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The Paris 2024 Chocolate MD Olympic Special!
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As per our Dr. Chris, this episode is about "all things surrounding the Olympics". Discussions about the future of the Olympics (Hello LA 2028), hyping up our "best of the best" (insert Simone Biles, Noah Lyles, USA Men's and Women's BBall, and so many more), and the main topic about SHIT...aka E Coli in the River Seine.
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Transcript
Introduction & Host Banter
00:00:18
Speaker
Welcome back, y'all, to another episode of Chocolate with a Side of Medicine. I am your host, Amy Jo MD, and I have with me Dr. Nodal. Hey, guys. Dr. Chris. Hello, everyone. And Dr. Sunshine. Hello, hello.
00:00:39
Speaker
Amy Jo, why you got the sexy smooth jazz voice on? What do they call it? Oh, The Quiet Storm. The Quiet Storm. why The Quiet Storm. meet some joe am d And we are here vibing.
00:00:59
Speaker
Stop it. Stop it. Yeah. I don't know.
Olympic Obsession & Lesser-Known Sports
00:01:03
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Maybe because I have poor sleep habits right now because I am up to my eyeballs in all things Olympics. So literally your girl's up at like 3am one night watching and I love the Olympics. and I mean, I love it all. Like I love the big sports. I love the small sports. So I was up at 3am Googling.
00:01:21
Speaker
how many red pindles you had to get for you to sit out three minutes for the walk? Yeah, the walkers. Yo, I was all into walkers. I was like, man, howdy. Like speed walking? It's hard. The speed walking, it's hard. That's an Olympic sport. Is that new for this year? No. No.
00:01:43
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oh Cause even when I did track, there was a, there's an event we walk forward for walking and you have to do it a certain way. me Yeah. I love that. And then you can't go too fast and then they get your cards and you have, yes you have like more than three cards and you got to sit out for a certain amount of minutes. So you get a yellow card. Yes. You get a yellow card, yellow cards. You're warning like, Hey, listen, and it's not that you're walking too fast. Like there's all these rules, like, yeah One foot has to be planted in a particular time. like It cannot look like a run. But of course, everybody's trying to catch up. So when you're walking fast, you might be like, so you get a little warning, like, here's your yellow card. And it's weird because like the little the man, like, move in front of them real quick, like, hey, I hope you see this card. And then her, but get out of the way.
00:02:28
Speaker
and then Cause apparently on judges, like across the whole track. So up and down this track, there are people that are watching your pace and like there's like little hand things people do when they want to, you know, distract the judges, like all these techniques. Anyways, you have to, you have to remove yourself from the track for three minutes.
00:02:52
Speaker
Three-minute penalty and so I was watching cuz there's all this drama China was behind it But like in fourth place and like they were catching up and they got her three red flag three red penalties It's almost like a car like soccer. No, they get the car. It's like a really hard And so yeah, he had to sit out and I was like dog. I mean three minutes will make a race like oh, yeah, by like and she had passed him like I saha They do look like they're sashaying. They do look like they're sashaying. They gotta a look like this. They gotta look like this. It's like a hyper speed sashay. Yes. I love it. I i had no idea that was an event. I'm like discovering all these new sports that are actually really fun to watch.
00:03:35
Speaker
I've been watching Ileana Maher. I'm not sorry if that was pronounced.
USA Women's Rugby Triumph
00:03:39
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Rugby. With the women's rugby. And i I saw a match between them and what was the other team. That was really hard. Wait, did you see their medal match though?
00:03:49
Speaker
I didn't know. I saw the semi-finals. But my god, those women are a force to be reckoned with on that field. They are giving everyone the elbow. I saw one girl literally pick one up and slam her to the ground and just walk towards the fence. I'm like, what is this sport? And why is it not more popular in the US? It looks great. You missed it. I think it's all the drama. If the listeners didn't realize, this is going to be an episode all about the Olympics.
00:04:20
Speaker
No, listen, it kind of is. It's going to be all things surrounding the Olympics if they just didn't know. USA Women's Rugby won their bronze medal in the last 10 seconds. Oh my God, really? OK, I gotta to go back and watch that then. Yeah, you gotta watch it.
00:04:39
Speaker
I feel very comfortable because I consider myself an Olympics junkie. And then listening to Amy Jo, I don't feel as bad anymore because I'm like, oh, there's more people like me. This is fine. This is totally normal. You thought you were alone? Yeah, because my husband's out here like, my husband's kind of like casually like.
00:04:57
Speaker
He's, he's a casual olympicker as in like he has his events and things that he likes to watch and the other ones he's kind of like, meanwhile me I can say and watch anything I'll watch. I was watching hammer throw javelin table tennis doubles table tennis Yeah, like literally if it's on my screen.
00:05:15
Speaker
I will watch it. And if anything, it's something for me that, like, for example, they just started this new sport, the speed climbing, where people look like Spider-Man. Did y'all see that? Where they're like racing each other side by side up this rock climbing wall. And they legit look like Spider-Man, like, pew, pew, pew, pew, pew. And you got to hit a button at the top, like, bam! I'm like, yo, speed climbing? Really? I was like, yo. I don't think this is the first year for that. I feel like I watched it last year. No, I think it's the third.
00:05:44
Speaker
I think it's the second or third, but it's considered a new word a newer Olympic event. Yeah. It's fast though. like It's super fast. Oh my gosh. so so um i I just want everyone to know that Amy Jo has already claimed her space at my imaginary house for the Olympics in l LA
Preparations for LA 2028 Olympics
00:06:02
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in 2028. Oh yeah. Absolutely. I'm there.
00:06:06
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I am there. Listen, she was like, she was like, she's like 2028. It's in Los Angeles. You live in Los Angeles. Oh, we let's, let's do this. I'm like, girl, this is like four years away. She's like, don't matter. and I'm taking two whole weeks off. I'm going to everything.
00:06:19
Speaker
I'm down if Snoop is on me. If Snoop's going to be a comment. Oh, Snoop, Kendrick, all of them are going to be there, I'm sure. I am down if Snoop is commenting. If he's the ambassador again. What? Are they paying him like $100,000 a day or something like that? They're paying him a lot of money a day. Just to see it. More than, yeah. Oh, yeah. This is the most epic side quests I've ever seen Snoop do. And then I saw half a million a year.
00:06:49
Speaker
I mean, half a meal a day. Yeah. Yeah. Half a... Oh, my God. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And then I think I saw one event, like, briefly with the horses. Oh, a question. Like, it was... Oh, yes. Oh, that was so cool. The horse was, like, dancing. I was like... Oh, the... Yeah, just silence. I didn't get to see rainforest. I was trying to... That was dope. See it? The horse was, like, curb-locking. I'm like, snoot, snoot, snoot. It was dope.
