October 28, 2018
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Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine, six, five. Welcome in to another edition of stages of life with Dr David Klein right here on news 96 point five, WDBO. We're getting calls before the show even started, so if you want to get in line to ask a question, I do it right now because we're going to fill up these phone lines. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. The sooner you call in, the sooner your question gets answered. It's pretty simple stuff. Age, work. It's a flawless system that we have here. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine, six. Five is the number. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. Stages of life. Any medical questions you might be having when you woke up with a little ache that you didn't have before. Maybe there's little growth somewhere that you didn't have before. That's probably something you should call in about a four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six. Five is the number here is Dr David Klein.
It is good to be here. It's a good day. It's a great day in the neighborhood. Yes. No, the. Did you see that Mr Rogers movie. I did not see the movie, but I do remember the show a kid. Yeah. No, he was actually an interesting dude. Yeah, okay. Yeah. As it were. He was a civil war to call it a silver star recipient. Corinne was definitely one bed dude. Yeah. Okay. But somehow the nicest dude. You're the night. The nicest, you know? Yeah. What's the polite way of saying, you know, you know, a polite Chuck Norris. He was the real deal. Yeah. Yeah. So any events, so he, he is missed. I did not see the movie. I thought that's great. I think I will.
It's very good. It gives you all the feels, every emotion that we could possibly enter a brand new studio here, trying to get her, get used to the fact that we can't bring in beverages and you've got to figure out which door to walk in. Well, like I have, he almost went the long one. Yeah, that's my lot in life. That's not so bad. I turned the wrong way on maitland boulevard making a difference, you know, it's just the way it goes. Right. In fact, we have that GPS thing set up and I still go the wrong way. I do to all the time. I have two hands and one bottom and I still can't find it. That's the way these things work Sunday, but we're going to to a few open lines still. No good. They're closing quickly, so if you have, if you have a question, please pick up your phone.
Do is you need to do but get it in quickly because we're going to be. We're going to be full here shortly and then then it's a little bit more frustrating right now. It shouldn't be too frustrating. So what if we got in the news? Anything interesting I need to know about theater tickets. They. I did not. I paid for my own theater tickets so I can run for governor in how it goes. Yes. He has a little bit of that. You haven't taken any freebies? No. Not that. No, not certainly not theater tickets and who'd want to go see Hamilton anyway for God's sake? There's little were pretty crappy plan. Understand, but I thought it had good reviews. Oh yeah. I haven't any New York Times reviewed it. Well, what does that tell you? It means don't go. Don't waste your money. However it may cost the guy couple votes as well.
It should because that is kind of like graft. They used to call it corruption now they just simply call it a free theater tickets where you might have to pay a thousand bucks. You know, when me just get a favor out of it, you know what you know. Once upon a time, you know that the standard, the standard graft in Baltimore was a, was a suit of clothing. That's what it costs to buy a judge in Baltimore was a suit of clothes. It's got to be more expensive, you know, along with inflation and everything else. So now it's a thousand dollar ticket. How nice the suit was though too, you know, you're right. Okay. I guess you wouldn't be going to the big men's store fronts. What are we got in the four? Do we have in the lines here? Oh, we've got three lines full right now.
We've got a couple friends and Ajo. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. If you want to call and ask the doc question. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. Should we head right to the lines? Do that, you know, I mean, not given. I mean, given you the answer you're looking for, in fact, I'm hoping I don't. It makes it far more interesting, but yeah. No, let's, let's, let's see. Let's see who can. Let's see who comes up the most interesting question of the day to day Fred and Apopka. You're going to kick things off for us today. Welcome into the show. What is your question for Dr David Klein. Thank you for taking the call. I'm curious about using cbd oil for pain management. Okay.
And so, and so you think that that's going to help you in some way? The CBD stands for Cannabix dials. Okay. And the cannabidiol component of marijuana is thought to not give you that, that, that buzz that so many people that use marijuana seek to get. But is it a primary analgesic? And the answer's no, but does that mean it's not a painkiller? What does it do? It changes the way you think. It changes the way your brain is wired a little bit. Can I butt dials by themselves are not very potent to do much of anything. Yes, through the receptors exist, but they're really rather minor players. So most people that use cbd don't find much effect at all. They may be, you know, their wallet may be shortened by two or three or $400 before they figure that out.
So that kind of money isn't important to you.
Then I suggest that you give it a try. So can Napa dials have been legal for decades longer? So there's nothing new about them. They've been around forever. If they didn't work 10 years ago, what makes you think they're going to work now? You could have gotten into a health food store 10 years ago and bought these things. Okay. It didn't make any difference then. It doesn't make any difference now, but there's a very big multilevel marketing push for these things right now, so are there a lot of people out there pushing them and pushing is exactly the right thing. That is what it's all about. Now. What do I believe in my heart of hearts about Kratom and very much the same thing? Okay, there are people out there that are getting sick from it and it's probably going to be made illegal as a result with regards to marijuana in general.
The reason why people are pushing them, the Charlotte's web, you know, they'll quote unquote legalized, which is really decriminalized marijuana and cbd oil is this, that if somebody is going to go ahead and regular marijuana and get that buzz that they so desperately think is important to their lifestyle, okay, and they happened to be positive and that could cost them their job by claiming that they're using CBDS and and some of these other things and and Charlotte's web that may be able to keep their job. That's what the deal is all about. Number two is it's a gateway to try to bring it in to make the other stuff legal, which I think is a huge mistake. Okay. One of the problems that we see in our culture right now, especially if you're an employer now, most of the people that are listening are not employers.
Their employees, you know, they sign only one side of the paycheck and it's the one that has the printing on it. Okay? When you're signed the opposite side of the paycheck, the paycheck, you're looking for people that have levels of motivation. Marijuana is notorious for ripping, destroying, diminishing initiative and it and so on and so forth. That's what it's all about. The old cheech and Chong movies, we're not a joke, you know, I grew up in the, in the, in the sixties and seventies. That was the way that it was. You could always tell the stoners they were the ones that, that, that we're born with brains and graduated without. Okay. They didn't amount to much then and they amounted to a even less as time went on. So is it true that you'll find people that, that smoke socially and so on and so forth, uh, that are, that keep, uh, keep good jobs?
And so yeah, I'm sure you'll find them. They're there, they're out there, but the folks that really got nailed with this stuff did not do well at all. Now they'll make claims, well, marijuana is not addictive and I call a nonsense to that one. It's highly addictive. Why don't you try taking it away from somebody that smokes on a regular basis and see how well that works? Well, I can stop smoking marijuana anytime. Really? Do you know anybody who smokes cigarettes because they say the same thing? I could stop. Stop. I've stopped smoking many times. She's equally crazy thing. So what do I think about it? I think it's nuts. Now with regards to the use of opioids to treat pain, that is a different question entirely. If you've got somebody with chronic pain and chronic pain can be done, can be defined as pain that's not doing to an ongoing, uh, acute illness that lasts longer than six weeks.
Opiates really don't work very well. So leaving people on opiates for greater than six weeks as a bad idea. Now let's say that you have something like osteoporosis and small issues. Let's say with chronic arthritis, that is not the same thing as having a chronic pain. You, you do in fact have chronic acute pain. What does that mean? It means that you have this acute pain that's ongoing. It continues to break. It continues to rub. It continues to cause you issues very much like gout. You know you can have gout and not have pain on any one particular moment. But if it acts up, there comes all all over again. You can have recurrent urinary tract infections that are very painful. You can have recurrent Migraine, okay? That is a chronic pain condition, but it really isn't chronic pain. It's chronic, recurrent acute pain. Those individuals do well with opiates if they're used intelligently.
And that is kind of an interesting subject, a subjunctive clause if they're used intelligently. Opiates are funny things. Now, you know, this was a, uh, a very important part of my medical training and very important part of my practice. I opened the first office space pain center in the United States. I've been doing this for over 40 years and what I will tell you is this, and that's that. Opiates work just fine when they're used in combination with true painkillers. Nope. It's not a painkiller to pain dollar. Okay, so how do you, how do you treat pain? You'd go for the underlying cause. So if you've got somebody that has chronic foot pain being caused by gout and you don't know that it's Gout, I don't care what opiates you take, it's not gonna make any difference, but you give them a non-opiate called allopurinol. When you know it, it goes away.
