The Weekly Show: 3/8/25

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to the weekly show here on iHeartRadio
on ninety three nine Light FM, one O three five
Kiss FM, and Rock ninety five to five. I'm Paulina
and every week we're here to discuss a variety of
topics that matter to Chicagoland, from health, education, to finances
and so much more. Today on the show, Mick Lee
chats with doctor Poppi on Us from Northwestern Medicine and

(00:22):
we are talking about thyroid conditions. And I also chat
with the one and only Linda Pirillo from Perillo Tours
and we are talking about tourism in Italy. And Robin
Rock chats with Cure Epilepsy. So let's kick off the show.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Hi, It's Robin Rock and joining me today is Beth Dean.
Beth is the CEO of Cure Epilepsy. Hello, Beth, Welcome,
good to have you here.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
And so, Beth, I want to talk a little bit
about Cure epilepsy and what you guys do. Can you
tell me about it?

Speaker 3 (00:53):
Absolutely so. Cure Epilepsy is the largest non governmental funder
of epilepsy research in the United States. We were founded
in nineteen ninety eight by Susan Axelrod and a small
group of parents of children with epilepsy who were frustrated
by their inability to protect them from seizures and the
side effects that come with medications. They felt that living

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well with epilepsy wasn't good enough and that the epilepsy
research landscape needed to start focusing on developing cures. And
so that's really what we do. We raise money and
fund research to find cures for epilepsy.

Speaker 2 (01:27):
So, okay, let's talk a little bit about epilepsy, because
I think all of us have heard the term. But
tell me a little bit more about what it is
and how prevalent it is.

Speaker 3 (01:35):
So, epilepsy is a very common neurological disorder that's diagnosed
when a person has two or more unprovoked seizures that
are more than twenty four hours apart. Feizures are really
the results of abnormal activity in the brain where the
regular electrical signaling that occurs between neurons becomes disrupted. You know,
it presents differently and each person, you know, their seizures

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look different and happen to different and frequencies. I mean,
it varies in the severity About a third of the
people with epilepsy aren't able to get control of their
seizures using the existing medications available.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
Is it something that runs in families?

Speaker 3 (02:12):
There is a small percentage of the community people with
epilepsy who do have a genetic component that runs through families,
but most do not.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Why is there such a need for epilepsy research? What's
where are we with that right now?

Speaker 3 (02:26):
It's interesting epilepsy affects more people than multiple scrosis, muscular dystrophy,
Parkinson's and als combined, Yet despite how prevalent it is,
epilepsy receives less federal funding per person than all of
these other brain disorders combine, which means there's gaps in research.
About a third of the people with epilepsy don't have

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control of their seizures when they take their medications, and
about fifty percent don't even know the cause of their
epilepsy why it's occurring. The National Institute of Health or
the NIAS, they are the largest funder of the epilepsy
research in the world. Many of our grantees, the people
we give money to go and conduct studies, many of
them use the data they generate through our grants to

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go on and get larger government grants from the NIH
so they can continue to progress their research and ultimately
understand why eplepsy curves and get to cures. Given how
common it is and the many different types of epilepsy,
we really are just underfunded.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
What's interesting, as you mentioned the different types of epilepsy
and I think of it, what people maybe don't understand
is that this is a chronic neurologic disease. This is
something that people, I mean most of the people that
you come in contact with, they deal with this.

Speaker 3 (03:38):
For a lifetime exactly. It is a chronic disorder, and
it's a spectrum disorder. You know, there are people who
are profoundly impacted, who are cognitively impaired or have developmental
disabilities and aren't able to live independently. And at the
other end of the spectrum, there are people who seem neurotypical,
who take their medications. They you know, they don't have seizures,

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and they go to work, they live their lives and
you would never know they have epilepsy unless they tell you.
And so there are many different kinds of epilepsy. They
present in very different ways, and so we really are
looking for cures in the plural, it will be more
than a singular cure.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Okay, So tell me what's going on currently in the
epilepsy community.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, So this is a really exciting time for our community.
There's a lot of activity going on. Something I'm really
excited about is last month, the National Plan for Epilepsy
was reintroduced into Congress and this is legislation that would
create a coordinated federal strategy to improve research, care, and
services for people with epilepsy. And so I was out
in Capitol Hill to represent Cure Eplepsy and joined with

