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Speaker 2: How are you? Oh? Pretty damn good, doctor Phil, Thank you.
Speaker 1: I have a couple of questions that came in. One
Speaker 1: came in from Chris and we were talking about if
Speaker 1: anybody knows much about alien hand syndrome, because I talked
Speaker 1: about it on the air and everybody said, you've made
Speaker 1: that up, and I said, I haven't, but I'll go
Speaker 1: to a higher authority, and here you are.
Speaker 3: It does exist, doesn't it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a well known problem that can happen to people.
Speaker 2: It's not that common, but it does happen.
Speaker 4: And it's sort of a neurological type thing, and so it's.
Speaker 2: A rare neurological disorder.
Speaker 4: It does happen where somebody experiences that their hand is
Speaker 4: moving by itself, as though it's acting on its own
Speaker 4: or it's foreign.
Speaker 2: Or alien to them. Now that's not the only part
Speaker 2: of it.
Speaker 4: Also in this syndrome you've got involuntary movements of other
Speaker 4: parts of the body and also is a mental thing
Speaker 4: where you're thinking, my left arm belongs to me, but
Speaker 4: that right arm I don't know where they came from,
Speaker 4: and you feel a weird feeling of disconnection. It goes
Speaker 4: way back to the nineteen sixties is term alien hand syndrome,
Speaker 4: and there were patients who after they'd had brain surgery
Speaker 4: or strokes or some other sort of neurological events, they
Speaker 4: seem to have uncontrollable.
Speaker 2: Movements and that was it.
Speaker 4: The hand was moving uncontrollably and by itself.
Speaker 2: And there's different types. So depending on whether you've got
Speaker 2: damage to the.
Speaker 4: Front part of the brain or to the corpus glossum,
Speaker 4: the bundle of nerves joining the two part or the
Speaker 4: back part of the brain, you can have different sort
Speaker 4: of symptoms, ranging from trying to grasp or grope with
Speaker 4: that hand, or if it's in the corpus gulosum, which
Speaker 4: joins the two halves of brain, one hand might try
Speaker 4: to pick up a pen while the other hand will
Speaker 4: try to put it down, or one hand might try
Speaker 4: to unbutton a shirt while the other hand is trying
Speaker 4: to do it, and you've got no control.
Speaker 2: And if you got the damage to the back part
Speaker 2: of your brain, you have.
Speaker 4: These weird feelings of I've seen a hand like that before,
Speaker 4: but that one isn't mine, and I don't know why
Speaker 4: it's doing it.
Speaker 2: And I've got no control over it. And of course
Speaker 2: you can also have it as a result of a.
Speaker 4: Tumor or a head injury as well, and sometimes the
Speaker 4: people are not really aware of it at all. So
Speaker 4: weird syndrome, but it's real. The unfortunately, all we got
Speaker 4: for it is support. There's no cure, so we're trying
Speaker 4: to do is manage the symptoms and try to improve
Speaker 4: their quality of life. So you might do behavioral stuff
Speaker 4: like if your hand's trying to do something, sort of
Speaker 4: shove it in your pocket, or try to do exercise,
Speaker 4: so you've got to find control of your hands, or
Speaker 4: occasionally medications can help to reduce the moves that.
Speaker 2: The results are variable in all drugs of poisons.
Speaker 4: And they might work for you and they might not,
Speaker 4: and sometimes surprisingly psychological counseling, which you'd expect to have
Speaker 4: nothing to do with it, can actually help. So it's
Speaker 4: definitely a brain thing and sometimes you can have some
Speaker 4: control over it or sometimes not.
Speaker 2: Surgery very very rarely.
Speaker 1: I like how they've given up the nickname of doctor
Speaker 1: Strangelove Syndrome two after Peter Seller's character in the Stanley
Speaker 1: Kubrick film.
Speaker 2: He did have a hand that wouldn't obey him. Great movie,
Speaker 2: especially with the nice endingway.
Speaker 4: I'd spoil for anybody, but everybody go and watch the
Speaker 4: movie Doctor Strange Love.
