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today I'm going to talk about the five
signs that your body is trying to warn
you about something that may be
seriously wrong and that you need to do
something before it's too late and these
five signs are blood in your stool blood
in your sputum blood in your urine blood
from the vaginal canal and blood on your
skin let's dive in first blood in your
stool now the reason this is a warning
sign is that it's a signal that you
might have cancer colon cancer recto
cancer or anal cancer for example but
the blood could also be coming from
hemorrhoids or even an anal fissure so
you need to heed this warning sign and
figure it all out to make sure that you
don't have something serious that needs
to be pounced on right away so here are
the kind of the steps that you need to
take if you wind up finding um after
you're in the toilet you have some blood
in the toilet paper or you look in the
water and there's bright red blood in
the water you let your doctor know your
doctor is probably going to
order a
colonoscopy in addition to some blood
tests they're going to want to see you
they're going to want to ask you a bunch
of questions if you're lost weight how's
your appetite been you know do you have
any pain in your uh belly uh do you have
any family history of bowel cancer colon
cancer or otherwise but the key is
really the fact that you've actually
seen something uh abnormal that warning
sign blood in from your stool now blood
in your stool really requires a
colonoscopy and as you know um after you
get to 50 uh you should really start
doing a colon oopy in order to be able
to check for colon pops so let me kind
of explain to you from head to tail our
gastrointestinal system is about 40 ft
long starts in the mouth ends uh at the
rectum all right or anus and so um from
uh snout to tail beginning to end we've
got this long tube starts in your mouth
goes all the way to the very end and the
at the very end the colon that's the
sort of the last part of your uh
intestines your large intestines um it
actually can develop cancer um and that
cancer could uh come out of Pops um that
form inside now pops are sort of like um
what's the right word SE enemies uh you
know on a coral reef you see those
waving around those pops can Sprout up
they kind of look like mushrooms
honestly inoi mushrooms inside your
colon and those are abnormal growths you
know how you might have a skin tag a
little thing that grows up there when
that happens to grow on your colon that
could be a precancer and if you don't
take care of that um by removing it It
could wind up sitting there and
eventually become a cancer so
colonoscopy is something that's
routinely uh advised uh once you hit the
age of 50 and of course they're changing
the guidelines in this all the time but
around midlife is when you start should
be having even without any problems a
regular checkup to see if you have any
of those PPS any of those mushrooms
growing the sea anatomies and if you do
they'll actually put a little lasso
around it and remove it and send it to
the lab to make sure it's not cancer all
right now it's a different story if you
actually have blood in your stool blood
in a toilet water blood in a toilet
paper um you know obviously the minor
stuff is like an anal fissure which is
basically you have hard stool you really
strain you might rip some skin it's like
you know giving birth to your turd um
that can also cause some bleeding uh a
hemorrhoid is really uh also putting a
lot of pressure and having the the veins
that are just inside your rectum pop out
and you know kind of hang out a little
bit and they're pretty fragile they wind
up actually having hard stools rubbing
against them and they could also bleed
as well that's not the stuff you're
worried about that's the stuff that's
actually okay uncomfortable okay still
needs to be dealt with but the colon
oopy when you've got blood in the stools
that really go into the through the anus
up into the rectum and then go right
into the colon and look for trouble all
right how do you what kind of trouble
you looking for you're going to go up
there and the uh you got to be able to
look through uh a camera and there's a
screen uh and the colon should be clean
now the way the Colon's clean is that
before you get a colonoscopy the night
before they give you this big jug of
stuff to drink what this jug of of fluid
is is it really kind of stimulates your
bowel you have diarrhea essentially but
you you poop out everything you have all
right and they tell you not to eat
before then chase out everything the
next day you've got a pristine uh colon
with nothing in it now when you actually
put the the colonoscope and they give
you sort of some sedation so you don't
feel uncomfortable uh you won't remember
it uh and they're looking around in
there and they're checking out the walls
of the bow all right of your your colon
they go up your descending colon take a
left turn go into transverse colon then
take a turn downwards down to the
ascending uh colon in order to be able
to actually see if they find anything
that might be bleeding now there's lots
of again the reason that this is a
warning sign is that cancer is the one
that you want to catch right away you
could have um ulcer of colitis you could
have Crohn's disease you could um have
any number of type of irritable bowel
and some inflammation uh in in that area
so you can only Figure It Off by
checking it out and by actually looking
and then by looking if the
gastroenterologist who would be the
medical specialist doing this sees
anything suspicious they will
immediately take a picture of it okay uh
then they'll snag a piece of it uh and
it goes out to the lab in order to be
able to for pathology so they can
actually see if if it is disease and if
so what type of condition it actually is
that would actually be something that
you would want to do if you see bright
red blood tell your doctor they'll do
some blood tests so ask all kinds of
questions and ultimately almost
certainly you're going to wind up
getting uh colonoscopy all right and by
the way if that colonoscopy shows that
you don't have cancer you can breathe
the side of relief and know that until
the next time you're supposed to get one
um uh you're actually clear all right so
there's so there's an upside to actually
getting this checked out no one should
be afraid to actually get a colonoscopy
if you actually have bleeding that could
be a life-saving step see a cancer you
know then you can jump on a pounce on it
right away the earlier you catch colon
cancer for example the more likely you
can actually get a cure that's the
bottom line all right early detection
sets up for the Cure you're going to
hear me say this again on this video now
blood in the stool can be bright red uh
and I'm going to tell you why that
happens but blood the stool can also be
black black and tar all right and so
you're like well how come blood be black
