Ep. 63 | Brandon Rockwell, MD, Internal Medicine

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Ever found yourself at 2 a.m. asking the internet questions? Like, why do I get hiccups? Or is cracking my knuckles actually bad for me? Welcome to what Brings You In today? I podcast by SMC health. I'm Kara Hope Rockwell and I'm Erica Bennett. And today we're joined with Brandon Rockwell, MD, to answer some of the internet's most searched health questions.

So, Doctor Rockwell, what brings you in today? I'm I'm here to answer some of the internet's most googled internal medicine questions. Awesome. Not because your wife made you. Come on. I was told I wasn't allowed to say that. Okay, so let's get go ahead and address the elephant in the podcast room today. This this is Mrs. Rockwell. So Kara Rockwell and Brandon Rockwell love found at health.

That's right. All right. So. All right, Doctor Rockwell, go ahead and tell us a little bit about yourself and how you became an internal medicine physician. I'm originally from Warner Robins, Georgia, and I've kind of lived in Georgia my entire life. I went to the University of Georgia for undergrad, and then I went to the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta for med school.

And then I came here for my residency. So I did an internal medicine residency here in Valdosta. I kind of always had a passion for working with people, and I've always liked science and medicine, had the ability to kind of combine those two things together where I could be really nerdy and passionate about something, but also kind of help people.

So that's one of the things I like. When did you know you wanted to be a doctor? Like, when did that click? I think I was in I was in college. Okay. I originally wanted to be like a marine biologist, but it's not really a real job. So. Yeah, I mean, it's you. And far between opportunities. I feel like you can go some with the dolphins and stuff.

Very cool career though. I feel like we're glad you're here. Yes. Thank you. Internal medicine covers a lot of ground. What kind of patients and conditions do you typically see in your practice? So internal medicine is a generalist for adults. So I see people over the age of 18. We're kind of all general conditions. So things like high blood pressure arthritis diabetes, high cholesterol, obesity COPD and is kind of a general stomping ground for any general medical complaint you have for adults.

Right. So yes. Okay. All right. Well let's get to the fun stuff for now. So the internet's favorite medical question. First one up. And this has always been a big hot topic between karaoke now. Yeah. How many hours of sleep should you get? Should adults get. Yeah. Or shop for. So 7 to 9. And so the vast majority of the population needs 7 to 9 hours of sleep.

So you'll hear about a few people who need, like, a lot less sleep. Like, if I think famously, like, Bill Clinton only needed like 4 or 5 hours of sleep, but that's representative of of less than 1% of the population. So 99.9% of people need somewhere between 7 and 9. And if you're getting less than that, you're probably not functioning at your best.

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Unknown
I need more than that, though. Just, you know, my watch did tell me this morning I got ten hours last night, which I don't even think. I do think that was a malfunction on my watch. I think it thought I went to sleep earlier, but sleep score was 100 last night. Okay. Mine was 100 a day ago. It was only 85 of us.

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Unknown
That's one of our favorite topics to discuss, because we do realize the value of sleep, right? Yeah. So. And you have to be intentional about it. I do think that's one of the good functions about Apple Watch, or one of the sleep monitoring devices, that you can kind of take that into your. Yeah, those things are kind of cool.

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Unknown
You can kind of track and it helps you keep track of a lot of different things. And stuff. Yeah. Exercise, sleep. Yeah. You can get competitive with that as well. Yeah. So you're a big coffee drinker. So we have a coffee question. Okay. Does coffee dehydrate you? So it depends what you're drinking. So it could. So it is kind of a weak diuretic.

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Unknown
So it makes you pee a little bit, but your body becomes it adapts very quickly. So you become used to it. So if you drink two cups of coffee every day, your body will adapt to that. And it's a weaker diuretic than it would if you said drink four cups of coffee. It's it's also if you were to it depends what you're drinking too.

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Unknown
If you drink like espresso, you know, there's very little liquid in that. So probably is more of a diuretic probably is going to make you kind of dehydrated. But if you're drinking like lattes, which is mostly milk, probably not okay. So you can get more milk in it and be a little better for you. Yeah. Just more fluid.

