Show 1054: The Scientific Explanation for a Weird Remedy (Archive)

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

For years, we’ve been hearing from listeners who swallow a shotglass of pickle juice or a spoonful of yellow mustard to make a muscle cramp disappear. They often report relief within a few minutes. How could such a weird remedy work so quickly to alleviate muscle contraction? Muscle Cramps Strike at Sea: Neurobiologists Rod McKinnon […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.5	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:04.0	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.4	This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.2	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:31.5	Muscle cramps can be excruciating and hard to overcome.
0:36.0	There are no FDA-approved treatments. What about home remedies?
0:40.7	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:50.5	When we talk about home remedies, some people tell us they don't care how it works as long as it does the job.
0:56.9	Skeptics dismiss non-drug remedies as old wives tales.
1:01.0	They require an explanation of the mechanism of action.
1:04.6	Without scientific plausibility, they can't imagine that a home remedy could be helpful.
1:09.6	What happens when the science changes?
1:12.6	New research on muscle cramps suggests that there is a scientific reason for mustard or pickle
1:18.0	juice as a muscle cramp remedy. Coming up on the people's pharmacy, we answer your questions
1:24.5	about home remedies. First, this news.
1:30.9	In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines,
1:34.5	physical exertion, anger, or emotional distress are linked to heart attacks.
1:39.6	The Interheart Study looked at the circumstances in the hour before an initial heart attack. The investigators
1:45.6	reviewed data on 12,461 heart attacks in 52 countries. They found that sudden intense physical
1:54.1	activity, such as shoveling snow or running to catch a plane, doubled the risk of a heart
1:59.2	attack in the next hour. So did anger or other
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