blood is blood is bright red right well
uh if it's actually bleeding from the
colon which is near the tail end of your
body um it will be bright red but if the
blood is actually coming from way up
like your stomach what happens is that
the hemoglobin which is in your red
blood cells that's your blood can
oxidize once there's bleeding in your
gut you got a long way to go at 40 ft
as that blood blood cells are trickling
down there after they've been leaking
out they will oxidize and oxidation
turns bright red blood into black blood
and it also changes the texture of the
blood as well from runny to really tardy
and sticky all right so oxidation will
turn bright red blood to black tari
stool and that's often a sign that the
bleeding is coming from way up on your
GI tract like your stomach all right
which is up here compared to your colon
which is way down there where the blood
doesn't have time to oxidize so it
remains bright red now upper GI bleeding
is also a warning sign so whether you
see bright red blood in your stool or
you see black tar stools your stool if
it's if it's black maybe there's
bleeding in your stomach uh and and it
could be an ulcer could also be stomach
cancer got to check it out right so
you're going to tell your doctor they're
going to ask you the questions they're
going to do the blood test and then
instead of doing a so uh colonoscopy
they will choose to do an endoscopy from
upstairs from as opposed to downstairs
the colonoscopies from downstairs
endoscopies from upstairs now I know
there are other people that are
gastroenterologists I'm an internal
medicine doctor train in Internal
Medicine so I'm explaining to you sort
of the big broad brush Strokes without
going into the nitty-gritty of the
procedure itself all right now the
workup for the black tar stools the
doctor will draw your blood toce your
anemic meaning that you're losing blood
so your blood count goes down the
hemoglobin and or hematocrite number
goes down and that's a sign of leak
right so think about it you got a leak
in your tire what are you going to see I
mean on these computerized cars now you
get a little Bing and you got a warning
sign it shows that your tire pressure is
going down that's what we do with your
blood test as well we kind of see if
your blood cell levels are going down
because there might be a leak all right
okay now upper GI bleeding is important
because you want to actually take a look
at it to see what's causing it if it's
an ulcer uh you can actually do
something to start fixing it there and
you can actually treat it so the
gastroenterologist will also give you
some sedation and take a scope with a
camera on it and go through your mouth
down into your stomach and look around
look to the left look to the right and
check out see if they can see any sight
of
bleeding now just like your colonoscopy
when you're doing the upper endoscopy
the doctor a gastroenterologist is also
going to be looking for signs of cancer
you know those of us who are trained uh
to do this sort of comprehensive look we
talk about Wellness right everybody
talks about Fitness and Wellness listen
if you come to the attention of your
doctor and here we are on this video
talking about warning signs you're going
to encounter your doctor you're I'm
telling you I'm sharing with you what
the doctor is actually going to be
thinking and looking for looking for
problems in your stomach what are you
looking for in terms of a tumor in your
stomach well look tumors can bleed and I
told you that that they can bleed in the
colon they can bleed in the stomach I
want to give you a little kind of
overview um you may not know this but
tumors are forming in our body all the
time we are made of 40 trillion cells
they're dividing meaning they're
multiplying and replicating themselves
copy pasting themselves all the time and
if they make a mistake uh there's in in
dividing copy copying their DNA that's
going to be a mutation and if there's a
mutation that's the beginning of cancer
but we actually form we actually make
mistakes in our DNA in copying and
pasting ourselves every day in fact it's
been studied on average our DNA our body
makes 10,000 mistakes every single day
is some error you know in terms of
duplicating the DNA and whether it's in
your stomach or whether it's in your
colon if you keep on making those
mistakes you're going to wind up having
a microscopic tumor could be a
microscopic cancer if it's a mutation
now we're forming these all the time
like pimples on our back can't see it
it's invisible not going to be a problem
most likely all right and Cancers are
harmless at that microscopic level they
call them dormant because they don't
have a blood supply they can't grow a
tumor is just like anything else uh
that's living it needs to have oxygen
and it needs to have nutrition in order
to be able to expand that makes sense
right so if you think about the smallest
possible tumor I can tell you what the
size is it's about 2 to 3 mm in diameter
that's about the size of the tip of a
ballpoint pen really tiny okay tip of a
pencil or tip of a pen can't get any
bigger until it has its own blood supply
so when these things are forming they
don't have a blood supply they're just
growing enlarging like a pimple all
right and they'll sit there okay your
body's really good at cutting off the
blood supply preventing blood vessels
from growing into these abnormal tumors
and it's anti-angiogenesis our body is
really good at protecting our health by
preventing tumors from getting a blood
supply and it just sits there this tiny
little microscopic tumor until your
immune system Wings by like cops on a
beat a policeman in a patrol car in a in
a quiet neighborhood driving by sees a
microscopic cancer like a drug dealer
sitting in a corner hey I see you all
right and basically destroys the the
tumor throws the bad guy in a Patty
wagon and drives away that's happening
in our body all the time all right how
does it a tiny microscopic tumor become
a deadly large tumor well this was
actually worked out years ago uh by my
mentor Dr Judah fulman working at
Children's Hospital in Boston where they
were actually looking at small
microscopic cancers that didn't have a
blood supply and watching how tumors are
eventually able to some tumors are
eventually able to thwart the body's
Health defenses and figure out how to
recruit a private blood supply hijack
our circulation to be able to grow blood
vessels selfishly in order to feed them
themselves in fact research has shown
that if you actually prevent a tumor
from getting a blood supply and you can
do this in a lab in an experiment little
microscopic tumor uh can't grow it in a
clear part of the body like in the uh
eye float it no blood vessels there all
right so the tumor won't get a blood
vessel a blood supply it'll just stay
there floating okay until the immune
system comes and gets rid of it now the
moment you actually allow blood vessels
to touch that tumor and this has been
done in the lab and published that the
