1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,280 Speaker 1: All right, Jim, let's get into it. Near sightedness has 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:08,200 Speaker 1: surged to near epidemic levels. Now before you explain it, 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now, near sightedness going to epidemic 4 00:00:11,840 --> 00:00:14,360 Speaker 1: levels is directly connected to vaccines. 5 00:00:14,400 --> 00:00:17,840 Speaker 2: Do I have that right? I knew you were going 6 00:00:17,920 --> 00:00:20,000 Speaker 2: to go there. No, that's not right. 7 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:23,600 Speaker 3: So you know, so near sightedness it was like thirty percent, 8 00:00:23,800 --> 00:00:26,640 Speaker 3: you know, third of the population from like nineteen nineties. 9 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:29,840 Speaker 3: Then in the early two thousands it became like forty 10 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:32,880 Speaker 3: forty to forty five percent of the population. They're really 11 00:00:32,920 --> 00:00:35,239 Speaker 3: thinking that by twenty fifty it's going to be more 12 00:00:35,280 --> 00:00:39,760 Speaker 3: than half the population needing glasses. So it's a lot 13 00:00:39,800 --> 00:00:42,680 Speaker 3: of people are attributing it to screen time, the dramatic 14 00:00:42,720 --> 00:00:43,599 Speaker 3: increase we've had in. 15 00:00:43,560 --> 00:00:45,840 Speaker 2: Screen time over that period of time, and. 16 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:47,720 Speaker 3: That probably is part of the story. It doesn't tell 17 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,720 Speaker 3: the whole story, though. This research at Sunni New York 18 00:00:51,760 --> 00:00:56,840 Speaker 3: Hospital showed that they believe it's related to when you're 19 00:00:56,840 --> 00:00:59,800 Speaker 3: looking at things indoors at close vision. 20 00:01:00,160 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 2: What happens is to. 21 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:05,080 Speaker 3: Make the image sharper, your pupil constricts, and that reduces 22 00:01:05,200 --> 00:01:07,280 Speaker 3: the light that goes back to the back of the eye. 23 00:01:07,920 --> 00:01:11,160 Speaker 3: And now when you go outside, your pupils constricted, and 24 00:01:11,200 --> 00:01:13,720 Speaker 3: that protects you from excessive light, but you're still getting 25 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:16,880 Speaker 3: plenty of light to the retina. Stimulates the dopamine and 26 00:01:16,920 --> 00:01:20,399 Speaker 3: the retina and it allows it to continue working correctly. 27 00:01:20,680 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 3: But when you spend a lot of time looking at 28 00:01:22,720 --> 00:01:26,959 Speaker 3: near stuff with your pupils constricted under lower light situations, 29 00:01:27,000 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 3: you're just you're actually straining your eyes to the point. 30 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:32,800 Speaker 2: Where you can create increase in myopia. 31 00:01:33,080 --> 00:01:35,440 Speaker 1: All right, So yeah, let me go through that for 32 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 1: a moment, because certain things don't change, right, The amount 33 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: of time people spend indoors versus outdoors, I don't know 34 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:49,080 Speaker 1: if that's changed. And certainly the way people read is 35 00:01:49,280 --> 00:01:52,680 Speaker 1: much the same. And as you discussed what or you 36 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:54,880 Speaker 1: describe what's going on, the only thing that I can 37 00:01:55,520 --> 00:01:58,720 Speaker 1: think of that does have or would have an mpicked 38 00:01:59,080 --> 00:02:01,960 Speaker 1: impact a big one would be the screen time. And 39 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:05,200 Speaker 1: I'm assuming that we're gonna see study after study on 40 00:02:05,240 --> 00:02:05,600 Speaker 1: this one. 41 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:09,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think this is, you know, something that people 42 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:10,000 Speaker 3: are gonna look at. 43 00:02:10,080 --> 00:02:10,960 Speaker 2: But I don't know. 44 00:02:11,040 --> 00:02:14,720 Speaker 3: I feel like people do spend less time outdoors, less 45 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:16,600 Speaker 3: time looking far away. I mean, even when they are 46 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:19,720 Speaker 3: outdoors they're looking at their phone. 