Medical Media Mixer: The Perfect Cocktail

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/
 
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
 
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Ep 6 Bug Juice and The Fuzzy Navel

 
In this episode we cover: 
The movie “Bug” and The documentary Skin Deep: The Battle Over Morgellons
 
Sources:
Movie:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3920274/plotsummary/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_(2006_film)
Delusional Parasitosis:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1121818-overview
Scabies:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1109204-overview
Lice:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/225013-overview
Bedbugs:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1088931-overview
Myiasis:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1491170-treatment
Cutaneous larva migrans:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1108784-overview?_gl=1*kyvssb*_gcl_au*MTYwMjM5MTE3OS4xNzI5MDEzODQ5
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1108784-overview?_gl=1*kyvssb*_gcl_au*MTYwMjM5MTE3OS4xNzI5MDEzODQ5
Bug Punch Mocktail:
https://brooklynactivemama.com/bug-punch-halloween-mocktail-drink/
Midori Bug punch
https://www.acouplecooks.com/midori-sour/
Cocktail: Fuzzy Navel https://www.liquor.com/recipes/fuzzy-navel/ 
Skin Deep: The Battle Over Morgellons - Amazon Prime October 2019 Documentary
https://www.morgellonsmovie.org/ 
https://www.today.com/health/joni-mitchell-health-morgellons-rcna136955 
https://www.mayoclinic.org/delusional-parasitosis/art-20044996 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgellons 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5811176/ 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3047951/ 
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/illness-anxiety-disorder/symptoms-causes/syc-20373782 
Delusions of parasitosis vs. hypochondriasis/illness anxiety disorder
https://www.health.state.mn.us/diseases/pests/dp.html 
Reported symptoms: low grade flu symptoms, swelling, headaches, anxiety, fatigue, brain fog, painful sores/lesions, “pop rocks under the skin,” colored fibers/filaments embedded under the skin’s surface, sensory sensitivity on/under the skin, itching
Dr. Felman - derm w/6mos psychiatry - non-believer; talk about how to be a better patient, attends conference and sees research, still believes it to be psychosis
Orap - medication for delusions - https://www.drugs.com/mtm/orap.html 
Cindy Casey Holman, RN & husband Charles - patient and advocates
Harry Quinn Schone, PhD, medical historian, author of Contested Illnesses in Context
Disease responsibility/agency over illness, met with suspicion, distrust, derision
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/denying-the-grave/201906/how-should-we-treat-contested-illnesses 
Timothy Berger, MS dermatologist and John Koo, MD psychiatrist and dermatologist
Internet-associated disorder, “group organized itself,” compared to Agent Orange and Bosnian War nuclear bullets https://www.publichealth.va.gov/exposures/agentorange/ 
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/07/world/radiation-from-balkan-bombing-alarms-europe.html 
“Matchbox” evidence, folie a deux, folie a famille https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2919794/   https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2824986/ 
Edward Hu, former federal attorney, patient and brother Brian Hu, MD - family conflict over symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment
Nerve pain, word finding difficulty, tremors, gross motor issues, gastrointestinal issues, electrical interference, wash with a scraping stone, improved with antibiotic treatment
Ginger Savely, DNP, Lyme specialist, recommends antibiotic treatment
Burning hairs off face with a lighter
Patient using DDT for treatment  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDT 
Mary Leitao - coined term Morgellons in 2002 after son had symptoms and she was accused of Munchausen by Proxy; research from Sir Thomas Browne (1690)
Connection to Lyme - spirochetes
Raphael B. Stricker, MD internist and Melissa McEltroy Fesler, NP and Marianne Middleveen, MDES - long term doxycycline for Lyme is safe?
Theory: Fibers are made of collagen and keratin, overproduced in mass quantities
Similar to Bovine Digital Dermatitis
CDC Task Force, $600,000, Kaiser Permanente, and 4 years; research flawed due to definition of research? Large local population with morgellons 
Mental health impact - isolation, distress, abandonment, disbelief, desperation, 800x more likely to commit suicide?
Somatoform disorder, psychosomatic disorder vs. somatopsychic disorder
Spirochetal infection can cause psychiatric symptoms
Bipolar, anxiety, depression comorbid
Syphilis was considered psychosomatic until research
Guy with 60 billion worms in his groin
Confirmation bias or exclusionary bias; fact vs. emotion/belief in psychology
The way of treating certain pain syndromes in psychology (AMPS/fibromyalgia)
 
