Show 1352: Home Tests, Tech and Tools to Improve Your Health

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

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

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2023

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Only a few decades ago, most households had very limited ways of measuring their members’ health. There were thermometers to tell if someone had a fever. A bathroom scale could tell if you were losing or gaining weight. For quite a while, if you wanted to know about your blood sugar or your blood pressure, […]

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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.
0:06.0	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's Pharmacy.com
0:15.0	How do you measure health?
0:17.0	The original technology was simple, a scale and a thermometer.
0:21.0	How have things changed? This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe
0:26.4	Grady.
0:27.0	Today we have dozens of devices and tools that can help us track our well-being.
0:39.0	There are home blood pressure monitors, continuous glucose monitors, and even portable electrocardiograms
0:46.2	in your wristwatch.
0:48.0	Step counters and heart rate monitors encourage people to track their activity.
0:53.0	Have you used other tools to help you stay healthy?
0:56.5	Our lines are open for your calls and questions
0:58.8	about devices and apps that may help you stay on track.
1:02.0	919, 91992 3366.
1:05.4	Coming up on the People's Pharmacy Home Tech
1:08.0	to improve your health. In the People's Pharmacy Health Headlines, COVID is back. That's the word from many different locations around the US.
1:23.6	There's been an uptick in hospitalizations in Philadelphia, New York City, Boston, Chicago,
1:29.8	Dallas, San Antonio, and many other places.
1:34.0	Last summer, we were averaging 45,000 hospitalizations
1:38.1	around this time.
1:39.5	This year, hospitals are reporting
1:42.1	a bit more than 10,000 hospitalized COVID patients.
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