So does that make allopurinol a pain medication? The is affirmative. What if you have a sinus infection and you train the sinus? How do you do that? You can use antihistamines except they're not a very good choice. Most of the time. Anticholinergics, yeah, they work somewhat, but let's say you go ahead and you drain the sinuses and the pain gets better. Does that make the NSF cystine? Does that make the Guy Fenison? Does it make them analgesics? And the answer's yes, it makes them painkillers, but non opiates with opiates, again, it gets back to the old tuning of the radio dial. Now these days you push buttons and and numbers pop up. Digitals, very different from analog. But back in the day, back in the day when you actually had a dial that you twisted, okay, that you could over twist or you could under twist that that a capacitor to variable capacitors that did this, okay?
It kind of looks like a, like a series of fans that flipped in on each other on the inside of the radio or radio dial or television dial for that matter. And so what would happen is that if you over, if you overcompensate, if you over adjusted this thing, you Mr. Signal too much or too little. And the same thing is true with opiates. Opiates themselves can cause pain, something called opioid induced hyperalgesia, or in many cases rebound pain. So if you give, if you give opiates to people for headache, it's one of the worst things you can do to them. You just made an addict. Yeah, you made the addict. Congratulations Dr. you just couldn't you. You created the problem. Why? Because as the opiate levels decrease, what's the side effect? Headache more heading. Brilliant. Okay, so the trick to a lot of this stuff is to me as to use as little as you can get by doing.
Now in my business right now, my practice right now, I am stuck with lots and lots of patients who had been overtreated. They've seen other doctors, they get a really trashed on this stuff and it's my job to try to keep them from getting worse. So what do I think about it? I don't think creighton work's worth a darn. I don't think cbd works and the opioids need to be used with a v with care, but most pain conditions are best treated with Gaba agonist, muscle relaxants and anticonvulsants, and then you use a little bit of the painkillers to take the edge off. You do that, you'll do okay. How do you treat the pain of osteoporosis? You treat the osteoporosis. How do you treat the pain of fossette arthritis? You deal with the arthritis. How do you treat the pain due to Migraine? You treat the Migraine or the trigeminal neuralgia or whatever the cause is. If you have a nail stuck in your leg, what's the best medication to use? The answer's a pair of pliers and pull the. Pull the nail out and you'll feel better. That's what I think. Next victim.
Go. Hold off on the next victim. Let everyone breathe for a minute or two. That was really me including you. It's some good information doc. Obviously passionate about the topic, so it's always good to hear. You know. Somebody pushed the button. Yeah, somebody pushed the button. Good. Was you fred? Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six. Five is our number eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. Now, but that is a good question. And Friday, that was a very good topic to open the show with a good man. Good man. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine, six. Five is the number you're listening to. Stages of life right here on news. 90 six point five. Wdo. You're listening to stages of life right here on news. 90 six point five. WDB, oh, eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine. Six. Five is the number. If you've got a question for Dr. David Klein, eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Ninety six five. Let's go ahead and jump right back onto those phone lines and talk with Joe. Calling in from right here in Orlando. Joe, welcome onto the show. What's your question for the doc?
Hi, good afternoon guys. I really appreciate you taking my call. I'll do my best to make this interesting for you here. I hope to be the color of the day here. I'm not gonna lie, so I'm on a testosterone regimen and it seems that I have recently broken out like a teenager rolling around in Greece, a body acne and, and it looks like I'm, I'm allergic to my laundry detergent. Really have some all over my body. It's sort of a my upper torso typically it looks like I've sort of changed my laundry detergent. You
what are you taking? How much? When did it start?
Um, it's, it's injectable testosterone problems. Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So other than other than discontinuing, because I actually feel a lot better if we're being honest. Um, and I have tried some of the over the counters from like your, your, your, your, your grocery stores and things like that. Um, uh, and, and nothing seems to be working and I have tried to adjust my diet because I, I guess I was told that that might play a problem with it. I just don't know what to do.
Well, first thing, how old are you?
Uh, 40.
Okay. Now Testosterone tends to diminish with age begins around the age of 21, 20 years old, drops two percent per year, you know, and it's just the way it goes by the time you hit about 50, okay. Your level is going to be half of what it was when you were 21. That's the way that it goes. So if you start off low, it's gonna end up low faster that. But there are other things you can do to speed the process up and you're actually doing one of those things. Okay? Intramuscular testosterone is a disaster waiting to happen. And very, very frequently people start off with I am testosterone, and they start to find that when they're, when they're not in the first day or two or three, that I am cycle, that their levels actually drop below they were before they started the intramuscular to begin with.
And the reason for that has to do with suppression of some pituitary hormones that cause your testicles and your adrenals to actually manufacture testosterone. So what you're doing is scratching the poison ivy and wondering why it's spreading. The second thing that's a problem with Iam testosterone, which is really for rank amateurs and Wannabes, okay? In my practice, you know, you've probably got a 10,000 patients that were, we are or have prescribed testosterone to only about six or seven of them have received intramuscular. Okay? The rest of them, it's all transdermal because when you take testosterone, the levels become super physiological. What that means is way, way too high for a day or two or three. And that's when you feel really, really good. Then they drop down like a rock. During that period when they're too high, your body converts the testosterone to Estradiol and something called dihydrotestosterone.
It's the estrodial that's making your man boobs, which if you haven't noticed them by now, you will very shortly and it will make your testicles shrink a little bit. Okay? Maybe a lot. Okay. Neither of which is really a good thing, but the changes in your fsh, the changes in the gonadotropins releasing hormones and so on and so forth, they can take a long, long time to change back the sex hormone binding globulin that goes up as a result of the extra dial. Increase is sometimes irreversible. So what's going on here is that you may be into this thing long enough to have started some, some changes that may not be so easy to undo. So far as the acne is concerned, you will see that with the dihydrotestosterone and you will see that with extra dial. It's kind of a fascinating problem. So what I would suggest that you do, okay, is to back out of the testosterone I am because there are other ways to do it.
You know the over the counter stuff is useful in conjunction with a prescription testosterone. It's helpful for individuals that have, let's say, marginal, a decrease or they need a little bit of extra kick in the bedroom kind of a deal. Then it's very, very helpful, but if you've got a. If you actually have a low testosterone level, there is nothing that you can take over the counter that's going to kick it up. What they do is they block the degradation of testosterone to Estradiol, so you have to have the production for the OTC products to work. If you don't have the production, then you take the prescription, but going intramuscular is not a good thing. Now, if you're going to take the transdermals, which is the really the only way that that I feel comfortable doing this, you know the iam stuff is necessary. If you find somebody that just simply can't do the transdermals for whatever reason is still have to use the aromatase and five Alpha reductase inhibitors and those are for the most part over the counter, but you do it in conjunction with not in lieu of SARS.
The acne is concerned. What I would do with you is I would do something along the lines of a chemical scrub, a citric acid peel. Okay. These pills that you can get from the estheticians work very, very nicely, soaking in a hot tub of water, soaking it up, using an astringent like boric acid works, but they make these pads, these, these, these abrasive pads that you can use to strip off the top layer of something called the stratum corneum, which is the uppermost layer of the skin. It opens up the gland, a duct. Okay, so that these oils tend to diminish a in a, let's say, in their backup. Additionally, you have to watch your refined sugar intake because refined sugar actually stimulates the production of the sebaceous glands. The glands, the sebaceous fluids will increase with sugar, and that's what tends to make it worse now that we're in Halloween, we should be seeing lots of this happen. Why? Because it's really hard to go to work without somebody bringing in a bunch of sugar at life in the fast lane. So Joe, does that kind of answer your question?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It does the sugar. Yeah, you just cut it out and I think your face will clear up, but you really got to get off the I am testosterone and get onto the transdermal. That doesn't. Doesn't necessarily mean the acs ron or some of these others are compounded. We use a compounded testosterone that cost $25 a month, so it's pretty cheap actually. No, it's not bad at all. Are you kidding? He's probably paying a whole.
Yeah, a lot more. Net cash. That's not what your insurance. There you go. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine, six, five. You have a question for Dr David Klein at eight. Four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine, six, five. Reminder. You're listening to stages of life right here on news. 90 six point five. WDB. Oh, located at 1917. Booth circle in Longwood, Florida. Pianos. Throw off of I four. Give him a call. Four. Oh, seven, six, seven, nine, three, 3:37. Open. Monday through Thursday. Four. Oh, seven, six, seven, nine, three, three, three, seven. We'll be back with more of the doc. You're listening to stages of life right here on news 96 point five wdo. Yes. This is stages of life right here on news 96 point five wdb oh, live. If you want to join us at eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five, eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. You have any questions? Medical questions that you've got. Doc is the answers for you. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. Now before we hit the mic in the villages doc, talk a little about the aesthetics that you're working on. Now. The annual Halloween's coming up. You're going to want to look good for Thanksgiving and all the other holidays. You got some new stuff going on. Don't you have that? But you kind of understand, okay, if you want to look good for the holidays and if you want to look good for that class reunion, the homecoming or whatever the heck it is that you're going to be doing or just seeing your ex, you know, you see your extra party. Don't you don't want to look bad when the breakup. Well, you, you know, you want, you want it to kind of make a mark on this sort of thing. Now is the time to start planning this out because when you're looking at things like aesthetics, it takes a minimum of six weeks for things to start to show.
