Brian, Katie, and I sit down with Vince Fuoco, a pharmacist from the greater Seattle area. We discuss a wide range of medication-related issues, including Coronavirus, dieting and nutrition, the placebo effect, the opioid crisis, and mental health. We also delve into a few less-scientific topics, drink fantastic beer from Geaux Brewing in Auburn, and much more!

Recorded March 7th, 2020 at the TPDM studio in Wenatchee, Washington.

Check out Vince Fuoco's podcast: Pick A Topic https://anchor.fm/vincent-fuoco/

Geaux Brewing -- Auburn, WA http://www.geauxbrewing.com/

 

EPISODE NOTES:

Peramivir — an antiviral injection for treating influenza https://www.fda.gov/drugs/information-drug-class/rapivab-peramivir-information

The Game Changers (documentary) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Game_Changers

The Complete Guide to Fasting: Heal Your Body Through Intermittent, Alternate-Day, and Extended Fasting (book by Jason Fung and Jimmy Moore) https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-Alternate-Day/dp/1628600012 https://www.dietdoctor.com/intermittent-fasting/guides

Angus Barbieri's record-breaking fast https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Barbieri%27s_fast

The Placebo Effect https://www.webmd.com/pain-management/what-is-the-placebo-effect

Eddy Merckx — Belgian cycling legend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Merckx

Magic Bullet Effect (medicine) http://broughttolife.sciencemuseum.org.uk/broughttolife/techniques/magicbullet

Cure for Hepatitis C https://www.mayoclinic.org/medical-professionals/digestive-diseases/news/most-patients-with-hcv-cured-with-new-drugs-but-at-what-price/mac-20430491

Avandia (rosiglitizone) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosiglitazone https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/avandia-restricted-in-u-s-banned-in-europe/

Heroin marketed for children in the early 1900's https://www.narconon.org/drug-information/heroin-history-1900s.html

The Pharmacist (documentary) https://www.netflix.com/title/81002576

Cigarette advertisements featuring physicians https://www.healio.com/hematology-oncology/news/print/hemonc-today/%7B241d62a7-fe6e-4c5b-9fed-a33cc6e4bd7c%7D/cigarettes-were-once-physician-tested-approved

Washington State prescriptive authority for Narcan https://www.wsparx.org/page/NaloxoneOpioid https://stopoverdose.org/naloxone-law-in-washington/

Supervised consumption services in Switzerland JRE #1250 — Johann Hari https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDpjvFn4wgM&t=1722s

Medical Heroin program in Norway https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/10/norway-trials-free-heroin-prescriptions-for-most-serious-addicts

Ibogaine Therapy for drug addiction https://maps.org/research/ibogaine-therapy

Ibogaine for treatment of alcoholism — clinical trial in Brazil https://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03380728

Jay Greenberg — prolific composer and cello prodigy twice featured on 60 minutes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Greenberg_(composer)

Daniel Tammet — British man who memorized over 22,000 digits of Pi (π) https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2005/04/man-who-memorized-pi

Medical Cannabinoids for Cancer Cachexia https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6360413/

Marinol — brand name for dronabinol, a specific type of THC used for chemotherapy-induced nausea/vomitting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dronabinol https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a607054.html

Notes from Brian: Lisinopril is not a duretic. It's an angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor. Furosemide is an example of a duretic which would have a fluid-reducing effect. The New England Patriots started four different quarterbacks in 1992. Hugh Millen, who played for the University of Washington in 1985, led the '92 Patriots in passing yards. Drew Bledsoe played high school football for the Walla Walla Blue Devils, not the Prosser Mustangs.

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