Show 1193: How a Doctor Faced Down His Rare Disease (Archive)

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week, an exciting interview from our archive airs on Oct. 8, 2022. A healthy young medical student, David Fajgenbaum, had been a student athlete in college and maintained his extraordinary level of fitness through much of medical school. Because of his enthusiasm and athleticism, his friends called him The Beast. When he suddenly found […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's pharmacy.com.
0:15.0	If you had a rare disease,
0:17.0	doctors might find it interesting,
0:19.0	but they also might not know much about how to treat it.
0:22.0	This is the people's pharmacy with... might not know much about how to treat it.
0:22.8	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden. Rare diseases pose a huge challenge to the medical profession and even more to the
0:38.8	patients who suffer with them.
0:40.8	Relatively few people are diagnosed with any specific rare condition.
0:45.0	However, there are nearly 7,000 rare diseases in the medical books and altogether nearly
0:50.6	10% of the population is affected.
0:54.0	When a medical student nearly died of Castleman Disease,
0:58.0	finding a cure was a matter of life and death.
1:01.0	His story is compelling.
1:03.0	Coming up on the Peebles pharmacy,
1:05.0	chasing my cure, a doctor's race to turn hope into action. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, Saline Nasaline Naysal Irrigation,
1:19.6	starting immediately after a COVID-19 diagnosis can help ease symptoms and protect people
1:26.0	from hospitalization. Saline irrigation is a tradition that goes back centuries in Southeast
1:32.1	Asia where people regularly use
1:34.8	Nettipots. However, it's relatively unfamiliar to Americans. The study was
1:40.6	conducted in Augusta, Georgia in 2020.
1:44.0	Scientists recruited 79 overweight older adults to flush their sinuses with saline twice a day.
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