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Don't Trust Dr. Google: Seeking Professional Health Advice · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  So last week, I was at home and I decided it was time to take a shower.
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  And as I was getting ready to take a shower, I noticed in the back of my left
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  side of the neck, I felt a lump.
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  And I said, whoa, where did this lump come from?
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  So what did I do? Well, I did the most smartest thing you could do,
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  right? The most coolest thing you can do. I went on the internet.
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  And what did I do? I self-diagnosed myself.
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  Why would you do that, Angel? Well, I'm not a doctor, but you know who is and
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  who's going to talk about us not doing that?
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  Dr. E is back. And number one thing you always got to remember,
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  don't go on the internet to self-diagnose yourself.
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  Let the professionals do it.
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  Here we go. Have faith, let it begin.
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  Starts right now. Have faith, let it begin. When it starts right now.
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  Music.
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  Welcome to Have Faith. Let it begin. Here's your host, Angel Santana. Ariel.
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  Can you say, have faith? Let it begin. Let it begin? Let it begin. Say, have faith.
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  Let it begin. Let it begin. No. No? No? Okay.
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  Hi, Noah. Noah! Oh, Noah. Oh, Jesus. Happy birthday, Noah.
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  Take that. I'm doing it. See, he just does that. No.
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  Noah. This little light of mine, I'm going to let it.
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  Say. This little light of mine, I'm going to let it say.
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  This little light of mine, I'm going to let it say. Let it say.
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  Let it say. Let it say. Yeah!
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  Daddy, I'm so excited, but I have one question. What's your question?
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  Are you going to be a pastor or a minister?
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  Good question. I don't know, but it is all in God's hands. Good morning.
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  You're listening to Have Faith Lab again, and it starts right now.
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  Dr. E is back. Dr. E, I made the worst mistake.
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  I went online, and I just started to see what was, what was,
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  I think I just typed it in.
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  What causes the lump on the back up your neck? Oh, the worst mistake I ever did. How are you, buddy?
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  Oh, man, I'm good. Hello, Have Faith. I missed you guys. I've been going to
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  an every other week format.
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  Angel, we got to figure out a way of getting me on Have Faith every week.
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  I don't want to miss that because I love your, I love your family.
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  I love our family here at Have Faith.
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  Yeah. I mean, Angel, you are the co-host of the Croc podcast, right?
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  And you know, we actually did a podcast on Dr.
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  Googling and we have told all of our survivor thrivers not to do that.
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  And you have an older brother who happens to be a doctor.
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  That's me. And I could have very easily checked your neck for you and told you,
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  I smacked you on the face and told you you were fine. but instead you did probably
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  the worst thing you could ever do.
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  Yeah. And it's hard. And I think that I said to myself, wow,
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  when I see you today and we record, I said, that's the episode I want to go with.
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  Because even though I knew it was wrong, I just got, I got curious.
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  And the curiosity was that curiosity killed the cat. Right.
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  And, and I felt like I was on YouTube. When you go down that rabbit hole where
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  you just go episode after episode, or you you're scrolling and you see one prank after another.
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  So I say, well, this is more of Dr. E's specialty. And I said,
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  listen, we really should cover, cover this because it's not the first time I've heard it.
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  I see it all the time with even my friends. They say that there's,
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  you know, stomach hurts.
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  They think it's an ulcer. They say it's this, what, what is the best advice you can give us?
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  We already know the answer, but let's hear from a professional.
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  What would you say we should do?
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  Obviously. And we already know what not to do, but what should we do when we
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  feel like we have something going on and we shouldn't go to the,
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  obviously the internet, what would you say we should do?
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  Yeah. So, wow. Thank you, Angel. I, I do have an answer to that.
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  So we used to have a funny expression in the days before the internet.
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  So when we were medical students in the early 1980s, you know, there was a phenomenon.
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  The phenomenon was that every medical student was going to have every illness that they studied.
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  And that was sort of a precursor, you know, to, to Dr.
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  Google, because we would read about leukemia and we would have leukemia.
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  We would read about, you know, hepatitis and we would have hepatitis.
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  We would read about, you know, genital warts and we would have genital warts, you name it.
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  We would, that's what being a medical student back in the day before the internet was all about.
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  But very clearly, my biggest advice is that I want everyone on Half Faith to
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  be proactive with their health.
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  So if you have a health situation, if you're not healthy, if you feel overweight,
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  if you feel your blood sugar is off, if you feel you have high blood pressure,
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  or if you happen to have high blood pressure, if you have habits that are not
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  healthy, if you're smoking, if you're drinking a little bit too much.
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  These are all the things that when something bad happens to you,
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  it makes things that much worse.
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  So let's first start with being proactive.