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some of the other advocacy organizations in our space talking
to congress people about the need to pass this bill.
In other news that's going on, on March fifteenth, our
organization will join the broader community and participate in the
National Epilepsy Walk, which will take place on the Mall
in Washington, d C. And it's another great opportunity for

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the community to get together and raise awareness of what
epilepsy is, how common it is, and how much we
need cures. In March, it's Purple Day, which this is
the color for epilepsy purple and Purple Day is a
grassroots international awareness day on March twenty six, where people
are encouraged to wear purple post events to increase awareness
and share how epilepsy has impacted their lives. We have

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a lot of champions who do fundraising events all year,
but there's one in particular that I just wanted to
call out. It's called Ella's Race. It's in Chicago. It's
a large, lovely gathering of the epilepsy community, and it'll
be celebrating its tenth anniversary this year. It takes place
on August twenty fourth in Lagrange, and you can find
information about that on our website.

Speaker 2 (05:50):
I mean, you don't have to be a runner to
get involved. There are things that right right, So what
can people do if they want to learn more or
get involved.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
I think, first and foremost, indicate yourself about epilepsy and
seizure first aid. As we talked about, so many people,
you know, don't know what epilepsy is, or they've never
seen someone have a seizure. It can be a scary thing.
But the more you know, the more empowered you are. Right,
I think the community can also help fighte stigma by
talking about epilepsy and sharing their knowledge. You can contact

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your congress person and let them know that you support
federal funding for medical research for epilepsy and other neurological disorders.
We really really rely on federal funding to help drive
research progress and get us secures. And then lastly, of course,
you can make a donation to our organization, Cure Epilepsy,
so that we can continue to fund these amazing scientists

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and the work that they're doing.

Speaker 2 (06:42):
So how do people find you? How do they say
they want to make a donation, or maybe maybe they're
newly diagnosed and they need more information. How do they
find you?

Speaker 3 (06:50):
Our website is Cure Epilepsy dot org. We have wonderful
resources on the web page. We have a section called
Understanding Epilepsy, so if someone is newly diagnosed or if
they want to learn more about the disorder, it's a
great place to start, and then it just kind of
progresses along the disease. It talks about treatments and devices

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and lots of really valuable information. So I would direct
people to Cure Epilepsy dot org.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Bestin the CEO of Cure Epilepsy, I want to thank
you for joining us today. Definitely some great information and
I really appreciate your time.

Speaker 3 (07:25):
Thank you so much. Robin. We appreciate you helping us
get the word out and raise awareness.

Speaker 4 (07:29):
This is Voices of Better Medicine as we talk to
the experts at Northwestern Medicine about health issues and health
questions that matter to you. I'm Mick Lee and today
we have Doctor poppianis endrocinologist at Northwestern Medicine. Doctor, thank
you for being here.

Speaker 5 (07:45):
Thank you Mik for shaving me today.

Speaker 4 (07:46):
I'd like to talk about thyroid conditions. About twenty million
people in the US have some type of thyroid condition.
Before we get into it, what is the role of
your thyroid?

Speaker 5 (07:55):
So, the thyroid is the internal clock of the human body.
It regulates how fast or how slow of the metabolic
processes work. So it regulates how fast or how slow
the human body works.

Speaker 4 (08:09):
And what are the two main types of thyroid disease?
Can you give us the symptoms of each as well.

Speaker 5 (08:14):
The most common thorough disease is hypothoriitism, or failure of
the tharoid glant to work properly. That can affect up
to five percent of the population. So usually because of
a variety of reasons, the thoroid does not work very
well and is not able to keep up with the
demands of the human body, and essentially everything is slows down.

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So people experience some fatigue, some cold intolerance, They notice swelling, wekein, constipation,
mass lakes, join intakes, dry skin, and hairless. So these
symptoms can be very tricky and can be confused for
a lot of other things or aging in general. So

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sometimes it's really hard to exactly be sure what is
a thoroid problem and what's something else. And this is
why it's important to actually get checked when you have
unexplained symptoms like that, because if it is thoroid disease,
it can be treated.

Speaker 4 (09:16):
Now.