Why is that? Because it takes about six weeks for the skin to turnover. So if you're looking at doing something for the holidays, you're right up on the, on the time limit for this next several weeks are going to be very, very important. If you want to look good for that New Year's New Year's Eve party, or if you want to look good for even the Christmas party, it's about time. So what did we do at stages of life? We actually have a medically driven aesthetic center. What does this mean? It's not the usual med spot on the med spot. All you know there's no spot about this. You come in, you get down to business and you get your get what needs to be done and you leave. Okay? So we're not interested in sticking cucumbers in your eyes, nor are we going to beat on drums or play a weird music.
What we do is we go in there and we look at the skin for what it is, which is the largest organ system in your body. You have more skin than anything else. Is it a dermatology practice? No. You know, we deal with diseases of the skin. Sure enough, but the focus isn't on dermatology. We have good dermatologist in this town. Okay? We refer to them all the time, but when it comes to the aesthetic portion of it, I don't think anybody does better than we do and why? Because we look at the skin. Again, not just as a canvas but as a piece of art, a living piece of art. So you need to make sure your nutritionist as appropriately set up that you're on nutraceuticals, your Derma ceuticals are all set up properly and the hormone balance is done correctly because if you don't have appropriate hormone balance, I don't care what you do to the skin, it isn't going to make a lot of difference.
You are wasting your time and money, so doing botox and somebody that is out of balance with regards to their thyroid is a huge waste. If you're a Gananoque, troponins aren't set up properly, you are wasting your money. So what we do is we focus on the whole picture. What does that mean? You don't focus on anything. He looked at everything from the top to the bottom. So stages of the life. Aesthetics. We do a pretty decent job. It's not our main line of business, but it does make a big difference, especially this time of the year. So if you're interested, give us a Holler. You know you can come by and look us over. It's not going to cost you anything to find out. We're happy to meet you anyway. Even if you don't do anything with us, at least you can combine and learn something.
And so that's what. That's what we're doing with regards to aesthetics and thank you for asking. Alright, there we go. Anything? Oh, what else do we want to talk about the FSA say in the Hsa, because this this weekend, a lot of calls on a on a reg. We did calls on a regular basis, not on the show so much, but in the office, people wondering about tax deductability of their nutraceuticals over the counter sorts of things. Stuff that's not surgical, not medical prescription necessarily. Is any of that tax deductible and not being a tax accountant? Nor do I did I stay in a holiday inn express last night? What I will tell you is that I have read these portions of the irs code. It is dry reading. Nobody should have to do this unless they're being punished, but what it says very clearly, okay.
Is that your behavior, your activities, your products, the things that you do in the things that you have bought are tax deductible when under the direction of a medical physician for purposes of disease management or disease prevention. What does this mean? That means if you have the appropriate documentation, those nutraceuticals, those vitamins, minerals and other sorts of things can be tax deductible. Yeah. You do need to have your account on board with it, but if you, if you show him that the code which he should have, he or she should already know, it's very, very clear. So what we did at stages of life was to make, um, to make a little program set up so that if you buy your products on the website, this is important. If it's on the website, every time you do it, okay, it generates a pdf that's a non editable document that presents the argument to the irs as to why you're doing it, what it's being treated, what, what sorts of illnesses it treats and so and so forth.
And it's under my direction. Yeah. Guess what? Okay. Your HSA can pay for this stuff. Your Fsa might pay for it because it depends on an insurance product and not necessarily a in your best interest because that's an insurance company's product, but you certainly can deduct it under the irs tax code. According to my interpretation and my accountant's interpretation of what we're doing. So this is something that we do for our products. We do it for our patients customers. And so on and so forth, and we were happy to do it for you. If you've bought from us in the past year or so, or even this year, you will find that every one of those receipts has an attached pdf to it. And so when it comes time for tax preparation, you just go to the website, not the sage suffered no more, but the stages of life, vitamins, website, go to your account, check out, managing your account, and you will find that on each order.
You can print out one of these pdfs so it's there at no cost to you and it will remain there. It's not good. It's not going away. No, it is kind of cool and desert. Or is there anybody else doing this yet in the answer's no. We are the first. That's just. I love being first. If you're not first, you're last. If you're not first, you're, you're, you're, you're the first loser. Mean second doesn't really do it. You know, I'm not A. I take a certain amount of pride in being the first to do things. Does it get you a nickel? No. Does it get you notoriety? Maybe, but it certainly is good for the pride. It's great for the ego and it's a lot of fun when you're. When you're, when you're a compulsive, a sort of a workaholic. It's just one more. Give you a pat on the back for it, for being a workaholic, for being first. There you go. Thank you. And that website, stages of life, vitamins.com. Thanks. Stages. Life vitamins.com. All right. Let's head back to these phone lines here. We do have some open lines at eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. If you want to join the show. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. Mike, we appreciate you holding on here. We're gonna. Head out and talk to you right now. Welcome into the show. What's your question for Dr David Klein?
Hello Gentlemen. My name is Mike. Probably about seven or eight weeks ago, I started getting mild stomach cramps. They was moved from the right to the left and then they would, they would advance as the weeks we're going on. It was getting stronger and stronger. Uh, I became constipated on a continual basis to the point where I have to drink that, the citrus liquid every couple of days to, um, definitely my bowels. Otherwise, calcium citrate, that's not the same thing as a citrus drink, but go on. I'm sorry. No, you're, you're, you're it. It's, it's what I get at a local grocery store, you know, a couple of bucks a bottle. Um, and once, once it cleans out for a day or two or three, I'm flying or the no pains whatsoever. And then it will slowly start building up again. Apparently from food that's not getting out.
It sounds like to me is something called diverticulosis. Okay. Diverticulosis will present exactly like this. Okay. Why is it going from side to side? Because that's what your transverse colon does. It goes from side to side. The large bowel has these little pockets called house drunk. Okay. And if for whatever reason, the pressure on the inside gets past a certain point, okay? And you don't have enough oil in your diet, you get these little out pockets called diverticula. They will then start to become inflamed, which leads to diverticulitis. So what you're doing is you're taking a cathartic, you're taking a nozzle, what's called an Osmotic Cathartic, and what it's doing is it's blowing out the rear end. Okay? It's just, it just, it's just clearing it all out. Then you'll feel better because there's hauster start to collapse, but then they'll start to refill and reform and it's not food by this point, it's mostly bacteria, 80 to 90 percent bacteria.
And that's a problem for you. What I'm gonna suggest that you do, and this is this, and I want you to do this to the letter, okay? I want you to pick up two things. One is called flax seed oil, not flax seed, okay? Never flax seed and never ground flax seed, but flax seed oil, the they come, it comes in gel caps typically, and another one called Cla, which stands for conjugated linoleic acid. And what you do is you take two flax seed oil at bedtime and you do it religiously. Okay? And then the Cla, okay. They come in 750 to 1,250 milligram. And you take two of them per preferably the larger capsule size, and you do that twice a day. Now what this does is it overwhelms your body's ability to absorb the oils. You're taking more than your body needs or can use.
And that's fine because what it does, it goes all the way through. It dribbles its way through your small bowel to your large belt and then starts to code it. And when you coat the bow with these, these nonabsorbable oils, okay? You're going to poop with the best of them. Okay? It's going to start. In fact, you're going to get a little bit irritated that a little bit too good until those house drive a chance to start to collapse. That process takes about six months or longer. So don't be shocked if you need to stay on this stuff for a while because that's just the way it goes. Now I take the same. I take this every day and have for years. Why? Because I have collitus alright. Collitus really stinks. Okay? That's when you end up with this inflammation throughout the colon itself. Really kind of a bummer.
