Bird flu and drug-resistant TB.

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. Well, it’s time to find out how do we live longer? With us today is doctor Peter Mihillos, and we’ve nicknamed them live long and prosper And I’ve heard that many times before, and doctor Mihllos said, what can we do to live longer?

0:18 Speaker 2 Well, one of the important things is not to get sick. So one of the things we’ve been hearing a lot about is some of the infectious diseases, because sometimes we worry about the big things that might kill us, but it’s really the things that we can’t even see that can be the deadliest, as we’ve learned with COVID. In

0:35 the last two years alone, five million people died worldwide from COVID. Those still people die. In the United States, twenty eight thousand people still died of regular, good old fashioned flu, four hundred and seventy thousand were hospitalized, and there were forty million cases of flu between twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four in the USA alone. What

0:58 we saw recently in the news, which is a little bit ominous, it hasn’t become a big problem yet. Our pandemic is this wild bird flu that’s been around for years that jumped from wild birds to poultry and chickens, and then to cows, and then from cows they went to cats, and then there were sixty seven human cases

1:21 and one of the people actually died. Now why is this important Because the virus is mutating. Thank god, so far there’s no person to person transmission yet, but if that happens, we may have a problem on our hands.

1:34 So that’s why it’s advisable that immediately we start developing anti viral and antibody treatments to bird flu in case it does start spreading among humans. We recently saw in the Long Island one of the duck farms that’s been around since nineteen oh eight, the Corwin family that’s been on the North Forks in the sixteen forties, and they

1:55 had to kill one hundred thousand of these birds that supply restaurants throughout the United States because of their fine ducks, and that basically wiped out that farm and they had to let go of forty five employees. But that’s why the price of eggs is going up because nationally it’s happening.

2:14 The other problem is in the cows. They even passed a rule that you can move cows from one state to the other without testing them first, because it’s showing up in the milk of the cows and that’s how they’re testing it to track the dairy cow bird flu cases that are going around. So that’s another issue that

2:34 we’re watching very closely and we have to be very careful. And again, half a million people die a year of a regular flu every year, and that’s a lot.

2:45 Speaker 1 So that’s a lot. Half a million people’s a lot of people worldwide.

2:50 Speaker 2 Yeah, it is a lot. So everybody talks about these wars and outbreaks, but that’s that’s a lot of people, and a lot of these people could have been saved just with simple early testing and having access to an anti viral agent quickly, So that makes a big deal.

3:04 The other thing that’s a little bit concerning is we noticed an outbreak in Kansas of resistant TB and we’re seeing a rise in TB even in New York. And you know, we can use our imagination where a lot of these resistant TB cases are coming from and entering the country, and we’re going to have to be vigilant.

3:23 So I think that when people if I was riding the subway and I would have a mask in my pocket. If I saw someone hacking and coughing nearby, I’d probably put my mask on and try to avoid super crowded spaces in you know, January February, during the peak cold season and when people tend to be sick. But this

3:43 is something we have to watch for as a country. And I think that now that we’re hearing a lot about healthcare and getting healthier, I think when Americans get healthier and we start changing our diets and we reduce the sugars in our diets and our immune systems get stronger, we’ll be able to fight off a lot of these

4:01 infections that are coming our way at a much faster rate than expected. But I think our government has to be prepared this time and make sure that our supply chain is intact, and we need another Operation Warp Speed to be prepared for bird fluid if it starts jumping human to human and also start wrestling these TB cases

4:23 and also a massive rise in sexually transmitted diseases like cyphlis, gunarrhea, chlamydia, and these things also need to be monitored and addressed. And also our disaster preparedness we need to we only have two thousand burn units in the United States. We need to have more burn units. And if we ever had a mass casualty event in this country or a war,

4:45 then we really need to make sure that our healthcare system is prepared and properly funded and trained to deal with anything to protect Americans and protect our health and safety.

5:00 Speaker 1 Last week, you sent me a graph of the three ways people die. One of them, uh, elevated ways. One of them was from colon cancer. And we had a discussion on that and uh, and I guess, I guess.

5:19 And what happens is if you don’t move your stuff through your colon fast enough and it just lays there and it’s bad. It’s bad. If there’s bad material in that stuff that’s not moving, I guess it infects your infects the your the inners in the tubes.

5:39 Speaker 2 If you don’t flush it out. What happens is we have a very thin barrier. It’s just to sell things that mucoastal barrier between what we eat and getting into our bloodstream for food and when you have toxic waste in there, and one of the things that’s super toxic they’re finding out is alcol alcohol. And also why because

5:58 it’s eats the bad bacteria. The same thing with certain sugars. They feed the bad bacteria. And when you feed the bad bacteria, the permeability of that membrane and the bad stuff gets inside your bloodstreams. That’s why seventy five percent of our white blood cells they hover around the tube of our intestine to try to keep all the bad

6:16 stuff out. So what we put into the gas tank can erode it. Just like if you eat bacon, don’t eat it burnt. When you see that burn stuff on steaks on a barbecue, it contains these things called nitrites that are definitely associated with increased cancer. So you don’t want to overcook things. You don’t want to overburn things,

6:35 and you want to minimize alcohol, minimize sugars, and that will reduce your cancer rate. And guess what walking, moving around exercise causes the colon and motility called peristalsis to move things along. And that’s why it’s not good.

6:49 Speaker 1 To be one of the answers I gave you to keep things moving. The old Italian in Greek way in Spain, three figs a day will keep colon care answer away.

7:01 Speaker 2 That’s it a figure to pruna day will keep the calling cancer away and keep things moving. Yeah. Thanks, but thank you for always getting the truth out and getting to share all this great information with our listeners. Stay healthy and stay strong for the winter. Stay hydrated and us a amid a fire in the winter to keep

7:21 your mucous membranes moist and you’re less likely to get sick and catch colds. God bless