Speaker 5 (09:16):
On the other hand, you can have hyper theoroidism, which
is the opposite, where your thoroy levels are too high.
This is less common and the symptoms would be the opposite.
You would be feeling too hot instead of too cold.
You would be losing weight, you would have diarrhea instead
of constipation, increased sweating, a little bit of tremors, a

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little bit of shaking, kind of the equivalent of what
you experience if you have way too much coffee. The
difference is that hyperthoroidism is a little bit faster progressing.
It will cause a lot more dramatic symptoms and a
lot faster, And it's also because of that it's more
important to treat it early. Again, it's the opposite of hypothordism.

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You maybe need to treat it for a short pie
of times. Sometimes it goes away by itself. Sometimes it
persists and you may have to stay on the medication
forever or do something else with it. It would be
what I would call the flip side of the same coin.
So it's the same disease process, but it can present
with two different presentations hypo or hyper and they're pretty different.

Speaker 4 (10:22):
And yeah, so there's a lot of different symptoms there
that could be anything. So if you're concerned, you see
a doctor. How is it diagnosed?

Speaker 5 (10:29):
So usually we start with a simple blood test, and
depending on the results of the blood test, we may
need more blood testing or even an ultrasound. Most of
the time, a simple blood test is enough to give
us the answer.

Speaker 4 (10:41):
This is Voices of Better Medicine. We're chatting with doctor
Poppianus or chronologist at Northwestern Medicine, and today's discussion is
thyroid conditions. Doctor, how do you treat either of these
thyroid diseases that we're discussing.

Speaker 5 (10:55):
So we have human tharoid hormone, so essentially we replace
the actual tharroid hormone that our body does not make anymore.
So this would be one or more pills a day.

Speaker 4 (11:08):
So is medication really the only option or can you
do things to focus on your health, like eating better
or exercising.

Speaker 5 (11:15):
So it depends. If it's something that's really early in
the process, some diet changes may be of help, but
if the thorod levels are low enough to actually require
a prescription, usually by that time, recovering thoroid function through
diet or exercise is not usually enough. So if something

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is early in the process, it can be helped without
needing to take medication. If the process is too far gone,
then we have to treat it with a medication.

Speaker 4 (11:45):
So, if you're ignoring symptoms, if you're not going to
the doctor to get diagnosed, what are the risk factors
for thyroid disease?

Speaker 5 (11:52):
Untreated hypothoridism can create a lot of problems for the
human body. It can decrease the ability of the human
body to fight stress if there is an infection, for example,
cause the cholesterol to be high, can goose the bones
to be more brittle. So in general, it's not a

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directly leave out disease. If you will it will not
kill you tomorrow, but it puts a lot of stress
on your body. So this is something that needs to
be treated.

Speaker 4 (12:23):
Such important information. If you're ever experiencing symptoms of that
of a thyroid condition, see a doctor as soon as
you can, and our friends at Northwestern Medicine are here
to help. Doctor Poppianus and or chronologists at Northwestern Medicine,
thank you for giving us all this information today, and
thank you for keeping Chicago Land healthy.

Speaker 5 (12:41):
Thank you.

Speaker 6 (12:42):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (12:42):
iHeartMedia Chicago. Paulina here and I am chatting today with
Linda Perillo from Parolo Tours.

Speaker 6 (12:49):
How worry today? I am doing fine, Felina, how are you?

Speaker 1 (12:52):
I am so good, I'm so excited I have you
on today. We're talking Parolo Tours Italy Travel Company, and
of course we're gonna tell chat with you all about
the the benefits of expert plan group and independent touring,
offering insider tips. Of course, I'm dining art and culture,
so first things first, you know, I've I mean, I've
known you for years, but I love that you're on today.

(13:15):
It's so full circle for me. I love this, This
is amazing. What is your role obviously within Parlo Tours
and you know, please like share with us to the
history behind Perilo Tours.

Speaker 7 (13:25):
Well, let's just say I'm an extra these days, right,
That's what you'd say on this said, I'm an extra.
So I'm going to be branching out pretty much to
you know, start my own brand.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
However, Mario Perillo.

Speaker 7 (13:39):
Was my dad, right, and I worked in the business
for many years and until I started to have children.

Speaker 8 (13:44):
And then I went home to be a mom, and
always dabbled, right, I always stayed focused, I always did
projects and for Perillo, and I always kept traveling.

Speaker 7 (13:56):
So now I'm starting to in our eightieth year, right,
Perillo Tours is actually.

Speaker 6 (14:03):
Eighty years old.