They got lots of listeners that have collitus, they'll concur, they'll go, man, it's not a lot of fun. I've controlled mine with this very, very simple, very inexpensive regimen, so give it a try, see how it goes. But if you have to use Cathartic, like, um, uh, you know, the, the, the citrus based like that Mag citrate and so on and so forth. Then you're not doing your body any great favors. If you're using center, it's not doing it any great favors. If you have to use aloe on a regular basis, it may not be doing it a lot of favors, but you develop constipation because of an oil deficiency, not because you're deficient in magnesium or deficient in one of the other modalities. So give that a whack Mike. See what now let me know what you think. I think you're gonna do fine with it.
There you go, Mike. And if you want to call back in next week and update us on how that goes, we'd love to hear if we were like a poop update. I mean like a poop update. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine, six. Five is our number. Eight, four, four. We call that identification proclamation. Yeah, there you go. That's it. The defamation pocket identification proclamation. Only heard here on stages of life. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five, eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine, six. Five is our number if you want to call it, enjoying the show. We've got about five open lines here. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine, six, five. We'll be able to squeeze in about three or four more callers after the break here, but right now we'll hit you with the three big things you need to know right here on news. 90 six point five wdo. Welcome back into stages of life. Right here on news. 90 six point five wdb. Oh, phone lines are shut down and we're going to roll through them quick here, but first if you want to locate the the office. Nineteen 17 booth, circle a piano's throw right off of I four right in Longwood there. Nineteen 17 booth circle or give him a call? Four. Oh, seven, six, seven, nine, three, three, three, seven. Again, that's the phone number for the first stages of life. Four. Oh, seven, six, seven, nine, three, three, three, seven. Alright. Craig consumer, you're going to kick us off here right now. Welcome into stages of life. What you question for Dr David Klein.
Thank you. Dr. Client for taking the call. I've listened to you a long time and it's probably not going to be your favorite. Um, however sir, I really could use your help. So I just went. I just turned 49 and um, I'm wanting to do is a Florida original swimmer, diver, fisherman. Now doors, man, I haven't been to the doctors and 20 years I've never had a blood test done. I am that, but I'd really love to be a patient. Cool. Um, can you just tell me what I should be doing first and then here's the caveat, why you won't like me. I'm a business owner and I pay my insurance for all my employees, but you know, I just have never done that for my. I'm an insured. Um, but I really would like to do what I need to do to, and I know there's some things going on I could tell you about later, but um, I really think I should come here.
There's no particular need in my life or in yours to necessarily go to the doctor's office just to, just to do it. Women a little bit different. Okay. They need to have these pap smears done. They should have breast mammograms done periodically, but men are a little bit different. There are things that you can expect to change as you start to get older. You know, you're close to 50. If you're otherwise healthy and you're taking care of yourself and you're using your brain in terms of what you eat and what you do, you're probably going to do just fine. Now, periodically, it's not a bad idea to make sure that you're doing well. Just like in business, you're a business owner, okay? How do you, how do you improve your business? And it's by measuring that which you measure, you have a chance to improve.
If you don't measure something, you do not have a prayer to be able to get any better, and that's just the way these things go. So getting blood work done every so often is not a bad thing, but you've done well so far, but okay. What you don't know necessarily is what your blood pressure's doing. Although I'd be willing to bet you that you stop in at Publix and have it done for free periodically, just out of curiosity. So you know your blood pressure's doing okay. It's not a bad idea to see how your hormones are doing. It's not a bad idea to see how your cholesterol, triglycerides and so on and so forth are doing because that's the sort of feedback you have to have in order to make appropriate course adjustments. It's like dry. It's like if you're a boater, okay, you're out there on the water.
If you don't check where you are periodically, you're going to become part of the, uh, you know, part of the landscape. You know, it's just the way it's going to go. You're going to either end up on the, on the horizon or you're going to end up on the rocks. So what does it take to become a patient with us? It's just a simple telephone call. Now in so far as your, your health insurance concern. I didn't have health insurance personally until I was 35. Okay. Why? Because I took my. I took my chances and that worked out just fine for me. Other people didn't work out quite so well. So in business you do keep business owners insurance. Why? Because if you have business interruption, it can cost you your entire career. You do want to have premises insurance, you do want to have certain things.
You have to attract your employees and so on and so forth. So there are different reasons to have insurance. But in the healthcare industry, the most expensive way to get healthcare is to own health insurance. So I do. I think you made a mistake. The answer is no. You cannot get every bit of the benefit of insurance by paying cash for things. And in fact then you're not paying those premiums for nothing. So what I would suggest that you do frankly, because at 49 it's about time you did and that's to get insurance for things like major medical, major exercise, excess medical, that'd be a high deductible policy. 15,000 bucks or more. Why? Because you can sustain losses up to that point. If you lost your roof cost you 15 grand, you'd find a way to make it. If you need a new car, 15 grand, you find a way to make it.
Same thing is true with your health, but you ended up going in there and having a major bowel resection because of some problem that could be 100 grand that's not so easily dealt with. So get yourself some highly. A high deductible policy. I, mine's 10 grand. Okay. Have I ever used it? The answer's no. Thank God for that. You know, I don't feel like I've been cheated. Not a bit. I feel like I've been lucky, you know, there's no scars on my abdomen to, to, to, to attest otherwise. So congratulations on remaining healthy. But it wouldn't be such a bad idea to get a little bit of twist around and what we do is we actually find a good number of people come in with that. What's wrong with you? Nothing. Why are you here? Because I want to keep it that way. That's not a bad reason, right?
Yeah. The highest use of my time is to prevent illness. Okay. Gives it as just a heck of lot smarter. I'm not there to find things wrong. I'm there to try to steer people in the right direction. Doctor means teacher. It does not mean healer. Okay? So if I can teach people how to do things better, that's what I'm doing right now. That is my calling. It isn't a sit back and stick bandaids on people or to take a high blood pressure and bring it down. You can train a monkey to do that. When I was at Duke, one of the things they used to teach us and surgery was that you can use it. It takes eight years, 10 to 12 years to train a surgeon. Okay. But to train a technician only takes five years, four years. Okay. Do you want to be a technician or do or do you want to be a scientist and that's just the way that it goes and you had that choice there and that's the way it isn't life. All right. Moving right along here. Wayne in Orlando. Welcome onto the show. What's your question for Dr David Klein briefly?
Yeah. So I was wondering while you're magnesium capsule, but now they're hard tablets because there's a lot of people couldn't swallow the tablets. Okay. Real simple. I tried to keep it as cheap as I could and the tablets are cheaper to make so we had to go to the capsules because I had more people telling me that they couldn't swallow the suckers than people that were able to take it. So what happened was I used the, I used the tablets until they personally until they disappeared. I had no problem swallowing it, but some of these folks have all manners of problems with it. So I had to make that change. It was just simply a matter of convenience for the patients. And, and uh, you know, that's, but that's really what it was. It costs about $3 more, but more people were able to do it than not deborah in Ormond beach. Your question for the doc, we're all saying, I know you're running out of time. I had hip surgery around five, six months ago and um, because I climbed the ladder for 30 years and now I just always feel like I'm in a fog. Like my brain isn't clear. I don't know if I should be doing some different kinds of supplements. How old are you? Okay, come on now. Sunday baby. Don't even act like it's age issue.
Oh No, no, no. It makes a huge difference. Okay. Because what happens with the anesthesia is it tends to shut down the adrenal glands and the older you are, the more likely that is to occur. And the treatment for this app, it depends very, very greatly on this. So what I would do would be to get a cortisol level of Dha level, pregnenolone level, and what you can do to get your head back okay, is to treat the hormonal imbalance that happened now for six months. It's unlikely that you did this as a result of an embolus, which can happen with hip surgery. It can make you feel pretty funky, but my guess is that will what will bring you back is pregnenolone. Okay. We have a product called memories, Dah Da, which is called Dha and then cortisol. But I wouldn't do any of those things until we got some blood work because you need to know where you're starting it or know where you're finishing.
The second thing is called dimethyl. Glycine will give you focus back quickly, but it doesn't fix the underlying problem a real quick. We won't take the call, but I'll just tell you, Jonathan is calling from Miami. He says he's bleeding every time he dedicates and he's not sure why. Okay. And what'll happen there? Okay. More Times than not, this is caused by an anal fissure or a fistula. And this is like a little break in the Mucosa. You'll do okay, you'll go to Poof, you bear down and it breaks the skin. Kind of like having a split in your lip. That'll leave a blood on the outside of the store, usually in streaks. The other thing that'll happen is that you can end up with hemorrhoids that'll do this. So you're kind of internal hemorrhoids, which you may or may not be able to feel. External hemorrhoids are really obvious when you go to clean yourself after you poop. So, but that's generally what it's all about. But would you have to be careful of is that you don't have rectal or a sql, Carson, what do you call it? Rectal or colon cancer. So there's some things that you need to do to rule that out. More than likely it's going to be a fistula fissures or hemorrhoids.
