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The Dr. Bob Martin Show is the largest weekend syndicated health talk show on radio today. The program includes callers’ questions and comments, breaking health news, and special features such as The Health Alternative and Outrage and Mystery of the Week. Listeners will learn about nutrition, diet, exercise, vitamins, herbal supplements, homeopathy, healthy lifestyle, mind-body medicine, and many other healing techniques.

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Welcome to the number one radio health talk show in America, The Doctor Bob Martin Show. Doctor Martin is a chiropractic physician, a Board certified clinical nutritionist, and diplomat of the American Academy of Anti Aging Medicine. The information presented on this show is educational in nature. Please consult your personal healthcare provider regarding health issues. You may have got a health related problem or challenge, not feeling well, and you just

don't know where to turner what to do. Doctor Bob Martin is here for you and will do his very best to answer your health question. The tone free number to ask Doctor Martin a health question or to make a health related comment is eight hundred six oh six eighty eight twenty two. Eight hundred six oh six eighty eight twenty two. That's eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two. It's the Doctor Bob Martin, and so face it.

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It's a jungle out there. What foods should you eat to stay healthy? What foods should you avoid to avoid getting sick? What supplements or natural remedies should you take? And what type of health practitioners should you see. You've got a health question I've got health answers. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome or welcome back to this hour of the Doctor Bob Martin Show. I'm Doctor Bob and I'm here to remind you to become your own best doctor most of the time as soon as possible.

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You'll be better off.

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I also want to remind you that we're going to have for you this hour the health Alternative of the Week, Health Outrage of the Week, and the health Mystery, plus a product recall, and the top ten cities list here in the US of the best quality of life. I wonder if you're living in one of those cities that has been deemed a city to live in for the

best quality of life. We'll have that coming up, and we'll try to also get some phone calls into the program questions of people that are interested in having a question a health question answered. And if you have a health question, I'm happy to answer it. All you have to do is call into our Collar hotline, state your first name, the city and state you're living in, and your question. That phone number to call is eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two.

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Six zero six.

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I'm sorry, eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two one eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two is our number. All right, We're going to begin this hour in a discussion of an interesting experiment that.

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Went on.

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That an individual, a food blogger, did an experiment with respect to former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden's diets, basically an eating experience. You've heard the expression, I'm sure of the phrase you are what you eat. Well, it came from apparently a French author by the name of Anthelm Severan who wrote, and I quote, tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you

are close quote. A recent experiment was conducted by a high profile food blogger who wanted to see and feel what it was like to eat for a day like both President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, and after carefully researching credible sources for what he would eat for his experiment, he shared the results with.

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The media and they are as follows.

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And I've talked about their diets in the past, by the way, yes I have, but he's kind of compressed it. Donald Trump is, of course infamous for his notorious unhealthy diet. We know this, but it turns out that Joe Biden's diet isn't that much better. That's according to this social media personality who ate like the two politicians for an entire day. He is a TikToker by the name of

Bennett Raa. He concluded by the end of the experiment that not one of them, not either one of them, has a diet that is even close to that of normal people. President Donald Trump's daily consumption of at least twelve diet cokes and a McDonald's a ray of food that he puts away left mister Ray feeling hungover and though he was almost like he was in a Supersize Me experiment if you know anything about that Supersized Me

movie that was out a long while ago. But President Biden's peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, he said, seemed almost childlike and transported him back to school days of brown bag lunches. Biden's died was very simple, really, and got rid of any question of any decision of fatigue. After he said, I left like this diet was not.

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Meant for me. He consumed it.

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He was bored. He said it was bland. There wasn't enough protein for him. So he was hungry after he got done, and also sugared up because there was a lot of gatorade that was consumed.

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That stuff is total garbage.

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I have talked about that for many years, how bad it is to drink gatorade, and there's such healthier alternatives to that, just for you waiting to find out now. He researched both president's diets via news articles and books, just like I had done in the past, and he

drew from the works. According to Alex Prudome's Dinner with the President, which covers both Biden and Trump's diets, and Corey Lewinowski's Let Trump Be Trump, which also contains details about former president's food preferences, he goes on to say that Biden usually he begins his day with a bowl

of special k cereal and an orange Gatorade. For lunch, President Biden enjoys a peanut butter and jelly sandwich excuse me, and an apple and more gatorade, while for dinner he likes to have angel hair pasta with red sauce and another gatorade. Snacks include protein and fig Newton's This is Now Biden, President Biden, as well as vanilla chocolate chip ice cream.