00:07:17
Speaker
No, Drew Savage is actually a really interesting sport. i like i don't I know that some of the teams were, I think it was the British team that was under controversy for how they like treated the horses. But for the most part, it is a very difficult sport to like get your horses to like do that in step with the music and whatnot. I just went down a huge rabbit hole like after I saw the event. I'm like, oh my god, this is so cool. um But yeah, I don't know if we're going to have that in LA, but we'll see. Damn, man. They probably won't. Why not?
00:07:47
Speaker
Isn't it part of it? I don't know where they're going to have any of these events in L.A. Like I know they're not going to all just be in L.A. They're going to be spread out. So you need to register for ah L.A. 28, like the rest of us. And you can get all this information so you can get the newsletter and they will tell you where they are thinking about putting um different things. can Yeah, but they do have.
00:08:11
Speaker
No, they have tons of they have tons of stadiums, so just because we have lots of colleges here. So, you know, USC has their stadium. You got the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. You got SoFi Stadium. They built three other stadium, three other new stadiums by SoFi. So connected to SoFi is the YouTube arena. And then the Clippers just got a new stadium, too, called Intuit. And the Lakers have staples. So they've they've been slowly rolling out all of these arenas. Like the New Clipper Stadium opens this year in September, but they've been slowly rolling all of them out in preparation for the Olympics. Same way, all this construction at LAX Airport is for the Olympics. Like they've been slowly rolling out all these things over the last three, four years because they know that they're
Post-Olympic Infrastructure Challenges
00:08:51
Speaker
hosting the Olympics. Yeah. So it's going to be interesting, right? So if you've been following the Olympics, then, you know, as you know, like different things will end up in your feed.
00:09:03
Speaker
And I ended up watching a feed of like before and after Olympic, you know, all the Olympic stadiums and cities like for and after and a lot of those things are abandoned. Right. So if you go back to Rio and Tokyo and and I mean, go all go back for five Olympics. Those places are like abandoned or they said, oh, we're going to do this with them, but they just don't fare well when they build these new things. Like I feel like somebody's Olympic village ended up being like a military installation for like torture. I think it might've been real or something like that. But you know, that was an extreme, but you know, like the stadiums.
00:09:47
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typically sit empty and they just rot because they were only built for the Olympics. So I think that l LA is trying to do something unique, which Paris has done a little bit of, but they still have some unique spaces that they are trying to actually use everyday spaces and turn them into Olympic events.
00:10:08
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so they can either convert back to the space that they were originally or continue to be used, right? So instead of building a brand new Olympic track stadium, I think they're gonna try to use an already available stadium and convert it into Olympic quality field so that it's still being used for something else versus, because I mean, LA doesn't have the space to be really building these new establishments. So I'm actually pretty excited to see what they do in LA, even as I am enjoying, you know, USA Basketball now. So because that's what you say he did nest great. They held it twice in the past. And I think ah like 19 the 1980s, like really 80s. And like I just Google it like it back in 1932. So I'm just wondering what happened to all those spaces that they use. But granted,
00:11:01
Speaker
We had over a hundred years of like urban growth since then and now. So um yeah, it'd be interesting to see what they're going to do with that space and how they're going to incorporate it in the next four years. him mom um I just don't remember about, I don't remember them by heart, but they, you can literally go to newsletter and they will show you like where the different
Whale Sighting in Olympic Surfing
00:11:20
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ones are going to be. And everything is not going to be in LA.
00:11:23
Speaker
i literally just signed up so we're good yeah it's actually pretty good um because like the something else is in like something weird like Kansas City or like someplace completely different i can't remember what that oh kind of like how they're doing uh surfing and tahiti for uh for this year yeah yo did you see see this how much i've been watching did y'all see the whale uh in the back you know trying to get judged like what y'all know about this surf right here yes a whole like in the women's finals a whale like yes no a whale like a whole whale like a real whale like a real whale girl surface during the women's final of um
00:12:05
Speaker
Surfing. They surf with nature. They're always surfing. Yeah. Oh wow. It's cool. It's terrifying but it's cool at the same time. It's cool sitting on my couch watching. You can see me out there. Ooh, that's nice. Amy Jo out there like, ooh, is that a humpback? What is that? Right. She not out there surfing with it though. Ooh, y'all see that? Is anybody looking? All the little boats are there like waiting to like you know take action. Y'all would have seen my boat bust that U-turn and be like, what boat is just left and headed to shore? I'd be like, yeah, that was my boat.
00:12:45
Speaker
No, no, no, no, no, no. But you know, a lot of those whales, and when they're migrating, they're migrating groups. It's a whole bunch of them out there sometimes. And you don't need to be caught underneath one of their little, little and yeah when they like i'm in miley rid yeah I went my little like dinghy boat and you y'all out here listen at the end of the day you in their territory okay they didn't ask you to come in their water you okay so not on land you there you in their territory okay so that's fair that's fair can we talk about you need to move out the way
00:13:18
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Yeah.
Dr. Marsha Foster's Contribution
00:13:19
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Can we talk about the black doc that, um, has been really key to like putting the U S Olympic team back together? Like, have y'all seen her? No, I should have found her name. Shame on me for not knowing it right now, but she's come up in a, in a, in a couple of posts, like the team doctor who might even be a, no, pull me the team doctor that is, um,
00:13:47
Speaker
working with like women's gymnastics is a mocha doc. I don't know her name, but she was ah she was one of the main ones talking to Simone during her first tweet injury for qualifying.
00:14:07
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Correct. Is that when she was crawling off the mat? I saw that. I was like, oh my god. But she's a black dog. I think she has braids in. Yes, she does. Mm-hmm. And she was the main one talking to Simone. And it took Simone behind the, when Simone left the entire arena, I'm like, she better have this black woman wear her. But who's this black woman? She must be real important. And she is. Because she was with her. She was with Sooty. She's been getting a little bit of, you know,
00:14:38
Speaker
Is she sport mad or like ortho or? Well, Amy Jo is going to find the details. She's going to find the details. She's searching and perusing. Because you're trying to find out how can I get on this team? How can I get on this team? Exactly. See, like mine. I have an Olympics rant. It has four components to it. But it'll be very quick. But I'm going to let Dr. Chris go first because she got the trend in. Unless you want me to go first.
00:15:07
Speaker
and much this is gonna be This is my message. This is my message to the general public because I've seen some things on social media about a few athletes that I feel like I want to address. So it's going to be real quick, bullet pointed. Boom. I'm going to say this wrong. I think her name is Dr. Marsha Foster. F-A-U-S-T-I-N. Marsha Foster.
00:15:27
Speaker
um Congrats to you, girl. Look at you with your gig. You got the gig. I love it. so And she has you know kept them healthy, which has been a big deal for anybody following. So for anybody that has been following, listen. um Surely you know by now that Simone and Suni and the rest of USA Women's Gymnastics won the gold, but ah Simone decided to re-enter this ah calf muscle. And so we've all been holding our breath.
00:15:57
Speaker
And so um it's been a big deal. but um didn't quoteto Didn't she fall on the what the uneven bars or something? She did. She fell in the beam. um the mean I'm sorry. She fell in the beam and so it's the one place she did not. Was it because of that? Was it because of the calf injury?
