Medical Media Mixer: The Perfect Cocktail

Ep 16 Nonbinary Basil and Teenage Dream

In this episode we cover:
 
The book: As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as A Girl
 
And
 
The movie: Fitting In
Nonbinary basil - https://www.sgn.org/story.php?316578 
 
Medical Gender assignment at birth/in infancy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer 
https://books.google.com/books?id=lQjxX3Hj7HIC 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1281452/ 
https://healthlaw.org/surgeries-on-intersex-infants-are-bad-medicine/ 
Fitting In
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitting_In
MRHK
https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-patients-and-visitors/patient-information/conditions-treated-a-to-z/mayer-rokitansky-kuster-hauser-mrkh-syndrome
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%BCllerian_agenesis
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/273534-overview
 
Treatments
https://consultqd.clevelandclinic.org/second-live-birth-from-a-deceased-donor-transplant-at-cleveland-clinic
https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-patients-and-visitors/find-a-program-or-service/transplant-institute/uterus-transplant
Cocktail
https://www.smartblend.co.uk/blog/olivia-rodrigo-cocktail-recipe-guts-teenage-dream#teenagedream
 

Ep 15 The Skinny Bitch and The Faker Face

In this episode we cover:
 
The documentaries:
CNCBC Big Shot : The Ozempic Revolution
And 
Impact X Nightline Season 2,  Episode 20, The Skinny Confessions: After Ozempic
 
The movie,  “Faces in the Crowd”
And
The book, “Hello Stranger” by Katherine Center
 
Sources:
Obesity
https://obesitymedicine.org/blog/why-is-obesity-a-disease/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6179496/
https://www.ajmc.com/view/review-of-current-guidelines-for-the-treatment-of-obesity
GLP-1 Agonists
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26371721/
https://www.biochempeg.com/article/299.html#:~:text=In%202005%2C%20Exendin%2D4%20(Exenatide/%20BYETTA)%2C%20the%20world's,diabetes%20with%20two%20injections%20per%20day%20(BID).
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7042958/#:~:text=The%20first%20GLP%2D1%20receptor,weight%20loss%2C%20low%20risk%20for
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK572151/#:~:text=The%20FDA%20approved%20the%20first,than%20safety%20or%20efficacy%20concerns.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6946151/#:~:text=Members%20of%20the%20SGLT2i%20class,cardiovascular%20death%20or%20heart%20failure
 
Wegovy:
https://www.wegovy.com/
Zepbound:
https://zepbound.lilly.com/
Ozempic:
https://www.ozempic.com/why-ozempic/what-is-ozempic.html?showisi=true&&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_term=ozempic&utm_campaign=1_All_Shared_BR_Branded_Specifics_2023&mkwid=s-dc_pcrid_677045568899_pkw_ozempic_pmt_e_slid__product_&pgrid=158457129350&ptaid=kwd-392229870365&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAoJC-BhCSARIsAPhdfSgsOVJxGYMUGpDLJloXHBglxtpzF30jZ1ZIrHVfAaXMJ6pVL5aeeoQaAuorEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds
Mounjaro:
https://mounjaro.lilly.com/savings-resources?utm_id=go_cmp-20975809605_adg-158741897736_ad-715583170976_kwd-1655589599942_dev-c_ext-_prd-_mca-_sig-Cj0KCQiAoJC-BhCSARIsAPhdfSjZp4RyQOf_BRnYqOzDv2_XWbnelsvu73fwWdiTLe1TF1OUP60taK4aApMtEALw_wcB&utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc&campaign=20975809605&adgroup=158741897736&ad=715583170976&utm_keyword=kwd-1655589599942&utm_term=go_cmp-20975809605_adg-158741897736_ad-715583170976_kwd-1655589599942_dev-c_ext-_prd-_mca-_sig-Cj0KCQiAoJC-BhCSARIsAPhdfSjZp4RyQOf_BRnYqOzDv2_XWbnelsvu73fwWdiTLe1TF1OUP60taK4aApMtEALw_wcB&utm_rand=18243860566256925089&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAoJC-BhCSARIsAPhdfSjZp4RyQOf_BRnYqOzDv2_XWbnelsvu73fwWdiTLe1TF1OUP60taK4aApMtEALw_wcB
 
Future possible indications
https://www.aasld.org/liver-fellow-network/core-series/why-series/why-are-glp-1-agonists-being-used-treat-patients
https://www.biospace.com/drug-development/evidence-mounts-for-potential-of-glp-1s-in-alzheimers-disease
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1043661824002573#:~:text=4.2.-,Clinical%20evidence,RCT%20in%20individuals%20with%20OUD.
 
