Protecting your skin and eyes during the summer sun.

0:00 Speaker 1 With us today is our in house genius, doctor Peter Michelos, our expert in science, our expert in medicine, our expert in overall medic You know whatever, Uh, doctor Peter, We’re going into the summer. What do you see as problems in the summer.

0:18 Speaker 2 Well, I think that people need to start protecting their skin, their eyes because when the UV light starts coming out in the summer, especially at high noon, between noon and three, the UVA, the UVB things that are associated with skin cancer with things called melanoma, which can be metastatic and it can be very devastating. There’s another type of skin cancer

0:41 called squamous cell carcinoma that can go to your lymph nodes, which can also be a big problem. And then there’s the basal cell cancer that does not spread to other parts of the body, but can be locally invasive and can be devastating and that can be removed. And there’s some they called MOSE surgery. And I was just talking

1:02 to a specialist trend doctor ken Mark, who’s the most specialist, and the importance before mos and things would invade, like things around the eye, for example, and they would invade. If people could end up losing their eye and have part of their eye sockets removed. But now with mo surgery, they actually while they’re removing it, they check each margin

1:21 left right, top, bottom in the deep part and they get all the tomb around. The curate is over ninety nine percent, So that’s important to do what’s called a total body survey. That when you make an appointment for the summer, it’s a good idea to do it, especially if you have light skin light eyes, to do it

1:35 at least twice a year and have a total body check to make sure you pick these things up early and take care of them because they are curable. We remind people before the summer. Also, the why are protective eye wear with UV protecting polarized sunglasses prefers wrap around because now we know that UV light from the sun

1:57 is associated with macular degeneration and also with acceleration of cataracts. And these little white, fleshy growths that can occur on the eye called terigium from the Greek works that all, which means wing because they look like little wing shaped lesions and they common in areas near the equator and where there’s a lot of UV lights, So where your sunglasses,

2:17 wear protective eyewear, Wear large hats with a brim, a hat that causes a shadow to be around your face and eyes because some sunglasses the UV can come in from the sides, so you want to protect yourself and that helps reduce eye problems. And the other thing to be careful, especially for the young people. We now know

2:36 that sexually transmitted diseases are on the ride again in America. I guess all those COVID lockdowns people were indoors. We’re seeing more cases of chlamydia than rhea siph lists, and these diseases can be treated when caught early, and we’re seeing especially among young people, to use proper protection and to be careful. So AIDS continues to be transmitted in

3:02 the United States and there are still cases even though now things are more much more treatable. But these are all some of the things. And get your preventive things done. If you’re fifty and over, get your colonoscopy, you’re a woman, get your baseline mammogram. And preventive care is very important because as we came out of the pandemic, many people

3:23 didn’t go for basic things like dental health and dental cleaning, which we now know has a strong association with cardiac health and inflammation because that bacteria can get into our bloodstream. So it’s about maintenance and about getting ready for summer.

3:40 Always try to fasten your seat belts, try to drive a safe car, Please avoid speeding. If you have children, to use the proper seats and make sure they’re properly secured. And one of the safest places for children is the center back seat the least amount of trauma. And these are just some of the summer health tips we want

4:03 to share with people on WABC to keep everyone safe and when you travel. When you do travel this summer, your American Health insurance does not cover you abroad, so we encourage people to get Travel Guard travel insurance that allows you to have medical evacuation and to give you at least fifty thousand dollars with no deductible so you

4:24 have private health care access anywhere you are in the world and medical evacuation. And I’ve given that tip to several people and I know of at least five that it’s helped save, for example, someone had a heart attack in England. There are you know, people think National Health Service that’s only for British subjects, not for Americans. So

4:42 you get a bill for someone you know, get fulls on a moped, or someone broke their pelvis in Bali and they actually fooled them all the way back to UCLA Medical Center for treatment, and it’s only sometimes for thirty to fifty dollars a week. And I think it’s a good thing that our audience is aware of that

5:00 because the number one cause in the United States of people going into bankruptcy is medical and uninsured, and especially if they go abroad. You don’t want to end up with thousands of dollars a bill or be stuck somewhere and make the assumption that your US healthcare, including your Medicare, does not cover you abroad.

5:19 Speaker 1 I just should. There’s so many things happening in medicine. It’s moving at warp speed. Is there any other angles that you want to carry talk about today?

5:32 Speaker 2 Yeah, I think that some of the fascinating things that are of early detection tests that you can find out where your biological age is, like the gallery test tests like Nebula genomics where you can find out if you have the Alzheimer’s genes or certain risks. For example, for depression or bipolar disorder, and it sort of gives you

5:53 some kind of insight into the future and some of the new cancer treatments that we’re going to be seeing some backs scenes for various types of cancers. And we’re going to be seeing customized vaccine. When they remove your tumor, they’ll take a sample of it and actually create a custom vaccine for your tumor, so your immune system learns

6:11 how to attack your specific tumor. And we’re seeing the fascinating area of stem cells where people who are formally having paralysis, and they just published a paper how they group people who got stem cell injections mesenchymal cells injections they actually grew cartilage. So these are absolutely fascinating things that we’re seeing. It’s happening as we speak. And as

6:36 far as the problems are, there’s a shortage of a lot of chemotherapeutic drugs in the United States, and a lot of the supply chains has been affected because a lot of the components are coming from other countries. And I think we’re learning as a country that healthcare is national security and we need to start making our own antibiotics,

6:52 our own chemotherapeutic agents and not depending on other countries where for example, one country, the SDA went and there’s an inspection in another country and they found disastrous conditions, so they stopped doing that. So the generic companies here can’t compete against the foreign cheap labor. But now we’re realizing we need to make things here, just like now

7:13 we’re realizing that we’re going to start building chip factories in Arizona. These are national security issues for US. In healthcare is a national security issue, and.

7:26 Speaker 1 It’s the vaccine. There’s been some study on it lately, and what did it say. The CDC has changed certain opinions on the vaccine.

7:37 Speaker 2 Well, the number of case reports. Like all vaccines, they all have some potential side effects. But right now we’re learning that RNA viruses really mutate a lot, so every time you make a vaccine, there’s always a new strain coming out. But as we’ve talked about WABC, things have become less deadly with for example, COVID and now some

7:59 of the side effects that are popping up, like some of the clotting issues, some of the eyes vain occlusion issues. Again it’s rare, but it does happen. So they are supplying some warnings and many countries have basically stopped their booster programs. They feel that it’s no longer needed and the risk benefit ratio, especially in the young children and

8:18 younger people, may not be and they may not be there, and the subset of population that’ll benefit from some of these vaccines I think has gotten smaller. But still vaccinations are very important because most of the childhood disease we have are called DNA diseases, and those DNA vaccines have worked great.

8:38 Speaker 1 Doctor Peter Meflos, thank you for bringing us up to Dayton and we’ll catch up with you agetting real soon during the week.

8:45 Speaker 2 Thanks for always getting the truth out on the Cats round Table. God bless