Show 1097: What Can Be Done to Help When the Prognosis Is Poor

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2017

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Although lifespans have been increasing, so has the burden of chronic disease. When a person is diagnosed with a serious illness such as cancer, cirrhosis, kidney disease, heart failure or Parkinson’s, medical science may not have a cure. But doctors shouldn’t say, there’s nothing more we can do. Instead, they should ask, how can we […]

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Joe Graydon.
0:02.3	I'm Terry Graydon.
0:03.8	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines.
0:10.2	This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream.
0:16.0	800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com.
0:21.6	Are we living longer but enjoying it less?
0:33.6	Chronic conditions like heart disease and cancer are taking a toll. How can we live better?
0:39.9	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:50.3	When people get a frightening diagnosis of a life-threatening condition, they may not hear what the doctor is saying.
0:57.3	But after the diagnosis, what kind of care can help people feel better, both physically and emotionally?
1:04.2	What is the role for palliative care?
1:07.1	When a doctor says there's nothing more we can do, it means we can't cure your condition,
1:12.3	but there's always something that can be done to improve quality of life.
1:16.2	What about effective pain management?
1:19.1	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, life after the diagnosis.
1:25.5	First, the news.
1:30.2	In the people's pharmacy health headlines,
1:33.4	If you want a healthy heart, fill your plate with vegetables.
1:37.3	That seems to be the message from an important study in mice.
1:41.3	The scientists at the University of Alabama found that mice given low potassium chow
1:46.5	were more likely to develop hardened arteries due to calcium deposits in the vessel walls.
1:52.9	Mice provided a high potassium diet, had far more flexible arteries, and less vascular calcification.
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