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An Almost Famous Check-up with Dr. Guy Gansert · The Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast

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Speaker 1: This is the Ben and Ashley I Almost Famous Podcast
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Speaker 1: with iHeartRadio.
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Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Almost Famous podcast. It's been coming
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Speaker 2: to you from beautiful Lake Tahoe. It's always good to
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Speaker 2: check in and get some doctorly advice. That's we're here today.
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Speaker 2: Summer is in full swing, and while we're here in
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Speaker 2: Lake Tahoe, I've got some questions that I think only
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Speaker 2: a doctor could answer. The doctor is in and we're
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Speaker 2: here with golden bachelorettes. Guy answer guy. This is a
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Speaker 2: like a health focused episode. There's a lot of questions,
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Speaker 2: especially as we're kind of in the hardest summer with
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Speaker 2: people having family gatherings and cookouts, and sometimes I don't
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Speaker 2: know if you feel this way, guy, or if you
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Speaker 2: notice this when you practice medicine, but in the summer,
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Speaker 2: I kind of forget about my health. Like I mean,
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Speaker 2: I get outside a lot, but I'm just like kind
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Speaker 2: of always so busy that I don't really take time
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Speaker 2: to be like, hey, am I feeling okay? Like why
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Speaker 2: am I a little more sluggish and normal? So we're
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Speaker 2: here just to throw some questions your away.
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Speaker 3: If that's okay, absolutely, I will put out a disclaimer
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Speaker 3: that some of the questions may be out of my
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Speaker 3: scope of practice per se, but I do have an
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Speaker 3: interest in a broad array of topics in medicine itself,
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Speaker 3: not just emergency medicine, which was my specialty or is
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Speaker 3: my speciality.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Sure, Well, if there's anything here that comes up there
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Speaker 2: you're like, hey, I don't feel comfortable by asking this.
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Speaker 4: You should ask. You should google it, like every.
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Speaker 3: Good, good person does.
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Speaker 2: Doctor Google, Doctor Google. We're gonna start with allergies here.
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Speaker 5: Now.
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Speaker 4: We have a big group.
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Speaker 2: We're at an almost famous pickleball tournament in Lake Tahoe.
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Speaker 2: We have a big group of people here. I am
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Speaker 2: preparing right now for evening spread. But one thing that's
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Speaker 2: come up over the years of doing these events is
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Speaker 2: there's always allergies that I have to be careful from.
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Speaker 2: Is there any types of food just off the bat
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Speaker 2: that stand out to you that I should stay away
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Speaker 2: from tonight as we plan this dinner.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess you know. There it's you or just
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Speaker 3: the general population. There's certain foods that are commonly no
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Speaker 3: or more commonly known to cause allergies. Certain fruits like strawberries.
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Speaker 3: People have a lot of insensitive cities too. Nuts are
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Speaker 3: a big one where that's peanuts, different types of nuts,
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Speaker 3: and then really you know, in you can have an
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Speaker 3: allergic reaction to anything under the sun. As I used
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Speaker 3: to tell patients, is anything can actually cause an allergic
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Speaker 3: reaction anywhere from food to environmental you know, stimulants to
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Speaker 3: you know, temperatures outside a lot of almost anything can
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Speaker 3: cause it. Most of the time when we see somebody
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Speaker 3: with allergic reaction, because I'd see them often in the
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Speaker 3: emergency room, I'd say that ninety percent of the time
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Speaker 3: we never figured out what was causing their allergic reaction.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes it's very obvious. Somebody would come in and they
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Speaker 3: just took some you know, penicilla and all of a
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Speaker 3: sudden they developed, you know, in a large correction, or
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Speaker 3: they you know, they ate some peanuts that they got
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Speaker 3: exposed to something that they knew they had an allergy to.
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Speaker 3: But oftentimes, you know, you can't you can't figure it out,
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Speaker 3: at least not on the initial evaluation of the r
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Speaker 3: and so you have to be kind of a kind
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Speaker 3: of aware that anything can do it. But most people
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Speaker 3: usually start to become aware of what they're sensitive to
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Speaker 3: and what they're not before you know, or at least
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Speaker 3: the stage in our lives.
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Speaker 2: But that's that's an interesting point though, because one thing
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Speaker 2: that came up this trip for the first time, and
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Speaker 2: one of the reasons why I wanted to bring you
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Speaker 2: on to talk about it, was after thirty years of life,
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Speaker 2: our producer, Heather had eaten avocados forever and then all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, she develops an allergy to them. And
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Speaker 2: you know, it comes in on the list of allergies
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Speaker 2: that we have to be careful of. But the note was,
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Speaker 2: you know, I ate it for thirty years and all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, I'm allergic.
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Speaker 4: Is that common? I've never heard of that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Actually it's it's more common you think it would be,
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Speaker 3: because you know, I get I see once again. I'd
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Speaker 3: see that a lot in the emergency department.