feeding of oxygen and nutrients can
allow that microscopic tumor to grow
16,000 times in size in just two weeks
so androgenesis tumor androgenesis
abnormal harmful tumor
androgenesis hijacking the blood supply
of the body can actually lead to
explosive growth microscopic cancer to
full-blown cancer growing and the same
blood vessels that are feeding the
cancer all right so it's think about
this like a monster movie like getting
bigger and bigger and bigger those same
blood vessels feeding the tumor are also
allowing cancer cells to get into the
circulation exit the tumor get into the
blood supply that's called metastasis
now why am I telling you all this stuff
sounds scary right well the earlier you
catch that tumor all right the better it
actually is the more like less likely
the tumor cells uh into the rest of your
body now elsewhere in other videos I
talk about how you can actually eat
foods and take other measures that can
actually help your body help your
Shields prevent those blood vessels from
growing into the Cancer all right that's
anti-angiogenic food is medicine I wrote
a book on this I gave a Ted Talk on this
you can check them out um e to be
disease I talk all about this is my uh
my my book but what am I talking about
here I'm talking about the fact that
whether you're talking about a tumor in
the stomach or tumor in the colon you
can actually see the uh tumors because
once they grow big enough with a blood
blood supply they'll that you can
actually see them with the scope now
bleeding well where do you think the
bleeding comes from comes from those
hijack blood vessels that are not normal
okay because they're not growing into a
tumor is not normal blood vessels leak
they bleed if it happens in your stomach
the blood will trickle down it'll
oxidize it'll turn from bright red to
Black change the texture of the blood in
your gut that's coming out of your gut
dribbling down your gut from uh runny to
Black canari all right if it's happening
in your colon lower down all right the
uh the bleeding from the angiogenic
vascularized tumor but P of blood
vessels would just run out this bright
red blood all right hopefully that makes
sense I'm trying to give you a sense of
like how we as medical doctors think
about uh what we're looking for as we
actually do the endoscopy upstairs or
the colonoscopy from downstairs okay now
in the stomach do doesn't have to be a
cancer it could be a bleeding ulcer a
peptic ulcer stomach ulcer now the
stomach is actually part of the
digestive system that helps um secrete
acid and that acid is sort of part one
actually part two because chewing is
your part one swallowing it the stomach
acid sort of is like the washing machine
to start breaking down your food
material all right the lining of the
stomach is actually pretty solid it's
actually protected against acid it's not
going to dissolve itself and so the acid
is kind of like dissolving the food all
right digesting the food now for years
when people actually had bleeding ulcers
you know what we did we called the
surgeon the surgeon came in sometimes it
just cut out part of the stomach and
that was it right it's a bleeding area
in the stomach it's a it's a hole in the
lining of the stomach the acid is
actually kind of um uh melting into the
tissue digesting the tissue burning a
hole in the tissue and then that hole is
um bleeding bleeding ulcer black tar
stools right coming back to the
beginning okay guess what in the late
1980s uh a discovery was made that led
to the Nobel Prize that showed that most
stomach ulcers not all but most are
actually caused by a bacteria a harmful
bacteria growing in the stomach that
bacteria is called helicobactor pylori
all right H pylori now the the reason
I'm telling you this is because you've
heard a lot from me and other people
about how the gut microbiome healthy
bacteria in the gut can protect you
against disease here's an example of a
harmful bacteria that when it overgrows
all right uh this is the drug dealer
that moves into the safe Suburban
neighborhood and overgrows and it causes
a big problem all right the normal
Suburban House becomes a crack house all
right uh and this this bad bacteria
causes all kinds of problems eats a hole
in the stomach wall which starts to
bleed so now we we'll call the surgeon
if we need to but we also now know
because this is a bacteria bad bacteria
not the good bacteria this is disbiosis
helicobactor pylori H pylori the
bacteria that causes stomach ulcers is
an example of disposes a disturbance in
a healthy microbiome of our gut where
this overgrowth of this harmal bacteria
eats a hole in your stomach then acid
comes in makes it really hard to heal uh
and the overgrowth of the bacteria
really prevents the healing from
happening eventually it's going to eat
into a blood vessel you're going to have
bleeding so rather than cut the stomach
out sometimes we still have to but
rather than cut the stomach out you know
what we do in medicine we treat the
harmful bacteria to restore that normal
balance all right we actually use
antibiotics this is an example where
giving antibiotics to kill a bad
bacteria can be life-saving and stomach
saving all right so we call this triple
therapy we give uh something that lowers
acid because the acid makes it hard for
the stomach to heal a repol would be one
of them then we give an antibiotic
Amoxicillin would be another one and
then we have another antibiotic clamycin
so it's a combination we call it a
triple therapy because it's three
medicines Al meol or proton pump blocker
an antibiotic like a moxacin an
antibiotic like clamy a triple take it
for a week that's usually enough to
actually kill off the the bad bacteria
and then the normal bacteria kind of re
reverse itself then you recheck in about
a month to see if you actually healed up
the ulcer all right retest for the
bacteria there is anything there you're
done all right this is quite an amazing
change because when I was in medical
school we were still relying on the
surgery and and an ulcer really could be
a disabling problem if you have remove
part of the stomach now we give
antibiotics and I know a lot of people
talk about overuse of antibiotics and
antibiotics aren't good this is the case
trust me where antibiotic therapy is can
be life and stomach saving and you want
to have you want to have your stomach if
you want to be able to enjoy your food
believe me if you had a partial
gastrectomy which is removing part of
your stomach eating isn't going to isn't
going to be as fun for you anymore trust
me okay so all this to tell you about
the warning sign of blood in your
digestive system whether it's bright red
blood pouring out of your urectum or
dark tar stools pouring out our Ure
rectum bright Reds coming from the lower
gut than your colon black tar coming
from the upper gut tell your doctor they
will take it from there by doing some
tests including colonoscopy and
endoscopy warning sign you have got to