00:16:16
Speaker
I don't think so. Cause she came off of beam and, and literally like the 10 million flips and probably was 25 feet in the air for this, uh, during her floor exercise. Correct. So, um, she's sports medicine. So doctor, uh, foster and sports medicine, which means she's probably, um, she works in PMNR and. r and That's, that's what you need physical medicine and rehabilitation for people. Yes. Yep. Somebody come out and talk about PMNR. And I thought it was really cool. So, you know, in my if I had not done family medicine, I would have done PMNR. And I was like, that, that sounds yeah.
00:17:03
Speaker
I could see you doing that. shut out so Shout out to her. That's dope. Yeah. Once upon a time, you know I'm not going back. We're done.
00:17:12
Speaker
boys are closed We're all family medicine here, okay? We're in love with family medicine right now. Dr. Chris, you want to go? Or or or do you want me to go on my ramp? Oh, oh, I'll go. So I only have, I don't have a lot of trending topics. I got one because I figured we was going to talk about Olympic stuff anyway. What they mean, Dr. Sunshine, I have the same rent. I can't wait for your rent. I'm sure manage it matches mine. See? Work in your spirits. Well, I got four. They're going to be quick though.
00:17:40
Speaker
Well, I'm sure a lot of people know it was hitting the news that Noah Lyles was diagnosed with COVID. And he's like, of course, known as the world's fastest man. He was diagnosed um a couple of days ago. um And even though he had COVID, he still managed to win a bronze, which I think is amazing.
Noah Lyles' Resilience with COVID
00:18:03
Speaker
Like, how do you do that? Right? Because like, man, when I had COVID, I was down for the count.
00:18:09
Speaker
But anyway, I will never forget though, remember when I called you at the airport. And then I think every sentence, I think if I made you laugh, you just like cough like nonstop. I'm like, girl. It was really bad. Because I was like, oh, I'm fine. I'm fine. The next day, it was just like, you're not fine. I'm so sorry. Why are you trying to act like you're going someplace? You need to stay at home. But this man goes and he runs and still manages to get a medal. That's amazing. i'm like
00:18:46
Speaker
I don't know. And I'm sure he's disappointed that he didn't get the gold. But sir, you you have an Olympic medal, you're doing just fine. But that just goes to show how these athletes are just like, and on a different level, like conditioning, like, i but then um they were just saying that he might not ah compete on Friday, because, you know,
00:19:10
Speaker
Now, you know, I guess he's feeling difficult. It's not, it's not, it's not certain though. So he was doing the 100 and the 200 and the 200 relay. He felt sure. There's no 200 relay. No, just the 100 meter. Oh, I'm sorry. 100. Yeah. The four by four. No, she's talking about the four by four. She's talking about the four by one. Four by one. The four Sorry. Relay. Yes.
00:19:37
Speaker
Okay, okay, got it. All right. That's going to be on Friday. Sorry, quick recap. He ran the 100, got a gold. yeah He ran the 200, got a bronze. Dr. Chris is talking about Friday, which is the four by one relay. Yes. Correct? Yes. Just so the listeners are clear. right he so she's it Is the anchor? like Who's going to take a spot? Oh, he said there's a lot of capable person the people on the on the team that can take your spot. so I'm sure they'll be okay. cool But he might, but he's probably, he said it's not certain. So, but it's likely he's probably going to run. Cause I mean, he ran, he knew he had COVID and he ran. And he was like, i well I'm okay. He made, he went through all the tests and said he's going to run.
00:20:25
Speaker
And on top, is he also an asthmatic on top of all of this? And he was running with COVID. that's Yes, ma'am. And then there's ah there's a bunch of people in the Olympic village Village that tested positive for COVID, but they're not considering it ah epidemic or outbreak because it's not more than 5% of the people in there that have it. But you know everyone will think about it. i mean all these people that are all in one place, I mean, it's very likely that they would get COVID, but they're not enforcing any like mask wearing or anything like that.
00:21:00
Speaker
kind of letting people do what they do. Which is interesting because the the COVID numbers are up in Europe, right? So and they're up the states too, right? So even though we don't formally track the numbers the way um listeners may be used to when we were like in the in the height of COVID, but we still track um we still track wastewater,
COVID Risks at the Olympics
00:21:22
Speaker
right? So you can find ah viral particles in wastewater. And so that's kind of what we've been using to figure out if a spike is here. And so we actually are probably just as high right now as we were last winter. Like the numbers actually are up pretty high. But Europe was up first, which is always the case, right? Europe ah europe goes first for the flu. Europe is now up for COVID. And so that has been super high already.
00:21:51
Speaker
I don't know why we weren't prepared for everybody coming to one single spot that somebody was going to bring COVID. Yeah. I mean, it's kind of like, it's inevitable. You should have known that that's what's going to happen. but But then they were also talking about other other people that were, there was this one, I don't remember her name. I read it. She's a fencer. She competed seven months pregnant.
00:22:18
Speaker
Oh, I saw that lady. Yes. That was really cool. I was like, okay. I'd be like curled up on a bed somewhere probably. There's no way I'd be doing anything athletic.
00:22:31
Speaker
and These athletes are on a different level, man. So they build different. They are build different because they can do that. actually do you ever Do you guys ever think about, I don't know, someone posted this on one of the Facebook groups that I follow, but like in your past life, if you had ever like done the Olympics, was there like an event that you probably would have comp competed in and done fairly well in.
Hosts' Past Athletic Dreams
00:22:56
Speaker
I would have done track. Well, Amy Jo and I talked about how we were gymnasts in the past. We just didn't continue being gymnasts. Yeah. But we both have a gymnastics. I ran track in high school. I mean, I did gymnastics growing up, but, you know, they kicked me out. They said I was too tall. You're too tall. yeah Yes, we remember the story. I was dead sad for you. I was like, what do you mean? This is my home.
00:23:24
Speaker
oh paul i'm Sorry. I'm just a little bit taller, but y'all ain't got to, you know, put me out. I mean, I did, i did girl and um I did track in high school, middle school and high school, but honestly, I probably would have done like powerlifting or rugby, like more contact type stuff. But I feel like I'm too short. No, I'm too short. I probably can't do it. So.
00:23:45
Speaker
yeah You just lift heavy heavy stuff, you know, and then you make, you know, ah PRs and you just continue to lift heavier stuff until you can't lift them anymore. Didn't like this, uh, Fino, uh, where she from? Filipino? Yes, woman. Didn't she win it? She won the first, the first medal ever for her country. Yeah.
00:24:12
Speaker
Well, no, there's a guy for men's gymnastics. He got a medal for the Philippines, too. So I think he maybe he did it first. This is the first Olympics she's ever getting ever getting a medal. and So she got them a medal. And then the guy, he got a gold medal on the floor for men's gymnastics. And it was like the first gold medal for the Philippines ever. And then I was like, wow. Shout out to them. I can't first, man. Who won the 100 women's? That's St. Lucia.