47 00:02:18,880 --> 00:02:20,280 Speaker 2: You know, and that's part of it. 48 00:02:20,360 --> 00:02:23,160 Speaker 3: Part of the protective things you can do is to 49 00:02:23,280 --> 00:02:26,399 Speaker 3: go outdoors, get more light into your eye, which stimulates 50 00:02:26,400 --> 00:02:28,800 Speaker 3: the threat and a little bit more. And then of course, 51 00:02:28,880 --> 00:02:30,840 Speaker 3: you know, not looking straight into the sun or evening 52 00:02:30,880 --> 00:02:35,359 Speaker 3: crazy like that, but also looking far distances that relaxes 53 00:02:35,480 --> 00:02:38,480 Speaker 3: the muscles of the of the eye a little bit more. 54 00:02:38,560 --> 00:02:40,399 Speaker 2: And allows them to recover a bit. 55 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,280 Speaker 3: So that's what they showed in the study that if 56 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:46,400 Speaker 3: you spent more time outdoors and looking further. 57 00:02:46,200 --> 00:02:48,800 Speaker 2: Away, that actually improved your vision. 58 00:02:49,440 --> 00:02:52,600 Speaker 1: Okay, so now let's talk about sting cancer when you're 59 00:02:52,639 --> 00:02:55,400 Speaker 1: outside and you get those great melanomas. 60 00:02:55,919 --> 00:03:00,920 Speaker 2: Right right, it's not one thing, it's another. It is 61 00:03:00,919 --> 00:03:01,799 Speaker 2: absolutely correct. 62 00:03:01,919 --> 00:03:03,400 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's always great. Okay. 63 00:03:03,440 --> 00:03:05,520 Speaker 3: You always go ahead and always talk about how exercise 64 00:03:05,600 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 3: hurts people, you know, Oh yeah, it'll kill exercising. 65 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:12,360 Speaker 1: It'll kill you every time, Yeah, absolutely, every single time. 66 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:12,880 Speaker 2: You know. 67 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:17,080 Speaker 1: My favorite story is was it Jim Fix? If that 68 00:03:17,200 --> 00:03:22,280 Speaker 1: name sounds familiar. Jim Fix was basically brought running into 69 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:26,679 Speaker 1: our society, you know, a distance running, because so many 70 00:03:26,680 --> 00:03:30,000 Speaker 1: people run, and he was a runner, and he was 71 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 1: fifty two years old when he was running and had 72 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:35,960 Speaker 1: a heart attack and died right there on the pavement. 73 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:40,880 Speaker 1: Running will kill you every single time. That jogging business 74 00:03:41,080 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: is just so dangerous, all right. Jim Eric Dane, the 75 00:03:46,280 --> 00:03:52,200 Speaker 1: actor who big national story died of ALS lou Gerrig's disease. 76 00:03:52,880 --> 00:03:54,120 Speaker 2: First of all, what is it? 77 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:57,920 Speaker 1: And it seemed to me that this was very rapid 78 00:03:58,280 --> 00:04:01,680 Speaker 1: because all the stories I know about but ALS is 79 00:04:01,720 --> 00:04:04,760 Speaker 1: that it takes a long time for people to die 80 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:09,240 Speaker 1: and is a horrific deaths in which the mind stays 81 00:04:09,760 --> 00:04:12,320 Speaker 1: lucid and you're just you can't move your body towards 82 00:04:12,320 --> 00:04:12,640 Speaker 1: the end. 83 00:04:14,200 --> 00:04:17,120 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's well. So the timing wise, the average person 84 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:19,359 Speaker 3: is two to five years is what they say is 85 00:04:19,400 --> 00:04:21,720 Speaker 3: the life expectancy if someone diagnosed. 86 00:04:21,320 --> 00:04:22,240 Speaker 2: With Luke Garrett disease. 87 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,760 Speaker 3: So he was a little definitely off of that with 88 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:28,240 Speaker 3: I think he was only diagnosed about a year ago. 89 00:04:29,360 --> 00:04:33,320 Speaker 3: And somebody like Stephen Hawkings though he seemed to have 90 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,240 Speaker 3: some other variant because he lived a long time with 91 00:04:36,320 --> 00:04:40,080 Speaker 3: Luke Gerrig's that's very unusual. But you're right, And what 92 00:04:40,120 --> 00:04:42,640 Speaker 3: it does is it affects the motor neurons and so 93 00:04:42,760 --> 00:04:45,599 Speaker 3: it only affects movement. You can still you still have 94 00:04:45,640 --> 00:04:49,159 Speaker 3: full sensation, your brain works just fine, but you do 95 00:04:49,279 --> 00:04:52,400 Speaker 3: start slurring your speech and other things that you need 96 00:04:52,520 --> 00:04:57,440 Speaker 3: your voluntary muscles for, and so over time it's progressive 97 00:04:57,480 --> 00:05:00,640 Speaker 3: and you kind of get locked in. So not very 98 00:05:00,720 --> 00:05:03,599 Speaker 3: good treatments. The treatments, there are some treatments that slow 99 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:06,479 Speaker 3: down the progression. So that's why maybe getting diagnosed early 100 00:05:06,600 --> 00:05:11,240 Speaker 3: is a little bit more helpful. But really it's the 101 00:05:11,279 --> 00:05:14,080 Speaker 3: main treatment is to give people support through it and 102 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:17,320 Speaker 3: give them all the proper equipment and physical therapy and 103 00:05:17,360 --> 00:05:21,000 Speaker 3: occupational therapy to be able to continue to use. 104 00:05:20,880 --> 00:05:23,040 Speaker 2: Their muscles as long as possible. 