Show 1316: Protecting Your Digestive Tract

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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This week on our nationally syndicated public radio show, we invite gastroenterologist Nicholas Shaheen into our studio to answer your questions about protecting your digestive tract. He is a nationally recognized expert in esophageal diseases and has helped write numerous treatment guidelines for gastrointestinal illnesses. Detecting Digestive Tract Tumors: Two of the most common cancers […]

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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	Are you taking good care of your digestive tract?
0:18.0	In addition to eating right, what screening do you need?
0:22.0	This is the people's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Grayden.
0:27.0	A lot of people dread preparing for a colonoscopy. Drinking all that yucky
0:38.9	tasting stuff can be challenging. Running to the bathroom every few minutes is also unpleasant.
0:45.0	Are there new approaches to the prep that are more tolerable?
0:49.0	Are there other ways to detect and prevent cancer.
0:53.0	The upper end of the digestive tract is also vulnerable.
0:56.0	Chronic heartburn may lead to Barrett's esophagus.
0:59.0	How can people protect themselves from esophageal cancer?
1:02.0	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, Dr. Nicholas Shehine answers your questions about protecting
1:08.4	your digestive tract. In the people's pharmacy health headlines, a lot of people believe the COVID-19
1:20.4	pandemic is over, but for millions of people the impact of this virus lingers.
1:25.8	A study published as a pre-print in Med Archive found that 21.5% of adults who were infected with the Omicron B. A 5 variant this past summer
1:37.0	are now suffering with long COVID. More than four weeks after their infection,
1:42.1	they reported unusual fatigue, shortness of breath, or trouble
1:45.8	concentrating. Young adults and Hispanics were especially likely to be infected. Unemployed people
1:52.4	and those with pre-existing conditions were most likely to
1:55.6	suffer the lasting symptoms of long COVID. The lead author notes that health care authorities
2:01.3	should start focusing more on long COVID as well as
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