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Speaker 5: They said I.
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Speaker 3: Didn't eat anything or wasn't exposed anything, because I'd go
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Speaker 3: through this list of questions with them to try to determine,
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Speaker 3: you know, what the precipitating you know, allergen was, and
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Speaker 3: so people would say, you know, I've I've eaten strawberries
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Speaker 3: all my life, or I've eaten shrimp all my life,
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Speaker 3: and all of a sudden you develop an allergic reaction
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Speaker 3: to it, so you know why you develop it later
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Speaker 3: in life. Is is kind of one of the great
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Speaker 3: mysteries of immunology. You know, you know, we feel like
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Speaker 3: it or we believe it's, you know, due to sensitization,
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Speaker 3: so that you get exposed to whether whatever the allergen is,
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Speaker 3: you know, and that can be food, that can be
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Speaker 3: external pollens, anything, and so you get exposed to it
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Speaker 3: and your your immune system recognizes that as a as
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Speaker 3: a foreign bier, something that you know, they don't like
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Speaker 3: to see, and then you subsequently develop uh and you
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Speaker 3: know some of the you know, there's certain certain types
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Speaker 3: of cells and stuff and allergic type of cells that
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Speaker 3: will then be sensitized so that when you keep getting
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Speaker 3: exposed to it, then at some point it just it
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Speaker 3: pops out. So you know what you're doing is we're
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Speaker 3: just getting You've been exposed to it over the years,
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Speaker 3: and then at some point your body just says I've
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Speaker 3: had enough, and you have this allergic reaction to it.
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Speaker 2: It's so interesting because I feel like too, in like
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Speaker 2: my kind of generation, I'm hearing more and more about
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Speaker 2: pena allergies or people having you know, being lactose intolerant.
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Speaker 2: I mean, when I was a child, drink a lot
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Speaker 2: of milk. I remember my parents drink a lot of milk.
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Speaker 2: They no longer drink like milk today because it messes
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Speaker 2: with their bodies. I don't drink milk straight anymore because
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Speaker 2: it messes with my body. So is it kind of
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Speaker 2: the common thing that you're talking about there? As it
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Speaker 2: feels like these things are more prevalent now than I
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Speaker 2: ever remember them.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I you know, it's it's it's it's interesting. And
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Speaker 3: one of the things that you know, when I'd be
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Speaker 3: listening to lectures, you know, on allergic crash and stuff,
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Speaker 3: is that is that some of these specialists would just say,
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Speaker 3: you know, we just don't eat enough dirt anymore. And
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Speaker 3: you know, as you know, when I was growing up
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Speaker 3: in you know, the sixties and seventies and stuff yours outside,
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Speaker 3: nobody even thought about allergies. Nobody thought about allergic reactions.
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Speaker 3: Nobody carried an EpiPen. I mean, that was unheard of,
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Speaker 3: and I think it was just so we think that
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Speaker 3: you know this, you know, it's just develops because if
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Speaker 3: you are exposed to it all the time, then you
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Speaker 3: you know, your body is used to it. If it's not,
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Speaker 3: then you're more likely to have analergy. When you talk
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Speaker 3: about like food allergies, when you talk about like milk,
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Speaker 3: that's a you know most of the time. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you can have an allergy to milk, but normally it's
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Speaker 3: an intolerance. For example, with milk, it contains lactose, which
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Speaker 3: is the milk sugar, and in your intestines you actually
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Speaker 3: have an enzyme called black taste. It breaks it down,
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Speaker 3: and as you get older, you don't you don't make
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Speaker 3: as much of the black taste. And so when you know,
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Speaker 3: so you have some ice cream or some milk or
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Speaker 3: whatever it might be, the dairy product, then you have
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Speaker 3: an intolerance. And usually the result in that case is
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Speaker 3: you know, gi symtematology, you know, with loose stools, bloating, cramping,
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Speaker 3: those things.
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Speaker 2: So one of the biggest sadnesses of getting older is
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Speaker 2: my lack of ability to eat ice cream anymore.
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Speaker 4: Yes, it makes me very sad. It's not fun.
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Speaker 3: It's you know, it's interesting, you know, because my father
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Speaker 3: had lactose intolerance and he loved ice cream, absolutely love it.
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Speaker 5: I just I can't eat it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, he'd have one, you know, one mouthful and
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Speaker 3: you he'd be paying for it the rest of the night.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, and everybody else too.
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Speaker 2: The big thing hitting kind of the airways right now
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Speaker 2: is we have some celebrities coming out that they have
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Speaker 2: been diagnosed with prostate cancer. We're switching gears here from
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Speaker 2: allergens to some other health topics, both that affect you know,
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Speaker 2: men and women and also men and women specifically, prostate
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Speaker 2: cancer is obviously one that affects men. Celebrities are coming
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Speaker 2: out kind of talking about their journey with prostate cancer.