Speaker 7 (14:05):
My grandfather Joseph started with a small travel company in
the Bronx. We have a long history. That's another whole
other show, Paulina. But we're doing eighty years and it's
also the Jubilee year today this year too for we Catholics.
For us, we're doing the Jubilee Year at the Vatican
in Rome, and so there's a lot of exciting things

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going on that managed to match up with our eighty
year legacy. We have four generations, including my son Devin,
who have.

Speaker 6 (14:38):
Just kept it going and we're Italy, we're Hawaii, we're Spain,
we're doing Greece and that's where we're at.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
That is incredible. So I'm assuming the business started with
a focus with Italy and then expanded.

Speaker 7 (14:52):
Oh yeah, for sure. So nineteen forty five in the
Bronx small storefront forty five forty five Third Avenue it
was and my dad and actually my grandfather and two
of my dad's brothers were immigration attorneys.

Speaker 6 (15:08):
So what happened was once the immigration wave ended.

Speaker 7 (15:12):
My father's like, well, we got to earn a buck here,
what are we doing?

Speaker 6 (15:17):
So what he did was he reversed the immigration.

Speaker 7 (15:20):
And started sending those generations who were born here back
to Italy to visit the homeland. And eventually that became forist,
it became anybody, and.

Speaker 6 (15:32):
We just grew and grew and grew from there.

Speaker 1 (15:36):
Oh that's incredible. So what about any insider tips right
for experiencing the real Italy? In twenty twenty five of
this year, you did mention Jubilee year, which is incredible
as well. What are some tips you can share with
us for twenty twenty five.

Speaker 7 (15:48):
Well, I have to tell you, I mean, going to
Italy this year is an amazing thing.

Speaker 6 (15:53):
You know, always be a little vigilant.

Speaker 7 (15:56):
When it comes to traveling during the high season, which
is anywhere really from I would say May actually through September,
right till the kids go back to school, and just
you know, when you go there, you have to remember
you're dealing with a lot of tours. Europe has had

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a really last year was unbelievable and it was unbelievable
for Italy too.

Speaker 6 (16:21):
There was a lot of volume. And go be comfortable.

Speaker 7 (16:27):
I always say, remember, you know, Mario used to say
there were the ten commandments of traveling, right, and one
of them was thou hast left thy homeland to go
to another land. And you know, so many people will
say to me, Paulina, well I want to rent you know,
a farmhouse in Tuscany, And I'll say to them, okay,

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tell me about it, because I wouldn't want to rent
a farmhouse in Tuscany because there's nothing to do. So right,
you can stay out there and you can eat, and
you can walk around and get a car and but
my point being always be educated about where you're going, right,
be educated about where you want to visit. We have
so many tours that there are so many beautiful regions,

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we offer so many things.

Speaker 6 (17:14):
And the beauty of Italy is that no matter where
you go from.

Speaker 7 (17:18):
North to south to Sicily, everything is different.

Speaker 6 (17:23):
Right.

Speaker 7 (17:24):
So people have a preconceived notion in their mind about
what one thing's going to look like. Or somebody said
to me once, I don't want to go to Rome,
and why don't you want to go to Rome? I
mean that's like the cradle of civilization, that's where everything started.
Every tour should go to Rome, according to Rillo, Right, So,
and that's it. And listen, people have different ways, right

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Poulina of planning. These days, a lot of people go online.
Some people may still want to travel with a group,
and we still we do. That's what we're known for, right,
We are known for group travel to Italy, very organized,
spoon fed, handheld with me without meals.

Speaker 6 (18:01):
We've got a whole gamut.

Speaker 7 (18:02):
Of stuff going on, which I think if you're going
to Italy for the first time, that's what you want
to imbibe in, right. If you want to go back
and you want to see other things.

Speaker 6 (18:14):
We also have a company.

Speaker 7 (18:15):
Called IVAC, which is Italy Vacations, and that is a
what we call an FT, which would be individual vacation
plans where we can plan everything for you from soup
to nuts and you don't go on a tour. But
and that's good if you have like a group of
people that are traveling and you want to see certain things,
or you want to go and spend time maybe in

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another country in Europe, right you want to bounce around
a little bit and hop say from Italy to France
or you know, something like that, then it's good. But
I always say, if you're gonna visit one country in Europe,
you gotta go to Italy. That's my heart and soul,
the people, food, everything is just you won't want to

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go anywhere else.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, that's where I'm actually going on my I call
my late honeymoon. So I got married to Vegas what
like two years ago almost oh.