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It is good to be here. It's a good day. It's a great day in the neighborhood. Yes. No, the. Did you see that Mr Rogers movie. I did not see the movie, but I do remember the show a kid. Yeah. No, he was actually an interesting dude. Yeah, okay. Yeah. As it were. He was a civil war to call it a silver star recipient. Corinne was definitely one bed dude. Yeah. Okay. But somehow the nicest dude. You're the night. The nicest, you know? Yeah. What's the polite way of saying, you know, you know, a polite Chuck Norris. He was the real deal. Yeah. Yeah. So any events, so he, he is missed. I did not see the movie. I thought that's great. I think I will.
It's very good. It gives you all the feels, every emotion that we could possibly enter a brand new studio here, trying to get her, get used to the fact that we can't bring in beverages and you've got to figure out which door to walk in. Well, like I have, he almost went the long one. Yeah, that's my lot in life. That's not so bad. I turned the wrong way on maitland boulevard making a difference, you know, it's just the way it goes. Right. In fact, we have that GPS thing set up and I still go the wrong way. I do to all the time. I have two hands and one bottom and I still can't find it. That's the way these things work Sunday, but we're going to to a few open lines still. No good. They're closing quickly, so if you have, if you have a question, please pick up your phone.
Do is you need to do but get it in quickly because we're going to be. We're going to be full here shortly and then then it's a little bit more frustrating right now. It shouldn't be too frustrating. So what if we got in the news? Anything interesting I need to know about theater tickets. They. I did not. I paid for my own theater tickets so I can run for governor in how it goes. Yes. He has a little bit of that. You haven't taken any freebies? No. Not that. No, not certainly not theater tickets and who'd want to go see Hamilton anyway for God's sake? There's little were pretty crappy plan. Understand, but I thought it had good reviews. Oh yeah. I haven't any New York Times reviewed it. Well, what does that tell you? It means don't go. Don't waste your money. However it may cost the guy couple votes as well.
It should because that is kind of like graft. They used to call it corruption now they just simply call it a free theater tickets where you might have to pay a thousand bucks. You know, when me just get a favor out of it, you know what you know. Once upon a time, you know that the standard, the standard graft in Baltimore was a, was a suit of clothing. That's what it costs to buy a judge in Baltimore was a suit of clothes. It's got to be more expensive, you know, along with inflation and everything else. So now it's a thousand dollar ticket. How nice the suit was though too, you know, you're right. Okay. I guess you wouldn't be going to the big men's store fronts. What are we got in the four? Do we have in the lines here? Oh, we've got three lines full right now.
We've got a couple friends and Ajo. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. If you want to call and ask the doc question. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. Should we head right to the lines? Do that, you know, I mean, not given. I mean, given you the answer you're looking for, in fact, I'm hoping I don't. It makes it far more interesting, but yeah. No, let's, let's, let's see. Let's see who can. Let's see who comes up the most interesting question of the day to day Fred and Apopka. You're going to kick things off for us today. Welcome into the show. What is your question for Dr David Klein. Thank you for taking the call. I'm curious about using cbd oil for pain management. Okay.
And so, and so you think that that's going to help you in some way? The CBD stands for Cannabix dials. Okay. And the cannabidiol component of marijuana is thought to not give you that, that, that buzz that so many people that use marijuana seek to get. But is it a primary analgesic? And the answer's no, but does that mean it's not a painkiller? What does it do? It changes the way you think. It changes the way your brain is wired a little bit. Can I butt dials by themselves are not very potent to do much of anything. Yes, through the receptors exist, but they're really rather minor players. So most people that use cbd don't find much effect at all. They may be, you know, their wallet may be shortened by two or three or $400 before they figure that out.
So that kind of money isn't important to you.
Then I suggest that you give it a try. So can Napa dials have been legal for decades longer? So there's nothing new about them. They've been around forever. If they didn't work 10 years ago, what makes you think they're going to work now? You could have gotten into a health food store 10 years ago and bought these things. Okay. It didn't make any difference then. It doesn't make any difference now, but there's a very big multilevel marketing push for these things right now, so are there a lot of people out there pushing them and pushing is exactly the right thing. That is what it's all about. Now. What do I believe in my heart of hearts about Kratom and very much the same thing? Okay, there are people out there that are getting sick from it and it's probably going to be made illegal as a result with regards to marijuana in general.
The reason why people are pushing them, the Charlotte's web, you know, they'll quote unquote legalized, which is really decriminalized marijuana and cbd oil is this, that if somebody is going to go ahead and regular marijuana and get that buzz that they so desperately think is important to their lifestyle, okay, and they happened to be positive and that could cost them their job by claiming that they're using CBDS and and some of these other things and and Charlotte's web that may be able to keep their job. That's what the deal is all about. Number two is it's a gateway to try to bring it in to make the other stuff legal, which I think is a huge mistake. Okay. One of the problems that we see in our culture right now, especially if you're an employer now, most of the people that are listening are not employers.
Their employees, you know, they sign only one side of the paycheck and it's the one that has the printing on it. Okay? When you're signed the opposite side of the paycheck, the paycheck, you're looking for people that have levels of motivation. Marijuana is notorious for ripping, destroying, diminishing initiative and it and so on and so forth. That's what it's all about. The old cheech and Chong movies, we're not a joke, you know, I grew up in the, in the, in the sixties and seventies. That was the way that it was. You could always tell the stoners they were the ones that, that, that we're born with brains and graduated without. Okay. They didn't amount to much then and they amounted to a even less as time went on. So is it true that you'll find people that, that smoke socially and so on and so forth, uh, that are, that keep, uh, keep good jobs?
And so yeah, I'm sure you'll find them. They're there, they're out there, but the folks that really got nailed with this stuff did not do well at all. Now they'll make claims, well, marijuana is not addictive and I call a nonsense to that one. It's highly addictive. Why don't you try taking it away from somebody that smokes on a regular basis and see how well that works? Well, I can stop smoking marijuana anytime. Really? Do you know anybody who smokes cigarettes because they say the same thing? I could stop. Stop. I've stopped smoking many times. She's equally crazy thing. So what do I think about it? I think it's nuts. Now with regards to the use of opioids to treat pain, that is a different question entirely. If you've got somebody with chronic pain and chronic pain can be done, can be defined as pain that's not doing to an ongoing, uh, acute illness that lasts longer than six weeks.
Opiates really don't work very well. So leaving people on opiates for greater than six weeks as a bad idea. Now let's say that you have something like osteoporosis and small issues. Let's say with chronic arthritis, that is not the same thing as having a chronic pain. You, you do in fact have chronic acute pain. What does that mean? It means that you have this acute pain that's ongoing. It continues to break. It continues to rub. It continues to cause you issues very much like gout. You know you can have gout and not have pain on any one particular moment. But if it acts up, there comes all all over again. You can have recurrent urinary tract infections that are very painful. You can have recurrent Migraine, okay? That is a chronic pain condition, but it really isn't chronic pain. It's chronic, recurrent acute pain. Those individuals do well with opiates if they're used intelligently.
And that is kind of an interesting subject, a subjunctive clause if they're used intelligently. Opiates are funny things. Now, you know, this was a, uh, a very important part of my medical training and very important part of my practice. I opened the first office space pain center in the United States. I've been doing this for over 40 years and what I will tell you is this, and that's that. Opiates work just fine when they're used in combination with true painkillers. Nope. It's not a painkiller to pain dollar. Okay, so how do you, how do you treat pain? You'd go for the underlying cause. So if you've got somebody that has chronic foot pain being caused by gout and you don't know that it's Gout, I don't care what opiates you take, it's not gonna make any difference, but you give them a non-opiate called allopurinol. When you know it, it goes away.
So does that make allopurinol a pain medication? The is affirmative. What if you have a sinus infection and you train the sinus? How do you do that? You can use antihistamines except they're not a very good choice. Most of the time. Anticholinergics, yeah, they work somewhat, but let's say you go ahead and you drain the sinuses and the pain gets better. Does that make the NSF cystine? Does that make the Guy Fenison? Does it make them analgesics? And the answer's yes, it makes them painkillers, but non opiates with opiates, again, it gets back to the old tuning of the radio dial. Now these days you push buttons and and numbers pop up. Digitals, very different from analog. But back in the day, back in the day when you actually had a dial that you twisted, okay, that you could over twist or you could under twist that that a capacitor to variable capacitors that did this, okay?
