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Speaker 1: It is time for doctor Jim Keeney. Jim is with

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Speaker 1: us every Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Jim, good morning, Good morning Bill.

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Speaker 1: Okay, oh, this is a topic, and that is phone

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Speaker 1: use on the toilet causes hemorrhoids. Now, no shock. I

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Speaker 1: usually do, and I have for many years sat on

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Speaker 1: the toilet reading, which is what guys do. And I've

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Speaker 1: had a little problem, even to the point where, frankly,

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Speaker 1: I've had two hemorrhoids of my entire life that actually

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Speaker 1: have names, Pepe and roy Mundo, and they come back

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Speaker 1: occasionally and say hello. That is completely disgusting, And we

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Speaker 1: don't have to go into that, but let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the It doesn't seem like that's a surprise at all.

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Speaker 1: So where's the story here or is this new information

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Speaker 1: that we've gotten to the extent of how dangerous this is.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just a reminder. I mean, you're right that

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Speaker 2: hemorrhoids are super common. In the study itself, they looked

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Speaker 2: at how many people had hemorrhoid and about half the

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Speaker 2: people did have forty three percent had hemorrhoids, and it

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Speaker 2: goes up by forty six percent when you use when

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Speaker 2: you sit on the toilet for you know, five minutes

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Speaker 2: or longer. And so these people, a lot of the

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Speaker 2: people are when they ask what their habits are, you're right,

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Speaker 2: reading the news fifty four percent, social media forty four percent.

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Speaker 2: This is what they were doing on their phone. So

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Speaker 2: it's just one of those I knew, you know, I

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Speaker 2: know you like anything to do with a toilet humor,

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Speaker 2: so I thought, you love this, And it's just a

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Speaker 2: reminder that I phones don't cause hemorrhoids. Sitting on a

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Speaker 2: toilet for too long until your legs go dumb cause hemorrhoids.

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Speaker 2: And you probably shouldn't use the toilet as a chair.

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Speaker 2: You could, you know, read somewhere else, Okay.

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Speaker 1: And then I was told, now, I just had my colonoscopy,

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Speaker 1: and and I didn't even know that you could do this,

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Speaker 1: but interior hemorrhoids, which are kind of interesting. And I

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Speaker 1: was just told, you eat a lot of a fiber.

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Speaker 1: How common is that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean those are the more problematic ones. So

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Speaker 2: the ones you see on the outside that kind of

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Speaker 2: make like a little tag that hangs out, is that

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Speaker 2: those are external hemorrhoids. There's a line inside your rectum

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Speaker 2: that that divides the internal from the external, and so

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Speaker 2: the hemorrhoids that are up above that usually are fatter,

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Speaker 2: you know, they're they're bigger, they can cause more problems,

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Speaker 2: they're much more difficult to deal with. So you know,

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Speaker 2: that's that's why we look at those.

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Speaker 1: Okay, fair enough enough of that. We couldn't get enough

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Speaker 1: humor out of that. We tried, We tried, let's take it. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, we tried. Thank you for bringing that to

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Speaker 1: the forefront, because you know, I do enjoy toilet whom

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Speaker 1: your humor. You know, I'm six years old. You know that,

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Speaker 1: don't you When it comes to this sort of stuff, absolutely,

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Speaker 1: I know nothing changes. But by the way, when Jim

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Speaker 1: and I have a meal together, we talk about this stuff,

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Speaker 1: and it is even he gets disgusted when I talk

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Speaker 1: about hemorrhoids at lunch. Doctor Jim McKinney, as we finish

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Speaker 1: the show, listen to that Alzheimer's story because this is

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Speaker 1: absolutely fascinating. And the blood tests predicting Alzheimer's and women

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Speaker 1: years years in advance. I mean, that is a big concept.

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Speaker 1: So what's going on with that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, So, I mean that's what's interesting about this

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Speaker 2: story is in decades and we were talking twenty five

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Speaker 2: years beforehand, this can predict some level of risk. So

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Speaker 2: it's about seventy five eighty percent accurate. It's not perfect,

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Speaker 2: but you see San Diego study. They took a couple

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Speaker 2: thousand women from the Women's Health Initiative Memory Study that

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Speaker 2: was conducted between nineteen ninety six and nineteen eighty nine.

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Speaker 2: They had measured this plasma tau measurement and then they

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Speaker 2: measured it later in twenty twenty four, and they looked

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Speaker 2: at the results and it looked like if they were

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Speaker 2: able to predict twenty five years in advance, whether some

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Speaker 2: of these women we're going to get we're going to

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Speaker 2: get Alzheimer's disease. This opens up a whole new world,

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Speaker 2: right because there's people that are worried about it, anxious

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Speaker 2: about it. There's not too much we can do right

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Speaker 2: now who prevention is mostly lifestyle and living a healthy lifestyle.

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Speaker 2: But if we can identify people earlier, there's definitely a

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Speaker 2: lot of opportunity there in those ensuing twenty five years

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Speaker 2: to figure out what we can do maybe to prevent

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Speaker 2: Alzheimer's disease.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I noticed that the stories about women are men

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Speaker 1: not included to that and is there a difference between

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Speaker 1: women and men in terms of Alzheimer's.

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Speaker 2: Well, they are. They used a group that was in existence,

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Speaker 2: the Women's Health Initiative Memory Studies, So it was only

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Speaker 2: women included in this particular study. It's just how the

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Speaker 2: study was designed. They didn't do that because of the

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Speaker 2: fact that they felt women were somehow different. But I

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Speaker 2: think it is important to look at the sexes in

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Speaker 2: studies individually because there are differences between the sexes.

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Speaker 1: Obviously, are women more apt to get Alzheimer's.

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Speaker 2: That's a good question. I don't actually know the numbers on.

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Speaker 1: That, right, all right. We always only don't go there

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Speaker 1: because usually my questions are fairly moronic.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, a good one.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that might not bad, I got you. Oh,

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Speaker 1: let's call that one, all right. Not only measles, mumps

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Speaker 1: is on the rise. That's a lot of grapefruit sized

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Speaker 1: testicles running around out there. It is it direct see

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Speaker 1: there you go? Is it directly attributable to the lack

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Speaker 1: of vaccinations?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? So, I mean that's the important thing about this

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Speaker 2: is when when you see measles go up, this is

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Speaker 2: a public health crisis when you have that. Mumps has

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Speaker 2: always been around it never got fully eradicated. The vaccine

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Speaker 2: itself is only about eighty percent effective. And then people

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Speaker 2: before nineteen fifty seven, they just have presumed if you

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Speaker 2: were born before nineteen sty seven, a lot as we

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Speaker 2: just presume that you are immune. It was so common

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Speaker 2: that you would have been exposed to it in your

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Speaker 2: immune So people before born before nineteen fifty seven probably

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Speaker 2: should just get tested to look and see if they

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Speaker 2: have antibodies, because they can get a booster or a

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Speaker 2: shot if they if they don't have antibodies. So yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's basically it's important because it shows how we're doing

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Speaker 2: on vaccination and it's good surveillless to see like as

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Speaker 2: vaccination levels drop, some of these levels are going to

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Speaker 2: go up. Is this some type of disaster, No, it's not,

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Speaker 2: but it's indicative of what's going on with vaccinations.

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Speaker 1: Hi, Jim. Thanks. You know, we always run out of tom.

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Speaker 1: I should gain have you on for about two hours

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Speaker 1: when we do this because there's so many topics to cover. Jim,

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Speaker 1: take care, will catch you on next week and take care.

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Speaker 1: We are done. That's it,