Speaker 6 (19:04):
Goody, Yeah, we had a baby.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
It was all quick. So basically we're trying to plan
our Italy honeymoon. And yeah we'll be calling Parlo tours
because I'll do it. Yes, I mean I'm serious, Like
to me like that is somewhere that I know that
we need to go. I know our listeners need to
head there as well. Can you give us really quick
as well, kind of like the advantages of traveling on

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a group tour. Tell us about that.

Speaker 6 (19:29):
There's a lot of advantages.

Speaker 7 (19:30):
And I and I always say this too for first timers,
it's a great, great thing because again, your hand, your
hand is held the whole time.

Speaker 6 (19:41):
You know, you have when I'm in protection.

Speaker 7 (19:43):
I mean, it's like you have the protection of an
escort for the full time, right the time you land
to the time you go to the airport to depart
home to your city.

Speaker 6 (19:54):
You know where's there. Get on the bus at seven,
Get off the bus. We're stopping at this stop.

Speaker 7 (20:00):
We're stopping in Podovo, We're stopping in Orvieto, we're stopping here.
You know in ten minutes, you've got twenty minutes to
go use the bathroom, go have lunch. Some people like that,
and I recommend that highly unless.

Speaker 6 (20:14):
You've been one or two times before.

Speaker 7 (20:17):
So the advantages are you don't have to think, right,
your luggage is taking care of, you have your transportation
taking care of, and in a lot of instances, you
have your.

Speaker 6 (20:27):
Meals taking care of too, which are great. So it's
an o thing.

Speaker 1 (20:31):
I think I one hundred percent agree. I think it
makes the experience extremely authentic. Because you're working with Parlo Tours,
for example, you know you're gonna go see the good spots,
probably the places that you never even heard of or
thought of too. I'd never been to Italy, so for me,
I mean, yeah, I can go to Google, YouTube, whatever.
It's just not the same in.

Speaker 6 (20:50):
My opinion, right, it's not.

Speaker 7 (20:53):
And I agree with you, And you brought up a
really good point here, places that you would never think
of going to, right.

Speaker 6 (20:59):
So if you follow one of our itineraries online.

Speaker 7 (21:02):
You'll see, especially like a northern itinerary, where we start
in the north and end in the you know, a
little further south, the little cities that are in between
that either you may not have thought of stopping in,
even if for a couple of hours in transit. Right,
those are the things that the average person probably wouldn't
think of doing. So that's a good point. And the

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other point is if you go into a museum like
the Academia which has the David lives in the Academia
in which is the Academy in Florence. You know, you
have to buy tickets ahead of time. Also too, getting
into the Vatican. We have special entrance to get into
the Vatican. Otherwise you're waiting outside, You're waiting outside in

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the circle, You're waiting outside in Saint Peter's Square, rain shine,
whatever's going on. But when you're on a tour that's
organized relow tour, of course we get you in and
out of those spots and you know seem.

Speaker 1 (22:01):
Oh, absolutely well, awesome. We appreciate you being here at
Linda Parillo Parillo Tours. Where can we go for more
information on tours? And of course where can we follow you?
You have a book that'll be coming out as well.
Where can we get all this information I do?

Speaker 6 (22:14):
And the book is not going to be travel related.

Speaker 7 (22:17):
It's going to be called your payment method has been
Declined and other things you didn't know about me, which
is pretty much a memoir, so.

Speaker 6 (22:25):
You could like it or not like it.

Speaker 7 (22:27):
I'm not sure where it's gonna go yet fallin out,
but that's going to be coming out on Amazon probably,
I'm hoping within the within the next month. My live
blog right now is the real Hipmom dot com. That's
also going to be changing, and I'm going to be
throwing up a new website called Theotherwoman dot Shop and

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we'll talk about that at another date.

Speaker 1 (22:51):
Oh yes we will. I love it, Linda. And for
all tour related items as well as that, parlotours dot.

Speaker 7 (22:59):
Com, hellotours dot com. Absolutely, yep. Look for my son Devin.
Look for him on the website because he's the next guy.

Speaker 6 (23:06):
It's going to hit you hard.