It kind of looks like a, like a series of fans that flipped in on each other on the inside of the radio or radio dial or television dial for that matter. And so what would happen is that if you over, if you overcompensate, if you over adjusted this thing, you Mr. Signal too much or too little. And the same thing is true with opiates. Opiates themselves can cause pain, something called opioid induced hyperalgesia, or in many cases rebound pain. So if you give, if you give opiates to people for headache, it's one of the worst things you can do to them. You just made an addict. Yeah, you made the addict. Congratulations Dr. you just couldn't you. You created the problem. Why? Because as the opiate levels decrease, what's the side effect? Headache more heading. Brilliant. Okay, so the trick to a lot of this stuff is to me as to use as little as you can get by doing.
Now in my business right now, my practice right now, I am stuck with lots and lots of patients who had been overtreated. They've seen other doctors, they get a really trashed on this stuff and it's my job to try to keep them from getting worse. So what do I think about it? I don't think creighton work's worth a darn. I don't think cbd works and the opioids need to be used with a v with care, but most pain conditions are best treated with Gaba agonist, muscle relaxants and anticonvulsants, and then you use a little bit of the painkillers to take the edge off. You do that, you'll do okay. How do you treat the pain of osteoporosis? You treat the osteoporosis. How do you treat the pain of fossette arthritis? You deal with the arthritis. How do you treat the pain due to Migraine? You treat the Migraine or the trigeminal neuralgia or whatever the cause is. If you have a nail stuck in your leg, what's the best medication to use? The answer's a pair of pliers and pull the. Pull the nail out and you'll feel better. That's what I think. Next victim.
Go. Hold off on the next victim. Let everyone breathe for a minute or two. That was really me including you. It's some good information doc. Obviously passionate about the topic, so it's always good to hear. You know. Somebody pushed the button. Yeah, somebody pushed the button. Good. Was you fred? Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six. Five is our number eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. Now, but that is a good question. And Friday, that was a very good topic to open the show with a good man. Good man. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine, six. Five is the number you're listening to. Stages of life right here on news. 90 six point five. Wdo. You're listening to stages of life right here on news. 90 six point five. WDB, oh, eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine. Six. Five is the number. If you've got a question for Dr. David Klein, eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Ninety six five. Let's go ahead and jump right back onto those phone lines and talk with Joe. Calling in from right here in Orlando. Joe, welcome onto the show. What's your question for the doc?
Hi, good afternoon guys. I really appreciate you taking my call. I'll do my best to make this interesting for you here. I hope to be the color of the day here. I'm not gonna lie, so I'm on a testosterone regimen and it seems that I have recently broken out like a teenager rolling around in Greece, a body acne and, and it looks like I'm, I'm allergic to my laundry detergent. Really have some all over my body. It's sort of a my upper torso typically it looks like I've sort of changed my laundry detergent. You
what are you taking? How much? When did it start?
Um, it's, it's injectable testosterone problems. Uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. So other than other than discontinuing, because I actually feel a lot better if we're being honest. Um, and I have tried some of the over the counters from like your, your, your, your, your grocery stores and things like that. Um, uh, and, and nothing seems to be working and I have tried to adjust my diet because I, I guess I was told that that might play a problem with it. I just don't know what to do.
Well, first thing, how old are you?
Uh, 40.
Okay. Now Testosterone tends to diminish with age begins around the age of 21, 20 years old, drops two percent per year, you know, and it's just the way it goes by the time you hit about 50, okay. Your level is going to be half of what it was when you were 21. That's the way that it goes. So if you start off low, it's gonna end up low faster that. But there are other things you can do to speed the process up and you're actually doing one of those things. Okay? Intramuscular testosterone is a disaster waiting to happen. And very, very frequently people start off with I am testosterone, and they start to find that when they're, when they're not in the first day or two or three, that I am cycle, that their levels actually drop below they were before they started the intramuscular to begin with.
And the reason for that has to do with suppression of some pituitary hormones that cause your testicles and your adrenals to actually manufacture testosterone. So what you're doing is scratching the poison ivy and wondering why it's spreading. The second thing that's a problem with Iam testosterone, which is really for rank amateurs and Wannabes, okay? In my practice, you know, you've probably got a 10,000 patients that were, we are or have prescribed testosterone to only about six or seven of them have received intramuscular. Okay? The rest of them, it's all transdermal because when you take testosterone, the levels become super physiological. What that means is way, way too high for a day or two or three. And that's when you feel really, really good. Then they drop down like a rock. During that period when they're too high, your body converts the testosterone to Estradiol and something called dihydrotestosterone.
It's the estrodial that's making your man boobs, which if you haven't noticed them by now, you will very shortly and it will make your testicles shrink a little bit. Okay? Maybe a lot. Okay. Neither of which is really a good thing, but the changes in your fsh, the changes in the gonadotropins releasing hormones and so on and so forth, they can take a long, long time to change back the sex hormone binding globulin that goes up as a result of the extra dial. Increase is sometimes irreversible. So what's going on here is that you may be into this thing long enough to have started some, some changes that may not be so easy to undo. So far as the acne is concerned, you will see that with the dihydrotestosterone and you will see that with extra dial. It's kind of a fascinating problem. So what I would suggest that you do, okay, is to back out of the testosterone I am because there are other ways to do it.
You know the over the counter stuff is useful in conjunction with a prescription testosterone. It's helpful for individuals that have, let's say, marginal, a decrease or they need a little bit of extra kick in the bedroom kind of a deal. Then it's very, very helpful, but if you've got a. If you actually have a low testosterone level, there is nothing that you can take over the counter that's going to kick it up. What they do is they block the degradation of testosterone to Estradiol, so you have to have the production for the OTC products to work. If you don't have the production, then you take the prescription, but going intramuscular is not a good thing. Now, if you're going to take the transdermals, which is the really the only way that that I feel comfortable doing this, you know the iam stuff is necessary. If you find somebody that just simply can't do the transdermals for whatever reason is still have to use the aromatase and five Alpha reductase inhibitors and those are for the most part over the counter, but you do it in conjunction with not in lieu of SARS.
The acne is concerned. What I would do with you is I would do something along the lines of a chemical scrub, a citric acid peel. Okay. These pills that you can get from the estheticians work very, very nicely, soaking in a hot tub of water, soaking it up, using an astringent like boric acid works, but they make these pads, these, these, these abrasive pads that you can use to strip off the top layer of something called the stratum corneum, which is the uppermost layer of the skin. It opens up the gland, a duct. Okay, so that these oils tend to diminish a in a, let's say, in their backup. Additionally, you have to watch your refined sugar intake because refined sugar actually stimulates the production of the sebaceous glands. The glands, the sebaceous fluids will increase with sugar, and that's what tends to make it worse now that we're in Halloween, we should be seeing lots of this happen. Why? Because it's really hard to go to work without somebody bringing in a bunch of sugar at life in the fast lane. So Joe, does that kind of answer your question?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. It does the sugar. Yeah, you just cut it out and I think your face will clear up, but you really got to get off the I am testosterone and get onto the transdermal. That doesn't. Doesn't necessarily mean the acs ron or some of these others are compounded. We use a compounded testosterone that cost $25 a month, so it's pretty cheap actually. No, it's not bad at all. Are you kidding? He's probably paying a whole.
Yeah, a lot more. Net cash. That's not what your insurance. There you go. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine, six, five. You have a question for Dr David Klein at eight. Four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine, six, five. Reminder. You're listening to stages of life right here on news. 90 six point five. WDB. Oh, located at 1917. Booth circle in Longwood, Florida. Pianos. Throw off of I four. Give him a call. Four. Oh, seven, six, seven, nine, three, 3:37. Open. Monday through Thursday. Four. Oh, seven, six, seven, nine, three, three, three, seven. We'll be back with more of the doc. You're listening to stages of life right here on news 96 point five wdo. Yes. This is stages of life right here on news 96 point five wdb oh, live. If you want to join us at eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five, eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. You have any questions? Medical questions that you've got. Doc is the answers for you. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. Now before we hit the mic in the villages doc, talk a little about the aesthetics that you're working on. Now. The annual Halloween's coming up. You're going to want to look good for Thanksgiving and all the other holidays. You got some new stuff going on. Don't you have that? But you kind of understand, okay, if you want to look good for the holidays and if you want to look good for that class reunion, the homecoming or whatever the heck it is that you're going to be doing or just seeing your ex, you know, you see your extra party. Don't you don't want to look bad when the breakup. Well, you, you know, you want, you want it to kind of make a mark on this sort of thing. Now is the time to start planning this out because when you're looking at things like aesthetics, it takes a minimum of six weeks for things to start to show.