Speaker 1: Fantastic No fighting in the war room. One of my
Speaker 1: favorite lines film of all time. Let's talk about this
Speaker 1: came in from Gary. If you're an atheist and you
Speaker 1: swear on a Bible in court, can you lie?
Speaker 4: That depends on the word can, and can is very
Speaker 4: different from may, so can means you have the physical
Speaker 4: ability to do it, but may means are you allowed
Speaker 4: to so. In general, swearing on a bible in court
Speaker 4: is just a formality related to the religion of the country,
Speaker 4: and it's sort of a ceremonial like to get you
Speaker 4: in the mood for being honest, regardless of what you think,
Speaker 4: and in many cases in various countries. If you do
Speaker 4: not believe in a deity, you can go for a
Speaker 4: non religious affirmation. But the whole point is that you're
Speaker 4: just emphasizing the importance of honesty. And either way, whether
Speaker 4: it's on a Bible or affirmation, you are legally required
Speaker 4: to tell the truth.
Speaker 1: You could even have your hand on a copy of
Speaker 1: Jack Kerouac's On the Road, for example, and it wouldn't matter.
Speaker 4: Yeah, because the court doesn't like being lied to that
Speaker 4: it doesn't like being held in contempt, and lying under
Speaker 4: oaths is called perjury.
Speaker 2: And it doesn't matter whether you're religious or not.
Speaker 4: The act of swearing on the Bible is not legally
Speaker 4: compelling honesty.
Speaker 2: It's just merely giving you.
Speaker 4: A hint that your society expects you to be truthful.
Speaker 4: And so it's not so much that the divine authority,
Speaker 4: but rather the land that you live in has got
Speaker 4: specific laws, and part of it is that in this
Speaker 4: particular case, you have to tell the truth about what happened,
Speaker 4: and if you do not tell the truth, you're committing perjury,
Speaker 4: and perjury itself is a crime and can bring with
Speaker 4: it a fine or a jail sentence.
Speaker 1: Right, I feel that Gary's incentive to us this question
Speaker 1: as he's just trying to get out of the speeding. Fine,
Speaker 1: So okay, well let's move on to this. My wife
Speaker 1: is a regular lover of infrared saunas and she's got
Speaker 1: me into it, and I think they're fantastic. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what, I certainly sweat more than I would
Speaker 1: with a regular sauna.
Speaker 3: But do they work? Are they actually doing anything?
Speaker 4: They're doing something in the sense that a regular sauna
Speaker 4: does good stuff. Anyway, So I've had saunas for thousands
Speaker 4: of years, and overall they do lead to a slightly
Speaker 4: or they're associated. They're associated with a slightly better outcome
Speaker 4: in cardiovascular health and overall mental well being.
Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean that they cause it.
Speaker 4: So could well be that if you're the sort of
Speaker 4: person who goes for sauna, well, also, at the same time,
Speaker 4: you're the sort of person who has friends, and just
Speaker 4: having friends makes.
Speaker 2: Your life better. Right now, there are a.
Speaker 4: Few this whole idea of that there is a mental
Speaker 4: thing about the infrared saunas. No, but will I make
Speaker 4: you feel better? Sure, regular sauna will make you feel better,
Speaker 4: And in fact, they use a regular sauna in the
Speaker 4: Antarctic for people to join the three hundred Club, where
Speaker 4: they expose themselves to a temperature change of three hundred
Speaker 4: fahrenheit degrees in a very short period of time.
Speaker 1: The three hundred Club got questions about that. I might
Speaker 1: be even on a completely different tangent. Get you to
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Speaker 3: Roger, this is very good mate.
Speaker 1: Why is it that when you see the rims of
Speaker 1: a tire while the car is in motion, it looks
Speaker 1: like it's going backwards instead of forwards? Made? That is
Speaker 1: a very very fine question.
Speaker 3: We'll get that. That's a promise.