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Unknown
Yeah. Fluid. Okay. I had always heard that, like, when I was working out back when I was actually working out, that if you drank a lot of coffee, you should drink, like, the same amount of water to just kind of like. True. Yeah. Yeah, help sustain you. Yeah. Yeah. And then this is a good question because I heard this today on the radio even.

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Unknown
Is it normal to need caffeine just to function every day? I say normal, no. But like I said, your body becomes really used to it. So if you drink coffee every day, your body is going to be missing that when you wake up in the morning and looking for it. And your the way your, your brain kind of keeps yourself awake.

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Unknown
It's adapted to get that caffeine. And when it doesn't have it, you're going to feel kind of lethargic and tired. Yeah. You know, and you, you kind of have like a caffeine addiction. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And then if you don't have it, you might have some, some symptoms like maybe have a headache or something like that. Yeah. Or be irritable.

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Unknown
Some people say don't talk to them. To me it's all I've had my coffee. And I feel like caffeine consumption in general in our world is like a lot more than it used to be. Especially with the rise of, like, energy drinks. Absolutely. I feel like I can just walk down the hall of this place and see an energy drink in everyone's hand, between Monsters and Alanis and Red Bulls and Celsius.

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Unknown
Do you think there's going to be any subsequent impact? As the FDA says, you're supposed to drink less than 400mg of caffeine a day, which if you drink one of those, if you drink two energy drinks, you're probably going to push that limit. You know, there's a lot of caffeine in some of those. Yeah. Like 100, 150.

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Unknown
It's like 200. And the Alanis and the Celsius and they taste good. So, I think if you're drinking more than 400 a day, you probably will eventually notice the consequences. Yeah. I've heard that we've actually had like people present to the E.R. sometimes to like with because they are that what Panera had like a lemonade that had like 200mg of caffeine in like a regular cup.

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Unknown
But they didn't advertise that. You know, and somebody drank, like, a whole gallon of it and died. Wow. That is interesting that you said that, because I really don't advertise it much, even on the energy drinks. Like, you have to really dig on the nutritional label to figure out where it is. It's not only the like, nutritional facts, it's always in some fun print.

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Unknown
Yeah. Elsewhere. Because for a while I thought Celsius was just like a vitamin drink. I did not realize the way they marketed it. I didn't realize it had. Yeah, I think there's a lot of. I was drinking them at night and I did the same thing. Yeah. It tastes good. They just sold them without the caffeine. Yeah. At least you could take your brain a little bit.

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Unknown
Like it'll feel like you're getting that coffee. Decaf energy drink. Yes. All right. People love to debate this one, and I am very, very guilty of it. Is cracking your knuckles, neck or back actually bad for you? No, it's not bad for you, but it is kind of gross. He always tells me that it's gross on my back.

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Unknown
You know, the the the joint space is got this tissue called synovial, and it has some fluid in it. And what can happen is gas. Little gas bubbles can kind of precipitate out in that fluid. And when you pop, you're kind of bending your ligaments and your tendons. And you can push on that gas bubble and pop it.

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Unknown
So that's what that noise is. But no, it's not bad for you. So I've always heard that you're going to get like big knuckles if you pop your knuckles. Like, I think my mom maybe just told me that to scare me and made me stop doing that as a child. You know, one of those, like, myths. And then also, I'm just deathly afraid of popping your back.

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Unknown
I feel like you're going to do something that's you're going to tweak something and be injured. I don't like it. Not not a fan of the back. I cannot sleep at night unless I bought my bag before I lay down. I am a freak, though. So. All right. Well, speaking of sleeping. So this is funny, though this is a popular question.

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Unknown
What causes that sudden falling sensation or body jerk as you're drifting off to sleep? Yeah. So those are called hypnotic jerks if you want a $10 word for it. Okay. But basically what happens is when when the your body starts to fall asleep, parts of your brain kind of fall asleep at different paces. And so you can lose a lot of muscle tone very quickly.

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Unknown
And then your brain kind of misinterprets that signal as, hey, you're falling because you've suddenly lost muscle tone, and it sort of jerks back. So that's what that's what. Yeah. So those are very common. Very common. Most people have hip jerks, and it's normal. It's not necessarily you're dreaming like you're falling off a cliff. Your body being.