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We all know that.

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We also see him, you know, the news media following him around. He's in these ice cream shops, in and out of the ice cream shops.

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Eating hoggen does.

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Of course, he probably doesn't understand the relationship between the constant dairy foods that he's eating, the hogandawes, the sugar and the dairy, the cow milk, and his sleep apnea, meaning he has to wear a seapap machine to keep the airway open at night because he collapses because his soft palate, which is behind the hard palate in the throat area, just collapses because it's swollen because of the fact that he's eating the most allergenic food there is,

that being cow milk. And you know, not to mention all the sugar and all the junk that's in hoganas and other forms of ice creams that you get in the prototypical conventional ice cream store. By the way, there are options, you know, there's coconut ice cream. There's all kinds of different ice creams for you to find that are plant based in stores like natural grocers and other stores around the country. So there's no reason any longer to be limiting yourself to eating the blood of a

cow minus the hemoglobin, which is what milk is. And I grew up in the Midwest, so trust me. And when I say I owed it on cow milk and everything cow growing up in the Midwest, because that's what you do. You eat cheese, you drink milk. Everything is almost dairy and red meat in the Midwest. And no wonder I had chronic health problems, allergies, ezma, Sinus's bronchite issue,

name it, I had it. And I'm certain that it had a lot to do with the foods that, unfortunately my parents were providing for me, they not knowing that it was not that good.

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Now we know these things.

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I know these things just because I'm a doctor now and this is my air of expertise clinical nutrition boards, certified twice in that arena and practicing, having practiced it for a long time in service service, helping to service thirty thousand patients with that knowledge and information, and honored it was to me. Trump, on the other hand, normally

skips breakfast but drinks diet cokes. Lunch is often a steak so well done that it curls up on the corners, which he eats with ketchup, and at times he has a rogue for dressing a rogue for dressing on his salad. Typical dinner for Trump has two big macs, two file of fish, and a small chocolate shake. Again more diet coke. Snacks include Doritos and Lays potato chips more diet coke.

Trump is known to enjoy twelve cans at least a day of diet coke, and I guess after doing a day of each of these diets, like a day of Biden's diet and a day of Trump's diet, he felt nauseated, sick out of it, and didn't ever want to go back there. I don't blame him. I'm doctor Bob Martin.

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Welcome Week Eves, we Doom, Welcome June, show me what you do Wen Doob.

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Welcome you and I welcome you or welcome you back to this hour of the Doctor Bob Martin Show. Thank you so very much for tuning into the program. The website that we are attached to also here on the show is doctor Bob dot com, spelling out the word doctor d O C t O R Bob dot com. You can leave an email there with a health related question if you like. There's lots of news to learn

about there. That's where the podcast library is, It's where all the social media platforms are, Instagram, x LinkedIn all that, and we are going to return to answering phone calls questions on the topic of health shortly.

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But first we have for you.

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This week's installment of the Health Alternative of the Week.

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Okay, so I hope you're.

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With us last hour, because last hour I talked about how a compound inside orange peels. Yes, the peeling of an orange, the stuff we throw away to get to the orange inside. Now, researchers have found that the compound, a compound in orange peels actually helps to protect us from or against hardening of the arteries athleosclerosis, and they're encouraging us to eat the orange peel. Just make sure the orange peel is organic, so you're not getting a

load of pesticides and insecticides organic orange peels. And so you cut these orange peels up instead of throwing them away into little slivers, or you can grind them up and you're smoothie a little bit a little.

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Bit of a time.

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Don't take the whole orange peel of a gigantic orange all in one trip, spread it out, put a little bit of it in your salad, and little bitty strips of it wake that salad up.

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Make it more interesting.