105 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:28,320 Speaker 1: And you're trapped in your own body. I mean, it 106 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:33,279 Speaker 1: sounds horrific that you can't move, you can't do anything. 107 00:05:33,360 --> 00:05:35,840 Speaker 1: And I mean, I'm one of those people that if 108 00:05:35,880 --> 00:05:39,160 Speaker 1: I were to get this legitimately, I would be jumping 109 00:05:39,200 --> 00:05:43,599 Speaker 1: into the death, the death with dignity acts so quickly 110 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:46,280 Speaker 1: and kill myself. And they can't do it right because 111 00:05:46,279 --> 00:05:48,840 Speaker 1: they don't have the ability to say anything towards the 112 00:05:48,960 --> 00:05:49,400 Speaker 1: very end. 113 00:05:51,040 --> 00:05:53,280 Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, that's what you know, especially somebody like 114 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:56,800 Speaker 3: Stephen Hawking who learned with one cheek muscle, how to 115 00:05:56,839 --> 00:06:00,520 Speaker 3: completely communicate with everyone. You know, there are is that 116 00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:03,640 Speaker 3: you can work around that, but no, you know that 117 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:08,240 Speaker 3: communication is difficult, you know, and movement and yeah, the 118 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:13,120 Speaker 3: quality of life clearly is significantly reduced when when you 119 00:06:13,160 --> 00:06:15,760 Speaker 3: can't move, but yet you can still think and sense 120 00:06:15,839 --> 00:06:16,560 Speaker 3: and process. 121 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:18,080 Speaker 2: It's a tough to do. 122 00:06:18,200 --> 00:06:22,719 Speaker 1: Which how much studying is there in terms of finding 123 00:06:22,720 --> 00:06:25,000 Speaker 1: a cure for this. It seems like it's common enough 124 00:06:25,000 --> 00:06:27,600 Speaker 1: where piles of money would go into research. 125 00:06:28,680 --> 00:06:28,880 Speaker 2: Oh. 126 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:31,239 Speaker 3: Sure, researchers are looking at this and trying to solve 127 00:06:31,279 --> 00:06:33,520 Speaker 3: this problem. And like I said, there's been over the 128 00:06:33,600 --> 00:06:36,520 Speaker 3: last couple decades, there's been treatments that have come out. 129 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:38,080 Speaker 2: There's one that looks very. 130 00:06:37,880 --> 00:06:42,360 Speaker 3: Promising in the early early stages, so stage one, stage two, 131 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:44,280 Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden it got stage three 132 00:06:44,279 --> 00:06:47,839 Speaker 3: and it just did not show any significant efficacy. So 133 00:06:47,920 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 3: it's pulled from the market. So, I mean, people are 134 00:06:50,200 --> 00:06:52,360 Speaker 3: putting money into this, but it's tough. It's a tough 135 00:06:52,400 --> 00:06:54,680 Speaker 3: one to solve because we really don't know. Number one, 136 00:06:54,720 --> 00:06:57,520 Speaker 3: it seems multifactorial that we don't know what causes it. 137 00:06:57,560 --> 00:07:01,240 Speaker 3: People are looking at toxins, but no one toxin has 138 00:07:01,279 --> 00:07:05,680 Speaker 3: been identified as a risk factor for Lugaric's disease or ALS. 139 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:09,720 Speaker 3: They looked at genetics. Not only about ten percent of 140 00:07:09,760 --> 00:07:14,480 Speaker 3: the cases have this sood one gene or this gene 141 00:07:14,560 --> 00:07:19,280 Speaker 3: attributed to lugar to als, so you know, it doesn't 142 00:07:19,320 --> 00:07:24,040 Speaker 3: seem to be fully genetically transmitted, but partially so. And 143 00:07:24,080 --> 00:07:25,640 Speaker 3: we do know that when they look at studies of 144 00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:27,760 Speaker 3: people who if you if you don't you know the 145 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,160 Speaker 3: usual healthy things, you smoke less, you eat well, you 146 00:07:31,200 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 3: get more exercises, those people seem to have a lower 147 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:35,360 Speaker 3: risk of getting Lugeric's disease. 148 00:07:36,200 --> 00:07:40,760 Speaker 1: And one last one want to talk about is Catherine 149 00:07:40,760 --> 00:07:47,040 Speaker 1: O'Hara who died way too young from pulmonary embolism very quickly. 