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Speaker 2: Is it as prevalent as it seems right now? Has
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Speaker 2: it become more prevalent? Also, if you don't mind, in
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Speaker 2: the course of kind of answering this question, how would
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Speaker 2: I check myself for prostate cancer as a thirty six
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Speaker 2: year old male.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so with pro sa cancer, you know, the adage
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Speaker 3: is if you live long enough as a male, you're
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Speaker 3: going to develop prostate cancer at some point.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 3: One of the reasons that we're seeing, you know, increased
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Speaker 3: number of people being diagnosed with it probably stems from
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Speaker 3: the fact that we're living longer, you know. So prostate
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Speaker 3: cancer is it's a it's a disease of older men.
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Speaker 3: Typically fifty and over sixty. You know, that's when you
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Speaker 3: start to see the increased rise. And what's happening is
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Speaker 3: is we're living longer. So for example, you know, in
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Speaker 3: nineteen sixty, I think the life expectancy for mail was
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Speaker 3: about sixty seven. Now it's seventy nine, almost eighty. So
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Speaker 3: we're just seeing more people that go into that time
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Speaker 3: frame when you start to develop prostate cancer. And then
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Speaker 3: the other is is that we're more aware of it
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Speaker 3: and we have screening tests for it. And you would
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Speaker 3: ask like, how do you know, you know check yourself. Well,
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Speaker 3: I'd say the first thing is is that you know,
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Speaker 3: you know, you see you go see your position. You know,
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Speaker 3: the recommendations I believe for PSA prostate specific energen, which
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Speaker 3: is a screening test for prostate cancer, doesn't mean that
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Speaker 3: if it's elevated that you have prostate cancer, but you
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Speaker 3: have to have it followed up. Typically, urologists will monitor
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Speaker 3: that sometimes to say, you know, you know, we need
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Speaker 3: to do a biapse to your prostate, you know, based
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Speaker 3: on the numbers or based on your symptomatology. And then
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Speaker 3: you also need to have besides having like a p
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Speaker 3: S A and that's recommended typically over the age of fifty.
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Speaker 3: If you're you have a family history, or if you're
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Speaker 3: African American you have a higher risk, so maybe forty
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Speaker 3: five you need to start getting checked for it.
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Speaker 5: And then.
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Speaker 3: The other is you even if you get a PSA
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Speaker 3: done every year, you need a digital rectal examination. Ten
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Speaker 3: percent of the prostate cancers will not have elevated PSA levels.
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Speaker 4: And so you go into your physician.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, you get it, you know, you know, you get
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Speaker 5: a prostate exam.
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Speaker 3: You know, you know, people you know think it kind
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Speaker 3: of nervous about it and stuff, and it's it's really
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Speaker 3: not as bad as you know, it's as bad as
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Speaker 3: you want to let it.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've had I've had a few in my life.
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Speaker 2: I had a weird thing in Heist Goal where I
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Speaker 2: was developing too much calcium and so they were giving
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Speaker 2: me they had to check me out. I would say
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Speaker 2: that they're not as bad as what you imagined.
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Speaker 4: The beat.
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Speaker 2: It's not something that I would recommend or fighting to
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Speaker 2: get done again. And if you get enough of them,
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Speaker 2: you can kind of tell everybody's technique the uh there
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Speaker 2: and there are different ones. Yeah, it's you want.
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Speaker 5: What's come out is a lot bigger than what goes in.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you need uh, you need the smallest man. It's
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Speaker 2: interesting to me kind of right now. Also is my
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Speaker 2: wife is an esthetician guy. Uh, And we're out here
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Speaker 2: in Lake Tahoe. I live in Denver, Colorado. Sunscreen is
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Speaker 2: such a wild topic, and I hear my wife talking
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Speaker 2: about a lot with her clients. She is a huge
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Speaker 2: proponent obviously is an esthetician on sunscreen, but cific sunscreens.
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Speaker 2: She has a list that she kind of shares with
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Speaker 2: her clients on sunscreens that she finds helpful. In fact,
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Speaker 2: her her grandfather, who she loved dearly, passed away from
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Speaker 2: you know, skin cancer a few years ago, and one
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Speaker 2: of the causes of it was he was always putting
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Speaker 2: the wrong sunscreen on. And so that's kind of why
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Speaker 2: she got into the field that she did. But now,
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Speaker 2: as I'm preparing for this show and kind of looking
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Speaker 2: up all the common health concerns of the public right now,
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Speaker 2: you see a lot of people, especially celebrities, saying they
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Speaker 2: don't use some block at all.
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Speaker 4: Uh. Is this recommended?
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Speaker 2: My wife would tell you tell anybody, no, you got
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Speaker 2: to use sunscreen.