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And also at the same time, get that ingredient that's in the orange peel to reduce your risk of athleosclerosis, of hardening the arteries, or coronary heart disease going forward. In other words, use the orange peel. So this week's health alternative of the week is just that. Seven incredible health reasons to include orange peels in your diet. Oranges are one of the most popular fruits. We all know that,

and they deliver a ton of incredible health benefits. But these orange peels, this latest discovery, one of the healthiest parts of the fruit is the peeling. And we do throw a lot of peeling away of many other fruits, apples as well. And when you're eating an apple with plastic on it that's dipped in paraffin, yes you throw that away, or any apple that has an a peel, a peel on it no good. But get That's why I make the argument for organic. You don't have to

worry about that. When you're getting an organic piece of fruit. It's important. Now some might say, well the peel, you know, it's a little aggressive, it's a little sour. Yeah it is, but don't take a lot of it in a little bit at a time.

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That's the key.

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The orange peel is loaded full of fiber, vitamin C in these all important polyphenols. This week's health alternative of the Week is the seven Incredible health reasons Why do you include orange peels in your diet? The peeling of the orange is comprised of these important polyflavonoids and hesperdint, which are shown to maintain blood cholesterol and blood pressure levels.

See how important that is therapeutically for you. Helping to mitigate inflammation, the orange peel does and helps to reduce cardiovascular disease and stroke by lowering the risk of athlorosclerosis. Orange peel also contains high amounts of vitamin A, folate, riboflavin, thiamine,

vitamin B six. So these are B vitamins and calcium that may lower the risk of chronic health conditions, including not just the athlorosclerosis angle because we now know that that's the case, but diabetes, obesity, and even Alzheimer's disease.

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So from here on out.

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When you're peeling an orange, think of it differently. Slice it, dice it, grind it whatever you need to do, and then in ingest it. If it's organic, start off with small amounts and increase it to your food supply.

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You'll be better off.

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It is a healthier alternative than chucking it down the drainer into the garbage bucket. These orange piels have been used to treat indigestion, constipation, flatulence, gas, and other gastro intestin problems too, and so you enhance You can even enhance your immune system by eating the orange peel rather than tossing it away. Nearly ninety percent of the essential oils and orange peels are composed of limanine, a naturally occurring chemical that can be studied for its anti inflammatory

and anti cancer properties, including against skin cancer. So once again, folks, it's that age old Nature has the answer. Nature is the answer, and get it as pure in nature as you can get it organic. The best way to eat orange peels is to cut them into very very tiny, very thin strips and add them to your salads, your smoothies.

You can you can also make an orange zest by finely grating orange peel then blending it into yogurt or your oatmeal, or you into your muffins, the whole grain muffins that you're making, or you're salad dressing, to name a few. And despite its nutritional benefits, orange peels have a tough texture and an unpleasant bitter taste. You know that because you've probably have bitten into an orange in

the past. It's recommended not to eat too many at one time because if you get too many because of the extreme amount of these flavonoids, these polyflavonoids, you remember, sometimes these fruits and veggies, they put things in it in their peels to detract vermin and insects from getting after them, and that's why they will They have they have grown to and evolved into putting the bitterness in the peelings so that the birds and the insects and other things don't eat them. But we should be as

humans consuming them because they're important to our health. You can find organic oranges at all natural grocer stores where their products are non GMO certified and USDA organic. You can trust organic at natural grocers, and if you don't have a natural grocery store nearest to you. You can go to Naturalgrocers dot com naturalgrocers dot Com their website to learn if there happens to be a store near where you live. All right, let's get back to phones.

Next up, we say hello to Frank in Atkins, Iowa.

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Get after reminded us strike right, you're calling from a little count of Actons, Iowa.

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My life has a.

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Very serious scenario with what she calls cibo sig o. She's tried everything, she can't gain any weight. She's actually losing weight. He listens to doctor Bob religiously. I say that loosely because she goes to church at so she can only listen to the first hour if doctor Bob estentially possibly addressed Cybo ant about it don't work. She's tried everything and she's just not winning the war the battle of Cybo. So thank wager.

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All right, Frank from state of Iowa. There Atkins, thank you for calling on your wife's behalf.

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Appreciate that.

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And I want to let you know that the topic of what was called cibo sibo stands for small intestine bacterial overgrowth. We have talked about it on the program before, but I don't mind discussing it again. It's an important topic. A lot of people actually have it and don't even know that they have CEBO, this small intestine bacterial overgrowth. Medicine, the area of medicine is not the place to be for this. It isn't and they've already tried everything, and

I wouldn't dip back into that. You just need a new healing art. She's going to need and I'll cover this when we come back from this break a little bit, but she's going to need to see a nature pathic doctor, a chybropractic doctor who's trained at nutrition, functional medicine, doctor, integrative trained doctor, HOMEPAS, somebody other than a conventional medical doctor.