Why is that? Because it takes about six weeks for the skin to turnover. So if you're looking at doing something for the holidays, you're right up on the, on the time limit for this next several weeks are going to be very, very important. If you want to look good for that New Year's New Year's Eve party, or if you want to look good for even the Christmas party, it's about time. So what did we do at stages of life? We actually have a medically driven aesthetic center. What does this mean? It's not the usual med spot on the med spot. All you know there's no spot about this. You come in, you get down to business and you get your get what needs to be done and you leave. Okay? So we're not interested in sticking cucumbers in your eyes, nor are we going to beat on drums or play a weird music.
What we do is we go in there and we look at the skin for what it is, which is the largest organ system in your body. You have more skin than anything else. Is it a dermatology practice? No. You know, we deal with diseases of the skin. Sure enough, but the focus isn't on dermatology. We have good dermatologist in this town. Okay? We refer to them all the time, but when it comes to the aesthetic portion of it, I don't think anybody does better than we do and why? Because we look at the skin. Again, not just as a canvas but as a piece of art, a living piece of art. So you need to make sure your nutritionist as appropriately set up that you're on nutraceuticals, your Derma ceuticals are all set up properly and the hormone balance is done correctly because if you don't have appropriate hormone balance, I don't care what you do to the skin, it isn't going to make a lot of difference.
You are wasting your time and money, so doing botox and somebody that is out of balance with regards to their thyroid is a huge waste. If you're a Gananoque, troponins aren't set up properly, you are wasting your money. So what we do is we focus on the whole picture. What does that mean? You don't focus on anything. He looked at everything from the top to the bottom. So stages of the life. Aesthetics. We do a pretty decent job. It's not our main line of business, but it does make a big difference, especially this time of the year. So if you're interested, give us a Holler. You know you can come by and look us over. It's not going to cost you anything to find out. We're happy to meet you anyway. Even if you don't do anything with us, at least you can combine and learn something.
And so that's what. That's what we're doing with regards to aesthetics and thank you for asking. Alright, there we go. Anything? Oh, what else do we want to talk about the FSA say in the Hsa, because this this weekend, a lot of calls on a on a reg. We did calls on a regular basis, not on the show so much, but in the office, people wondering about tax deductability of their nutraceuticals over the counter sorts of things. Stuff that's not surgical, not medical prescription necessarily. Is any of that tax deductible and not being a tax accountant? Nor do I did I stay in a holiday inn express last night? What I will tell you is that I have read these portions of the irs code. It is dry reading. Nobody should have to do this unless they're being punished, but what it says very clearly, okay.
Is that your behavior, your activities, your products, the things that you do in the things that you have bought are tax deductible when under the direction of a medical physician for purposes of disease management or disease prevention. What does this mean? That means if you have the appropriate documentation, those nutraceuticals, those vitamins, minerals and other sorts of things can be tax deductible. Yeah. You do need to have your account on board with it, but if you, if you show him that the code which he should have, he or she should already know, it's very, very clear. So what we did at stages of life was to make, um, to make a little program set up so that if you buy your products on the website, this is important. If it's on the website, every time you do it, okay, it generates a pdf that's a non editable document that presents the argument to the irs as to why you're doing it, what it's being treated, what, what sorts of illnesses it treats and so and so forth.
And it's under my direction. Yeah. Guess what? Okay. Your HSA can pay for this stuff. Your Fsa might pay for it because it depends on an insurance product and not necessarily a in your best interest because that's an insurance company's product, but you certainly can deduct it under the irs tax code. According to my interpretation and my accountant's interpretation of what we're doing. So this is something that we do for our products. We do it for our patients customers. And so on and so forth, and we were happy to do it for you. If you've bought from us in the past year or so, or even this year, you will find that every one of those receipts has an attached pdf to it. And so when it comes time for tax preparation, you just go to the website, not the sage suffered no more, but the stages of life, vitamins, website, go to your account, check out, managing your account, and you will find that on each order.
You can print out one of these pdfs so it's there at no cost to you and it will remain there. It's not good. It's not going away. No, it is kind of cool and desert. Or is there anybody else doing this yet in the answer's no. We are the first. That's just. I love being first. If you're not first, you're last. If you're not first, you're, you're, you're, you're the first loser. Mean second doesn't really do it. You know, I'm not A. I take a certain amount of pride in being the first to do things. Does it get you a nickel? No. Does it get you notoriety? Maybe, but it certainly is good for the pride. It's great for the ego and it's a lot of fun when you're. When you're, when you're a compulsive, a sort of a workaholic. It's just one more. Give you a pat on the back for it, for being a workaholic, for being first. There you go. Thank you. And that website, stages of life, vitamins.com. Thanks. Stages. Life vitamins.com. All right. Let's head back to these phone lines here. We do have some open lines at eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. If you want to join the show. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five. Mike, we appreciate you holding on here. We're gonna. Head out and talk to you right now. Welcome into the show. What's your question for Dr David Klein?
Hello Gentlemen. My name is Mike. Probably about seven or eight weeks ago, I started getting mild stomach cramps. They was moved from the right to the left and then they would, they would advance as the weeks we're going on. It was getting stronger and stronger. Uh, I became constipated on a continual basis to the point where I have to drink that, the citrus liquid every couple of days to, um, definitely my bowels. Otherwise, calcium citrate, that's not the same thing as a citrus drink, but go on. I'm sorry. No, you're, you're, you're it. It's, it's what I get at a local grocery store, you know, a couple of bucks a bottle. Um, and once, once it cleans out for a day or two or three, I'm flying or the no pains whatsoever. And then it will slowly start building up again. Apparently from food that's not getting out.
It sounds like to me is something called diverticulosis. Okay. Diverticulosis will present exactly like this. Okay. Why is it going from side to side? Because that's what your transverse colon does. It goes from side to side. The large bowel has these little pockets called house drunk. Okay. And if for whatever reason, the pressure on the inside gets past a certain point, okay? And you don't have enough oil in your diet, you get these little out pockets called diverticula. They will then start to become inflamed, which leads to diverticulitis. So what you're doing is you're taking a cathartic, you're taking a nozzle, what's called an Osmotic Cathartic, and what it's doing is it's blowing out the rear end. Okay? It's just, it just, it's just clearing it all out. Then you'll feel better because there's hauster start to collapse, but then they'll start to refill and reform and it's not food by this point, it's mostly bacteria, 80 to 90 percent bacteria.
And that's a problem for you. What I'm gonna suggest that you do, and this is this, and I want you to do this to the letter, okay? I want you to pick up two things. One is called flax seed oil, not flax seed, okay? Never flax seed and never ground flax seed, but flax seed oil, the they come, it comes in gel caps typically, and another one called Cla, which stands for conjugated linoleic acid. And what you do is you take two flax seed oil at bedtime and you do it religiously. Okay? And then the Cla, okay. They come in 750 to 1,250 milligram. And you take two of them per preferably the larger capsule size, and you do that twice a day. Now what this does is it overwhelms your body's ability to absorb the oils. You're taking more than your body needs or can use.
And that's fine because what it does, it goes all the way through. It dribbles its way through your small bowel to your large belt and then starts to code it. And when you coat the bow with these, these nonabsorbable oils, okay? You're going to poop with the best of them. Okay? It's going to start. In fact, you're going to get a little bit irritated that a little bit too good until those house drive a chance to start to collapse. That process takes about six months or longer. So don't be shocked if you need to stay on this stuff for a while because that's just the way it goes. Now I take the same. I take this every day and have for years. Why? Because I have collitus alright. Collitus really stinks. Okay? That's when you end up with this inflammation throughout the colon itself. Really kind of a bummer.
They got lots of listeners that have collitus, they'll concur, they'll go, man, it's not a lot of fun. I've controlled mine with this very, very simple, very inexpensive regimen, so give it a try, see how it goes. But if you have to use Cathartic, like, um, uh, you know, the, the, the citrus based like that Mag citrate and so on and so forth. Then you're not doing your body any great favors. If you're using center, it's not doing it any great favors. If you have to use aloe on a regular basis, it may not be doing it a lot of favors, but you develop constipation because of an oil deficiency, not because you're deficient in magnesium or deficient in one of the other modalities. So give that a whack Mike. See what now let me know what you think. I think you're gonna do fine with it.