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Speaker 4: Here's some good kinds. As as a doctor, do you
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Speaker 4: recommend sunscreen?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, you know, be wary of of you know,
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Speaker 3: celebrities going on and you know, professing medical knowledge.
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Speaker 5: I'd say she can't have it.
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Speaker 3: And they haven't done your homework because a lot of I
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Speaker 3: hope that they have, you know, but the current recommendation,
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Speaker 3: and I agree with your wife, you know, wholeheartedly.
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Speaker 5: I mean you when you go outside, you need.
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Speaker 3: To be wearing you know, sunscreen really almost at all
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Speaker 3: all times, because it's a cumulative effect. It's ten minutes here,
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Speaker 3: it's thirty minutes here, it's a walk to the store,
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Speaker 3: it's you know, a short walk on you know, outside
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Speaker 3: hiking for thirty minutes, you know, or you're outside, you know, sunbathing,
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Speaker 3: and it's you know, the sunscreen is not just to
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Speaker 3: keep you from getting a sunburn.
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Speaker 5: You know it.
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Speaker 3: You know, you know, you wear it for different reasons. One,
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Speaker 3: you know you're gonna get less wrinkles, less you know,
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Speaker 3: skin aging associated with that skinIn and damage. And then
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Speaker 3: obviously you know skin cancer and there's different types of
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Speaker 3: skin cancer. And so yeah, you need to be using
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Speaker 3: you know, sunscreen now, whether you're using you know, a
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Speaker 3: chemical you know it's called I'm sorry, a chemical sunscreen
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Speaker 3: or a mineral sunscreen. Gosh, your wife probably, you know,
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Speaker 3: probably has researched it much more than I have. I mean,
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Speaker 3: you know, the the the minerals are, you know, there's
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Speaker 3: they are more of a protective barrier.
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Speaker 5: They're like zinc.
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Speaker 3: Oxide and then chemical ones. They they absorbed the UV
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Speaker 3: rays and then emit heat and so they both work
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Speaker 3: by decreasing you know, the UV exposure to your skin.
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Speaker 3: But they do it in different ways. And I think
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Speaker 3: which one you use depends on U or which broad
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Speaker 3: category depends on your skin type and how you tolerate it,
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Speaker 3: you know, because some of them, you know, like the
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Speaker 3: zinc oxide. You know we see as kids, you know,
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Speaker 3: people may be wearing this white stuff.
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Speaker 5: What is that? You know now now you recognize what
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Speaker 5: this is.
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Speaker 3: You know, people getting you know, massive sunburns to their
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Speaker 3: nose and they were just using a protective barrier like
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Speaker 3: zinc oxide, which that white cream that you see.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's it is interesting. I mean obviously I
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Speaker 2: was not thinking too much about this until I did
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Speaker 2: get married, and as I have gotten married, and as
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Speaker 2: my wife has become more and more focused on skincare.
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Speaker 2: I can not tell you even what kind of sunscreen
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Speaker 2: I use, but I know it's sitting on my counter
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Speaker 2: at my house every day for me to put on
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Speaker 2: before I go outside. It is one of the things
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Speaker 2: she is such a proponent of. It's it's also like
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Speaker 2: you kind of mentioned it that you'd be careful from
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Speaker 2: like too much of like kind of the celebrity influence.
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Speaker 2: What resources are out there to ask these questions? Obviously
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Speaker 2: people won't be able to just jump on the zoom
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Speaker 2: with you anytime they want, and my wife would charge
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Speaker 2: them for this kind of advice. What resources are out
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Speaker 2: there to kind of figure out what's good and what's not.
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I mean we're all familiar with the
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Speaker 3: internet now right even here I am, and I'm on
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Speaker 3: the on ramp of the Information super Highway. But there's
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Speaker 3: so much information out there. There's so much, and you know,
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Speaker 3: it's trying to decipher what's legitimate what isn't.
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Speaker 5: You know.
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Speaker 3: Oftentimes what you need to do is, you know you're
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Speaker 3: if you're looking, just don't read something and take it,
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Speaker 3: you know, you know, for you know gospel right because.
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Speaker 5: You got it depends on who wrote it.
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Speaker 3: You know, because being Reddit, people will you know, write
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Speaker 3: things in and you know it's not based on anything
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Speaker 3: but their own experiences. And really what you want to
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Speaker 3: do is you want to see what you know, what
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Speaker 3: the what the study show, what the research shows. So
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Speaker 3: you know, oftentimes when I'm looking into it, I'll look
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Speaker 3: for resources from legitimate bodies of knowledge, such as you know,
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Speaker 3: the American College of Dermatology. You know, so if you know,
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Speaker 3: when you know, when they put out a statement on sunscreens,
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Speaker 3: you know, they've had hundreds of people reviewing that statement,
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Speaker 3: and they're looking at hundreds and hundreds of pieces of
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Speaker 3: research data to be able to formulate that. So you
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Speaker 3: want to look at you know, you want to use
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Speaker 3: a resource that you know has gone through and has
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Speaker 3: gone above and beyond just like oh I think this
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Speaker 3: is it, or they I read it on the internet.