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I'll discuss and when we come back. I'm doctor Bob Martin, a mainstay. But everybody's got a choice to make. Everybody needs a leave of faith. When are you taking yours? What are you info? You're tuned into the doctor Bob Marchin show. Thank you for that.

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Appreciate that we'll have for you shortly here the health outrage of the week. But before we get to that, I want to finish answering the question of Frank who called in just before the break there Frank from Atkins, Iowa, regarding his wife who's got a condition apparently if it's properly diagnosed called cebow SIBO. It stands for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Now Frank's wife has been to multiple doctors, tried multiple rounds of antibiotics. This is not a good

condition in medicine to treat. They have very little effect on this with their drugs. This is really a lifestyle nutritional problem and it was probably caused by drugs initially, either by taking antibiotics or taking painkilling drugs or something upset the delicate balance within his wife's small intestine, and now she's reeling from it. And that's why you have to be judicious in your use of any pharmaceutical drug

because it can mess you up. You can get all you can also get SIBO through food poisoning and other things. There's lots of ways you can develop it. But it is diagnosed. CIBO, or small intestinal bacteria overth is diagnosed with a test called a lactulose breath test or some other means.

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That's usually how it's diagnosed.

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And this is a complicated condition and it's not easy to get over but it can be greatly helped and resolved with the right type of care. And the right type of care doesn't include it. It sounds like the medical care that she's been getting it's not working. Why go back there to get another drug as though some man drug they're going to pull out. No, they if they would have been able to help her, they would have done it by now. So you need to get to a fod MAP fod MAP diet.

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That's what needs to be incorporated for her.

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FODMAP fod MAP diet, and that could explain why she's not responding. Fod MAP stands for fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides and monosaccharides and polyols. This is the type of diet she needs to be on. Look it up, start that diet. Fod fod fod MAP all one word. These are specific types of sugars founded foods, such as fructose, lactose, fructens, galactins, polyols.

Because they're not absorbed completely by the human body, they're easily fermented by the gut bacteria and can cause significant gaster intestinal problems. That's the I meant to say, she should not she should incorporate this food or it looks like food.

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We look at it, but it's missing it. Oh, it's a fodd Map diet.

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This is how you avoid these kinds of problems by getting on that diet.

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Now, there are.

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Supplements that she should also be utilizing Frank, including doctor Ohira's probiotics.

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She should be taking a.

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Supplement called Burberine Burberine MX MEDX Burberine MEDX by Terry Naturally Vitamins. We're going to need to knock out that bacteria overgrowth with a Reaganol oil which is basically a regano oil with olive oil. A Reaganol oil by North American Urban Spice Company. She'll need to take about ten to twenty drop of grapefruit seed extract in three glasses

of water per day. We have had great results with SEBO with using olive leaf extract which are basically herbal pills, and then drinking maybe three to six cups of Potiarcho tea every day. The foods that we tell people who are who have this SEBO bacterial overgrowth to try to avoid. There's diets that she needs to follow. The fod map fod MAP diet will help to explain why she's not responding to these certain saccharides which she's coming in contact with.

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And if she just follows that.

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And then gets under the care of a doctor who's aware of SEBO, obviously she has not done that yet, but they exist right there in Iowa. You'll be able to find a doctor who is trained in functional medicine or integrated medicine. That might be a nature pathic doctor, a nature pathic physician, a chiropractic physician, a homeopathic physician.

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Different types of doctors.

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There's more than medical out there, because medical is not the key in this particular case, and you've already figured that out. But some people just believe that that's the only game in town. It'd be like going out to try to find a car and believing the only one available is a Chevrolet. There's no other makes available out there, or believing there's only one car company, the Ford Motor Company. They're both good cars and they should exist, but they're

not the only game in town. You should shop around the same thing, and that the same thing applies for healthcare. This is not an emergency situation. Use medicine for what it's supposed to be used for. Crisis management. But in this case, it's not crisis management, even though she probably feels like it is. It's just a chronic problem that

is not going to be resolved through medical care. This requires a whole different approach, and you can apply this to about a lot of other conditions too that people are completely unaware of. All Right, time for the health outrage of the week, Here we go.