act on that this is not no kidding
around all right second warning sign
that your body is telling you is blood
in your sputum sputum is your spit all
right you know that the meme The Hop
tuille that's spit all right blood in
your sputum uh your saliva suggests
there's bleeding somewhere coming in
your mouth or your throat or even lower
all right and the one that you're really
really worried about is blood blood
coming from your lungs lung cancer
bleeding could also be throat cancer or
even tongue cancer all right when those
tumors that are growing using the exact
same process I told you about tiny
microscopic tumor no blood supply no
bleeding harmless unless until the
immune system Wings by to take get rid
of it if those tumors figured out how to
hijack your circulation they'll feed
themselves and when they feed themselves
they start growing big big time all
right filled with blood vessels feeding
them all right like a monster getting
bigger and bleeding because the blood
vessels are abnormal when that blood
trickles out of the lung or your throat
or your tongue or your gums guess what
it's going to get into your saliva and
then you've got blood in the sputum so
if you're actually brushing your teeth
and you rinse out and you see blood
there or if you are you know getting rid
of some saliva and you see streaks of
blood or clots of blood all right that's
a big warning sign and I'm prioritizing
these because these are sort of the life
and death warning signs might be
something very mild all right uh but but
it might be something really serious all
right so uh uh bleeding tumor in your
saliva you need to check it out right
away all right same deal the a tumor in
your mouth or your throat or your gums
now here's the interesting thing throat
and oral cancers cancer in your mouth or
your gums or your tongue even are
actually becoming more and more common
all right you've heard of people who
actually have oral cancers famous people
movie stars uh for example have have
dealt with this and uh oftentimes it's
caused by HPV human papiloma virus HPV
does that sound familiar to you well if
you have a kid um uh in this day and age
you're probably your pediat their
pediatrician is probably going to
actually suggest uh to give an HPV
vaccine once they're old enough HPV
vaccine uh you know along with the
chicken pops and the measles and the
polio vaccine HPV vaccine actually
prevents was designed to prevent
cervical cancer because HPV is a common
sexually transmitted disease that used
to be super common in women uh and
ultimately it's it's pretty asymptomatic
meaning it doesn't cause a lot of
symptoms or problems not painful doesn't
cause burning and discharge in the same
way um that other STDs sexually
transmitted diseases were but over time
this virus human papalon virus kind of
like simmering in the cervix causing
cell mutations will eventually turn into
uh abnormal cervical cells cells of the
cervix eventually this could actually
turn into dysplasia which is cells that
don't look too normal all the way to
neoplasia which is then basically on its
way to becoming cervical cancer now same
deal cervical cancer harmless until it
gets a blood supply then it'll start to
bleed all right we'll talk about that in
a little bit but HPV actually is
becoming more common in the mouth
because of oral sex sexual Revolution
from the 60s and 70s and 80s and now
we're actually starting to see men and
women having more HPV related throat
cancers that are causing blood in the
sputum all right now if you actually
have that need to tell your doctor your
doctor will then help you figure out do
you need to see a ear nose and throat
specialist all right a head neck
Specialist or somebody that you can
actually go down there pulmonologist to
take a look down in your lung before
going down to take a look to do a chest
x-ray they might do a scan want to
really kind of try to figure things out
U you can treat listen you can treat
oral cancers you can uh and you can
treat lung cancers it's a basic take the
same general approach but if you don't
find it if you don't detect it if you
don't pounce on it it'll sit there until
it gets worse and worse and worse and
then it becomes much harder to treat and
in fact could be so Advanced at some
point so aggressive that you're not
going to get saved so this is why it's a
warning sign blood in your speedum is a
warning sign what are the treatments
well look I'm just going to tell you
surgery chemo therapy radiation targeted
therapy but the latest kid on the Block
that is really a a breakthrough
his cancer immunotherapy and
immunotherapy in some ways is the most
natural way to treat cancer you can
imagine and yes it is developed by the
bio biopharmaceutical industry you know
what it does it wakes up your own immune
system and your own immune system will
do even with Advanced cancers what I
told you it naturally does for tiny
little microscopic cancers once your
immune system is woken up U we now know
that there are treatments that can
actually cause your own immune system to
scrub out the tumor all right this is
how you can actually take advance tumors
and reverse them by just knocking them
away having your immune system chew them
all up until they're all gone remember
cops on a beat now you send the entire
police force out there uh to be able to
take away the problem it works not in
everybody yet but when it works it is it
is jawdroppingly successful now so you
can treat it now I will also tell you
that um depending on where the bleeding
is coming from you might go to the
dentist all right because a dentist uh
and maybe it'll start at a dentist a
dentist can pick up bleeding gums and
can even pick up tumors growing in your
gingera your gums um that look abnormal
all right uh so the dentist your regular
doctor uh head neck person Max facial
surgeon
pulmonologist depends on where what what
the problem winds up being but the
warning sign is a tip off that you're
going to need some type of help now if
it's actually gum disease gum
inflammation Ginger vitis there's an
upside to actually treat that because
number one you can treat gingivitis
inflammation infection uh of your gum
tissue think about it your gum gets a
lot of wear and tear it's like rubbing
against all the food that you're eating
your entire life it's amazing that it
actually repairs itself so much and your
Denis will let you tell you brushing and
flossing and good Oral Care uh lowers
the risk of gingivitis but the upside to
actually getting on top of gingivitis is
that it turns out gum inflammation
gingivitis is associated with a higher
risk
developing Alzheimer's disease and other
forms of dementia as well taking care of
your gum is good for your brain now look
your gum is in your mouth your mouth is
part of the gut start the F start of the
gut all right so gut brain axis starts
in your mouth I will tell you uh I've
also written about this as well there
are certain probiotics that you can
actually take and you can even chew them