Psych uses: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/happy-healthy-relationships/202312/can-semaglutide-treat-obesity-diabetes-and-mental-health 
 
Cocktail:
https://www.absolutdrinks.com/en/drinks/skinny-bitch/
 
Prosopagnosia
Faker Face Cocktail - https://www.mixelcocktails.com/r/faker_face38311/
Faces in the Crowd movie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faces_in_the_Crowd_(2011_film) 
2011, starring Milla Jovovich, crime thriller - Anna acquires prosopagnosia after a TBI after witnessing a crime; makes it difficult to ID the killer; shows emotional/social difficulties; beautiful portrayal using several different actors to play each character - as a movie not great
Hello Stranger by Katherine Center -  Sadie has a seizure caused by cavernoma and has surgery then develops prosopagnosia - leads to a meet cute gone sideways and difficulty with her goal of being a portrait artist https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61884987-hello-stranger
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brilliant_Minds Brilliant Minds - Oliver Wolf  - https://www.oliversacks.com/watch-listen/brilliant-minds/ 
Types of agnosia - brain does not process senses appropriately - specific to facial recognition - usually from injury/lesions (alzheimers/dementia, tumors, TBI, developmental disorders, hypoxia, seizure/epilepsy, stroke, carbon monoxide poisoning), can be from birth/possible genetic link
Expressions/nonverbals - apperceptive type
Face blindness - associative
Dx via imaging and diagnostic tests 
Shame, anxiety, embarrassment, affects social relationships
Tx - treat underlying disorder, if any; coping skills, perceptual training
Treatment
Treatment focuses on helping the person adapt to recognize people in other ways 
Coping mechanisms can include teaching the person to study and remember other features, such as hair color, height, and voice 
Notable people with prosopagnosia 
Jane Goodall, primatologist
Brad Pitt, actor 
Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder
Stats vary but around 3% of the population 
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23412-prosopagnosia-face-blindness
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/how-common-face-blindness
https://www.faceblind.org/research/
https://www.testmybrain.org/#Digital-Lab 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10901275/
 

Ep 14 The Welcome Home and Eclipse of the Heart

In this episode we cover:
 
The TV Show Grace and Frankie Season 2 Episodes 1 and 2
The TV show Found Season 1 Episode 2
 
Sources:
Grace and Frankie:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Grace_and_Frankie_episodes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_and_Frankie
https://graceandfrankie.fandom.com/wiki/Season_One
 
Coronary Artery disease:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/155919-overview
https://newsroom.heart.org/file?fid=59f3430a2cfac22ba70b5c22#:~:text=The%20coronary%20arteries%20are%20the,blood%20to%20the%20heart%20muscle.
https://watchlearnlive.heart.org/?moduleSelect=corart
https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/heart-attack/angina-chest-pain/coronary-microvascular-disease-mvd
https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/consumer-healthcare/what-is-cardiovascular-disease/coronary-artery-disease#:~:text=The%20traditional%20risk%20factors%20for,the%20risk%20increases%20after%2055.
Risks and Prevention:
https://world-heart-federation.org/what-we-do/prevention/#:~:text=Primary%20prevention%20mainly%20targets%20people,also%20apply%20to%20primary%20prevention.
Cardioprotective medications:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6946151/#:~:text=Members%20of%20the%20SGLT2i%20class,cardiovascular%20death%20or%20heart%20failure
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6919451/#:~:text=In%20a%20recent%20large%20multicenter,including%20sensitivity%20and%20subgroup%20analyses.
https://www.nice.org.uk/news/articles/statins-a-choice-for-more-people-to-reduce-risk-of-heart-attacks-and-strokes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20824230/
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.atv.0000032033.39301.6a
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/circulationaha.117.031164#:~:text=Dual%20antiplatelet%20therapy%20with%20aspirin%20and%20a%20platelet%20P2Y12,which%20switching%20therapies%20may%20occur.
Cardiac Catheterization
https://www.heart.org/en/health-topics/heart-attack/diagnosing-a-heart-attack/cardiac-catheterization
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/coronary-angioplasty/about/pac-20384761
 
Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
https://www.heart.org/-/media/files/health-topics/answers-by-heart/what-is-coronary-bypass-surgery.pdf
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000001038
 
Endoscopic Coronary Artery Bypass Graft
https://www.yalemedicine.org/clinical-keywords/totally-endoscopic-coronary-artery-bypass-grafting#:~:text=Totally%20endoscopic%20coronary%20artery%20bypass%20(TECAB)%20grafting%20is%20a%20minimally,to%20traditional%20open%2Dheart%20surgery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totally_endoscopic_coronary_artery_bypass_surgery#:~:text=Totally%20endoscopic%20coronary%20artery%20bypass%20surgery%20(TECAB)%20is%20an%20entirely,and%20one%20camera%20are%20inserted.
 
Risk Stratification
https://www.ccjm.org/content/88/9/502
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/heart-scan/about/pac-20384686
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/ct-coronary-angiogram/about/pac-20385117#:~:text=A%20CT%20coronary%20angiogram%20mainly,for%20other%20heart%20conditions%20too.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diagnostics/17376-cardiac-positron-emission-tomography-pet
https://tools.acc.org/ASCVD-Risk-Estimator-Plus/#!/calculate/estimate/
Cocktail 
https://www.bargpt.app/ai-cocktail-recipe/eclipse-of-the-heart
Found - agoraphobia - character Zeke Wallace - Season 1 Episode 2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_(TV_series) 
https://wholefully.com/the-welcome-home
 
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/agoraphobia/symptoms-causes/syc-20355987 
https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/agoraphobia  
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK554387/ 
https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ps.50.3.407#:~:text=The%20Epidemiologic%20Catchment%20Area%20(ECA,agoraphobia%20than%20whites%20(2).
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Steven-Friedman-7/publication/285080641_Clinical_and_sociocultural_differences_in_African_American_and_Caucasian_patients_with_panic_disorder_and_agoraphobia/links/5a7b155e0f7e9bef43c4e431/Clinical-and-sociocultural-differences-in-African-American-and-Caucasian-patients-with-panic-disorder-and-agoraphobia.pdf 
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165032723003348#:~:text=Over%20one%20in%20five%20African,et%20al.%2C%202009). 
 
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
 
Website:
https://medicalmediamixer.podbean.com/
 
Social Media Links:
https://linktr.ee/MedicalMediaMixer
 
Survey:
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Ep 13 Brain on Fire and The MMR

 
In this episode we cover:
 
Brain on Fire- oth the book and the movie 
Outlander episodes 405 and 406
 
Sources:
 
Brain on Fire - book and movie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_on_Fire 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_on_Fire_(film) 
https://www.med.upenn.edu/autoimmuneneurology/nmdar-encephalitis.html#:~:text=Anti%2DNMDA%20receptor%20encephalitis%20is,NMDA%20receptors%20in%20the%20brain.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK551672/ 
https://www.antinmdafoundation.org/the-illness/what-is-anti-nmda-receptor-encephalitis/  
 
Cocktail:
https://tipsybartender.com/recipe/brain-on-fire-shot#google_vignette 
Outlander;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlander_(TV_series)
https://www.outlanderanatomy.com/anatomy-lesson-63-measles/
https://ew.com/recap/outlander-season-4-episode-6
 /
https://www.outlandercast.com/2020/06/contagion-in-outlander.html
https://variety.com/2018/tv/recaps/outlander-recap-season-4-episode-6-blood-of-my-blood-1203082938/
 
Measles:
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles
https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/history-of-vaccination/history-of-measles-vaccination
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/966220-overview?&icd=login_success_email_match_fpf
https://asm.org/articles/2019/may/measles-and-immune-amnesia
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/measles-outbreak-feb-21-2025
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlander_(TV_series)
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/hcp/vaccine-considerations/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/measles/about/history-of-measles.html
 
Cocktail:
The Mango Mojito refresher (MMR):
https://vanillaandbean.com/mango-mojito/
 
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
 
Website:
https://medicalmediamixer.podbean.com/
 
Social Media Links:
https://linktr.ee/MedicalMediaMixer
 
Survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2QDS9PZ
 
Email:
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Ep 12 The Rabies Shot and The Mind Eraser

In this episode we cover:
 
