Lifespan Gender Gap w/ Edward Bartlett | Govt. Releasing Radioactive Ticks w/ Dr. Malone

Welcome to American Medicine Today. I'm Kimberly Binotti alongside Ben Jacobson. We have an exciting show lined up. Let's get started. Men on average die years earlier than women worldwide. Now, this is known as the lifespan gender gap. But what are the reasons? Well, here to discuss is Edward Bartlett, president of the Domestic Abuse and Violence International Alliance, known as DAVIA. Welcome to the show, Edward. Great to see you, Kimberly. If you can explain why men have shorter life expectancies across nearly every country. Well, it turns out, Kimberly, that's not quite true. So let's start with Nigeria. And Nigeria is called the lifespan gender gap. The lifespan gender gap is actually less than one year. It's 0.6 years in Nigeria. Okay. Now let's hop on a plane and go to Russia. In Russia, it's a 12-year lifespan gender gap. So I think the broader point we're making here is this is not biology. There's something else at work or several factors at work, which explains this nearly 12-year difference between Nigeria and Russia. Does that have anything to do with the overall life expectancy between those two places? Exactly. Yes, because I don't know the exact numbers in those two countries, but it's often helpful to compare male life expectancy and female because that kind of controls for, you know, a number of other factors at the same time. In the United States, I believe it's 76 years for men and 81 years for females. But don't quote me too vigorously on that. Why do you think that is? Is that because women tend to seek out medical treatment if they're not feeling well and they really have to push their husbands, but they're like, ah, we'll just soldier through whatever pains they're having? Yeah, that's a more important and I'll admit more difficult question than the question about the lifespan gender gap. So we know that in general, both men and women, that lifestyle accounts for about 50% of a person's health status. In the United States, there's been a dramatic decrease in, for example, smoking rates. It's gone down radically in the last 40 to 50 years, but it's not just that. For example, let's look at occupational injuries. We know that 92% of all occupational deaths occur to men. So that's really not a lifestyle factor. It's because they're engaged in employment situations like logging or plumbing or construction that places them at much greater risk of death. We're going to take a quick break. We'll be right back with Edward Bartlett after this. You are watching American Medicine Today. Revolutionary in his field, Dr. Bonatti created, perfected, and patented the Bonatti Spine Procedures. Using his genius, Bonatti invented the precise tools necessary to minimize surgery scarring, anesthesia, and recovery. So successful are the Bonatti Spine Procedures, they consistently reflect 98.75% patient satisfaction. 80,000 procedures have been performed exclusively at our location. Nearly half our patients have suffered from failed back and neck surgeries at other facilities. Bonatti succeeds where others fail. Welcome back to American Medicine Today. We're continuing our discussion with Edward Bartlett. Way back in the caveman days, I guess, is it built into our biology to think that the men would be out the hunters and more gatherers back then. They would be out susceptible to the gathering, maybe get taken out by that saber tooth where the female in cave was genetically engineered to stick around longer to raise the young. It's like they have a purpose beyond the male's purpose is finished after he does what he does, whereas the female is supposed to stick around. Is that part of it? Well, I agree with the basic premise of your question that there are innate differences between men and women. Are men more likely or more willing to do risky activities? Well, I'll tell you, this is not a scientific answer, it's my intuitive answer, which is yes, I think that men are willing to do more risky things. So yeah, that's part of the equation. But that said, that doesn't mean that we shouldn't have programs to educate men about those risks. And let me give you an example. And this is actually an example from Ireland, which has the lifespan gender gap there is about six years. The Irish government developed a program specifically directed at men, especially high-risk men. And they realized that Irish farmers were at high risk of premature death. So this is kind of a no-brainer thing, but they mounted a program to reach out to Irish farmers and encourage them to see their GP, a general practitioner, more often. Guess what? It worked. It did reduce the actual lifespan gender gap. Are you saying that we have more control over this than we're giving ourselves? I think you're actually making an excellent point, that indeed, we do have greater control over this. Let me give you another example. In this country, they mounted a suicide prevention program. And this was very recently. And what they did was fairly simply, instead of having one of these long 800 numbers, they changed it to 988. And they had people who were answering those calls who were more skilled in how to help a person in distress. And guess what? The suicide rate of men fell appreciably in just about a five-year period. It's no secret that men commit suicide greater than women do. Are those numbers, in effect, part of this gender gap? Very much so. Men have a three to four times higher risk of suicide. And it goes all the way back to teenage boys. Teenage boys are committing suicide at a higher rate than teenage girls. And I'll tell you a personal story. I live in the state of Maryland, and I was doing some lobbying in Annapolis for a men's health bill. Two or three staffers volunteered to me. They said, oh, yeah, in my district, we've had a problem with teenage boys committing suicide. So we're really concerned about this. I think it's just giving them the tools that they need and showing that you care. Which brings me to my next question. Can you delve into and tell us more about what DAVIA is and where people can learn more? Absolutely. So DAVIA stands for the Domestic Abuse and Violence International Alliance, DAVIA for short. DAVIA is an international group, as suggested by its name. And DAVIA is dealing with one of these very nasty stereotypes, and it's related to domestic violence. You've probably heard the stereotype that, oh, domestic violence is only about abusive men beating up their wives. Ain't true. It turns out, according to the US Centers for Disease Control, this is a 50-50 problem. Men are just as likely to be victims of domestic violence as women. But there's been a, let's call it a narrative established in our country and other countries, that wants to sort of place all the blame on the shoulders of men, even though it's not true and it's not fair. We appreciate you delving into the situation. We need to keep the health of men a priority as well as women. Edward Bartlett, President of the Domestic Abuse and Violence International Alliance, known as DAVIA, thank you for being on the show. It's been my pleasure. Thank you. Well, that's all the time we have for this segment. Make sure you stay tuned. We have more after the break. You are watching American Medicine Today. I lived on a small island in the middle of Lake Michigan. A woodcutting incident, an extreme pain. I couldn't get out of bed for probably three days. Picking my arm up over my head would cause sharp pain, a dramatic loss in different areas of muscle mass. The pain in my back was so bad that when I got referred to the Benanti Institute, it was seamless. 