Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / Wellness Check with Alaina Wood from June 30th, 2026

Transcript

Wellness Check with Alaina Wood from June 30th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Right, let's get Elena up here and get our theme
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: music going and get a wellness check. I need some
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: wellness check. I think I'm a court low Elena?
• 0:13
  Speaker 2: Are you there?
• 0:14
  Speaker 3: Hello? I am here?
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: Why you're a court low of you? Yes? My wellness
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: is down a quart, little.
• 0:21
  Speaker 3: Little low on wellness. Okay, let's see if we can
• 0:23
  Speaker 3: we can fill that back up.
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: All right, all right? What do we got here today? Oh?
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, I just opened it up. Oh smoke in the air. Yeah,
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: not good.
• 0:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah. So we're talking today just about some tits to
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: help yourself stay safe while the air is full of
• 0:42
  Speaker 3: smoke from some all of our wildfires. And you know,
• 0:46
  Speaker 3: I'm feeling pretty lucky today because I do have some
• 0:50
  Speaker 3: view of my blue skies. But earlier last week it
• 0:54
  Speaker 3: was it was not so.
• 0:55
  Speaker 2: Nice, pretty dreadful. Yeah.
• 0:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, how can it?
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, how can it hurt you? What?
• 1:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah? It can make it a lot harder to breathe.
• 1:06
  Speaker 3: It can cause asma taxs, things like that. Also, if
• 1:10
  Speaker 3: people have pre existing conditions, it can be very unsafe
• 1:16
  Speaker 3: for like COPD, heart issues, things like that. So it
• 1:21
  Speaker 3: can be pretty dangerous.
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: So what do you suggest people do? Do you?
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: I mean, should you check the air quality every day.
• 1:30
  Speaker 3: You know, you really can if you use the air
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: Quality Index. They actually have an email subscription option. I
• 1:39
  Speaker 3: get an email every night that's predicting the air quality
• 1:43
  Speaker 3: for the next day, and I use that to help
• 1:46
  Speaker 3: me plan if I'm going to do an outdoor workout
• 1:49
  Speaker 3: or an indoor workout, or you know, try and stay
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: inside mostly those kinds of things. Do schools use those
• 1:56
  Speaker 3: for when they're deciding if they let kids go outside
• 1:58
  Speaker 3: for recess and stuff? I would imagine, So I don't
• 2:02
  Speaker 3: know that for sure, but I would imagine that they
• 2:04
  Speaker 3: do tap into this tool.
• 2:08
  Speaker 2: But what so you say?
• 2:09
  Speaker 1: And then the next thing he says, Well, if the
• 2:10
  Speaker 1: air quality is bad, stay indoors. But what if you
• 2:13
  Speaker 1: can't stay indoors, I mean, you've got to.
• 2:15
  Speaker 3: Go yeah, yeah, So the first recommendation is, of course,
• 2:19
  Speaker 3: to try and avoid being outside if possible. And then
• 2:23
  Speaker 3: if you do have to go outside for your job,
• 2:27
  Speaker 3: for running errands, whatever it might be, do your best
• 2:30
  Speaker 3: to wear a protective mask. So something like an N
• 2:34
  Speaker 3: ninety five is the best recommendation. That surgical masks do
• 2:39
  Speaker 3: provide some protection as well, and then the cloth masks
• 2:43
  Speaker 3: they help a little bit, but your best option is
• 2:47
  Speaker 3: going to be going with the N ninety five masks.
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: I think I'm going to go with a full scuba setup.
• 2:55
  Speaker 1: I just have a tank on my back, your tank
• 2:58
  Speaker 1: on my back, and you know, just yeah that that
• 3:00
  Speaker 1: might work.
• 3:02
  Speaker 3: It seems a little uncomfortable, but you know it's up
• 3:04
  Speaker 3: to you.
• 3:05
  Speaker 1: Well, I could use the exercise. So and the smoke
• 3:10
  Speaker 1: will get in your house too, won't it.
• 3:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, So do your best, of course to keep windows
• 3:17
  Speaker 3: closed when the air is bad, and then upgrade your
• 3:21
  Speaker 3: filters that you have within your air conditioning system things
• 3:25
  Speaker 3: like that. So just look for the highest quality filters
• 3:28
  Speaker 3: that you can and also do your best to avoid
• 3:32
  Speaker 3: creating more smoke inside. So burning candles and incense if
• 3:37
  Speaker 3: you have a fireplace, it's probably not the time to
• 3:40
  Speaker 3: be using those kinds of things.
• 3:42
  Speaker 2: Well that's yeah. Plus it's just hot, you know, you
• 3:46
  Speaker 2: warm for sure.
• 3:49
  Speaker 1: So and then what it says here, keep track of
• 3:53
  Speaker 1: your symptoms health symptoms.
• 3:55
  Speaker 2: What are we looking for there?
• 3:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so especially if you have, like we were talking about,
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: any pre existing conditions asthma, things like that, to just
• 4:05
  Speaker 3: keep track. If you're coughing more than normal, if you
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: feel a little bit short of breath, try and pay
• 4:11
  Speaker 3: extra attention to that, and then, of course, if your
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: symptoms get worse, seek help from your doctor.
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: You know, I have a.
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: Nebulizer, and I think anybody can. Anybody can buy one
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: of those, but you have to get a prescription. If
• 4:28
  Speaker 1: you want to have you can put just saline in it,
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: and that works pretty well. Yeah, but you can also
• 4:36
  Speaker 1: get out but al for it, and I find when
• 4:41
  Speaker 1: I get congested just the saline will help. But all
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: works a lot too. So I mean to ask your
• 4:48
  Speaker 1: doctor about a nebulizer. I think everybody should have one.
• 4:51
  Speaker 3: Actually, Yeah, there's lots of really great tools out there,
• 4:55
  Speaker 3: and sometimes it is, like you're saying, just a matter
• 4:57
  Speaker 3: of checking in with your doctor seeing what is a
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: vailed for you.
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: Yeah, uh, anything else we need to know.
• 5:04
  Speaker 3: You know. My final recommendation is just to do what
• 5:07
  Speaker 3: you can to support your community. If you have a
• 5:09
  Speaker 3: neighbor that needs groceries, things like that can make a
• 5:13
  Speaker 3: really big difference in difficult times like this.
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, thank you, Elena. Yes, Nightingale, what is it?
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: Nightingale College Dot?
• 5:25
  Speaker 3: You can check everything out by visiting Nightingale Dot ed.
• 5:28
  Speaker 2: O Nightingale dot edu. All right, thank you, thank.
• 5:32
  Speaker 1: You, thank you.
• 5:36
  Speaker 2: Alright, there's your wellness chain. Yeah.
• 5:40
  Speaker 1: That nebulizer really, I use it almost every morning. Actually
• 5:45
  Speaker 1: works very well, clears all the crud out of your lungs.
• 5:51
  Speaker 1: I've been able to play disc golf for a while
• 5:54
  Speaker 1: because of the smoke.
• 6:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's bad, Carrie. That's really bad. Yeah, Bo,
• 6:12
  Speaker 2: that's what. That's how I usually is that how you
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: do it.