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
 
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Ep 5 The Revolution and The Insomniac

In this episode we cover
The Empyrean book series by Rebecca Yarros
The book “Blood Orange Night: My Journey to The Edge of Madness by Melissa Bond
Sources:
Empyrean series:
https://screenrant.com/fourth-wing-book-violet-sorrengail-condition-ehlers-danlos-syndrome/
https://www.health.com/rebecca-yarros-fourth-wing-interview-7569752
https://cyda.org.au/dragons-magic-ehlers-danlos-syndrome/
https://the-empyrean-series.fandom.com/wiki/The_Empyrean_Series#:~:text=The%20Empyrean%20series%20is%20the,series%20by%20author%20Rebecca%20Yarros.
Cocktail:
https://thebookcasebeauty.com/2023/11/04/youll-be-the-wingleader-of-book-club-with-this-fourth-wing-inspired-cocktail/
Ehlers Danlos (EDS)
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1114004-overview
https://www.ehlers-danlos.com/what-is-eds/
 
Insomniac cocktail - https://drinkinghobby.com/insomniac-cocktail-recipe/
Blood Orange Night - June 2022 - https://www.melissaabond.com/blood-orange-night
Insomnia - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/insomnia/symptoms-causes/syc-20355167
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10887463/
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/12119-insomnia 
Fatal insomnia - https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/fatal-familial-insomnia/
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
 
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Ep 4 The Suffering Bastard and The Dancing Queen

In this episode we cover
 
The music video for :
November Rain by Guns and Roses
 The song:
“Choreomania” by Florence and the Machine
Sources
 
ATWWD episode 400
This podcast will kill you episode 40
Song:
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/florencethemachine/choreomania.html
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/florence-the-machine/choreomania
Choreomania (dancing plagues)
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220512-the-people-who-danced-themselves-to-death
https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518\
https://www.britannica.com/event/dancing-plague-of-1518
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9242030/
https://www.britannica.com/art/tarantella
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0033350697000346?via%3Dihub
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dancing-plague-of-1518/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430923/
Ergot:
https://asm.org/articles/2018/november/from-poisoning-to-pharmacy-a-tale-of-two-ergots
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6640538/
Levodopa
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/levodopa-induced-dyskinesia#:~:text=Levodopa%2Dinduced%20dyskinesia%20can%20be,postures%2C%20which%20is%20termed%20distonia.
Huntingtons:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/huntingtons-disease/diagnosis-treatment/drc-20356122
Syndenham Chorea:
https://www.ninds.nih.gov/health-information/disorders/sydenham-chorea
Mass psychogenic illness:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2BDC2262E104B8A33F3DD49773DA0D8B/S0007125000268578a.pdf/protean_nature_of_mass_sociogenic_illness.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC543940/#r1-23
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC543940/
Tardive dyskinesia:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK448207/#:~:text=Tardive%20dyskinesia%20(TD)%20is%20a,and%20other%20abnormal%20involuntary%20movements.
Mirror neurons:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_neuron
Cocktail:
https://imbibemagazine.com/recipe/dancing-queen-a-blackberry-cocktail/
Suffering Bastard Cocktail: https://www.alcoholprofessor.com/blog-posts/blog/2017/09/12/classic-cocktails-in-history-suffering-bastard 
Song/ Video:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_Rain 
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/gunsnroses/novemberrain.html 
Suicide:
https://afsp.org/suicide-statistics/ 
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/center-for-gun-violence-solutions/2023/cdc-provisional-data-gun-suicides-reach-all-time-high-in-2022-gun-homicides-down-slightly-from-2021 
https://sprc.org/tools/resources-survivors-suicide-loss/ 
https://988lifeline.org/help-yourself/loss-survivors/ 
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
 