Speaker 1: We'll get that on next week. And this one note
Speaker 1: came in from David. I'm pretty sure that Peter Garrett
Speaker 1: is suffering from alien hands syndrome when he's dancing. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's a question for next week. What is it that
Speaker 1: Peter Garrett's doing with his dancing? And why do some
Speaker 1: people what a question?
Speaker 3: Why? How do some people come up with their style
Speaker 3: of dancing.
Speaker 1: Damn it, We've already got a couple of questions, but
Speaker 1: hang on because I've got to get back to part
Speaker 1: two of our chat with doctor Carl after this, and
Speaker 1: we've got to find out more information.
Speaker 3: About the three hundred Club.
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Speaker 1: The questions are coming in thick and fist for next week.
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Speaker 3: Okay, doctor Carl, thank you for hanging on.
Speaker 1: Let's get back to something you were talking about a
Speaker 1: moment ago, because we were talking about infra red saunas
Speaker 1: and you mentioned the three hundred Club.
Speaker 3: So what's that all about then.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So they normally do it around the middle of
Speaker 4: winter and the sauna gets cranked up to a temperature.
Speaker 2: Of ninety degrees centigrade, which is pretty hot.
Speaker 4: Over ninety so it's over two hundred fahrenheit, And they
Speaker 4: do this only on a day when the air temperature
Speaker 4: is below one hundred fahrenheit negative, so in the sauna
Speaker 4: plus two hundred outside minus one hundred temperature difference more
Speaker 4: than three hundred crazy, right, Okay, So then what they
Speaker 4: do is you owing to the sauna naked and they're
Speaker 4: apart from shoes, and then you sweat away and your
Speaker 4: skin's being exposed to two hundred plus fahrenheit degrees. And
Speaker 4: then after sweating for a bit naked, you go out
Speaker 4: into the dark. Now this is the South Pole, and
Speaker 4: it's been dark for a couple of months, and there's
Speaker 4: no wind, and there's.
Speaker 2: All these people there with lights because of lords, you
Speaker 2: couldn't see where you're going. And then you just gradually
Speaker 2: try it, and you've got to have the sand shoes.
Speaker 4: You know, we're closed because the ice would freeze from
Speaker 4: the sweat.
Speaker 2: And the ice could cut your and.
Speaker 4: You gradually trot your way slowly around the South Pole,
Speaker 4: the physical South Pole, and then back inside.
Speaker 2: And then you remember the three hundred club.
Speaker 4: And I've been down to Antarctica seven times, but never.
Speaker 2: Did the South Pole.
Speaker 4: And one of my friends was telling me about in
Speaker 4: the corridor in the School of Physics how he'd done
Speaker 4: it recently, and he was down the South Pole collecting
Speaker 4: air samples and running at a special in for a telescope.
Speaker 2: They have down there.
Speaker 4: And then another physicist was passing by and she said,
Speaker 4: I've done the three hundred club as well, And then
Speaker 4: the first person said, yeah, but I got a bit cocky.
Speaker 2: And so the first time I did it, you know,
Speaker 2: I just felt fine.
Speaker 4: So the second time the next year, I went a
Speaker 4: bit faster, and I was breathing deeper, and I got
Speaker 4: a bit of frostbite in my airways as well as
Speaker 4: a bit frost bite of the tip of the foreskin.
Speaker 4: And the woman said, oh my god, that happened to
Speaker 4: me as well. I got a little bit cocky, and
Speaker 4: so the next year I got a little bit of
Speaker 4: frost bite of the nip.
Speaker 1: A feeling you might go there, but not because of
Speaker 1: the fact that that story obviously is very important part,
Speaker 1: an integral part of this. But when you mentioned the
Speaker 1: three hundred club, my mind immediately went to the mile
Speaker 1: High Club. And then when you mentioned people in a sauna,
Speaker 1: I thought, people are going to get unsavory here.
Speaker 4: If it gets too hot. But you have bad things happening.
