La La, La, la, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, Hello, my friends.

Hello, my friends, Greg Kogel here, for stand to reason, and I want to tell you,

kick off the show here by talking about an interesting conversation I had recently with my cardiologist.

Now, just so you know, there's nothing bizarre or going on.

There's no concern about my health running.

It's just when you get to me my age, you have these routine things happen, right?

And so I went in for the routine thing, and he gave me, he passed me with flying colors right out of the gate, as it turned out. But he's a talkative kind of guy, very smart, free with his opinion. And we get along fine, isn't he's not combative or anything like that.

We talk about heart health and odds and ends and knock things around.

And I just happened to say, and what he was talking about was blood thinners and how if you have to go on blood thinners to avoid a stroke, then, you know, you've got to be careful about getting cut.

Because if you get cut, you're going to keep bleeding.

If you bang your head really badly, then it could be a dangerous situation anyway.

What that triggered in my mind is just the sense of how incredibly complex our human bodies are, especially, I was going to say, especially the circulatory system,

every single square inch of our physical bodies is incredibly complex.

And if you're a doctor, you know what I'm talking about.

And there on the wall, there's charge of the heart and all these different valves that pump in different ways to do different

things to send blood through your body. I told him I'd had an MRI and I got an infusion for the

MRI because there was an MRI with contrast for my spine. And I asked the people I told Dr.

Pap, I told them, you know, they put the injection in my arm.

I said, how long does it take to get to my spine? He said, it goes there right away.

And I was pretty amazed. It goes there that fast. And then he told me that you got like six

gallons of, is it gallons or pints? You get a lot of blood in your body that circulates once a minute, your whole body,

from beginning to end.

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