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  Whatever it is, whatever your age, you could be 16, you could be 60,
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  you could be 20, you could be 40.
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  I don't care how old you are. I want you to take stock of your health.
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  And then I want you to find a primary care doctor.
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  That's the first thing you're going to do. someone that you could connect with
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  and understand and have a partnership with and that you could trust.
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  And then I want you to then put down a list of some of the things you have to work on.
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  Now, this is not something, if you're a smoker, I don't want you to quit smoking overnight.
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  I don't need you to quit drinking a case of beer overnight.
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  It takes time and planning. Once you start knowing yourself,
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  once you start knowing your medical vulnerabilities.
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  Then when something happens, you run a fever, you have diarrhea,
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  your throat hurts, your ear hurts, you can't see out of your right eye,
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  you have a lump on your neck or whatever.
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  Then you'll be able to put everything in perspective.
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  Do not use Dr.
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  Google as the primary, you know, knee jerk reaction.
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  You have a, first of all, if you know what your problems are.
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  So if you have heart disease and you have pressure or pain in your chest,
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  don't go to Dr. Google, go to the emergency room.
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  If you have a fever, but you're healthy and you feel that you have very good
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  foundation for health, then you could ride it out for a few days.
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  As long as you don't feel you're in danger, you're dizzy, you faint,
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  you know, or something silly, you don't need to, you know, sit 16 hours in an
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  emergency room just to be kicked out, right? You don't need to do that.
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  Number three, doctor who will do being knowledgeable about a situation or a condition that
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  is fine, but let it go through your doctor first.
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  Once you see your primary doctor and they alleviate your fears of what this
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  could be, then what you say to them is, doc,
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  you know, I actually had an eye issue maybe about two years ago and I started
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  and I went to a retinologist and you know, doctors, you guys all think doctors
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  know everything about everything.
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  I knew about as much about this condition as Angel probably knows about brain surgery.
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  And there was nothing. And I asked
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  them for resources. I wanted to know a little bit about what this was.
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  So if it ever happened again, I wouldn't have to go to Dr. Google.
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  You can get that information from your doctor. So Angel, just to recapitulate,
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  I know I went a little long today.
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  I want you to take stock of your health. I want you to identify some of the
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  things that you need to improve on. I wanted you to go out there and find a
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  great primary care that you can relate to.
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  And I want you to come up with a health plan.
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  When something happens that you're not expecting, as I said,
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  your blood sugar goes high, your blood pressure, you have a headache,
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  you have a fever, you have a lump on your neck.
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  Contact your doctor first and foremost, get the reassurance that you need that
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  it's not a problem and then get back on your program for health.
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  Angel, does that answer your question? It was perfect. And I,
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  you know, I wanted to do this episode, but I didn't feel quite honestly qualified
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  to answer it in the way you did.
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  And I knew you would articulate it in a way that our audience can understand
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  it. Folks, we're going to conclude this way. Two things.
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  Number one, if you like what you heard, this is kind of in a way what the Crock
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  podcast, Citizens Reunited to Overcome Cancer, does talk about.
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  There are episodes that we can pick and choose based on your needs,
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  but I guarantee you we've done episodes about this. Some of them in detail.
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  Sometimes we've had guests of there were doctors about certain types of,
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  you know, uh, things that you were diagnosed with, or maybe not diagnosed with.
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  So I, I strongly suggest you take a look at the croc podcast,
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  take a look at crocvip.com.
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  Now on a side note.
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  There are people here on this planet for a reason. They're called doctors. They're called nurses.
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  They're called pediatricians. They have studied and they know what is best and
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  what is in our best interest.
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  God didn't make mistakes when they put them on the table or as far as behind
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  their masks or at the operating table.
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  So we ask you and encourage you to think the right way.
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  Put yourself and your health first. and also in addition to Dr.
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  Google, don't listen to Aunt May and Aunt Susie who say, you know what,
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  I think you have this because they do that too.
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  So go to the professionals and make sure that you know it best.
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  But you wanna know something?
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  There is one person that will always keep your health in check.
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  There is one person that oversees our health and knows us better than anyone
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  else and that is our Heavenly Father.
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  So today, if you're not feeling well, we pray that you get better.
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  If you have lost a loved one, we are with you.
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  If you want to continue to hear more of this and you have any type of feedback,
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  feel free to reach out to us.
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  May God be with you. May he shine his light upon you and grant each and every
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  single one of you peace on earth.
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  We'll see you next Monday with Dr. E. I'll be back again tomorrow and never forget.
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  Faith, let it begin, guys. God bless. I'll talk to you soon. Take care.
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  Thank you for listening to have faith let
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  it begin we'll be back tomorrow thank you
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  Music.