00:24:39
Speaker
Yes. Her name is Jillian at jillian f Alfred. Yes. Jillian with an E. Shout out to Jillian. She brought her a country, there verse the their first medal. It was a gold that she brought. And then she just got them another one. So that's great. Yeah, she did. I was watching the live stream. And then everyone just like went absolutely insane when she got there. So she gets over in the 200 after Gabby. She went close to Gabby. Gabby smoked everybody.
00:25:13
Speaker
I mean, have you yeah you sure against you saying she have hit the Usain Bolt afterwards. That's how bad it was. But Gabby's so people don't understand track and field is Gabby's like side thing. Like she is a Harvard student and she does Olympic track and field like on the side. But there's also a lot of swimmers like that too. Let's not, let's not get it twisted. Gabby's got no sponsorship that track and field is her thing.
00:25:40
Speaker
Like, she's a professional athlete. That's that's paying her bills because ah she's the the project that she's doing, I think she says she volunteers. So that does not keep the lights on for her. Her sponsorships keeps the lights on for her. Her sponsorships from track keeps the lights on. Yeah. Talk about it. Name, image, I like this. It was, I mean, yeah, because some of her projects that she's doing um are like volunteer work, I think. I mean, it's pretty dope, but.
00:26:10
Speaker
You know, maybe Gabby will call me up and correct me if that's wrong, because you love you, Gabby. oh you but that um But, you know, yeah that's a.
00:26:22
Speaker
I mean, even but still going to Harvard and also competing in an Olympic sport is a deal. It's a huge humongous deal, so.
Dr. Sunshine's Rants on Olympic Controversies
00:26:32
Speaker
Can I can I hit my rent points? Go ahead. go happens all So I'm going to do these like rapid fire. I'm going to give some background, but not too much background because if y'all aren't following, I'm going to at least give you a little bit of oomph oomph so that you can go home and Google some stuff and do some more research. But these are just a couple of rants. I just wanted to get out there. Why? Number one, I'm not working right now. I'm at home with my little nugget enjoying life, but also enjoying the Olympics. And I'm very much so on Twitter and social media. So some things have kind of grinded my gears. So I'm going to do a rapid fire. Quick, quick, quick rapid fire.
00:27:03
Speaker
Number one, this has to do with Shaqiri and Gabby. Oh. So after Gabby won her 200 meters, the announcers that were calling the event took it upon themselves to while they're complimenting Gabby for being like this Harvard graduate and so on and so forth, they were doing slight digs at Shaqiri in order to big up Gabby, which was completely uncalled for.
00:27:28
Speaker
They're basically saying, you know, she should really be the face of women's track in America. She's so articulate. She's so well-spoken. She's a Harvard grad. She doesn't have any tattoos. And she just embodies more so what we think women's track should be. It's really rooted in a lot of like respectability politics. And you guys are shading Shakeri on the low. And this is two Caucasian announcers talking, comparing these two Black women and how Gabby should be higher and more of the face of track than Shakeri.
00:27:55
Speaker
because Gabby is easier on the palette for them. And it's completely effing uncalled for like, I'm being very nice about it. But it was it was it was very distasteful. It was because there's no reason you need to put down one black woman to up another one. And it's just not the place. It's not the time. And if that's really how you feel, keep it to yourself.
00:28:13
Speaker
Because that has nothing to do objectively with the race that we just watched. It's disgusting, no place for it. Because I'm here for Sha'Carri and her hairil ah her hair, nails, LGBT, everything that Sha'Carri embodies, I love it. Everything that Gabby embodies, I love it. You know what these are? Two black women excelling. I don't have time for it.
00:28:31
Speaker
next oh we can run it back if y'all got more to say but next moving forward Noah Lyles now y'all may not know this okay but a lot of people strongly dislike Noah Lyles and to be honest with you I kind of understand why keeping it short and sweet for y'all Noah Lyles had a lot of things to say a few months ago he got into a beef with a lot of NBA players telling telling them like Why do you guys call yourselves world champions? You're not world champions. You're national champions. You play in the NBA. These are American sports. Stop calling yourself world champions that upset a lot of NBA players, yada, yada, yada. So they haven't really liked him in general. A lot of people also find Noah Lyles to kind of be a little lame. He kind of has this, um, uh, he kind of has this thing where he
00:29:15
Speaker
He kind of tries a little too hard. Yeah, he kind of tries a little hard. He's not very charismatic, but he's really, really cocky. So some people don't really like that about him. He's kind of awkwardly cocky and kind of trying too hard. Kind of like your little cousin in the corner who'd be talking all the time, you'd be like, man, shush. He kind of has that vibe about him. And that rubs people the wrong way.
00:29:34
Speaker
But under no circumstances, does that mean that you guys have to have all this hate towards Noah? Like the moment they found out he had COVID, they're like, yeah, that's what he deserves because he's too cocky and he's lame and he's this and he's that. Y'all, it's ridiculous. It's uncalled for. If you don't like the words he had to say about being world champions in America, that the NBA title stands for all of that, then that's a completely separate thing. But over here is celebrating or trying to down him because he got COVID or like, you know, literally like like basking in someone else's like literally wishing ill on someone else like that's wild calm down shit's crazy like keep it in perspective because he is an american he's an olympian he's got he's won a gold world gold medal for us already simmer the f down
00:30:18
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Next, Simone Biles. OK. If you guys have not been keeping up with this Simone Biles, Michaela Skinner thing, the story is very long. I don't have time to tell the whole story. Long story short, we're not we're talking about Michaela Skinner here and not Michaela Maroney, who we all love. Michaela Maroney, excellent vaulter. We love her. We're talking about Michaela Skinner. Around the same time, competed in London, competed in Rio. Long story short,
00:30:43
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Mikayla took it upon herself to go on social media and talk about this age of gymnast here, the gymnast that we just brought to Paris and was like, I don't think they're talented. All they have is Simone. They're lazy. They don't do this. They don't do that. dada da Simone politely checked her and said, hey, mind your business. You're not on this team. Don't come for us unless we send for you. Mikayla got in her feelings.
00:31:03
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after the girls won the gold in Paris, because, congrats to them, they won gold. Simone put a post on social media and it had the quote of what Michaela said about them. Like, they're lazy, they're untalented, direct quote. They're lazy, they're untalented. And that was a caption for the photo that Simone posted with them holding their gold medals. Since then, up to speed of things, because remember, I'm giving you a short version.