150 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:50,240 Speaker 1: If you would explain that, and how common is that? 151 00:07:52,040 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 3: So in people like her it's extremely common because she 152 00:07:55,160 --> 00:07:59,280 Speaker 3: had cancer. Right, So, what a pulmonary embolism is is 153 00:07:59,360 --> 00:08:02,680 Speaker 3: typically a blood clot that starts in your legs and 154 00:08:02,720 --> 00:08:05,680 Speaker 3: then it breaks off. It moves through the bloodstream through 155 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:08,040 Speaker 3: the heart and then returns to the lung Like your 156 00:08:08,080 --> 00:08:11,280 Speaker 3: blood would return to the lungs for oxygenation. That blood 157 00:08:11,280 --> 00:08:14,679 Speaker 3: clot follows that path and then blocks the blood flow 158 00:08:14,760 --> 00:08:17,680 Speaker 3: through the lung. That's a pulmonary embolism as opposed to 159 00:08:18,080 --> 00:08:23,679 Speaker 3: extremity embolism, and its very it's life threatening. It's extremely common, 160 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:25,680 Speaker 3: you know, working in a hospital, I don't go more 161 00:08:25,720 --> 00:08:29,680 Speaker 3: than a day about without thinking about pulmonary embolisms and 162 00:08:29,680 --> 00:08:33,600 Speaker 3: blood clots and without discussing with somebody ways to reduce 163 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,800 Speaker 3: pulmonary ambulances and blood clots. It's that common, but people 164 00:08:36,800 --> 00:08:41,120 Speaker 3: are not necessarily aware of them, and it's a big 165 00:08:41,160 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 3: cause of death underdiagnosed initially because people might blow off 166 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 3: the symptoms. So the risk factors are if you've been 167 00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:52,360 Speaker 3: immobilized and blood flow has slowed, if you've had an 168 00:08:52,400 --> 00:08:54,640 Speaker 3: injury to a leg, then you'll get a please to 169 00:08:54,640 --> 00:08:57,840 Speaker 3: get a blood clot in there. So vascular damage and 170 00:08:58,160 --> 00:09:01,800 Speaker 3: especially anything that makes you hyper coagulable, and that can 171 00:09:01,840 --> 00:09:05,360 Speaker 3: be either you have a genetic predisposition, so you're missing 172 00:09:05,400 --> 00:09:11,520 Speaker 3: some blood clotting balancing factors, you have cancer, you're taking 173 00:09:12,080 --> 00:09:16,160 Speaker 3: hormone replacement therapy, you know estrogen, and you smoke. Those 174 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:19,760 Speaker 3: two together are pretty much a guaranteed blood clot. People 175 00:09:19,760 --> 00:09:22,240 Speaker 3: who recently been pregnant and delivered things like that. So 176 00:09:22,320 --> 00:09:25,120 Speaker 3: people with those risk factors need to be careful. When 177 00:09:25,160 --> 00:09:28,240 Speaker 3: you get a blood clot, you'll feel a sharp pain 178 00:09:28,280 --> 00:09:30,280 Speaker 3: in your chest that usually gets worse when you take 179 00:09:30,320 --> 00:09:32,600 Speaker 3: a deep breath, so it's more of a it's not 180 00:09:32,679 --> 00:09:35,800 Speaker 3: that dull ache of a heart attack. It's sharp pain worse. 181 00:09:35,840 --> 00:09:38,360 Speaker 3: When you take a deep breath. Your pulse usually goes 182 00:09:38,440 --> 00:09:41,160 Speaker 3: up pretty quickly because your heart's trying to get more 183 00:09:41,200 --> 00:09:44,080 Speaker 3: blood through the lungs and it can. It's working against 184 00:09:44,280 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 3: a blockage, and you know, and and you start breathing 185 00:09:48,440 --> 00:09:50,120 Speaker 3: a little bit faster. You feel short of breath. 186 00:09:50,120 --> 00:09:50,640 Speaker 2: When you see the. 187 00:09:50,720 --> 00:09:52,440 Speaker 3: Symptoms, you got to go to the r right away, 188 00:09:52,559 --> 00:09:54,000 Speaker 3: especially if your legs swollen. 189 00:09:54,520 --> 00:09:58,160 Speaker 1: All right, Jim, let's get together again, which we haven't 190 00:09:58,160 --> 00:10:00,760 Speaker 1: done in a couple of weeks. And I whenever I'm 191 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:02,920 Speaker 1: with Jim on the air, of course, I talk about 192 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,560 Speaker 1: death a whole lot, because that's one of my favorite topics. 193 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:08,560 Speaker 1: But when Jim and I go have lunch, what do 194 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:09,840 Speaker 1: I talk about, Jim? 195 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:11,880 Speaker 2: Nothing but death and dying. 196 00:10:12,240 --> 00:10:16,199 Speaker 1: That is correct, That is absolutely correct. Jim will catch 197 00:10:16,200 --> 00:10:19,319 Speaker 1: you next Wednesday. You have a good one.