up that the probiotics can help protect
your gums against gingivitis by helping
to restore or a normal healthy oral
microbiome all right mouth microbiome
worth checking out all right side effect
of of of side benefit of of protect of
of treating your gingivitis or
preventing gingivitis is possibly
lowering the risk of dementia all right
so that's the second warning sign blood
in your speedum next warning sign blood
in your urine you know you're taking a
pee taking a piss and you look down and
you see there's blood in it now you know
that urine normally clear if you're well
hydrated it might be yellow it might get
dark and get concentrated it's never
bright red blood all right so you see
blood in your urine it doesn't take very
much to scare the V Jesus out of you all
right if you're a man you're at a
latrine or standing in front of a toilet
if you're a woman you know you're you're
sitting down but you know it's worth
checking out the color of your urine
just a spot chick to make sure
everything's okay you don't need to
stare at it it's not a staring contest
all you got to do is just a peek at it
looks cool move on all right but if the
urine color
changes um from anywhere from clear to
to dark yellow that's a matter of
hydration you should always stay
hydrated all right um but if you see
blood in it that's a completely
different story now dehydration can be
tricky because if you're really
dehydrated and you know Studies have
shown that too many people actually
don't drink enough water now it's not
true you need to actually drink 10 GL
tall glasses of water a day that's a
oversimplification you need to drink as
much as you need to drink all right
usually it's a lot less than 10 glasses
of water I think I think the latest
calculation is somewhere between eight
five and eight but it really depends on
the individual your body size the
humidity the temperature uh how much
you're exercising a lot of things so I
tend to encourage people not to get
stuck on a number I got to drink 10
glasses of water no you don't you need
to drink as much as your body needs if
you're thirsty drink all right check
your urine if your urine is dark orange
dark yellow probably need to drink all
right and you might not have that much
urine because your body's trying to hold
on to the water I'll tell you a little
Side Story um when I was doing my Gap
year uh in uh in the
Mediterranean um I was taking a break
and I went to the beach uh it was
overcast uh so it wasn't bright and
sunny uh but I fell asleep on the beach
in the Mediterranean all right and and
even though it was overcast the
ultraviolet radiations were there it was
still really hot and humid I fell asleep
because I was so tired uh and um uh and
I de and I got dehydrated when I when I
stood up you know it was late in the
afternoon man was I dizzy because I had
evaporated so much water out of my body
when I stood up my blood column went
down and it was like very little blood
in my head whoa I was really really
dizzy I was totally dehydrated and I had
I felt like I had to go to the bathroom
to pee when I peed I was so dehydrated
out came one thick drop of what looked
like orange paint all right and I was
sick for like a week so since then I
never ever get dehydrated I always try
to stay hydrated I'm so conscious of it
if it happens to you you'll never forget
it guarantee you all right so hydrate as
a rule of thumb no matter what when
you're in especially when you're in warm
weather but we're not talking about
clear urine yellow urine a dark orange
dark yellow to Orange urine we're
talking about blood in the urine all
right now when you got blood in your
urine it's got to be coming from place
in your genital urinary tract could be
from your bladder could be from your
prostate um if you're a man all right
and if it's in your bladder it could be
inflammation of the aligning of your
bladder that's called hemorrhagic
cystitis itis is usually inflammation
that could be what's going on
hemorrhagic is so inflamed is bleeding
all right lots of inflammation maybe
there's an infection there as well okay
and but that's something that needs to
be taken care of because if you're just
like sort of leaking blood into your uh
bladder uh there's no clear way of
actually stopping that it's not a good
thing all right so you're going to wind
up telling your doctor and they're going
to refer you to a urologist most likely
and you're going to get that worked out
now probably you've caught the the drift
of of how we do this now you got
bleeding you got to see where it is you
talk to the patient get a history do
some blood work to see how much blood is
being lost if there's any anything else
abnormal with it then you got to check
it out right so what do we do we get a
scope in this case it's called a s
cystoscope cystoscopy where the
urologist will give numbing if you're uh
whether you're a woman or a man and just
go right into the urethra and and and go
up there with a camera to take a look
around the bladder first is there any
bleeding in the bladder if there is they
might do a biopsy uh might cize
different ways of doing it um what are
they looking for you got it now right if
you're if it's in the lung you're
looking for lung cancer if you're
looking for you know uh in the mouth
looking for mouth cancer if it's a colon
you're looking for colon cancer stomach
cancer if it's in the bladder you're
looking for signs of bladder cancer now
why is that important because bladder
cancer is actually pretty treatable if
you catch it early enough all right you
can use immune therapy that naturalistic
therapy I told you about use your own
immune system to get it but you we
absolutely depend on our bladder so you
can't let a tumor just run away uh and
grow in your bladder totally not good
for your overall health so looking for
bladder cancer so here's what your
doctors going to be thinking going to be
saying are you as as a patient at high
risk for bladder cancer so what are
things that put somebody at high risk
for bladder cancer I know I'm telling
you a lot of medical speak but I think
that sometimes people some people really
enjoy hearing like okay you're a doctor
tell me take the time to tell me all the
things that my doctor doesn't have time
to tell me so I'm just sharing I don't
have a problem sharing with you sort of
like the
Insiders process of how we as doctors
think so who's at highest risk for
bladder cancer it' be something that' be
clicking through my head if you came to
a clinic and with bleeding in your urine
smokers highrisk higher risk of bladder
cancer whether you're a current smoker
or former smoker all right people have
worked in factories involving dyes all
right um you know color color dyes
certain kinds of dyes all right so could
be in a textile Factory could be in a
shipyard could be leather works uh could
be a rubber Factory could be a paint
industry uh all right all these places
you're dealing with color dyes different
types of pigments colorful pigments they