00:31:27
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Now, Michaela is saying that, oh my gosh, people are being so mean to me. I have death threats coming in from my family because people are threatening me. They're threatening my husband. They're threatening my kids because they hate me now. And thatdadada da, da, da, da, da, Simone has been completely silent on this. And my thoughts is this y'all, y'all stay out of this. Like, as in like,
00:31:50
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I don't condone you sending death threats to Michaela. I also don't think y'all should be up in Simone's mentions telling Simone to get her followers. Who you don't even know if those are her followers that are sending the death threats to Michaela. Stay out of this. is This is a gymnast thing. Y'all, there's too many assumptions. You don't know what trolls are bothering Michaela and if they're actually Their people are like, oh, Simone Biles sent, you know, trolls over there to go troll Michaela and put threatened. No, stop it. Y'all y'all are all being ridiculous. Stop it. Simone has her gold medals. I saw Simone on TV sitting with Snoop Dogg, watching track and field. She looks unbothered. Simone is living her life. Michaela Skinner is living her life. Everybody got their gold medals and their respective Olympics. Leave it the fuck alone. Last but not least, Jason Tatum.
00:32:37
Speaker
Now y'all listen. If y'all do not know who Jason Tatum is, Jason Tatum is a basketball player for the Boston Celtics. The Boston Celtics recently won the the world, quote unquote, world championship. OK, Jason Tatum is on the Olympic team. Jason Tatum is getting a lot of heat.
00:32:59
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because a lot of people didn't think Jason Tatum should have even been on the Olympic team at all. Jason Tatum wasn't even the finals MVP on his own team. The person who was the finals MVP is Jaylen Brown, and he was not chosen to be on the Olympics team for other controversies, and that is a story for another day y'all can Google that.
00:33:14
Speaker
Now, since Jason Tatum has been on this Olympics team, it's become very apparent that whenever the USA Basketball is behind or in a competitive game, they do not play Jason Tatum. Jason Tatum is right in the bench hard. Jason Tatum didn't even play today in their game. That was a nail biter. And the internet is flaming Jason Tatum, saying he's not an all star. He doesn't deserve to be on the team. He's not this. He's not that. I'm just here to say, y'all, calm down.
00:33:45
Speaker
Like, seriously, all of these games are about matchups. Steve Kerr, Eric Sposier, all these coaches are trying to play the best matchups and trying to win because the ultimate goal is to get a gold medal, not to get Jason Tatum playing time. Like, that's not the goal. The goal is to get the gold medal.
00:34:02
Speaker
So whoever they choose to play or not play, it's a strategy to win the game, win the tournament. Leave Jason Tatum alone, leave his family alone. Y'all are getting crazy on this internet. And if he ride the bench to an Olympic gold medal, then he just go ride the bench and it's okay. That's all, rant over. Those are my four nuggets. That's it. You left out one though. I left out one, I missed one. Did I miss one? Yes. Which one did I miss? You left out Jordan Chiles.
00:34:29
Speaker
Oh, Lord Jesus, you're right. I passed the baton to you. I passed the baton to Amy Jo. First, let me say, I agree with Dr. Sunshine and all the things. Like some of this stuff has been crazy. I feel a way about Gabby and Shaqiri. Because honestly, if if you understood black women, um we most of us are a mixtureable. Yes.
00:34:55
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ah So don't, don't be confused. We are well educated, not a few books citizens of the United States of America. All right. So play with your mama. Um, that is that. So Jordan, okay. So the floor finals is last one to go. Okay. Um, there, so you, you know, that.
00:35:22
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Gold and and and silver are, you know, they're done. Simone and Rebecca, we know who that is. Simone, Rebecca, gold and silver. Yeah. Two Romanian gymnasts have their floor routines and they do very well. Jordan is last. Okay. Jordan scores like a 13.666. And you can contest the score. It has to be for very specific things. So when they got the score back,
00:35:52
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her coaches thought they did not give her credit for a skill.
Jordan Chiles' Bronze Medal Controversy
00:35:58
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She didn't get credit for the skill um on the first night for the team Olympics. They had worked on it to make sure she actually completed the skill. It was like that little like split um leap that had like a 360 turn. She had to complete it and they thought that she really had completed it this time. So,
00:36:17
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As all the gymnasts are looking up at their scores and Romania is under the impression that they have gotten third and fourth, ah usa gym ah USA Gymnastics submitted an inquiry. The inquiry is approved. They go back to the video review of that skill and say, you are right. She did complete that skill. So they changed her from a 13.6 to a 13.7 and moved her into third.
00:36:41
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Of course, it's devastating because Romania is waving their flag and then the scores come up and they shift down to fourth and fifth. Jordan Chiles moves from fifth to third, takes home the bronze. Now, Romania is pissed, right? The girl, it's it's terrible. So the girl drops her flag. She is balding her eyes out. Her coach has to take her off. But what I do not like, right, is that everybody's in now Jordan's box like.
00:37:11
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you know, why are you cheating? First of all, Jordan's job was done. She had to go out and perform a a floor event and that was into that. Her coach's job is to make sure she gets all the points and credits for the things that she has. So the idea that the Romanian, um not only the judges, like the president of their Olympic committee and all this stuff, they're like boycotting the final ceremony and they're calling the whole thing scandalous. We just don't understand how something like this happens. like How could you do this? Jordan Childs has done nothing, right? And technically the, if anything, the Olympic committee, the Olympic committee has done nothing. If anything, you got it wrong. Like the score should never been 13.666. It should have been 13.766 from the beginning. So if you had given her the points on that score, this would never happen. So if anything, we are kind of stuck with the, um,
00:38:05
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We're stuck, we're stuck with this thing but she's getting all kind of like messages and I'm sure she's getting some threats and I can't believe it you can do the right thing. Jordan has nothing to do but be fabulous right so she has earned the bronze, but the, the Romanian supporters and the Romanian committee.
00:38:22
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are saying, I just can't believe you would take something away from someone that's out there. Yeah, like how could you take that bronze medal away from our gymnast and give it to an American? And give it to Jordan, right? So they didn't give it to Jordan. She actually scored higher. She was not credited for a skill that was done and completed appropriately. And so she was given the point that she should have gotten anyway. But It's a mess. It's a whole mess. The girl is swearing that she's never coming back. So the Romanian ah gymnast that would have won third has you know quit gymnastics. And you know, this is my soapbox because I feel a way about Romanian gymnastics, right? Because I have been following gymnastics for a long time since I was a kid. And I remember how bad they talked about USA gymnastics, right? I remember when gymnastics did not have the power score.
00:39:18
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And when Romania dominated, they didn't care. They didn't care if they got your score wrong. Like they had no apologies for being dominant and they were very arrogant in the whole thing. And I also remember when gymnastics was starting to become a little bit more of a power sport, they talked bad about our black gymnast. So, sorry.
00:39:40
Speaker
I'm sorry it happened, but I'm not sorry that Jordan took third place. And we're not talking about a cheating scandal, which there have been plenty of those. I can't believe you're talking about those. We're talking about a legit, like, this is- There's a lot of cheating scandals, but I feel like people have been very objective about those in the media. It was all these other Twitter fingers that I was like, y'all doing the most. Yeah. So, you know- These Twitter fingers doing a lot.