Speaker 4: So one advantage of the so in a regular sauna,
Speaker 4: what do you have is either hot rocks or some
Speaker 4: sort of heat supply, and that heats the air, and
Speaker 4: then the air kisses against your skin and then the
Speaker 4: heat is transferred from the air into your skin.
Speaker 2: But in an infrared sauna is quite different. Right. What
Speaker 2: you've got is.
Speaker 4: Infrared LEDs or lights, and they give out heat, and
Speaker 4: that radiant heat can actually penetrate a little bit further
Speaker 4: into your skin.
Speaker 2: It doesn't penetrate to your internal organs. They're lying about that, right.
Speaker 4: The way you normally do it in a regular sauna
Speaker 4: is the sort of just running and go in there.
Speaker 4: But my understanding was that most of these infrared sorts
Speaker 4: that you go through a cycle where you get in
Speaker 4: there and the temperature is fairly low, say forty degrees sea,
Speaker 4: and then they crank it on and gracuy climbs up
Speaker 4: to about sixty or something, and then you get out.
Speaker 4: Then the next person goes through the same cycle. Is
Speaker 4: that how you do it yours? Or is it just
Speaker 4: always running into fixed temperature?
Speaker 3: No, it goes up and down.
Speaker 2: Oh so people come in and out.
Speaker 3: No, it goes up and down.
Speaker 1: In the little private booth that you have, the temperature
Speaker 1: is variable depending on whether or not the light, So
Speaker 1: the light doesn't stay on all the time. It comes
Speaker 1: on and off, and I mean the temperature. It's still
Speaker 1: pretty warm in there, but it doesn't seem to be
Speaker 1: that very It seems to be not that consistent.
Speaker 2: So each person gets their own boots in the one
Speaker 2: that you go.
Speaker 3: Yes, that's right, and how much how long does it last?
Speaker 2: For charge?
Speaker 3: About about around about? It's not cheap.
Speaker 1: It would be over sixty bucks and you get a
Speaker 1: free bottle of water with it.
Speaker 3: But you know, I want to ask you this too.
Speaker 1: Is it true that when you sweat, you sweat out toxins?
Speaker 1: And therefore, if you've got a hangover, you can go
Speaker 1: to the red light sauna and sweat.
Speaker 3: Out the alcohol. They're lying, Damn, there go wite Saturday morning.
Speaker 2: The thing is to give it to toxins.
Speaker 4: You've got this organ called the liver, and that's a
Speaker 4: really good job of it.
Speaker 2: And if you take a.
Speaker 4: Poison like alcohol, well you've got to wait for it
Speaker 4: to go through and be cleared out by your liver.
Speaker 3: Can you sweat out colds and flu?
Speaker 2: Not? Really? You?
Speaker 4: So the thing that the reason you have a bit
Speaker 4: of a fever when you get an infection is that
Speaker 4: the bacterium usually has chemicals in the walls that your
Speaker 4: immune system's warning to recognize it, and it uses the
Speaker 4: prisons of those chemicals to then tell the hypothalmis in
Speaker 4: your brain to crank the temperature up a bit, because
Speaker 4: that both makes it a little bit less comfortable for
Speaker 4: the bacterium to live in your body, and also it
Speaker 4: improves the efficiency of your immune system fight it to
Speaker 4: causing immune systemselves.
Speaker 2: But sweating out a flu in a sauna.
Speaker 4: I wouldn't go to that if I just take it
Speaker 4: for this sheer enjoyment that it is good. So and
Speaker 4: they do operate at the lower temperatures, and they do
Speaker 4: heat up faster, and if it says is a bit
Speaker 4: more comfortable, and you do get a bit of more penetration,
Speaker 4: so if you're a little bit of soreness under the skin,
Speaker 4: mind happy might help.
Speaker 2: But then other people don't like it.
Speaker 4: Either one is good, but it does seem like sixty
Speaker 4: buses are fair bit to charge for an individual.
Speaker 3: Session on that set.
Speaker 1: And I think you keep the nail on the head
Speaker 1: when you said when things get hot, it's no fun,
Speaker 1: because my wife's been using that since we got married.
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