Show 1283: What We Should Learn About the Coming Plague

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 10 December 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Almost thirty years ago, Laurie Garrett published The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance. In this thorough, carefully researched analysis, she laid out why public health authorities should be watching for new pathogens and how they should respond if that happened. Since then, of course, a number of bacteria and […]

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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	30 years ago, our guest worried about the coming plague.
0:19.0	She warned that infectious disease could sweep the planet. This is the People's Pharmacy with
0:25.1	Terry and Joe Grayden.
0:28.8	Lori Gettin Lori Garrett has been warning for decades that public health is being neglected.
0:39.8	How have global missteps led to the current challenges brought on by COVID-19.
0:45.0	Will we have to live with this coronavirus forever?
0:48.0	What should we have done differently and how should we prepare for the next pandemic?
0:54.9	Can we improve the public health toolkit to better respond when the next
0:59.0	pathogen shows up?
1:01.0	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy. Find out what we should learn about the coming play. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, Pandemic Stress has had an impact on blood pressure. A new study that utilized data from hundreds of thousands of people
1:25.8	in employee wellness programs found that their blood pressure increased significantly during
1:32.3	the last nine months of 2020.
1:35.0	The average change between April and December 2020
1:40.0	was up to 2.5 millimeters of mercury for systolic blood pressure and half a millimeter for diastolic
1:47.2	blood pressure. That may not sound like a big change, but with so many people affected it could be quite serious.
1:55.0	Women experienced a greater increase than men.
1:58.0	Experts predict that even small elevations increase the risk for heart attacks, strokes, heart failure, and kidney
2:06.4	disease.
2:07.9	Although the researchers can't identify the reason for the increase, some possibilities include less exercise, more alcohol consumption, and sleep disruptions as a result of stress.
2:21.0	Millions of cataract surgeries are performed every year. stress. help reduce the risk of developing dementia.
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