Scrubs Season 5 Episode 20 “My Lunch”
The TV show Severance
The movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Scrubs:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrubs_(TV_series)
https://scrubs.fandom.com/wiki/My_Lunch
Organ Donation
https://www.organdonor.gov/learn/process
https://www.organdonor.gov/sign-up/how
Rabies:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa043018
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/rabies
https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/about/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/hcp/clinical-overview/index.html
Health Department Directories:
https://www.cdc.gov/public-health-gateway/php/communications-resources/health-department-directories.html?CDC_AAref_Val=https://www.cdc.gov/publichealthgateway/healthdirectories/index.html
Cocktail:
http://www.idrink.com/v.html?id=47058#google_vignette
 
Severance & Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind - erasing memory to improve function
Mind Eraser Cocktail Recipe 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_Sunshine_of_the_Spotless_Mind  -  2004 Joel (Jim Carey) and Clementine (Kate Winslet) each elect to have memories of each other erased after they breakup - what is the impact of erasing emotional memories - good and bad; are the emotions really erased or just the content of the association - other chars Mary (Kirsten Dunst) and Howard (Tom Wilkinson) and Joel and Clementine finding each other again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severance_(TV_series) 
Season 1 released 2022 on Apple+, Season 2 2025 Mark (Adam Scott) elects to become a severed employee (medical implant separates work life from home life = Innie vs. Outie) after his wife Gemma dies. Mark wants to figure out what Lumon is up to and why, what happened to former co-worker Petey, and “reintegration” of selves for coworkers Helly, Dylan, and Irving. 
 
Memory - https://www.health.harvard.edu/topics/memory 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK234153/ 
https://qbi.uq.edu.au/memory/where-are-memories-stored#:~:text=Memories%20aren't%20stored%20in,heavily%20on%20the%20prefrontal%20cortex. 
 
Split-brain science - https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/5/1231/2951052 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7305066/#:~:text=Thus%2C%20it%20seems%20that%20in,the%20response%20that%20is%20required. 
 
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-neuroscience-of-severance-whats-real-whats-fake/#:~:text=First%2C%20it's%20not%20just%20episodic,the%20issues%20affecting%20our%20world. 
https://aperture.byu.edu/?p=35 
 
Connection between emotions and memory and how they influence each other
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6198111/ 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5573739/ 
https://www.inc.com/nick-hobson/neuroscience-says-you-can-improve-your-memory-with-emotion-but-theres-1-important-catch.html 
 
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
 
Website:
https://medicalmediamixer.podbean.com/
 
Social Media Links:
https://linktr.ee/MedicalMediaMixer
 
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Email:
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Ep 11 The Imposter and Appendicitis de Luxe

In this Episode We cover:
 
The NPR Podcast Episode and article “Seeing Imposters: When Loved Ones Suddenly Aren’t
And 
Doogie Howser Season 1 Episode 3 “A Stitch Called Wanda”
 
Sources:
 
Capgras
The Imposter - https://www.nerdfriday.com/post/51820442120/the-imposter-recipe-by-sabrina-eldredge-of-nerd
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK570557/#:~:text=Capgras%20syndrome%20(CS)%2C%20or,someone%20significant%20to%20the%20patient.
https://www.lbda.org/blog/capgras-syndrome-in-lewy-body-dementias-lbd-associated-with-anxiety-and-hallucinations/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/basics/capgras-syndrome
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773021223000044
Podcast/article - https://www.npr.org/2010/03/30/124745692/seeing-impohttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2773021223000044stors-when-loved-ones-suddenly-arent
Rare disorders - “Delusion of doubles” think loved ones/familiar ones are imposters/impersonators - can come from dementia, TBI, schizophrenia, epilepsy,etc . Delusional misidentification  Recognize the face (NOT face blindness), but believe it is not the same person; can also misidentify items; 1920 French psychiatrist Joseph Capgras; impairment of visual system
 
Doogie Howser:
https://doogiehowser.fandom.com/wiki/A_Stitch_Called_Wanda
 
https://simkl.com/tv/1707/doogie-howser-md/episode-3/#google_vignette
 
Appendicitis
 
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/773895-overview
 
Cocktail:
https://www.absolutdrinks.com/en/drinks/appendicitis-de-luxe/
 
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
 
Website:
https://medicalmediamixer.podbean.com/
 
Social Media Links:
https://linktr.ee/MedicalMediaMixer
 
Survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2QDS9PZ
 
Email:
medicalmediamixer@gmail.com
 

Ep 10 The Code Blue and IQ

In this episode we cover:
 