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Speaker 3: They're actually deciphering those you know, hundreds of articles that
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Speaker 3: in studies that have been done. So just look for,
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Speaker 3: you know, things like that. But you can go on
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Speaker 3: the internet then you can get a pretty good idea,
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Speaker 3: but just know where you're getting it from.
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Speaker 2: Sure, well, I mean, and I think this is a
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Speaker 2: compliment to you, but also a fairly obvious observation.
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Speaker 4: You have stayed looking really young.
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Speaker 2: And when we talked to you last time, I remember
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Speaker 2: you talked about your workout routine, which is lower weights,
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Speaker 2: higher volume. You've stayed looking young, You've stayed feeling young.
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Speaker 2: Is there any tips that you could give us for
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Speaker 2: how you've done that? I mean, for the public that's
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Speaker 2: out there like me, it's like, goodness, guy is just
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Speaker 2: he looks younger than I am, and I'm I'm half
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Speaker 2: his age. Like, what are the tips that you've done
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Speaker 2: in your life to keep you being who you are?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: I mean I do get asked that question, you know,
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Speaker 3: because I do look a little younger than in my
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Speaker 3: chronological age. I always like to say I'm physiologically younger.
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Speaker 3: But you know, I you know, when I people ask
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Speaker 3: that question, I say a couple of things.
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Speaker 5: I said.
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Speaker 3: I don't smoke, don't do drugs, Never smoked, never drugs,
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Speaker 3: Alcohol very minimal. I'm not opposed to people and drinking.
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Speaker 3: But like everything you have to do with in moderation,
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Speaker 3: I exercise a lot or I have htorically you know
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Speaker 3: anywhere from I did, you know, depend on the phase
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Speaker 3: of my life I was doing marathons in my twenties
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Speaker 3: and thirties, and then triathlons and iron men and then
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Speaker 3: you know, couldn't do those anymore, and then started rode
18:38
Speaker 3: biking for over twenty years and it's probably been my
18:41
Speaker 3: biggest passion now over the last as you talked about,
18:44
Speaker 3: like the last five years. And there's more and more
18:47
Speaker 3: research and to show and to support doing weight training.
18:53
Speaker 4: Now, just to be clear, this is men and women
18:55
Speaker 4: both doing weight training, right.
18:57
Speaker 5: Yes, and women.
18:58
Speaker 3: And you know for women, I say, is is they
19:01
Speaker 3: always worry like I don't want to lift weights. I
19:03
Speaker 3: don't want to get big muscle and bulky. Well, I
19:05
Speaker 3: can assure you unless you go into bodybuilding, you're not.
19:10
Speaker 5: That's not going to happen.
19:12
Speaker 3: You have to you have to lift a lot of weights,
19:14
Speaker 3: and you got to be eating a certain diet, supplements
19:18
Speaker 3: and things where you you know those women that do
19:20
Speaker 3: the body building, you know, so weight training is huge.
19:25
Speaker 3: You know, increases bone density, you know, just you're less
19:29
Speaker 3: likely to get injured. You got to keep your strength up.
19:32
Speaker 3: I was, actually I'm down in San Diego and I
19:35
Speaker 3: was I was at the beach today, so uh, and
19:38
Speaker 3: I noticed a woman trying to get up, just to
19:40
Speaker 3: stand up, and she had such weakness in her lower
19:44
Speaker 3: legs and her pelvis, it was she basically couldn't do it.
19:46
Speaker 3: You know, we had to help her kind of lift
19:49
Speaker 3: her up, you know, from the sitting position. And so
19:53
Speaker 3: you want to, you know, do the weights and stuff
19:55
Speaker 3: like that. And there's and I talked about it earlier.
19:58
Speaker 3: What what do I do? And and I this is
20:01
Speaker 3: just my own you know, my own routine is I've
20:05
Speaker 3: always done or it's not always passed. I used to
20:09
Speaker 3: do lower weights and or higher weight amounts and lower breaths.
20:13
Speaker 3: Now I do as I told you earlier, I do
20:15
Speaker 3: low weight and high reps. So I'll do up to
20:18
Speaker 3: like instead of ten to twelve, I'll do twenty five reps.
20:21
Speaker 3: And I do and I tend to do. I don't
20:24
Speaker 3: have chess days or leg days. I do all the
20:27
Speaker 3: body parts. I do altoid stri sets, biceps, forearms, you know, pecs, abs, back, quads, hamstrings.
20:34
Speaker 5: I do them all on one day. I just do
20:36
Speaker 5: you know that.