00:40:07
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there you know There's that, but anyway, I'm off my soapbox. I love the Olympics. Go USA. i don't know listeners i don't think right now I don't think you understand how like in depth these two are following these Olympics. I will wake up at like 10, 11 o'clock at night and get like 30 texts between you two.
00:40:29
Speaker
talking about some random sport that I still have not seen yet and I don't follow the schedule because someone has downloaded the app because also watching four events at the same time on one tv so yeah because but that is that is the level of fan at we're in a group chat but they're literally having their own conversation on the group like hey hey y'all watching this hey one of y'all gotta be watching y'all see this hey like I was And just today, just today, I was getting my nails done and I look at my phone, there's 40 different texts about the men's basketball game. I'm like, it's on today. I thought I missed it.
00:41:05
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But I need no fear. I already knew who won and who had the score because I got to play by play
Olympic Basketball's International Dynamics
00:41:10
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during the text. so Again, a game in what what you had good not ah game in which they sound did play a single minute. You know what? I ain't even mad at y'all for that because I was like, oh, for real? And I turned on TV and I got to watch it. So thank you. Did you see the fourth quarter, though? I did. That's the only quarter I saw.
00:41:26
Speaker
I mean, I've watched the whole theme, but the fourth quarter was that was the only thing i saw outstanding I saw. I saw in the group text, someone I saw Steph Curry got 36 points. I'm like, oh, it was a shutout. And they're like, no, it was a very close game. So we were actually watching the replay before we started recording. And I'm like, wow, ah Serbia was leading like most of the game. yeah And Yo Kicks was giving them all that work, which was I was like, oh my god.
00:41:53
Speaker
I think, honestly, out of all the basketball games that I saw, I think next to South Sudan, this was probably the closest they've come to music. Well, it's because, I mean, you have to think about it. The NBA, contrary to the basketball players and their beef with no liles.
00:42:09
Speaker
The and NBA is more of a global sport now. So on the Serbia team, like Jokic plays on Serbia, Bogdanovich plays for Serbia, Jovic, who plays for Miami Heat, my Miami Heat, he's from Serbia. So you have all these NBA players that are playing for Serbia, but they play in the NBA. So they know all these players, they play them during the year. So it's not it it's not even like you're playing really good players who don't know your style, like Jokic,
00:42:34
Speaker
is the reigning MVP. He knows how Embiid plays. He knows information about all these players already. So it's not the same field as when you were playing like you know back in the 80s and 90s or whenever. These basketball players, you know they're global.
00:42:50
Speaker
Like the way men's basketball is about to play France for the final. That French team is about to have Rudy Gobert on it. Victor Wimbanyama is going to have like, you know, like they're they they're French players who play in the NBA. These aren't like no name players. So Wimbanyama is going to be a problem. i I can see that right now.
00:43:07
Speaker
but um with a 10 foot wingspan. But yes. Well, you should get to your actual main topic because I know you have. Oh, it's going to be this it's not going to be super long. All right. So keeping with the Olympics theme, um we I guess a lot of ah talk and the media now is that um the people that competed in the triathlon, ah some of them are getting sick with suspected equal infection from swimming in
E. coli Incident in Olympic Triathlon
00:43:32
Speaker
the river. sean um So specifically, Belgium's Olympic team Um, they actually forfeited on Monday from the mixed competition triathlon, you know, that swimming, cycling and running, um, after one of their teammates, I think their name was Claire Michelle, um, became sick after swimming in the river. And, you know, they're in the hospital and they got sick with the E. coli infection. Again, you know, people literally full of shit.
00:43:57
Speaker
ah literally fully No, literally, literally full of shit. Not the people who said this, like literally the liver was full of shit. So this is where you get your co-boy from. So going off of that. Didn't they poopin poop in the river, like in the protest? like Almost every protest. war Poop in the river, yes. But there's more. Is it embarrassing?
00:44:18
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Like, is that a... It might be. It might be. It's probably shitting in the streets, you know what I'm saying? Like, that ain't our thing. But I think the river flows through different countries, right? In Europe. So, like, they're flowing from not just... Yeah, but we won't be protesting. We won't be dropping no turds. And, you know, you ain't ever seen no turds dropped in Chicago on the protest. You know, what can I say? The French they different.
00:44:40
Speaker
I mean, they if any country has a protest, it is France. Listen, I have learned that I'm not fooling with the French. that Don't mess with them. They are not to be played with, okay? Anyway, sorry. Back to your E. coli. Don't let me... No, so kind of going off that. So people are asking, well, E. coli is found in the human body. Of course, being obvious, if you poop in the ah body of water, you're going to get E. coli in the river, right?
00:45:02
Speaker
The thing is is, the issue is with Paris's ah sewer system. So kind of painting some background. So, you know, if you guys can remember, so Paris's sewer system was made like in the late 1800s, early 1900s. And they have a combined system where their wastewater and their stormwater, the pipes carry both of those, you know, in the same system.
00:45:29
Speaker
So it's very common in many old cities in Europe to have this type of system. But the issue is that, you know, it works normally, you know, like you don't have like heavy rainfall, but when you get heavy rainfall that can overload the storm water system and that untreated water can flow into the wastewater system and that's where you get the mixing of all those lovely human pollutants in your drinking and your sewer water. So um that this is typically what we're thinking is probably going on. um So if you guys remember at the beginning of the Olympics, ah the Olympics committee actually postponed the triathlon event because the levels of E. coli were unsafe.
00:46:12
Speaker
for anyone to be swimming in there. And that was because if you guys remember during the opening ceremony, it was, you know, raining quite a bit. So they were testing the the system, you know, I think almost every day before leading up to the event, but I mean this the CN has probably been polluted for decades if not you know hundreds of years so I think Paris had spent like at least a billion dollars to try and clean up the river ah which prior to this has been illegal to swim in for about more than a century so
00:46:47
Speaker
I get like cleaning it up for a year. I don't know if that was going to do much, but they made an effort. I've been working on this for years. Yeah. Like years and it has not passed. So when they dropped that last, I think it was like 750,000, I might be making it up, but I feel like I remember reading something where they like put like a big chunk of money in because the Olympic committee was coming to test the water and they were like really working on it and it came back and it failed. I was like, so what do they do now? I was, they were like, well, I guess I got to swim in this.
00:47:21
Speaker
I'm just ah surprised that they did not have a backup plan. like Knowing how dirty this river is, I don't know why I did not have a second body of water for someone to swim in. I get i get that they want to like showcase the beauty of the CN and Paris and blah, blah, blah. But if your athletes are dropping left and right with like massive amounts of diarrhea from just swimming in the river, like that's not going to look good for your your event and any future competitors wanting to swim there. so So that that's the backstory. So that kind of goes into let's talk about E. coli, because that is what's the bacteria play here. So E. coli is normally found in our gut. um It's a common bacteria that can be isolated from our poop. The thing is, is that there's different types of E. coli that can be pathogenic, or essentially that can cause disease. ah They have a lot of like different acronyms, which we will not go in here, but
00:48:14
Speaker
um The really bad ones that can cause really bad amounts of bloody diarrhea and can also lead to like renal failure because essentially you're pooping out all the water that's going into your body. And if you poop out all the liquid faster than what you can drink in, you know, your kidneys get dehydrated and you can lead to kidney failure. There's lots of electrolytes, you're severely dehydrated. And that's usually when people end up in the hospital and IV fluids, you know, replacing electrolytes and so on and so forth.