The new sitcom St. Denis
And
The TV show High Potential
 
Sources: 
 
St. Denis:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Denis_Medical
https://www.pluggedin.com/tv-reviews/st-denis-medical/
Studies on Happiness in Healthcare Workers:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00592-x
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7537441/#:~:text=Previous%20studies%20have%20illustrated%20that,care%20staff%20through%20job%20commitment.&text=Care%20communities%20with%20highly%20committed,and%20choice%20in%20various%20activities.&text=Similarly%2C%20committed%20care%20workers%20are,appropriate%20communication%20among%20care%20communities.&text=It%20has%20been%20reported%20that,higher%20satisfaction%20and%20well%2Dbeing.&text=Higher%20job%20satisfaction%20and%20global,satisfaction%20and%20happiness%20with%20care.&text=However%2C%20little%20is%20known%20regarding,elderly%20people%20with%20severe%20disabilities.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5598781/#:~:text=Decreased%20well%2Dbeing%20of%20health,association%20with%20wellbeing%20and%20happiness.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-77493-5
How we can improve:
https://comphealth.com/resources/improving-physician-well-being
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5628042/
https://www.aafp.org/pubs/fpm/blogs/inpractice/entry/physician_career_satisfaction.html
https://kevinmd.com/2023/10/achieving-happiness-practical-strategies-for-physicians.html
Cocktail:
https://provider.thriveap.com/blog/bottoms-8-themed-cocktails-nurses-week#:~:text=Code%20Blue&text=To%20create%20this%20code%2Dworthy,to%20coat%20lightly%20before%20serving.
 
High IQ/High Potential Intellectual and High Emotional Potential 
Hulu 2023 - Morgan Gillory (Kristin Olson) has an IQ of 160, considered a high potential intellectual, but is a single mom with three kids working as a cleaning lady before being hired as a consultant for the LAPD
Advanced cognitive abilities, photographic memory (recall visual details with high accuracy vs. eidetic memory - see the image) intellectual creativity, detail oriented, high processing speed, sarcasm, visual spatial reasoning/memory
Son has high intelligence - genetic link? - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5985927/ 
Downfall - obsess over problems, insomnia, mind spinning, job/relationship/conversations hard to hold, arrested in past,
IQ, Cocktail Recipe ➦ INSHAKER — Inshaker 
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14060708/ 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Potential 
https://www.simplypsychology.org/eidetic-memory-vs-photographic-memory.html 
https://www.c2.care/en/high-intellectual-potential/
https://www.polytechnique-insights.com/en/columns/health-and-biotech/hpi-gifted-zebra-whats-the-scientific-reality-behind-these-terms/
https://collider.com/high-potential-intellectual-real/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_giftedness
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8699491/
 
 
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
 
Website:
https://medicalmediamixer.podbean.com/
 
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Ep 9 Forever Young and The Elixir of Immortality

In this episode we cover the documentary:
Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever
 
Sources:
 
Forever Young Cocktail: https://www.totalwine.com/cocktail-recipes/forever-young 
 
Mormonism - https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/29/us/mormon-beliefs-explained-cec/index.html 
LDS is one sect of Mormonism; Book of Mormon vs. Bible, christianity, missionary work, abstinence from coffee, alcohol, premarital sex, historically against LGBTQIA+ and non-white members
 
Spiritual Crisis - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-darkness/202008/spiritual-depression 
Alienation from community, family, children, “midlife crisis”
 
Work-Life Balance - https://www.mhanational.org/work-life-balance 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6617405/#:~:text=Epidemiological%20studies%20have%20shown%20the,mental%20health%20status%2C%20hypertension%2C%20and
Heart disease, depression, anxiety, chronic fatigue, poor sleep, substance use, high blood pressure, general poor health (diet, exercise, fresh air)
 
Suicidal Ideation - https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/suicidal-ideation 
 
Relationship with son Talmadge - Parental Enmeshment 
https://www.attachmentproject.com/psychology/enmeshment/family/#:~:text=For%20children%2C%20enmeshment%20can%20lead,comply%20with%20their%20family's%20wishes. 
Overcompensation for loss of other children/marriage/family/community
 