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Ep 3 Purple Rain and The Anti-Inflammatory

In this episode we cover: 
House Season 4 episode 8 “You Don’t Want to Know”
The movie “Beyond the Universe”
The documentary: “Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me”
House Wiki https://house.fandom.com/wiki/You_Don%27t_Want_to_Know
IMDB https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0412142/
Up to date https://www.uptodate.com/contents/transesophageal-echocardiography-indications-complications-and-normal-views
Mayo Clkinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heart-failure/symptoms-causes/syc-20373142
CDC https://www.cdc.gov/aspergillosis/about/index.html
Cleveland clinic https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/14770-aspergillosis
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Turner%27s_sign
Mayo Clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/intestinal-ischemia/symptoms-causes/syc-20373946
Cleavland clinic https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/13464-nosebleed-epistaxis
Medscape https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/330717-overview
Penn medicine https://www.pennmedicine.org/for-patients-and-visitors/find-a-program-or-service/heart-and-vascular/interventional-cardiology/testing-and-diagnosis/heart-biopsy#:~:text=Makes%20a%20small%20incision%20in,small%20sample%20of%20heart%20tissue
Medscape https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/230923-overview
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sense_of_impending_doom
NIH https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2265/#:~:text=Acute%20hemolytic%20transfusion%20reactions%20occur,in%20the%20back%20and%20flanks.
Mayo clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/amyloidosis/symptoms-causes/syc-20353178#:~:text=Amyloidosis%20(am%2Duh%2Dloi,nervous%20system%20and%20digestive%20tract.
Medscape https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/335414-overview#a11
Medscape https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/243492-clinical#b3
Medline plus https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001303.htm
Dermnet https://dermnetnz.org/topics/pseudomonas-skin-infections#:~:text=Pseudomonas%20aeruginosa%20is%20commonly%20found,not%20normally%20develop%20pseudomonas%20infection.
OSHA https://www.osha.gov/laws-regs/standardinterpretations/2006-05-17-1#:~:text=However%2C%20OSHA's%20bloodborne%20pathogens%20standard,)(2)(ix)%5D.
Red cross https://www.redcrossblood.org/donate-blood/blood-types.html
The Lancet https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(07)60099-3/fulltext
Lupus foundation of America https://www.lupus.org/resources/what-is-systemic-lupus-erythematosus-sle
Mayo clinic https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/lupus/symptoms-causes/syc-20365789
https://tipsybartender.com/recipe/the-purple-rain-cocktail
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selena_Gomez:_My_Mind_%26_Me
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_the_Universe_(2022_film)
https://www.eatingwell.com/recipe/7906800/sparkling-strawberry-ginger-lemonade/ 
https://www.liquor.com/recipes/anti-inflammatory/ 
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/lupus-psychosis#summary 
https://www.hss.edu/conditions_neuropsychiatric-sle-lupus-and-brain.asp#:~:text=The%20most%20common%20manifestations%20of,sudden%20confusion%20and%2For%20psychosis 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9903299/#:~:text=Major%20depression%20and%20cognitive%20dysfunction,lead%20to%20impaired%20occupational%20functioning. 
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6353684/
https://www.jrd.or.kr/journal/view.html?uid=1378&vmd=Full 
https://www.webmd.com/lupus/ss/great-mental-health-exercises 
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
 
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Ep 2 The Tropical Depression and A Spoonful of Sugar