There you go, Mike. And if you want to call back in next week and update us on how that goes, we'd love to hear if we were like a poop update. I mean like a poop update. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine, six. Five is our number. Eight, four, four. We call that identification proclamation. Yeah, there you go. That's it. The defamation pocket identification proclamation. Only heard here on stages of life. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero, nine, six, five, eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine, six. Five is our number if you want to call it, enjoying the show. We've got about five open lines here. Eight, four, four, two, two, zero, zero. Nine, six, five. We'll be able to squeeze in about three or four more callers after the break here, but right now we'll hit you with the three big things you need to know right here on news. 90 six point five wdo. Welcome back into stages of life. Right here on news. 90 six point five wdb. Oh, phone lines are shut down and we're going to roll through them quick here, but first if you want to locate the the office. Nineteen 17 booth, circle a piano's throw right off of I four right in Longwood there. Nineteen 17 booth circle or give him a call? Four. Oh, seven, six, seven, nine, three, three, three, seven. Again, that's the phone number for the first stages of life. Four. Oh, seven, six, seven, nine, three, three, three, seven. Alright. Craig consumer, you're going to kick us off here right now. Welcome into stages of life. What you question for Dr David Klein.
Thank you. Dr. Client for taking the call. I've listened to you a long time and it's probably not going to be your favorite. Um, however sir, I really could use your help. So I just went. I just turned 49 and um, I'm wanting to do is a Florida original swimmer, diver, fisherman. Now doors, man, I haven't been to the doctors and 20 years I've never had a blood test done. I am that, but I'd really love to be a patient. Cool. Um, can you just tell me what I should be doing first and then here's the caveat, why you won't like me. I'm a business owner and I pay my insurance for all my employees, but you know, I just have never done that for my. I'm an insured. Um, but I really would like to do what I need to do to, and I know there's some things going on I could tell you about later, but um, I really think I should come here.
There's no particular need in my life or in yours to necessarily go to the doctor's office just to, just to do it. Women a little bit different. Okay. They need to have these pap smears done. They should have breast mammograms done periodically, but men are a little bit different. There are things that you can expect to change as you start to get older. You know, you're close to 50. If you're otherwise healthy and you're taking care of yourself and you're using your brain in terms of what you eat and what you do, you're probably going to do just fine. Now, periodically, it's not a bad idea to make sure that you're doing well. Just like in business, you're a business owner, okay? How do you, how do you improve your business? And it's by measuring that which you measure, you have a chance to improve.
If you don't measure something, you do not have a prayer to be able to get any better, and that's just the way these things go. So getting blood work done every so often is not a bad thing, but you've done well so far, but okay. What you don't know necessarily is what your blood pressure's doing. Although I'd be willing to bet you that you stop in at Publix and have it done for free periodically, just out of curiosity. So you know your blood pressure's doing okay. It's not a bad idea to see how your hormones are doing. It's not a bad idea to see how your cholesterol, triglycerides and so on and so forth are doing because that's the sort of feedback you have to have in order to make appropriate course adjustments. It's like dry. It's like if you're a boater, okay, you're out there on the water.
If you don't check where you are periodically, you're going to become part of the, uh, you know, part of the landscape. You know, it's just the way it's going to go. You're going to either end up on the, on the horizon or you're going to end up on the rocks. So what does it take to become a patient with us? It's just a simple telephone call. Now in so far as your, your health insurance concern. I didn't have health insurance personally until I was 35. Okay. Why? Because I took my. I took my chances and that worked out just fine for me. Other people didn't work out quite so well. So in business you do keep business owners insurance. Why? Because if you have business interruption, it can cost you your entire career. You do want to have premises insurance, you do want to have certain things.
You have to attract your employees and so on and so forth. So there are different reasons to have insurance. But in the healthcare industry, the most expensive way to get healthcare is to own health insurance. So I do. I think you made a mistake. The answer is no. You cannot get every bit of the benefit of insurance by paying cash for things. And in fact then you're not paying those premiums for nothing. So what I would suggest that you do frankly, because at 49 it's about time you did and that's to get insurance for things like major medical, major exercise, excess medical, that'd be a high deductible policy. 15,000 bucks or more. Why? Because you can sustain losses up to that point. If you lost your roof cost you 15 grand, you'd find a way to make it. If you need a new car, 15 grand, you find a way to make it.
Same thing is true with your health, but you ended up going in there and having a major bowel resection because of some problem that could be 100 grand that's not so easily dealt with. So get yourself some highly. A high deductible policy. I, mine's 10 grand. Okay. Have I ever used it? The answer's no. Thank God for that. You know, I don't feel like I've been cheated. Not a bit. I feel like I've been lucky, you know, there's no scars on my abdomen to, to, to, to attest otherwise. So congratulations on remaining healthy. But it wouldn't be such a bad idea to get a little bit of twist around and what we do is we actually find a good number of people come in with that. What's wrong with you? Nothing. Why are you here? Because I want to keep it that way. That's not a bad reason, right?
Yeah. The highest use of my time is to prevent illness. Okay. Gives it as just a heck of lot smarter. I'm not there to find things wrong. I'm there to try to steer people in the right direction. Doctor means teacher. It does not mean healer. Okay? So if I can teach people how to do things better, that's what I'm doing right now. That is my calling. It isn't a sit back and stick bandaids on people or to take a high blood pressure and bring it down. You can train a monkey to do that. When I was at Duke, one of the things they used to teach us and surgery was that you can use it. It takes eight years, 10 to 12 years to train a surgeon. Okay. But to train a technician only takes five years, four years. Okay. Do you want to be a technician or do or do you want to be a scientist and that's just the way that it goes and you had that choice there and that's the way it isn't life. All right. Moving right along here. Wayne in Orlando. Welcome onto the show. What's your question for Dr David Klein briefly?
Yeah. So I was wondering while you're magnesium capsule, but now they're hard tablets because there's a lot of people couldn't swallow the tablets. Okay. Real simple. I tried to keep it as cheap as I could and the tablets are cheaper to make so we had to go to the capsules because I had more people telling me that they couldn't swallow the suckers than people that were able to take it. So what happened was I used the, I used the tablets until they personally until they disappeared. I had no problem swallowing it, but some of these folks have all manners of problems with it. So I had to make that change. It was just simply a matter of convenience for the patients. And, and uh, you know, that's, but that's really what it was. It costs about $3 more, but more people were able to do it than not deborah in Ormond beach. Your question for the doc, we're all saying, I know you're running out of time. I had hip surgery around five, six months ago and um, because I climbed the ladder for 30 years and now I just always feel like I'm in a fog. Like my brain isn't clear. I don't know if I should be doing some different kinds of supplements. How old are you? Okay, come on now. Sunday baby. Don't even act like it's age issue.
Oh No, no, no. It makes a huge difference. Okay. Because what happens with the anesthesia is it tends to shut down the adrenal glands and the older you are, the more likely that is to occur. And the treatment for this app, it depends very, very greatly on this. So what I would do would be to get a cortisol level of Dha level, pregnenolone level, and what you can do to get your head back okay, is to treat the hormonal imbalance that happened now for six months. It's unlikely that you did this as a result of an embolus, which can happen with hip surgery. It can make you feel pretty funky, but my guess is that will what will bring you back is pregnenolone. Okay. We have a product called memories, Dah Da, which is called Dha and then cortisol. But I wouldn't do any of those things until we got some blood work because you need to know where you're starting it or know where you're finishing.
The second thing is called dimethyl. Glycine will give you focus back quickly, but it doesn't fix the underlying problem a real quick. We won't take the call, but I'll just tell you, Jonathan is calling from Miami. He says he's bleeding every time he dedicates and he's not sure why. Okay. And what'll happen there? Okay. More Times than not, this is caused by an anal fissure or a fistula. And this is like a little break in the Mucosa. You'll do okay, you'll go to Poof, you bear down and it breaks the skin. Kind of like having a split in your lip. That'll leave a blood on the outside of the store, usually in streaks. The other thing that'll happen is that you can end up with hemorrhoids that'll do this. So you're kind of internal hemorrhoids, which you may or may not be able to feel. External hemorrhoids are really obvious when you go to clean yourself after you poop. So, but that's generally what it's all about. But would you have to be careful of is that you don't have rectal or a sql, Carson, what do you call it? Rectal or colon cancer. So there's some things that you need to do to rule that out. More than likely it's going to be a fistula fissures or hemorrhoids.