00:48:43
Speaker
so Typically, there are mild cases and then there are severe cases. Mild cases of diarrhea caused by E. coli. I know people will say you get the runs and diarrhea, it is not fun, but usually these do pass on their own. ah You do not need antibiotics. and Actually, in some cases, this can be harmful because you can cause the the proliferation of um bacteria that are actually resistant to certain antibiotics, which we actually have a big problem with that now.
00:49:11
Speaker
um But they think the difference is that if you're coming in with like severe diarrhea, so this is usually you're in the hospital, I am probably seeing you down in the ER, you probably got fevers, you're pooping more than six times a day, straight liquid, just liquid poop. You have a bloody diarrhea and it's been going on for more than a week. Then usually in that case, you know we will opt to give you antibiotics to help treat the the infection.
00:49:38
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um And also, ah no question, if you are considered immunocompromised and you're getting antibiotics regardless, because a rampant diarrhea infection can cause havoc on someone's immune system that's not, you know, added 100%. Yeah. I mean, there's levels to E. coli, y'all. So yeah there there is, oh, I was traveling, I got a little bit of diarrhea. And then there is the thing that will kill your kid because you gave them an undercooked hamburger.
00:50:07
Speaker
Oh, yeah. Yeah. So treatments telling us a very short talk. So treatments, like I said before, we do not typically give antibiotics for mild cases of diarrhea. um In some cases, like what Dr. Amy Jo just said, um some antibiotics can actually for a certain type of E. coli can actually cause the development of what we call hemolytic uremic syndrome, which is caused by a certain type of E. coli infection. and it's very yeah We usually learn it in medical school that it affects kids quite quite a bit, but typically adults and kids are can also get that illness as well. um If you do have to travel, you're traveling to pace places that are you know known to have
00:50:57
Speaker
you know, issues with this, you know, this type of E. coli, like in their weird drinking system or whatnot. ah There's a big, how do I say it? It's a big point of contention on whether to get prophylactic antibiotics before you go. Usually, per the guidelines, we give antibiotics to people that are considered high risk. And again, those are people with immunocompromising conditions. So usually, you know, cardiac issues, you have like a You know, inflammatory bowel disease, you know, that type of thing. Those are people that would be, would say, okay, we're going to give you some zitro or, you know, cipro. You know, it's just in case you get, you know, the runs on your trip and it's not going away. You can take this and that'll help, you know, help with the course of the illness.
00:51:39
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If you do get a little bit of diarrhea, but you're otherwise healthy, no other issues, it sucks, but it will go away on its own. You just got to stay hydrated.
Travel Advice: Avoiding E. coli
00:51:48
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um Make sure that you eat. you know Continue to stay hydrated. You're you're getting your electrolytes in your food, and you know typically it will you know go away on its own.
00:51:59
Speaker
And yeah, that's about it. Oh, uh, prevention. yeah Sorry, prevention. So you guys, I mean, the big travelers in the group are probably Dr. Chris, but typically. That was me maybe two years ago. I have a house and my life is my house right now until it can get all fixed up. But Essentially, you know, when you go travel abroad, you know, typically how can you prevent, you know, if you're going to a place that's known for like, you know, getting traveler's diarrhea and how do you prevent it? There's a couple of things you can do. Typically, you use bottled water. There are very few cases of you getting it from bottled water, but they are very few and far between. Particularly to minimize your risk, drinking bottled water, using, brushing your teeth with bottled water. And if you're going to a restaurant,
00:52:49
Speaker
asking for bottled water without ice is typically what you do. If you like to go out on the grid, you like camping, you need to boil your water. And you can also use so ah certain things to disinfect it like bleach or a temperature of iodine, which will also kind of kill most of the microbes in the water that you're about to drink. um Also eating thoroughly cooked food. So I know we like to eat street food and whatnot, but you y'all exercise caution. ah We have the, ah what do you call it?
00:53:21
Speaker
the food grade safeties in the US here for a reason. some we don't When you go to other countries, they may not have that same system that we have in the US to make sure you're eating healthier food or safe food. So if you're ordering that street food on the corner, word of caution, I probably would not do it. But um yeah, so this is this is your warning. But um other than that, that's about it. I am the postal child for all things not due.
00:53:49
Speaker
I eat all street food. I come home equal. I have my good every time I go out of the country. And you're still here. So there we go. And also practicing. You miss good hand hygiene. Good hand hygiene goes a long way too. Yeah. Yes. Actually, there was a, I think one of the triathletes was saying he was trying to like micro dose himself with E. coli leading up to his event to see if he could like, prevent getting E. coli. and No. Well, that's not how that works. He said he wasn't watching as he ends.
00:54:17
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ah and stuff like that. I'm like, sir. That's disgusting. Yeah. So that's not how that works. So don't do that. um And also like what Dr. Sunshine says, don't swim in the CN. I love Chicago River. I don't swim in it, um but just don't do it. yeah know that's how we yeah I was surprised that they were really doing it because like everyone knows that you don't swim in that water and it's like been polluted for like, um like you said, centuries. And then now they think Well, I don't, like i I don't think it was up for the the athletes. The athletes are sitting in swimming where they react. Right. This is where you don't have a choice. But I'm just saying, France, like they, they really was just like, Oh, this is going to highlight the city. We want to do this. And I mean, I get it. It's pretty, but nah. I like the city. All right. But I'm not on the way you want.
00:55:12
Speaker
Yes. all said Oh, wait. So with quinolones, so ciprofloxacin is a type of antibiotic that we use to treat or to empirically give you for traveler's diarrhea. So another reason why we don't like willy-nilly hand out antibiotics is that there's a very growing resistance to the quinolone antibiotics that we're dealing with right now. So when you come into the hospital in certain like places that you go, we have like a whole on what we call anti-biotogram, which you know pretty much tells us what resistant strains of bacteria are like lingering around. And that's also how we help you you know choose the right antibiotic to treat you to make sure that it's not going to be resistant to whatever you have growing in your system. So you know that's don't get mad at your PCP or anyone else that who doesn't want to give you antibiotics for a mild case of trial or diarrhea.
00:56:02
Speaker
it will go away but we don't want to having a multi-drug resistant bacteria that causes you to shit non-stop is the absolute worst so not the business yeah we're trying to prevent that
00:56:16
Speaker
Awesome. I like it. Well, I wish that our question was also Olympic themed. It's not your friends to keep on your friends to keep on on theme with the whole episode. But the funny thing is this question, it actually ties into the question that we did last week, but with a little bit of a twist.