Trauma from childhood - alcoholic father  https://adultchildren.org/ 
 https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6436308/ 
 
Moving toward healing the relationship with father and son - plasma exchange, photo shoot, involvement in longevity movement
 
Addictive personality and replacement addictions - religion - work - health -  some controversy regarding replacement addiction https://www.mayoclinichealthsystem.org/hometown-health/speaking-of-health/do-you-have-addictive-personality-traits-video 
 
Metformin:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6779524/
Human Growth Hormone:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/healthy-aging/in-depth/growth-hormone/art-2004573
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Rapamycin:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanhl/article/PIIS2666-7568(23)00258-1/fulltext
Plasma:
https://www.fda.gov/vaccines-blood-biologics/safety-availability-biologics/important-information-about-young-donor-plasma-infusions-profit#:~:text=There%20is%20no%20proven%20clinical,the%20body%20and%20difficult%20breathing.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6694331/#:~:text=Age%20is%20the%20primary%20risk,that%20derive%20from%20these%20observations.
Gene therapy:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10017145/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5240576/#:~:text=After%208%20weeks%20of%20treatment,two%20years%20after%20gene%20transfer.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2852878/#:~:text=In%20a%20previous%20study%2C%20we,increased%20muscle%20mass%20and%20strength.
Global life expectancy:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303775/global-life-expectancy-by-region-country-historical/
Blue zones:
https://www.bluezones.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_zone
What we can do to extend life:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_extension
https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/longevity-lifestyle-strategies-for-living-a-healthy-long-life#:~:text=What%20you%20eat%20has%20a,repair%20or%20replace%20damaged%20cells.
Cocktail:
https://www.twistedalchemy.com/blogs/cocktail-recipes/elixir-of-immortality?srsltid=AfmBOorpjWBnzyLlpE0EM6QPwKdZY4LCD1iBO0sDRvHXHdJHKKyJ_m8m
 
 
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Ep 8 The Fly Girl and The OPV

In this episode we cover:
Simone Biles: Rising - Netflix 2024
and 
Call the Midwife Christmas Specials from 2013 and 2016
 
The Fly Girl Spritzer using Black Girl Magic wines - https://www.mcbridesisters.com/blogs/eat-drink/cocktail-recipe-fly-girl-spritzer?srsltid=AfmBOopqq5eAw0oOZBjYHlyhHAVlM3GebvzMwJPbzWvXvAbVOsWwxksl 
 
Simone Biles: Rising - Netflix 2024
 
https://www.netflix.com/title/81700902 
 
Black excellence overcoming trauma/hardship vs. media focusing solely on trauma as a definition aspect of the Black experience
 
Summer 2020 Tokyo Olympics drama - context: COVID-19, no crowd, no family, daily testing and worry about infection
The “Twisties”  - https://time.com/7004666/what-are-the-twisties-gymnastics-cause-treatments-simone-biles-condition/ 
https://www.snexplores.org/article/simone-biles-twisties-gymnastics-olympics-explainer  
Baseline danger of the sport, no protective equipment, feeling “in jail in my body, deaf”, add the speed and power of her athleticism 
Try not to die
“Invisible” problem
1 ½ yrs before returned to full training
Optimal anxiety - https://www.healthline.com/health/yerkes-dodson-law#stress-performance-bell-curve 
Social negativity and media pressure before, during, and after
Abandoning team, loser, quitter, making excuses, “doesn’t feel like it,” a failure, a drop out, a disappointment, life lessons not to give up
Pressure, mental, and physical stress
For team, for the country, other countries rooting for her 
Still won Bronze on Balance Beam
Male response vs. female response differential?
History of gymnastics in the USA
Older athletes until Nadia Comenici and the Karoli Era of training
Kerri Shrug
Push through injury - long term effect
Sexual abuse scandal
Trauma response
Limited diversity
Youth and diversity in the sport vs. other sports
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2024/08/06/nx-s1-5064419/womens-gymnastics-ages-simone-biles-olympics 
https://static.usagym.org/PDFs/Events/24olympics/diversity.pdf 
First american black woman to complete was in 1992 and 1996 - often in the shadows of white competitors
First american black woman to win a gold - 2012
https://www.suzansong.com/fieldnotes/the-resistance-amp-repair-of-simone-biles 
Retirement due to career ending injury vs. on own terms
Work-life balance for athletes
Mental health
Courage, certainty vs. doubt, emotional/mental strength, confidence, fear, trust in self and abilities, trust in coaches, in equipment 
Post-competition depression - adrenaline
Sports psychology - https://www.apa.org/ed/graduate/specialize/sports#:~:text=Sport%20psychology%20is%20a%20proficiency,with%20sports%20settings%20and%20organizations
Positive self talk, visualization, optimal levels of anxiety
Social support 
Limits on social media, interviews, etc
History of trauma
Foster care, mother’s substance abuse, separation from 3 siblings
Adoption by grandparents
2020 and 2024 GOAT controversy
When is it enough
5 skills named after her, only one has been able to be performed by another athlete
Skill level difficulty - can make mistakes and still outrank others perfect performances
First “true competition” in Rebecca Andraje from Brazil - good sportsmanship - tension and competition but also cheering each other on
Expectations to always win, then always finding fault - if not performance than in appearance, relationship, attitude, etc
 