turn out to be for some reason even
though obviously you're not drinking
this stuff uh it it's still somehow
triggers tumor Genesis that's the growth
of a tumor uh cancer formation higher
risk in your bladder all right so those
are all the risk factors being male and
being older is another risk factor for
bladder cancer so blood in your urine a
warning sign and just like every other
type of cancer earlyer detected the more
likely you can be set up for a cure all
right don't pass that chance up that's a
warning sign you got to listen to now
bladder is not the old place you could
be bleeding all right uh if you're a man
the bleeding the blood in your urine
could be also coming from your prostate
all right because your urine it's in
your bladder it's got to get squeezed
through the sort of the the piping
system and uh uh right after your
bladder going before it gets into the
penis you got to pass through the
prostate prostate is an organ
reproductive organ hormonal organ that
actually generates semen creates semen
so urine uh can has to go right by it
and if the prostate is bleeding and it
can bleed from inflammation
prostatitis and that's right it could B
it could be bleeding because of prostate
cancer tiny microscopic cancer harmless
hijacks the blood system your
circulation starts to feed itself starts
growing now prostate cancer all right um
You got to check that out so that is
also handled by a urologist who's going
to do
um a bunch of tests could be an
ultrasound measure your prostate
specific antigen PSA you probably heard
about that um check it out to see if
there's a problem all right uh and then
go look at the process usually from an
ultrasound and an MRI you can see uh
signs of prostate cancer and then you
got to work out with urologist what's
the Right Step Beyond the scope of this
video to to talk about like you know
decision making uh if you actually
see prostate cancer but we're talking
about the warning signs blood and urine
uh could be uh a warning sign uh from
that that you need to have that checked
out for your could be from your bladder
could be from prostate if you're a man
now what about blood from the vaginal
Canal all right that's a different story
altogether it's not through the bladder
all right and a woman bleeding from the
vaginal Canal it could be a menstrual
cycle all right so if it's the timing
works and it's sort of as you normally
would expect a menstrual cycle it's
probably a menstrual cycle but if you
have bleeding between periods all right
or unusual spotting or if you're older
and you actually are postmenopause so
you're after your menopause you
shouldn't be menstrating and you start
having bleeding it could be spotting it
could be frank bleeding all right you
got a problem and that problem could be
blood coming from the cervix remember
cervical cancer we talked about
fortunately the the rates of cervical
cancer are going down because more and
more people are being vaccinated against
HPV all right so that's one of the
reasons to actually vaccinate uh a child
against HPV is actually to prevent
getting infected by this HPV human
papiloma virus which can later years
decades later cause cervical cancer
could be bleeding from there from the
cervix could also be bleeding from the
uterus which is you know right above the
cervix uh and um uterine can cancer is a
really really serious condition uh and
the tumor can be growing in there
microscopic hijacks your blood supply
starts feeding itself start growing
explosive growth blood vessels not
normal bleeding so it's the same story
you know we talked about the colon we
talked about the stomach we talked about
the lung we talked about the throat we
talked about the bladder now we're
actually talking about the cervix or the
uterus and you're now becoming fluent
hearing me talk about how tumors
actually grow so I'm telling you
something about the biology of how
cancer grows and you can see there's a
common denominator and that common
denominator is tumor and geog Genesis
tumors that are harmless hijack the
circulation feed themselves and now
they're dangerous all right so if you
have bleeding from the vaginal Canal
that's not normal Administration that's
happening or it's happening after
menopause time to tell a gynecologist a
gynecologist is going to do a pelvic
exam very very important now they may
also do uh
blood test they will they will do scans
as well but the pelvic exam is important
because it's a physical eyes on look to
see if there's any problems in the
vagina can look at the cervix to see if
they see anything on the cervix can
biopsy the cervix uh and um if you need
to do more you do the scan look inside
the uterus you can't see that with you
can't see inside the uterus from a
pelvic exam CT scan ultrasound MRI those
are all things that are types of scans
outside of the scope of this video to
talk about the details of that but again
you got to let your gynecologist know
and by the way this has becomes
particularly important to keep your ey
for if you have a family history of
cervical cancer or uh uterine cancer or
even ovarian cancer ovarian cancer
doesn't tend to bleed through the vagina
because um the ovar is kind of a far uh
it's far away from it's not a typical
thing to actually have bleeding vaginal
bleeding from ovarian cancer can happen
not so commonly but uterus ser
and vaginal cancer too as well all right
I'm speaking plain talk about all this
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right another warning sign
blood on your skin blood on your skin is
not normal all right now obviously blood
on your skin is normal if you cut
yourself right you um paper cut cut
yourself with a knife in the kitchen
going to bleed like stink guess what put
some pressure on it the blood's going to
clot all right your heal your Skin's
going to start healing in fact the
moment you cut yourself with bleeding
you're going to stimulate inflammation
to clean up the dirt and bacteria that
might be getting into the wound the
blood will clot and Healing Begins the
moment that the blood clots because when
your blood is clotting to prevent
Hemorrhage okay natural response thank
goodness we are hardwired this way the
cells that help clotting platelets the
moment they stick start sticking
together to stop bleeding they also
release proteins growth factors that
trigger healing platet dve growth factor
fiberblast growth factor uh vascular
endal growth factor don't memorize the
alphabet soup take it for trust me take
it for granted that I'm telling you the
truth that basically these uh when
you're bleeding and clotting you're
triggering this healing uh response when
the healing response occurs you're
growing new blood vessels and your
Genesis not it's normal blood vessels
not what tumors grow but normal healthy
blood vessels grow into the cut and they
grow the blood vessels grow basically in
connective tissue they call it we call
it a provisional Matrix I also study
wound healing and all that stuff gets in