00:56:35
Speaker
um so So this week's question also, by the way, a great topic. No, no, lots of great information in there, guys. Don't get it. It sucks. So for the question for this week, um the question is, how do I know if I will need fertility treatments in the future and if they will be covered by my insurance?
Future Fertility & Egg Freezing Advice
00:56:58
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I'm a woman. I'm a woman in my late 20s with a long-term boyfriend and unsure if we will have fertility problems in the future. Thanks. So this question is tricky. It's tricky because It's tricky for a few reasons actually.
00:57:17
Speaker
so a basic answer for you but i've let dr such i and okay It's tricky for a couple reasons because for one, basically you're asking you're not only asking about your fertility, you're asking about the fertility of you and your boyfriend as a couple and you're asking about your fertility for the future. so there's ah There's a lot of different aspects here because fertility, when you are a couple,
00:57:38
Speaker
It really depends on you and it depends on him. It depends on his sperm and what they're doing. It depends on your eggs and your personal fertility and what you got going on. I personally think that you should always first focus on you. And if you're starting at the very beginning, then I think that you really should think about the basic things first. Like, do I have a primary care doctor? Do I have a OBGYN? Are my periods regular? Are my periods not regular? And once you actually start at the beginning, then you can kind of open up conversations with your doctor because I'm going to be honest.
00:58:08
Speaker
If you don't have regular periods, we can just start there. Because if you don't have regular periods and you're not ovulating consistently, like monthly, or on some type of you know set schedule, even if it's not monthly, then that tells me that you're not ovulating on a regular basis, which means your period's harder to track, which means it's harder for you to get pregnant. Now, that's just baseline science. Now, if you are the type of person that's like, hey,
00:58:36
Speaker
me and my boyfriend know for a fact that we want to have kids, but we want to have kids three, five, seven years from now. Then of course, this is one of Amy Jill's favorite topics about fertility and freezing your eggs. I'm going to kick that to her in a second, but I will say this.
00:58:51
Speaker
There are ways for you to get a good idea of if you're really interested in knowing like, hey, what's my fertility status like right now? And I can help you make decisions for the future. There are doctors that can help you do that. You could talk to your OB, b they can probably refer you to a reproductive endocrine.
00:59:07
Speaker
They'll probably check a lot of tests that they're gonna tell you you probably don't need. If your periods are regular and you're in your 20s, they're probably gonna say you don't need to check these, you can ask for them anyway. They can check your AMH, they can check a lot of different hormones, make sure everything checks out and everything looks good, and they can probably tell you, hey, everything looks good, your periods are regular, you're fine. But the only way that you're really, really gonna know for sure what your fertility is going to be like later is when you get there later. But you can gather information to help you for the future and you can also do certain things personally in your life to make sure that you're ready for whatever the future may be bring, like freezing eggs, fertility preservation.
00:59:50
Speaker
But that's not what you're asking. You're not asking about fertility preservation. You're asking, how will I know if I need fertility treatments in the future? And that's a tricky question to know. And then in terms of your insurance, you could check that right now. Like if you know for sure, you're going to have the same insurance now as you will going in the future.
01:00:07
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You can go on your insurance website, you can pick your plan, and it'll likely tell you if it's covered or not. More than likely, it's probably not covered unless you have a work benefit. Like some tech companies do pay for fertility treatments, depending IVF, IUI, it gets dicey. um But this is a complex question and it has a complex answer, but I'm going to kick it to Amy Jo so she can say her spiel. Wow. I think your answer was really thought out and it was a really good answer.
01:00:31
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I agree. Yeah. um So the and kind of will I will add some some caveats because I've seen this happen to where somebody comes in, they say, oh yeah, yeah, I'll be fine. um I got my fertility checked out when I was 25 and they said I was good. And then they're coming in and they're 36. So Here, assuming all things, right? So Dr. Sunshine has kind of said, assuming all things are normal. So you have regular periods, you don't have any sexual dysfunction, your partner doesn't have any sexual dysfunction and everything's fine. Any event that you had a fertility issue, 33% of the time is going to be a third of time is going to be the man, a third of time is going to be the woman and a third of time is going to be a combination of both.
01:01:16
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That is the answer to that question. So that's how you have to see it. I tell women to think about fertility as we know it in its most traditional form. Your egg, his sperm, make embryo form baby starts to see a decline on average about the age 32.
01:01:35
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So whatever you do now in your 20s will not be the same thought process in your 30s. So 32 to 37 is slow trickle. 37 down to 45 is going to essentially rapidly drop down to zero. Now that's on average, right? So that's not to say that somebody that's 36, 37 can't have kids. And it's not to say that we don't squeeze a 40 year old in there to have kids, but the the the chances of of ah accidental pregnancies on somebody 25 versus 44 are going to be very different. So if you know that you do not want to have kids until you're going to be in what is an average declining window, then yeah, I think you should have a conversation um with your doctor and your partner about fertility preservation. um you know It's hard to plan out who you're going to have kids with next 10 years.
01:02:27
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if you're not married. So if you just want to freeze eggs, I think that that's fine. But once you get to the age 32, I tell women to start thinking about it in quarters. Think about it like a basketball game, right? You can be up and you could be winning quarter two.
01:02:43
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But you could be taking an L by the end of the third quarter, right? so So women will say, yeah, I got it checked out. I was 33, and now I'm 36. Or they come back in and say, something has gone terribly wrong. I just got my fertility checked. It was fine three years ago. I don't understand why why it's low now. And it's because once you enter into your 30s, the change of your status for fertility can change rapidly.
01:03:10
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So, there's that. Now, insurance is because everybody wants to know how it's covered. If you live in the southern states, unfortunately, unless you work for a remote company that is on one of the coasts, it can't help you a whole lot. But actually, the east coast, I think, is is is um is ah holding down the fort because I think i more and more like I know in like the Maryland DMV area, places like that,
01:03:32
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I think they are now requiring their insurance to cover some fertility to some standpoint. Now I know we're in an election year and many things are changing and lots of moving parts. But if you live on one of the coasts, you probably got the highest chance of having some fertility insurance. But I live in the South and my insurance does cover fertility to a certain standpoint, right? So I do think you have to check your insurance to see what gets covered. And if you know you want babies well someday where they be your current partner or just a partner in general and you know you want to have those well after you've entered into a dec decline in fertility window, get your ex from me. That No-No, you got anything to add? Ah, it sounded great.
01:04:16
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Okay, well I hope that helps you. I hope you make a future Olympic athlete. That'd be so great. so great. Here's to you. Oh my gosh. Because if you do, she will be watching. I will be watching it. She will be watching. Oh my goodness. <unk>s All right, y'all. I think that's it for the Olympic edition.
01:04:46
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I don't know, we still got to finish the week. I mean, addition to this recording. No, she's talking about that's it for this episode. which Oh, yeah. That's what I mean. I should name this recap Olympics 2024.
01:05:03
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01:05:31
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