Call The Midwife:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call_the_Midwife
https://callthemidwife.fandom.com/wiki/Christmas_Special_2016
https://callthemidwife.fandom.com/wiki/Christmas_Special_2013
https://callthemidwife.fandom.com/wiki/Timothy_Turner
Polio:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/306440-overview?&icd=login_success_email_match_fpf
https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/why-polio-is-making-comeback
https://www.cdc.gov/polio/about/index.html
https://www.cdc.gov/polio/site.html
https://www.who.int/health-topics/poliomyelitis#tab=tab_1
RFK:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/17/health/robert-f-kennedy-jr-polio-vaccines.html
Cocktail:
https://www.milehighmitts.com/orange-thunder/
https://www.thrillist.com/recipe/campari-organge-cocktail-recipe
 
 
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Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
 
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Ep 7 Shades of Pink and Pink for a Cure

In this episode we cover:
- The Power by Naomi Alderman (book) and series on Amazon Prime
- It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health (But Were Never Told) Book by Dr Karen Tang
- The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism, Book by Jen Gunter
- Our Bodies Ourselves, Book by the Boston Women's Health Book Collective
 
Sources:
 
Cocktail: Shades of Pink https://empressgin.com/cocktail/shades-of-pink/ 
The Power by Naomi Alderman (book) and series on Amazon Prime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_(Alderman_novel) 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Power_(TV_series) 2023 Amazon Prime
https://screenrant.com/the-power-season-2-updates-everything-we-know/ 
Violence against women - child abuse, sex trade/human trafficking, intimate partner violence 
https://www.thehotline.org/stakeholders/domestic-violence-statistics/ 
https://humantraffickinghotline.org/en/statistics 
https://www.ijm.org/our-work/violence-women-children 
Oppression - social, political, financial, physical, spiritual
https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/discrimination/womens-rights/ 
Women’s health - “sterilization” of the power, understanding women’s health and organ development, clinical trials
https://publichealthreviews.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40985-017-0060-9 
https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/11/10/sterilization-women-and-girls-disabilities 
https://www.aamc.org/news/why-we-know-so-little-about-women-s-health 
Women and rage
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/22/arts/television/tv-female-rage-beef.html 
Women as sexual beings, lesbianism
Women as allies - awakening The Power in each other
Men as allies
Reversal of social roles
Intersex https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/16324-intersex 
Movie only covers about half of the book; chaos and the corruption of power
Author mentored by Margaret Atwood (Handmaid's Tale)
 Health Literacy:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5175428/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10826516/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0884217515302197
https://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2016/10/health-literacy-to-promote-quality-of-care
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1494879/
The Wellness Industry:
https://www-2.rotman.utoronto.ca/insightshub/healthcare-life-sciences/patriarchal-wellness-industria
https://www.businessinsider.com/rina-raphael-gospel-of-wellness-alternative-medicine-supplements-natural-organic-2022-10
Our Bodies Ourselves:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Bodies,_Ourselves
https://ourbodiesourselves.org/history-legacy#:~:text=Since%201970%2C%20Our%20Bodies%20Ourselves,women%20who%20have%20read%20it.
Cocktail:
https://www.lovebakesgoodcakes.com/pink-for-cure-cocktail-cookingforacure/
 
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Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
 
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