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In this episode we cover the following songs:
Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones, 1966
Everybody Hurts by REM, 1992
Before I Go by Billie Eilish, 2019
Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent, 1977
A Little Bit Longer by the Jonas Brothers, 2008
A Spoonful of Sugar but Julie Andrews, 1964
Sources:
Cocktail:
https://www.rumtherapy.com/2015/09/tropical-depression-drink/#google_vignette
Songs:
https://genius.com/The-rolling-stones-paint-it-black-lyrics
https://genius.com/Rem-everybody-hurts-lyrics
https://genius.com/Billie-eilish-listen-before-i-go-lyrics
Songs:
https://americansongwriter.com/meaning-behind-the-lusty-song-cat-scratch-fever-by-ted-nugent/
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/ted-nugent/cat-scratch-fever
https://ultimateclassicrock.com/ted-nugent-detroit-muscle-interview/
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/jonasbrothers/alittlebitlongeryoudontevenknow.html
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/jonas-brothers/a-little-bit-longer
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/burlives/aspoonfulofsugar.html
https://www.songfacts.com/facts/julie-andrews/a-spoonful-of-sugar
 
Cat Scratch fever (bartonella)
https://www.cdc.gov/bartonella/about/about-bartonella-henselae.html
Type 1 Diabetes:
https://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/about/about-type-1-diabetes.html
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/type-1-diabetes/symptoms-causes/syc-20353011#:~:text=Age.,10%20and%2014%20years%20old.
Medical uses for sugar:
https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/patients/vaccines/our-history#:~:text=Such%20efforts%20to%20inoculate%20kids,vaccine%20on%20cubes%20of%20sugar.
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/775746-overview
https://www.acponline.org/membership/medical-students/acp-impact/archive/may-2020/a-sweet-success-osmotic-reduction-of-prolapsed-stoma-using-table-sugar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heqLn2PM7io
Music Credits:
Intro fun- Music by Vlad Krotov from Pixabay
Bartending foley suite- Sound Effect by Akiva Vita from Pixabay
 
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Ep 1 The Americano and The OCD

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In this episode we cover:
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman Season 1, episode 2 "Epidemic"
and
Girls Season 2 Episode 8 "It's Back" and Episode 9 "On All Fours"
 
Sources:
Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman:
https://drquinn.fandom.com/wiki/Dr._Quinn_Medicine_Woman_Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Quinn,_Medicine_Woman
https://drquinn.fandom.com/wiki/Epidemic
Influenza:
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/219557-overview
https://sph.umich.edu/pursuit/2020posts/how-scientists-quantify-outbreaks.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0753332220313317#:~:text=In%201918%2C%20quinine%20was%20used,fever%20since%20the%20seventeenth%20century.
https://reference.medscape.com/drug/qualaquin-quinine-342696#0
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7689621/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinine#:~:text=In%201832%2C%20using%20quinine%20derived,the%20Missouri%20and%20Mississippi%20valleys.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu-burden/php/about/faq.html#:~:text=CDC%20estimates%20the%20number%20of,from%20seasonal%20flu%20each%20year.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/flu-vs-covid19.html
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/vaccine-types/index.html?s_cid=SEM.GA:PAI:RG_AO_GA_TM_A18_F-FLU-VaccineTypes-Brd:different%20flu%20vaccines:SEM00120&utm_id=SEM.GA:PAI:RG_AO_GA_TM_A18_F-FLU-VaccineTypes-Brd:different%20flu%20vaccines:SEM00120&gad_source=1
https://www.xofluza-hcp.com/
https://www.rapivab.com/
https://www.nccih.nih.gov/health/echinacea
https://www.cdc.gov/bird-flu/situation-summary/index.html
Cocktail:
https://www.liquor.com/recipes/americano/
Cocktail:
https://www.orangecountydistillery.com/brownbarnfarms 
Girls:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girls_(TV_series)
OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder)
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24526-obsessive-compulsive-personality-disorder-ocpd
https://iocdf.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/OCPD-Fact-Sheet.pdf