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She's I don't believe it. Come on Easter for the health abridge because it's nothing.

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But as it is, the big drug company MRK defrauded the public for over a decade, falsely advertising their MMR Measles, mumps and rubella vaccine as being safe and effective against a against staggering evidence that's come out. Much of the well established vaccine science that Americans trust is really just fraudulent marketing and rigged trials put forth by pharmaceutical companies.

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The Third Circuit US Court of.

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Appeals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, recently heard oral arguments for a lawsuit alleging that MRKED, the drug company, fraudulently marketed all these decades MMR, the measles, mump and rebella vaccines that we have trusted them to give to our children, not mine. Of course, I have six that have not had any vaccines whatsoever, not bragging or complaining. For decades, the medical community insisted vaccines are the most thoroughly studied pharmaceutical product

in history of medicine. However, there are no federally funded studies comparing vaccinated populations against unvaccinated populations because scientists believe it is unethical to withhold these life saving vaccines from children. The proper double blind saline placebo controlled studies do not take place because of a long standing bias that the vaccines are necessary for human life and should not be

withheld from children. This supposition disregards historical evidence of populations that were never subjected to these products, but did, however, develop natural immunity to various infectious diseases. The Amish and other groups could easily have been studied, but of course they're not going to study them because they're going to find the answer to this, and that is that natural immunity is where you go. For most of the population.

Natural immunization meaning you get the momps, you get the measles, you get the chicken pox. I got them growing up. Many of you may have if you're old enough. But now we're finding out about the fraudulent activity that these drug companies have been foistering over the public all these years, mirk being it. Now they're finally being sued in the and we're exposing them. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why it qualified as the health outrage of the week.

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I'm doctor Bob Martin, s.

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So good.

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I'm a bush of number.

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Simon, the one never single, I'm most today.

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It's the Doctor Bob Martin Show. I'm doctor Bob. Thank you for tuning into the program.

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And if you like what you hear, tell others about this show so they too can hear something a little bit different. Whether it's entertainment you're after or just truth, We're here for you. We'll now move on to the product recall of the week. The company Bissle Biscle recalls three point two million handheld steamer cleaners across the United

States over a burn hazard. The Consumer Product Safety Commission said that the three nine N seven and two nine nine four series of the Bissle products have been affected in the recall. They expel hot water or steam onto users while heating or during use, which can cause burns. Owners are affected by this should avoid the products and get them back to where you purchase them for a refund.

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That would be the key.

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So if you purchase one of the Bissle handheld steamers, get them back, get a credit, get a refund.

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You can go to.

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Bissel b I, S S e l L dot com, Forward slash steam Teams hot recall to learn more about it. I guess there are a lot of them out there floating around that could potentially cause skin damage by burning you. Should you be a part of the problem. Don't be part of the problem. That's the product recall of the week, and we move right from the product recall the week to the top ten cities with the best quality of life? All right, So, which US cities are setting the gold

standard for quality of life? Well? Researchers compared five hundred of the biggest US cities based on sixteen categories. They considered life expectancy, unemployment rates, state ranking of workers' rights, and food security among fifty three total metrics in order to get the top ten cities in the US for the best quality of life. See to see if the city you're living in right now is one of the top ten cities to live in for the best quality

of life. Here we go, Castle Rock, Colorado, number ten on the list, Irvine, California, number nine, San Ramon, California, number eight, coming in at number seven of the top ten cities list of best quality of life, Plymouth.

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Minnesota number six on the list, Carmel.

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Indiana, number five, Pleasanton, California, number four in the list of top ten cities in the US with the best quality of life, Bellevue, Washington, number three, Woodbury, Minnesota, number two on the list, Newton, Massachusetts, and the number one list the number one city I should say on the list of top ten cities with the best quality of life Redmond, Washington.

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Well, there you go.

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Maybe we'll hit the lowest quality of life ranked cities.

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Maybe next week we'll see how we do on that.

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All right, We move right from those two to back to work with your questions on the topic of health. And again, if you have a question about your health and want to call into the program to get.