there heals the wound
and scabs over right what happens when
you this happened to you I'm sure you
peel off the scab all right or scab
falls off too early what do you see in
that wound bright red bubbling stuff
that's androgenesis wound healing
androgenesis helping using your
circulation to restore Health in a wound
that is normal healing all right then
you're going to form the skin it's going
to close over the wound all right now
it's not exposed anymore not going to
bleed unless you're really scrape out at
hard hard and the skin gets thicker the
wound gets tougher on the inside the
blood vessels get wider to bring better
circulation and then the wound heals
normally the scab doesn't come off until
the wound's pretty much healed all right
that's the way scabs are designed but
you know you might pick up that scap a
little earlier or bump it against
something it comes off bright red
bubbling blood that's blood in your skin
that is normal all right uh that is
androgenesis now I'm telling you this
because we're talking about the warning
signs of blood that is not not normal on
the skin now the skin is packed with
blood vessels pack skin is also this
huge sheet of cells all right and if you
wind up actually having bleeding without
a cut all right on your skin watch out
take a look at where that blood is
coming from could be an area and if you
look really closely you might have a
mole there uh or some kind of skin
lesion pigmented skin lesion meaning
it's a different color that's bleeding
that's a warning sign blood in your skin
from an unusual lesion when you haven't
cut yourself that is a warning sign that
your body's going to tell you there's
something going on here and it could be
melanoma now most of the worst case
scenarios for these warning signes I
told you are cancer understandably so
that's the that's what we as doctors are
immediately alert to what we're looking
to to make sure that we don't miss that
but you should you should also
understand that's the reason to go
remember I told you the earlier you
figure this out the better your faster
you're likely to be set up for a cure as
opposed to letting it go I'm too
embarrassed or I don't want to deal with
it or maybe it'll go away by the time it
doesn't go away if it's something
serious now it's a completely different
deal it's you're not set up for a cure
anymore now you you got to do all kinds
of really complicated Maneuvers in order
to be able to save your life if it is a
cancer but it might not even be a cancer
might be a harmless lesion and that's
where you need to get a doctor in this
case blood in the skin a dermatologist
you can go to your your GP first your
your primary care check it out if
they're actually concern they're going
to they're going to get a dermatologist
involved for sure now how do you know
you might have melanoma well here's
basically what most people are taught
and it's true if you've got a pigmented
skin lesion like a mole that's raised
meaning it it rises above the skin it's
got irregular borders when you're
looking at it at top so it's not a
perfect circle or a perfect oval it's
wavy okay like a starfish all right uh
it's got irregular borders and over time
you're seeing it changes its shape it's
changing its size it's getting bigger
and it changes its color and the color
may not be uniform it might be dark on
one side and lighter on the other side
and that color might change that's a
warning sign all right that and bleeding
on your skin kind of suggests that you
might actually have skin cancer now how
do that skin cancer develop this is
actually important to know look we've
all Associated going outside to the
beach laying out as a really Pleasant
activity probably too many of us have
gotten a sunburn you ever got a sunburn
I've certainly gotten a sunburn not a
good thing the reason is when you get a
sunburn when you go out into the sun
you're getting where our skin is getting
bombarded by ultraviolet radiation from
the Sun all right radiation all right
we're getting fried that's how we talk
about like getting burned man I got
fried
well that frying occurs at the DNA level
at the cellular level at the DNA level
and that frying mutates your DNA what
did I tell you mutated DNA is is set up
for cancer in the skin if it happens
around melanocytes that's the kind of
cell that actually gives uh pigment
color to the skin guess what melanoma
mutated DNA ultraviolet exposure uh ere
exposure to ultraviolet radiation
getting sunburned all right over and
over and over again or going to a
tanning booth like people used to go all
the time continuously look good ah Sun's
L out not the right season for I just go
to the tanning salon and get bronzed
that is ultraviolet radiation now you're
pressed like a sandwich do a sandwich
press like getting bombarded your skin
is like being nuked all right that
causes mutations in your Skin's DNA
tumors cancer cells can start to form uh
they will start they will uh stay small
okay just like the other cancers I told
you about until they figure out how to
hijack blood supply then blood vessels
feed them now the tumor starts to grow
uh tumor angiogenesis uh feeding the
growth of it and those blood vessels are
abnormal they leak they bleed now you
got blood and unusual blood in the skin
you get the drift on this now right and
I'm focusing on blood because blood
bleeding is one of the Cardinal uh
warning signs that the body is actually
signaling to you tapping you in the show
hey buddy something's not right here you
better pay attention to this like right
now all right blood vessels in a
melanoma under the skin or in the skin
leads to bleeding it's a warning sign
got to tell your doctor they're going to
send you to a dermatologist
dermatologist will take a look and do an
entire whole body skin exam all right
now why do we do that it's because if
you think about it just if you have a
melanoma okay skin cancer on your hand
for example hey the sun exposed the
whole body any exposed part of the skin
was exposed by the same ultraviolet
radiation maybe the rest of the body
didn't form a tumor like the one that
you have that here but maybe it did and
you can't see it might be in your back
might be on your butt cheek might be you
know somewhere else in your body that
you're not looking so a dermatologist is
going to do a thorough whole body skin
exam to look for anything they take
pictures of it they map it out they show
you what's clear and that's super super
helpful all right if they see something
they'll probably biops it they just cut
it out punch it out send it to the lab
the lab will tell them and then you
whether or not it's cancerous or not if
it's not
cancerous all right Dodge the bullet on
that one if it is got to really do
something about it now here's the key
thing and I'm giving you some kind of
Insider speak on uh melanoma that you
find has to do with how much the tumors
invaded your skin so here's an old
number if the tumor the the melanoma is