20:37
Speaker 3: Different routine and and I'll do different sets of them
20:40
Speaker 3: stuff like that. So So anyway, exercise and then diet
20:46
Speaker 3: obviously is very important.
20:48
Speaker 5: And you know I'm you know, listen, I can.
20:51
Speaker 3: I can, like I enjoy junk food as much as
20:54
Speaker 3: the next person, you know, but you know I've gotten
20:56
Speaker 3: better about you know, really you want to. And more
21:00
Speaker 3: and more studies are coming out on this, and you
21:02
Speaker 3: know why we're seeing the obesity you know, trends in
21:06
Speaker 3: the United States, you know, the way they've escalated. It's
21:09
Speaker 3: almost like a pandemic. And a lot of this has
21:13
Speaker 3: to do with the foods that we eat, you know,
21:14
Speaker 3: I mean, because we're eating such processed foods, and so
21:19
Speaker 3: you know, you know, my recommendation and I don't always
21:21
Speaker 3: do what I will, you know, be the first to
21:22
Speaker 3: admit that is to you eat eat you know, real food,
21:27
Speaker 3: eat real food. So you know you don't want to
21:29
Speaker 3: eat you know, the processed foods because there's so many
21:31
Speaker 3: chemicals and you know, antibiotics and everything in in that
21:36
Speaker 3: decreasing for me, decreasing red meat. You know, I almost
21:40
Speaker 3: eliminated that in my diet. Doesn't mean I don't occasionally
21:43
Speaker 3: have a little little small flag, you know, you know,
21:45
Speaker 3: every few months, but I don't have a t bone
21:47
Speaker 3: every night, you know, So you want you know, lean
21:50
Speaker 3: lean meats, you know, whether that's you know, chicken fishes,
21:53
Speaker 3: you know, is to go to protein source for me
21:56
Speaker 3: for for foods.
21:58
Speaker 5: And then uh, you know, and and then you know
22:01
Speaker 5: we I think.
22:03
Speaker 3: You talk about like how much how much do you
22:06
Speaker 3: need of each of these different components? How much you
22:08
Speaker 3: would you know, whether you know, talk about protein? How
22:12
Speaker 3: much protein should you be taking and stuff? And how
22:15
Speaker 3: do you get it? I would say that with like
22:17
Speaker 3: protein quality is more important than quantity. But there are
22:22
Speaker 3: guidelines on how much protein. And I've always been, for god,
22:26
Speaker 3: over twenty years, twenty five years, I've always been an
22:29
Speaker 3: advocate of high protein, low carbohydrate diets. And that's just
22:35
Speaker 3: something I just kind of fell upon I just as
22:37
Speaker 3: I've gotten older. I believe that one of the problems
22:40
Speaker 3: people get as they get older is that they don't
22:42
Speaker 3: take in enough protein, or what they do is they
22:46
Speaker 3: take it in a poor form. So you might have
22:48
Speaker 3: protein and hamburger, but you're eating fifteen hundred calories with
22:51
Speaker 3: all this bad fat and processed chemicals and everything to
22:55
Speaker 3: get the fifty grams of protein. So you want it
22:58
Speaker 3: to be good, healthy you know sources, And I think
23:03
Speaker 3: that's a that's a huge thing. How much you get
23:07
Speaker 3: how much protein you get. I've been asked this question.
23:09
Speaker 3: How much am I supposed to eat all the time?
23:11
Speaker 3: You know, how many grams of protein? And you know,
23:14
Speaker 3: the general thumb is, you know, for the average person
23:18
Speaker 3: is a gram per kilogram. And everybody asks another weighting
23:21
Speaker 3: kilograms to figure that out, or maybe about half a
23:23
Speaker 3: gram per pound if you want.
23:25
Speaker 4: Them to look it up right now.
23:26
Speaker 5: Yeah, well, it's two point two pounds per kilograms.
23:29
Speaker 3: So for example, I'm about an eighty eighty kilogram man,
23:33
Speaker 3: you know, seventy kilogram man's one hundred and fifty four pounds.
23:37
Speaker 3: So you can take your weight and pounds divided by
23:40
Speaker 3: two point two that would give your weight in kilograms.
23:42
Speaker 3: If you're really exercising a lot or you know, for
23:45
Speaker 3: you know, younger people they're athletic, more muscle mass, you're
23:48
Speaker 3: gonna need a lot more protein, you know, than one
23:50
Speaker 3: gram per kilogram. You're going to you know, probably gonna
23:52
Speaker 3: need two or one gram per pound. So if you
23:55
Speaker 3: weigh one hundred and fifty one hundred and sixty pounds
23:57
Speaker 3: and you're doing lots of endurance train and you're probably
24:01
Speaker 3: going to need one hundred and fifty grams of protein.
24:03
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I'm from the Midwest. I'm from Indiana,
24:16
Speaker 2: a place I love dearly. We're not known for our
24:21
Speaker 2: healthiest lifestyles. They're hard workers who are outside all day
24:25
Speaker 2: and you know, exhausted at night. There's a common thing.
