, Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Cobble.
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  Speaker 4: Sorry, my phone cut out. I have a question about diabetes.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I am type 2 diabetic, insulin dependent. I thought I
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  Speaker 4: would try the Freestyle Libre blood sugar monitor. And it
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  Speaker 4: lasted for about three days, and so it kept falling off.
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  Speaker 4: It fell off, and I couldn't get it back on.
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  Speaker 4: And I was wondering if you have any tips or
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  Speaker 4: tricks on how to keep those on.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it may not have been applied correctly the first time,
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  Speaker 5: so I would just try it again. For most people,
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  Speaker 5: that sticks right in there, and it stays for 15 days.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes the monitors do fail sometimes. in five to 10 days.
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  Speaker 5: And you'll occasionally see that as well. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: think that any of the continuous glucose monitors are awesome.
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  Speaker 5: If you can't get the freestyle Libre to work, then
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  Speaker 5: Dexcom is another option. And yeah, I think most of
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  Speaker 5: my diabetics on insulin, once they start using those products,
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  Speaker 5: they never stop because they're able to manage their sugars
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  Speaker 5: and their diabetes management much better.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 5: Did you try it more than once or you just
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  Speaker 5: tried the one?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, did you try it?
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  Speaker 4: I just tried the one time and I was a
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  Speaker 4: little gun shy. I was exercising and sweating and taking
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  Speaker 4: showers and it just came with this little oval band-aid
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  Speaker 4: that you put over it and maybe I need to
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  Speaker 4: change the way I'm showering or something.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I swim with those and I shower and mow
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  Speaker 5: the yard and run and sweat all the time with them.
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  Speaker 5: And I haven't had that problem. So I think you
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  Speaker 5: probably just didn't apply it correctly. They should stick straight
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  Speaker 5: to the skin and there's not something you put over
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  Speaker 5: the top of them typically. So I'd probably just maybe
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  Speaker 5: look at YouTube video on how to apply it and look,
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  Speaker 5: see how it's done visually and then re reattach one.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Go.
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  Speaker 3: Great.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: See ya.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Michael.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a text question. When should I get the flu
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  Speaker 1: and COVID vaccine? I am 65 and healthy.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I think fall, early winter is a great time.
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  Speaker 5: So typically late October, early November. If you don't want
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  Speaker 5: to take both together, I like the flu in the
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  Speaker 5: late fall, early November, late October. And then I like
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  Speaker 5: the COVID vaccine in the late spring. Some people like
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  Speaker 5: to do the COVID vaccine twice a year if somebody
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  Speaker 5: is really high risk. Every six months is not unreasonable,
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  Speaker 5: but I think certainly the flu in the late fall
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  Speaker 5: and the COVID in the early spring.
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  Speaker 3: Jeremy has some diabetic device advice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Jeremy, go ahead.
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  Speaker 3: Say that five times fast.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Jeremy.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, so I used the Libre for the guy who
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  Speaker 9: was barely on, and I had some problems with it
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  Speaker 9: getting stuck on.
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  Speaker 4: And just go on Amazon and you can find.
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  Speaker 2: Little patches that.
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  Speaker 9: Cover up that. And it breathes really well. It stays
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  Speaker 9: on for the 15 days. And it helps it stay
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  Speaker 9: on your body really well. So, I mean, from one
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  Speaker 9: diabetic to another.
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  Speaker 2: Nice.
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  Speaker 5: Advice.
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  Speaker 9: And I love the doctor and I love listening to
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  Speaker 9: you guys. So, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, thanks for the help.
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  Speaker 7: Awesome.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: See you later. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Well, that's all the time we have.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Well, we'll see you in a couple of weeks, Dr. Cobble.
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  Speaker 2: Always a pleasure.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: You're welcome. See you soon.
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  Speaker 4: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Bye-bye.