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Unknown
Yeah. You're checking your brain. Most people aren't aware that they're jerking in their sleep. Yeah. Okay. Interesting. What is more important for weight loss? Diet or exercise? That's a little bit of a loaded question, but I would say in terms of of weight, purely weight loss, that diet would be more important. So your weight is calories in and calories out.

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Unknown
So that hasn't changed over the years. No, no, it really hasn't. Some people do metabolize different kind of macronutrients a little differently, but it still has held up that it's calories and in calories out. So if you can calculate your basic metabolic rate, which is the rate if you just sat still all day, how many calories that you would burn.

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Unknown
And it kind of depends on your age and your weight and how tall you are and and your gender. Whether you're a man or woman. And for most people, that comes out to be about 2000. So, you know, if you're eating less than that. So if you eat 500 calories less than that, like 1500, you're going to lose weight in a week.

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Unknown
You're going to lose about a pound a week. Now, exercise is very important for your overall health and the benefits of exercise to your cardiovascular health. Or there's no pill that you could ever give that would have the same benefits as an exercise. So, you gotta exercise so cardiovascular exercise every day for at least 30 minutes and then strength training at least a couple times a week.

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Unknown
How do you convince or motivate your patients to take that step to do exercise for their health? Yeah. So it's a little easier if somebody has a complaint or like a medical issue and I can say, hey, if you if you do this, if you just exercise, you'll probably feel better or you'll probably or you might help prevent the next heart attack or the next stroke, or maybe you won't have as much pain when you walk anymore.

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Unknown
So those kind of things do motivate people. But I had to have had like a bad and a a major event to kind of help. You used to meet people where they're at, you know, but if you're if you're looking to prevent medical problems in the future. There's nothing that's more beneficial than exercising every day. I know, I know, it's like we know that, but it's still hard to like, make yourself.

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Unknown
Yeah, yeah, Microsoft actually do it. But you feel better when you do it. Yeah. Yeah. You just gotta take that first step and get them built on the momentum. And you have to find something that you enjoy doing. If you don't love going to the gym, you know, maybe you like going for a walk around the block or something.

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Unknown
But there's there's many opportunities. You just have to find some things or cycling or running or, you know, team sports or anything. Pickleball. Pickleball. Yeah, a little less heroic, but yeah, Brandon's a big pickleball fan. Yeah, I am. Are you good at it? I played tennis, tennis growing up, so, yeah, I kind of have an edge in ping pong.

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Unknown
He does? Okay. Speaking of exercising, why do I feel more saw two days after exercising versus the first after exercising? Yeah. Is it doms? Doms? Doms? Yeah, yeah, that's the only answer. It. Muscle soreness. So when you, when you're exercising, especially if you're doing, like, strength training or like, heavy endurance exercise, like you're, you know, running half marathon or something like that, you're creating small tears in your muscle fiber and your soft tissue.

00:14:00:01 - 00:14:24:12
Unknown
And those things have to heal. And as part of the healing process, you get some inflammation. And so whenever that inflammation peaks is when you feel the most pain. So when you feel that soreness, when you're trying to walk down the stairs two days after you listen, squats or trying to use the restroom squat for the first time in a year, you know you're gonna you're gonna struggle to walk in a couple days.

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Unknown
What is one thing people spend money on for their health that isn't really necessary? It's kind of a hard question, but I think probably supplements, you know, if, if as long as most people don't need supplements, unless directed by your, your health care provider. The vast majority of people don't need a multivitamin. They don't need to take additional supplements over them.

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Unknown
They just need to to eat a well-rounded diet. I guess like mentally it just feels like you're getting the edge up if you can take these. Yeah. But I mean that's what the industry is capitalizing on people's thoughts like that. Yeah. Like all the protein. And it's expensive to to purchase all these things. Some of those things are very expensive.

00:15:15:08 - 00:15:34:06
Unknown
And they kind of they, they're, you know, they're good marketers. They, they they, you know, people want they care about their health. And that's what they market towards glutathione. Lapa. Glutathione. Or do you know what that is? That has been in my feed like and I did I ordered it and took it for a month. I don't think it did.