thinner not as deep under 0.75 mm in
Under the Skin So it's just still
superficial not too deep no no deep
Invasion more curable you can actually
use surgery to remove it if it's deeper
than 75 millim you know now you're
getting into the blood system you're
getting closer to the blood supply in
your arm and your or wherever the skin
of skin happens to be it's a much more
dangerous melanoma now you might
actually need to have surgery to be able
to actually remove that melanoma that's
important deeper melanoma means more
likely to have spread now you got to do
a whole body work up and scan to see if
there's any sign if it's deeper you'll
have to see how deep it is but if deep
deep uh Invasion uh under your skin can
suggests that the tumor might have
spread and now you need a surgeon
involved you need to do a whole body
scan to work up to see where that
melanoma uh actually is the good news
for melanoma is that number well first
of all it's prevent so wear a sunscreen
protect your skin uh when you go out
into the Sun and by the way when you go
out to the skin your whole body is being
damaged any exposed portion portion is
being damaged that's called field
cancerization field cancerization means
that any part that's exposed the entire
body is getting the same exposure the
same dose of the ultraviolet radiation
so you might have a tumor that's going
on on your top of your hand guess what
your face was exposed to that same thing
so that's why dermatologist got to look
everywhere all right you probably have
other damaged areas that are have may
not have popped up yet or they may have
popped up needs to be actually monitored
uh closely so back to the bleeding of
the skin tell the
dermatologist they'll take a look at it
um if necessary they'll biopsy it if
they biopsy it send to the lab the lab
will come back and tell them tell you if
it's actually a melanoma or not all
right if it's a melanoma they'll also
tell you about how thick it is all right
and try to if they we need to cut out
more of it to get rid of it they'll look
at the margins and how how uh completely
removed they actually be gotten it
beyond that if you need a workup you
know like the melanoma spread that's a
different story you might need a medical
oncologist that specializes in melanoma
there's a lot of them fortunately and
some of the biggest breakthroughs in
cancer research and treatment successful
treatment have come in metastatic
melanoma malignant melanoma so in the
last 10 years we've actually wound up um
having at our at our disposal at our
fingertips uh immunotherapy
immunotherapy again as I mentioned to
you earlier is waking up your immune
system using treatments that help your
immune system spot and Target and take
out uh the uh cancer it's like putting a
whole bunch of snipers on the roof and
say take out the cancer when you see
them all right so immunotherapy very
natural very powerful uh and there's a
particular kind of immunotherapy that's
approved for melanoma malignum melanoma
called a checkpoint inhibitor let me see
if I can explain a checkpoint inhibitor
to a checkpoint inhibitor is uh a type
of treatment that once you it's an
infusion it goes into your body the the
medicine finds uh basically rips off the
cloak that the tumor uses to hide from
your immune system like pulls it right
off takes the camouflage out and then
your immune system goes aha I see you
I'm going after you all right so
melanoma has one been one of the cancers
that has responded very very well to
checkpoint therapy
immunotherapy and actually it's
something that can lead to a remission
complete remission in some people so
this is something that you would need to
talk to your oncologist about and
frankly if you've got cancer you should
everybody who's a cancer patient should
be having this conversation what about
immunotherapies there's some type of
immunotherapy that would be actually
useful in my situation my personal
situation melanoma all right now there
are other forms of skin cancers that can
bleed that are not
melanoma basil cell cancer squamous cell
cancers all kinds of cells in your skin
they can all become malignant sun
exposure ultraviolet sunburns all that
kind of stuff can can cause uh skin
cancers to actually form dermatologist
look at it they will actually help you
decide what type of problem it is all
right my might not even be a cancer but
if it is you definitely want a
dermatologist to help you identify it
come up with a treatment biopsy it get a
DI confirm diagnosis and then apply the
treatments that would actually be
appropriate for that type of cancer now
sque cell cancer the squa cell is a kind
of skin cell squa cell cancer one of the
most common cancers of all cancers
actually and basil cell cancer uh it's
another type of cell that's in the skin
basil cell so squa cell and basil cell
cancers Collective are not melanoma so
they're called non-melanoma Skin cancers
they're very common uh we get exposed to
the sun all the time and they're very
very treatable in fact they're curable
most people don't die of squamous or
basil cell cancer you can die from it
but it's very very rare again Blood on
the skin better check it out is it
melanoma is it basal cell cancer is it
squa cell cancer do you need a biop see
it if so uh how deep is it is The
Invasion what are my options treat
options you get the drift all right and
if you do have a lot of skin lesions you
probably should be going to the
dermatologist once a year for a full
body exam go to the same dermatologist
they saw you before they'll recognize
they'll have mapped out uh where these
lesions are and they'll be able to
follow them year after year all right so
remember early detection sets up for the
Cure this is also true for skin cancer
uh as well all right late detection
people are ignoring their warning signs
lets the disease get much more advanced
and aggressive now you got a problem
things are 10 times harder to treat them
please heed the warning signs in your
body make sure that you're uh spotting
or eliminating the things that you are
the scariest things that need to be
pounced on early then you actually be in
charge of your own health it's kind of
like look if you're walking around your
car Rent A Car you're walking around and
you're checking for warning signs that
there's dents and problems on that
you're checking out the car that's what
you're doing here I'm I'm giving you
sort of like five areas of bleeding I'm
using bleeding because it's blood
anywhere blood in your stool blood in
your sputum blood in your urine blood
from your vaginal Canal blood from the
skin if it looks abnormal happening
abnormally pay heed to it that is a
warning sign that your body is sending
you an emergency message saying I need
help it's dialing 911 you better pick up
that call and answer it and let your
doctor no all right we talked about some
serious stuff today hope you learned
something new that will be helpful for
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