Summer safety tips, heat stroke, deadly pancreatic cancer.

0:00 Speaker 1 What is today is doctor Peter Mihalos and his modo Live Long and prosper and doctor Peter Mihelos. It is one of the hottest summers we’ve had in a while, and well, what should we be doing?

0:17 Speaker 2 Well today, I’m going to talk about safety because it’s not only about living and eating healthy, but safety is very important. And this morning I had breakfast with Southampton Town Chief James Kiernan, and we were talking about unfortunate drowning out here in North Haven of a two year old and they just left them alone for a minute

0:38 and the kids said they’re going to wash their hands, and it brought to my attention seeing drowning victims in the emergency room. And nationally, four five hundred people die from drowning each year in the United States, and three hundred and fifty people on the average die in pools every year, and seventy five percent of the victims are

0:56 under five years old. So we need to have alarms, pool doors, pool safety, and people take that for granted. And if you have a pool, you can afford to have a lifeguard. You just call the local high school counselor there’s tons of lifeguard trains, high school students and they can watch the pool for the party because it’s

1:16 a concern. They even have wristbands you can put on small children. As soon as it hits water you get a screeching alarm. And also ask your babysitter if they can swim. There was another tragic case the chief was telling me about that there was a babysitter and she jumped in to save the kid, but she didn’t not

1:32 to swim, so the babysitter ended up drowning.

1:34 Speaker 1 So totally cow. You can’t now is this mostly in oceans and is it drowning or is it because of undertoes and the oceans or any specific.

1:48 Speaker 2 Well, yeah, the specifics are that forty five hundred people ground United States here in about three hundred and fifty eight are pool and spa related drownings. Twenty five percent of the victims under five years old. So those are the actual statistics. In the Suffer County. There’s already been ten drownings this year so far here, so just in

2:10 Suffolk County. So on the national level, it is a problem. The other thing for safety with children too is the cumulative exposure to UV light. There’s a lot of solar flare activity lately, as doctor Sky was telling us what major solar flares happening, and we learned that solar flares actually can affect our lifespan and also the UV protect

2:29 your ezed from cataracts and for macula degeneration where hats with brims wrap around sunglasses. As Doctor Mark, the famous dermatologist, always says, get that SPF on every day as part of your routine, and even on your hands, in the back of your neck and top of the ears, which are common places where you can get in cancers. The

2:50 other major issue that we need to discuss is DWI and what I refer to as DW high with the cannabis people. So no amount of alcohol is really safe if you’re going to be behind a five thousand pound car and you’re putting your own life at risk and others at risk, and so many people die from being

3:08 annebriated and losing control of vehicles and using an uber is much better, as we learn some of the stars who try to drive around their own cars and get pulled over. Just use an UBER if you think you’re going to drink, arrange for a driver. And the cannabis people, please also consider not driving because we’re seeing now people

3:29 wobbling down the road and traffic accidents are up, and there’s no good way to measure the cannabis. Now, hopefully there’s new technology with breathalyzers that will be able to measure cannabis in someone’s breath in the future, but for now it’s a serious issue. And finally, the other thing was some fascinating use out of England where they discover

3:48 the mechanism of why pancreatic cancer spreads so rapidly. It turns out that there is a gene that the cancer actually goes and attacks this gene that suppressed the replication of cells. So then those cells are free to multiply like crazy, and that’s why people sometimes die within three to six months. And pancreatic cancer in particular has the

4:10 ability to shut off those killer cells gene responsible for keeping the cancers in check. So that’s the other great news.

4:19 Speaker 1 So now that we might be so there are specific specific genes they have located that the pancreatic cancer attacks.

4:28 Speaker 2 Yeah, it basically shuts off the It turns on a cloaking device around it so that your own immune systems can’t see it. And it becomes invisible and it grows the way it wants to, and then the body’s immune system doesn’t actually see it as well. We could interfere and disrupt that gene and the future is for you know,

4:50 logic against particular at the then will change everything and it will be quite amazing. So that’s what we’re looking forward to.

5:00 Speaker 1 Well, doctor Peter Mihllos, thank you so much, and uh we’ll catch up with you again real soon. Thank you.

5:06 Speaker 2 Thank you for always getting the truth out and keeping our audience healthy on the cats round here.