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Unknown
Absolutely anything. It tasted pretty good. That's supposed to help with, like, arthritis. Right. I don't know, it's make you younger. It's still like younger. So I think it was. From what I gathered from the marketing thing was that I helped you detox like toxins. And they're, you know, I think I got fed. Yeah, that's. Yeah, but how many people are doing that?

00:15:55:01 - 00:16:21:19
Unknown
That's probably sad. I'm not ordering it again. The issue with a lot of things like that, or like more common ones, are like Saint John's wort or or prevalent, you know. Yeah, the brain health brain and all the time is that they're just not rigorously studied. So there is no evidence to suggest either way. And some of those, there's not even really any theoretical plausibility as to why they would be beneficial.

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Unknown
Yeah. You know, and some of them, I mean, it might actually harm you to take it like you don't know what. So no, it can't really give advice either direction. Yeah. And I've seen like even there's now there's, sites you can go on where they try to test if the different supplements are valid, you know, like they're testing the supplements to see which ones are on Instagram anyways.

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Unknown
Okay. So just stay away from that unless advise. Yeah. And types of money. You know the the supplements in general the FDA doesn't regulate those. Right. So in order to brand it as containing, you know, gluten I don't I don't know, you know, it could have a whole lot of glutathione or it could have very little glutathione. And so the dose isn't regulated.

00:17:08:03 - 00:17:29:04
Unknown
And dosing is very important with any medication. So okay. This is something else I see on Instagram a lot. Why do random aches seem to appear after age 30? It's like our bodies are falling apart when we punishment for your past sins. It's trying to convince you that you are indeed aging and you are not 18 anymore.

00:17:29:05 - 00:17:53:10
Unknown
Yeah. Your body breaks down a little bit as your age, and some of the soft tissue kind of breaks down, and, your body doesn't heal with the same capacity that it had before. I don't like that. Yeah. Getting older. What are our brains. This is not on the question. And you probably don't have the answer to this.

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Unknown
But there probably is a disorder with this where you don't feel like you're getting older. Like why do I brains not like, recognized age? Yeah. I think that's an interesting question. I don't feel like I'm a whole lot older than when I was 20. I just feel maybe a little wiser, a little bit. Yeah. And then you're like, Holy cow, I'm a lot older than I thought.

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Unknown
I was like, I was very fast, but I've heard that from a lot of people, so I'm not I'm not the only one. I definitely feel that way too. It's like our brains not registered for years. Yeah. I don't know, maybe it just goes by the same time is a construct. Yes, yes, that's what's weird. Okay, so how often should you get a checkup if you feel healthy?

00:18:40:14 - 00:19:05:01
Unknown
I would say that for most people every year. Yeah. So kind of a general. And so you can remind yourself that you're a year older. This could be your I mean, I don't know about that, but it might help with that brain construct though, of time. And is that, like just a good basis that you can see if anything's changed and like, your numbers and all that?

00:19:05:02 - 00:19:36:22
Unknown
I mean, yeah, absolutely. So it depends a little bit about what kind of, you know, if you're a younger person under the age of 30, it depends a little bit on, on your kind of risk factors. Is that your family history of how much risk you have for cardiovascular disease and and other diseases in the future? But starting at the age of 30 to 35, we have good evidence to suggest that people should start undergoing yearly screening for high cholesterol, for diabetes.

00:19:36:22 - 00:19:58:04
Unknown
And it's a good chance to kind of check in with your health in general. I finally convinced my husband to go to the doctor. He had not been since he was pediatric. Yeah. So like 18? Yeah. And so that just goes to show how two you can work in healthcare and like know that again, you're not doing it.

00:19:58:05 - 00:20:14:07
Unknown
I was so proud of him. I taught him how to use the my chart and get your results and all that stuff. So we were like learning this together. But he had a little bit of cholesterol and you would have never thought it because he's overall very healthy. He's not overweight by any means. He's very active and stuff.

00:20:14:08 - 00:20:32:17
Unknown
So just kind of that hidden. Yeah, just kind of some preventative maintenance and it makes you think about it a little bit. Yeah. And I feel like it's a little bit different for men than women because as women we're going to our ob gyn every year and getting, you know, that yearly checkup. But men don't do that. You're sort of obligated to go in.