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Well, there's Cuba and then there's also domestic with the radioactive Lone Star tick. The Cuban release was not radioactive, they were infected ticks. And this goes back to Cold War days in the time of Kennedy, early 60s. There's credible reports of people flying in C-130s at treetop level to avoid the radar, and then deploying infected ticks into Cuban sugarcane fields. And so this was a CIA program, apparently, per the various reports that sought to use arthropods ticks as a way to incapacitate Cuban sugarcane harvesters. And it was really, I think what matters there is that it's an illustration of a culture that felt at the time that it was acceptable to deploy insect vectors into areas of conflict as a strategy of war, as a way to surreptitiously undermine other regimes and to cause harm to our opponents. These specific ticks, they were also released in Virginia as well, is that correct? These are different ticks, and that is a separate disclosure. I think much of these documentation can be found at the CIA reading room, something that your listeners may, that are interested in trying to follow these leads, I recommend to them seeking out the CIA reading room. You'll find all kinds of things that you probably didn't want to know. Disclosures that have been declassified was that in more of the later 60s, as I recall, there was an experiment having to do with how ticks spread geographically, in which ticks were, these are lone star ticks, were radio labeled. So this is, they were tagged with radio isotopes, so they could be easily tracked with a Geiger counter, and then released into Virginia, like the area around where I live here. And then the Geiger counter was used to track them, because normally ticks aren't radioactive. And so this documented that these radioactive ticks, about 300,000 were released, were shown to spread north and north of the Mason-Dixon line, where lone star ticks were not previously found. Speaking of spreading things with intention and kind of seeing how it goes, so we live in Florida, and do you remember years ago, there was this Zika scare with mosquitoes, and we traveled to the University of Southern Florida, and went to the Zika lab, where they were engineering mosquitoes to then release into the population that would then alter the current mosquitoes out there. I mean, is something like that, is something like manipulating the fruit flies in California, are these really what they say they are to the public, or are these really just tests to see what these bugs will do, and what kind of, you know, if not pathogens, what kind of bacteria they can spread or not, or what is this? Well, so what you're touching on, the polite term is dual function research. And of course, that's what was done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology, and these Ukrainian bio labs, and many other sites, including apparently the Rocky Mountain labs. Now you're talking about the mosquitoes, and there have also been investigations or research into engineered ticks for this same basic purpose. And there's two general categories of strategies that are used. One is called gene drive, which is a genetic manipulation that is designed to spread throughout a species and destroy its ability to reproduce. But I think we have to be careful to draw a line of what they have done, what's been documented versus what many people, some people let's say, hypothesize they might be doing. And I can't prove what they might be doing. I can only talk about what we know they have done. Okay. So when you're talking about what they have done, you see online and you can attest whether you've heard about it, or if it's just another theory out there. But there was something to do with meat and causing a sensitivity to ticks. Alpha-gal syndrome is what you're referring to. And there have been a variety of, let's call them individuals or influencers, or we can stretch the definition of scientists or bioethicists. For instance, there's a notorious paper from two very woke bioethicists at a major university that assert that promotion of alpha-gal syndrome to cause the general population to eat less meat would be in society's best interest because, of course, climate change. So to look a little deeper into that and to the thesis that ticks are causing alpha-gal syndrome, that kind of doesn't hold water either. Ticks have been around for a long time. Alpha-gal syndrome has only been recognized the last few years. Alpha-gal syndrome has to do with apparently people getting exposed, or this is another correlation versus causation. People reporting alpha-gal syndrome symptoms, which overlaps with many other chronic inflammatory diseases, that are causing them to experience a hypersensitivity allergic reaction to meat. So that's the symptom. They break out in hives a few hours after they have a steak. Your response to the press has been this oversimplified narrative that ticks are causing this. Tell us about your book, Homesteading for Health. Thank you very much. So Homesteading for Health ships from Amazon in the first week of August. The primary author was my wife, Dr. Jill Glaspel Malone. I'm the secondary author on that. Our readership really loves her essays about homesteading. And so the first third is autobiographical. The middle part is a lot of lessons learned, really practical things about animal husbandry, different types of animals. And then the last third has to do a lot with public policy. How did we get here? How did we end up at this place where our food supply is so twisted and contaminated by, let's say, commercial interests and be blunt about it? And it goes back to a series of public policy decisions that have been made in D.C. that drive current farm policy subsidies and everything else. Well, thank you so much for sharing your time and insight with us, Dr. Robert Malone, co-author of Homesteading for Health. Thank you for being on the show yet again. Thank you. Always my pleasure. Take care. Well, that's all the time we have for this episode. If you would like to see previous shows of American Medicine Today, add American Medicine Today to your favorite streaming device. If you have any comments or questions, contact us at the numbers below. Or you can tweet at Dr. Benati using the hashtag American Medicine Today or hashtag AMT. We would like to hear from you.