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Health advice, you could do so.

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Our caller hotline number is eight hundred six to zero six eighty eight twenty two eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two. Next up is Michael calling in from Ocean View.

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Have I E love you, doctor Bob, love your show. My name is Michael. I'm from Ocean View, Hawaii, and I'm just wondering if there's anything that an alcoholic can take on their own to try and help themselves back off of the drinking that they do. Thank you, doctor Bob. Much of loha from Hawaii.

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Much of loha back to you, Michael, and I wish you. I wish you much much success and wellness in your effort to rid yourself of that addiction of alcohol. It's hard, it's really hard.

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And you're living in.

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A beautiful on the beautiful island, a big island of Hawaii in Ocean Side. I'm familiar with it, been ta Kona, Hawaii a lot.

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Now.

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One thing that people who have alcohol addiction need to do is get rid of other addictions that can trigger them back into their alcohol addiction. So if you're using tobacco and caffeine and lots of sugar, those have got to be eliminated. You've got to get your body's balanced back, You've got to get your blood sugar balance back, so you can't be on these substances that can mess your blood sugar up and cause you to be on a roller coaster ride all the day. Avoid coffee, caffeine, tobacco,

and anything that's highly refined processed foods. Eat whole foods, eat frequently.

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That's the key.

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Now there's also a root that you may want to take. It's almost like antibuse, except it's natural and it's safe. You can get it right in the health food stores down to Earth wherever they're in the state of Hawaii. Kudzu root is the name of it Island Natural, by the way, is the name of the health food store there in Kona Island. Natural Island Natural, they'll have cudzoo root. Kud Zu root be complex should be consumed by people

who have alcohol problems. They most people who are alcoholics have low blood suger hypoglascemia, by the way, and you should be outdoors exercising, oh, you know frequently. There happens to be a doctor there too that you might want to consult, Doctor Michael Traub who's there in Kona who can deal with this as well, Doctor Michael Trump.

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Michael, thank you for your phone call. I wish you well. I'm doctor Bob Martin.

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Hes me.

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Yes, and I welcome you or welcoming back to our final segment of the program this week.

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Appreciate you tuning into the program and telling others to do the same thing. And keep in mind, we have a toll free number, a caller hotline phone number for you to call in and ask a question about your health or make a health related comment, and we will eventually get to your question.

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Don't panic if you don't hear it on you know soon, but you'll hear it. Just keep listening.

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That number into the program, just like the previous caller, Michael calling in from Ocean side HAWAIII on the Big Island of Hawaii. He called in and so can you with your health question. Our number eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two. Eight hundred six zero six eighty eight twenty two is the caller hotline for health related questions or health related comments. Oh gosh, the time has just gotten away for I wanted to do more today on the show. We had more content, But there's

always next week. For sure, we'll have the things that we missed maybe and lots more phone calls next week as well. But let's get to this week's installment of the health Mystery of the Week, What's the last time you blushed? Did you know that blushing is a gut reaction? It's true. A new study may have helped teenagers reach new levels of mortification, as it required them to sing karaoke and then watch the video back. And you know how embarrassed teenagers can be or get we have all

been there. As part of the research into the origins of blushing, forty sixteen to twenty year olds first took a part in the karaoke session. Participants sang four songs Hello by Adele, Let's Let It Go from Frozen, All I Want for Christmas Is by Mariah Carey, and All Things She Said by tATu all right. So these songs were chosen because several music experts judged these songs to be very difficult to sing, ensuring that the participants would

be embarrassed watching themselves singing them. As they were shown the videos of themselves and others singing their cheeks, their cheek temperature was an indicator of blushing, and the brain activity were measured. The results revealed that blushing was stronger when participants watched themselves sing. What's more, brain activities suggested this was linked to heightened self awareness, rather than worrying

about what others thought of them. Writing in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society be the team found that Darwin proposed that blushing, the reddening of the face owing to heightened self awareness, is the most human of all expressions, yet relatively little is known about the underlying mechanisms of blushing. The results show that blushing is higher when watching oneself versus others seeing.

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These results are.

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In line with recent proposals suggesting that blushing may trigger a surge of alertness when socially exposed.

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That's the health mystery of the week. I'm doctor Bob Martin.

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