24:30
Speaker 2: And this is really my last health question for you,
24:32
Speaker 2: but it's becoming more prevalent to me, especially from where
24:35
Speaker 2: I'm from, where you have men or women who seem
24:40
Speaker 2: to be in decent shape. They're active, but their bellies
24:43
Speaker 2: get really hard and really big. It's like they're carrying
24:46
Speaker 2: a lot of weight just in their belly region and
24:49
Speaker 2: nowhere else. Is that something to be concerned of? Is
24:53
Speaker 2: that kind of going off of what you're talking about
24:55
Speaker 2: here where it's diet and exercise, because I feel like
24:57
Speaker 2: a lot of these people are active, but they're carrying
25:00
Speaker 2: that A lot of people are carrying that weight right there.
25:03
Speaker 5: Yeah, especially you know like men.
25:05
Speaker 3: I mean, yes, these men, they their legs don't have
25:08
Speaker 3: any fat on them. They tend as you get older,
25:11
Speaker 3: you tend to lose and lose the muscle mass in
25:12
Speaker 3: your buttocks and stuff, and their arms get thinner. But
25:16
Speaker 3: then they got this, Yeah, truban abdomen. You know, and
25:20
Speaker 3: and a lot of that is you know, you see,
25:22
Speaker 3: you see the deposition in males in you know, the
25:25
Speaker 3: mid of dominal area, and a lot of that is
25:27
Speaker 3: visceral fat. So it means it's there's fat underneath the muscle, right.
25:33
Speaker 3: You see, you have all this fat surrounding your your bows,
25:35
Speaker 3: your your small intestine, you're large intestine, and a lot
25:38
Speaker 3: of times, you know, you as you get older, you
25:40
Speaker 3: have the deposition in that visceral fat. And so you know,
25:43
Speaker 3: there's there's certain ways and certain foods that you can
25:47
Speaker 3: eat to try to decrease the amount of visceral fat
25:50
Speaker 3: that you have. You know, I can't give them off
25:54
Speaker 3: the top of my head, but you know, you can
25:55
Speaker 3: definitely modify your diet to decrease that. And a lot
25:59
Speaker 3: of that just has to do with you know, I'll
26:01
Speaker 3: just say, and you just got to go back to
26:03
Speaker 3: what we talked about before. Don't smoke, don't you know,
26:05
Speaker 3: avoid you know, uh, excessive alcohol. Try to exercise and exercise.
26:11
Speaker 3: You don't have to be an exercise nut. You need
26:14
Speaker 3: to just you know, start out with things in moderation.
26:17
Speaker 3: If you just go out and walk, I mean, yeah,
26:19
Speaker 3: I mean, if you walk five miles or you run
26:24
Speaker 3: five miles, your clerk expenditure is the same. Now there's
26:28
Speaker 3: you know, more cardiovascular benefits from from the running, but
26:32
Speaker 3: from a strictly from a you know, a work standpoint
26:34
Speaker 3: and a cloric expenditure standpoint, there's those are going to
26:37
Speaker 3: be the same. Whether but you know, if you run it,
26:39
Speaker 3: you can do it in forty minutes, and if you
26:41
Speaker 3: walk it it takes an hour and a half, so
26:44
Speaker 3: you still get to you know, you can get similar benefits.
26:47
Speaker 3: And then with women, you know, they they tend to
26:49
Speaker 3: get it in other areas. They tend to get it
26:51
Speaker 3: in their hips and you know, thighs and you know,
26:53
Speaker 3: and same thing just got to you know, eat healthy foods,
26:58
Speaker 3: eat moderation, avoid I I truly believe that the processed
27:02
Speaker 3: foods are really really killing us.
27:05
Speaker 4: You know today that makes sense.
27:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, thank you for all your advice on health. We
27:10
Speaker 2: are going to completely switch gears here for just a
27:12
Speaker 2: final few questions on Paradise right now.
27:14
Speaker 4: Are you watching?
27:17
Speaker 3: I have watched. I have watched most of the episodes.
27:22
Speaker 3: I don't get through all of them, but I have
27:23
Speaker 3: watched them. You know, I wanted to see how some
27:27
Speaker 3: of my good friends that have been on it. Ye
27:31
Speaker 3: how it's faring for them and it's been an interesting observation.
27:35
Speaker 4: Yeah, what do you think so far?
27:37
Speaker 5: You know, I can tell you it wouldn't have been
27:41
Speaker 5: for me.
27:42
Speaker 2: Okay, So you don't have fomo, you're not missing out,
27:45
Speaker 2: you don't feel missed like No, to be.
27:47
Speaker 5: Honest with me, I'm sitting there going on that one.
27:50
Speaker 5: You know.