Speaker 7 (23:07):
He's an amazing kid and he's working on all different
kinds of stuff for us.

Speaker 1 (23:12):
Oh, he's the best. We love you awesome. Thank you
so much for being here with us today. We appreciate it.

Speaker 6 (23:18):
You are welcome, sweetheart. Thank you for having me, Paulina.

Speaker 4 (23:20):
Welcome to Voices of Better Medicine, where we chat with
experts at Northwestern Medicine about health issues and questions that
matter to you our audience. I'm Mike Lead. Today we
have doctor Popianis androcinologist at Northwestern Medicine joining us. Doctor,
thank you so much for being here.

Speaker 5 (23:37):
Thank you for having me. Mick. I'm very glad to
join and answer any questions that you may have today.

Speaker 4 (23:45):
I wanted to discuss diabetes, which affects more than thirty
eight million people in the US. Help us understand what
is diabetes and what happens to your body when you're
diagnosed with it.

Speaker 5 (23:56):
As the years go by and in our current society,
people accumulate a little bit of extra weight, eat a
little bit more processed or worse food, the body develops
what we call insulin resistance. Means that insulin does not
work as well as it needs to, and the body
needs to make more and more insulin to help control

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the input of calories. And when that happens over the years,
insulin eventually runs out and then your glucose starts going up.
And this is what we call diabetes. So diabetes, if
you will, is the end product of years of undiagnosed
insulin resistance.

Speaker 4 (24:37):
But what's the difference between type one and type two diabetes?

Speaker 5 (24:41):
So type two diabetes is the most common form of
diabetes that we encounter today. This is the process that
I previously mentioned. So with years and years of insulin resistance,
the insulin production of the human body eventually is not
able to keep up. That's when you're lookus starts going
up and that's when you develop type two diabetes. Type

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one diabetes is less common nowadays. It used to be
more common, like one hundred or two hundred years ago.
This is when you're insulin producing cells in your pancreas
all of a sudden, very suddenly stopped making insulin. So
this is not years and years of insulin resistance. This
is a sudden onset of insulin loss that can happen

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from usually all iimmune factors. This has traditionally been observed
in kids, but lately we've been more careful with detecting
it in adults as well. So some of that can
be genetic, but most of that can be entirely random,
can be precipitated by a viral infection, or some expose
your early childhood, so this is not something that's usually

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under our control.

Speaker 4 (25:54):
We're chatting with doctor Poppianus, endochronologist at Northwestern Medicine. This
is Voices of Better Medicine. So doctor, what symptoms indicate
it may be time to see a doctor.

Speaker 5 (26:06):
So usually by the time you have developed diabetes, some
of the symptoms includes increased thirst, increased urination, some unexplained
weakness or weight loss, and bloody vision, numbness and tingling
off the fingers or the choes. Now, these usually are
the symptoms kind of at the end of the spectrum.

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So it's important to remember that in the early stages,
pre diabetes and diabetes have no symptoms. That means that
the damage might have been ongoing for years before we
actually feel sick, and that's why it's important to follow
up with our primary care doctor undergo through our annual
physicals to detect this process early in the beginning, when

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it can be treated easier or even reversed.

Speaker 4 (26:55):
So, yeah, pre diabetes is reversible. What lifestyle changes can
potentially do you prevent or delay type two diabetes.

Speaker 5 (27:02):
So it's a combination usually of diet and exercise. So
when it comes to diet, we want to avoid ultra
processed foods, we want to avoid simple carbohydrates. We want
to have a more balanced diet that incorporates vegetable fads,
that incorporates proteins a lot of fiber. Exercise is also

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very important because it helps insulin work better. The end
point I would say is that we want to achieve
weight loss through a combination of a proper healthy diet
and exercise.

Speaker 4 (27:36):
And how often do you recommend getting tested for diabetes.

Speaker 5 (27:39):
Diabetes Association has guidelines regarding that, so usually we recommend
at least every three years in people who are adults
without any previous history of diabetes, either personal or in
the family, people with the families of diabetes, people who
are overweight, people with other metabolic diseases may want to

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do every year.

Speaker 4 (28:01):
At least such important information. Doctor popianis androcinologist at Northwestern Medicine,
thank you so much for joining us today on voices
of Better Medicine. We appreciate all the details you gave
us on diabetes and thank you for helping keep Chicago healthy.

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