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Unknown
And men are nice and stubborn, too. Yeah. And I think I've been trying to get him to go for like 100 years. It was like. Yeah. And he finally. I was so proud of him. What would you say to the men to convince them that they need to go to the doctor? It's the right thing to do. Yeah.

00:20:47:21 - 00:20:55:06
Unknown
Listen to your listen to your spouse. Yeah. Listen to your wife. It'll make her happy because she.

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Unknown
I'm guilty of this one. Why do some people have naturally cold hands and feet, even when everyone else is comfortable? Because they keep ice in their pockets. And what about on their toast? Yeah. No cold toast. I have very cold hands and feet. Yeah. When when your your body temperature drops a little bit, blood kind of moves to the middle of the body to kind of help warm it up.

00:21:20:15 - 00:21:40:17
Unknown
And that's why the blood vessels can construct a little bit. So if you're a little thinner and you have a little less insulation, you can be more prone to having cold extremities. But the the tip to do that is just put your cold feet on your husband. No. So that's what my husband does to me. And I'm like, your toes are like, I actually made him put on socks the other day.

00:21:40:18 - 00:22:00:14
Unknown
I was like, if you want to rub your feet on me, put on some socks, cause they're cold. There you go. But so is it. Because, like, especially at night time. Like when you're, like, going to sleep, would it tend to be more cold at that time? Yeah, because of that. Okay. So there is a now I can answer that question about the cold toes.

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Unknown
All right. Stress okay. Stress. Everybody's probably got some level of stress in their lives. And it can cause physical symptoms like stomach problems, headaches, hair loss, or can it cause that's what it says. Can stress really cause physical symptoms like stomach problems, headaches, hair loss to even chest pain? Absolutely. Absolutely. So in your your your nervous system has the ability to go into like a rest and digest or kind of a fight or flight mode.

00:22:30:10 - 00:22:57:06
Unknown
And so if you're chronically stressed, your your body is chronically in that fight or flight mode. You know where you think you're like running from a bear, but actually, you know, you're just going to go on an interview or you're just going to call somebody. Oh, I gotta call the maintenance guy. Oh. And so having that kind of chronic stress and and your, your cortisol becomes elevated and your adrenaline becomes elevated.

00:22:57:08 - 00:23:18:20
Unknown
That will put kind of shear stress on all of your organs in general. And in fact, I, you know, I had read a study somewhere that being chronically stressed is the same as smoking five cigarettes a day. Day. Wow. It's it's good to be relaxed and cortisol like, I feel like I hear that word more and more and more levels.

00:23:18:21 - 00:23:43:08
Unknown
And is there a way that you can even check to see what your cortisol levels are? I mean, you hear about them being high or low or. Yeah. Yeah. So I would say that yes, it's a test that can be checked, but it should only be checked in certain scenarios, uncommon scenarios. So if you're kind of generally feeling stressed, it doesn't do any good to check it because your body is very good at regulating itself.

00:23:43:10 - 00:24:12:10
Unknown
Is it that it is my body. It's good regulating it. So if you exercise, that can help lower your level. Right. Exercising. Sleeping right. Eating right. Making sure you're social. You know, drinking less, not smoking. All those things just stole my next question. What simple lifestyle changes can improve mental health? Yeah, yeah. Exercise is incredibly important. Yeah. Making sure that you get.

00:24:12:12 - 00:24:35:05
Unknown
You know, your 7 to 9 hours of sleep every night. Going to sleep at the same time every night. Waking up at the same time every day. You know, eating a well-rounded diet with fruits and vegetables. Yeah. Less Krispy Kreme. Yeah, man. How about chick fil A? Oh, that's good words. Chicken. Yeah. So it might be happier.

00:24:35:07 - 00:24:55:17
Unknown
Yeah. So. Morning, people. Are you born a morning person? And there's night owls, too. So can you train a night owl to rise? Become an early riser? Yeah. So some people are born more of a, you know, their circadian rhythm is sort of set a little differently. So they're going to go to bed a little earlier and wake up a little later.

00:24:55:19 - 00:25:21:04
Unknown
And some people are going to go to bed late and wake up later. Can you train yourself to change that? I think it's it's hard to divert from what your body wants to do naturally, but I'd say yes, you can. You know, I'm probably more of a a night owl by nature, but is the, you know, just life and having a job kind of forces dictate to be a little bit more of a morning person.