27:50
Speaker 3: You know, I'm glad I met my my person because
27:55
Speaker 3: it's just it's just you know, it's not me. But
27:57
Speaker 3: you know, you know, I talked to a couple of
28:00
Speaker 3: the guys and I know they've had great experiences with it.
28:03
Speaker 3: They enjoyed it, and I have to say, it's it's
28:06
Speaker 3: pretty fun to watch. I mean, it's it can be entertaining,
28:10
Speaker 3: you know. And you know, if if really, if the
28:16
Speaker 3: goal for them is to find someone, you know, why
28:19
Speaker 3: not try any avenue that you can, you know, any
28:22
Speaker 3: type of you know, of of of way of meeting somebody,
28:25
Speaker 3: you know, whether that's on The Golden Bachelor, the Golden Bachelor,
28:29
Speaker 3: or The Bachelor, Bachelorette, Bachelor in Paradise. I mean, you
28:32
Speaker 3: you know, I would suspect some of the is gonna,
28:34
Speaker 3: you know, find a significant other.
28:37
Speaker 5: Through the show. I don't know. I think oldens will,
28:40
Speaker 5: but I think some of the young ones will.
28:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think. I I'm with you. Just give it
28:46
Speaker 4: a shot.
28:46
Speaker 5: Now.
28:46
Speaker 2: You obviously have come out publicly with your girlfriend, and
28:50
Speaker 2: one of the reasons why you're not in paradise is
28:52
Speaker 2: because of Joanna's her name, right, Johannah Johanna. We met
28:57
Speaker 2: her a second ago. She's gorgeous. Very personal question for you,
29:01
Speaker 2: but that's what we do here because we talked about love.
29:03
Speaker 4: Are you looking to get married again? Ever?
29:06
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know that question has been asked me before.
29:10
Speaker 3: I have to say that, you know, over the last
29:14
Speaker 3: you know, since you know my separation and the worst
29:18
Speaker 3: you know, I've gone out on a lot of one
29:20
Speaker 3: and done dates, you know, and I finally got even
29:24
Speaker 3: after the show. The show was fantastic for me. It
29:27
Speaker 3: allowed me to move forward in my life in ways
29:30
Speaker 3: that I did not anticipate. So I I I, you know,
29:35
Speaker 3: I thank you know bestornation for that because it really
29:38
Speaker 3: did help me move forward.
29:41
Speaker 5: I did.
29:41
Speaker 3: I thought that, you know, by the end of the year,
29:45
Speaker 3: after the show was over and some of the stuff
29:47
Speaker 3: had died down, I just thought, you know, this is
29:50
Speaker 3: never going to happen.
29:50
Speaker 5: I don't think I'm ever going to meet anybody. Either
29:52
Speaker 5: I'm just not ready for it or I you know.
29:55
Speaker 3: I I'm looking for something that doesn't exist, but people
30:01
Speaker 3: just got hey just you know, hang in there and
30:03
Speaker 3: interesting enough. I you know, I met Johannah on January
30:08
Speaker 3: first and January thirty first, I was watching the ball
30:11
Speaker 3: drop in New York City, thinking I'm just gonna be
30:14
Speaker 3: sitting here in.
30:14
Speaker 5: My living room alone, you know, for a long time.
30:17
Speaker 3: And you know, boom, you know, she showed up and
30:19
Speaker 3: and it's it's it's it's been wonderful. I mean, she's
30:23
Speaker 3: a she's a wonderful woman, kind of meets all the criteria.
30:27
Speaker 3: And we've we've basically been almost inseparable since we met
30:31
Speaker 3: in January. So am I looking to get married again
30:36
Speaker 3: the right person?
30:37
Speaker 5: Yes?
30:38
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's awesome.
30:40
Speaker 2: I mean, so your summer is better than you could
30:42
Speaker 2: have ever imagined to be on December, you know, thirty first,
30:46
Speaker 2: you never knew that your summer could be looking like
30:48
Speaker 2: it is.
30:49
Speaker 3: No, I you know, and it's it's not even it's
30:51
Speaker 3: been you know, January February March April, May, June, July,
30:56
Speaker 3: and we already have all sorts of you know, great
30:59
Speaker 3: stuff planned for the fall.
31:01
Speaker 2: So not good for you, that's awesome. Well, we love
31:04
Speaker 2: to see it. We hope some goldens fall in love
31:06
Speaker 2: in paradise.
31:07
Speaker 4: I'm with you.
31:08
Speaker 2: I don't know if it's going to happen. I don't
31:09
Speaker 2: know who it would happen with. Thank you for coming
31:12
Speaker 2: on and answering some of our biggest questions, ranging from
31:17
Speaker 2: allergies to weight loss, to cancers to you know, sunscreens.
31:22
Speaker 2: We appreciate it, Doctor Guy, thanks for joining us.
31:25
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
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