00:25:21:08 - 00:25:43:12
Unknown
Yeah. But if you are more of a night person, maybe you need to be a little bit more diligent about your sleep schedule. Yeah. You know, don't change it on the weekend. You know, don't scroll in the bed. Yeah. I don't scroll to bed and don't watch TV. It's so easy to do. Yeah. How much water do we really need?

00:25:43:12 - 00:26:17:16
Unknown
Each day is eight glasses. Like, really the magic number? Is that a myth? So for for general maintenance. You know, a good rule of thumb is take half of your body weight and pounds, and that is ounces. So if you a 150 pounds, you know, that's 75oz, which is close to eight, eight glasses of water. But fluid status that, that kind of assumes that you have healthy functioning kidneys and heart and liver.

00:26:17:16 - 00:26:48:19
Unknown
And so it's something that if those things are kind of you have issues with those, you might be told to do things differently. Yeah. Yeah. Like if you're retaining water. Yeah. You might be told to drink your family. Okay. What's one myth that you hear all the time that simply isn't true? Oh, man. I also feel like there's a loaded question, but I think that after Covid, there are a lot of people who are very resistant to vaccination in general.

00:26:48:21 - 00:27:19:05
Unknown
And in terms of a medical intervention, the the risk of giving a vaccination is very low. You know, the rate of serious adverse events is close to 1 in 1,000,000. So the benefit of that is pretty substantial. Yeah. You know it was just so heightened the whole situation. Yeah. There was lots of misinformation surrounding vaccination. And, and now it's something that people are kind of hesitant about.

00:27:19:07 - 00:27:51:17
Unknown
And and you know I see adults. So I'm thinking about adult vaccinations and I think that what are common adult vaccinations. Yeah. So it doesn't I'm, you know, the flu when you're as you age a little bit, there's some kind of more vaccination. So if you're over the age of 50, you know, thinking about the shingles vaccine, thinking about being vaccinated for pneumococcal and now the vaccine as well, which they do help prevent hospitalizations and serious illness and sometimes mortality.

00:27:51:19 - 00:28:21:10
Unknown
I've met a few people that have had shingles, and they are very adamant that you should get the vaccine. Yeah. Cause anybody who has it will tell you they wish they didn't. Yeah. And sometimes those effects don't go away. Yeah. Yeah. And then speaking of the flu, just because flu is coming. So an interesting enough with the Covid pandemic that first year or I can't remember, I think it was the first year that we had our flu season during Covid.

00:28:21:11 - 00:28:48:13
Unknown
We were very worried that we were now going to get another like inundated with flu patients when we were already overwhelmed with Covid. Yeah. And we saw almost no flu cases, which obviously everybody was wearing the mask and distancing and handwashing doing. And not to say that you have to or mask all the time with the flu, but even just that hand hygiene, tend to like not that out for that season.

00:28:48:14 - 00:29:13:10
Unknown
Yeah. That was just kind of a bizarre thing, though. Yeah. Yeah, it kind of was, you know, social isolation. Yeah. Really helped. It's, But the flu vaccine is proven pretty. I mean, it's yes, the flu vaccine is effective in preventing it. It's not 100%. But even if you were to get the flu vaccine and then you were to get the flu, the flu is less likely to be detrimental.

00:29:13:11 - 00:29:33:01
Unknown
So the burden of kind of how sick you are, it's going to be less. That's when we deal with a little bit more in health care because we are required to have a flu vaccine. If you work in a health care setting. Yeah. All right. To wrap everything up. When should someone stop googling their symptoms and go to the doctor?

00:29:33:02 - 00:30:00:07
Unknown
If you're having, you know, issues. And it's always good to stay informed and invested in your own health. But if you're having problems, you know your health is a serious thing. You should go talk to somebody. Yeah. Where can somebody find you as their doctor? I'll be at Valdosta medical clinic. All right. Very good. Well, we will certainly add the information below for Doctor Rockwell's clinic.

00:30:00:08 - 00:30:15:18
Unknown
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00:30:15:20 - 00:30:19:04
Unknown
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