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Economic Turbulence and the AI Revolution
What's Going On with Earl Ingram · Wed Oct 7, 2026
Welcome back to what's going on with Earl Ingram.
I am always thrilled and excited.
Anytime I get an opportunity to talk to my next guest, he is the one and only Dr. Omar, the pharmacist, the proprietor of Weltopia Pharmacy.
It's been a while.
We're back in the pharmacy with my good friend, Dr. Omar.
the pharmacist.
Good morning to you, Dr. Omar.
How are you doing, my friend?
It's been a while.
Good morning, Ert.?
It has been a while.?
I'm happy that you're back and I'm back.?
It's great to see you again.?
Yeah, so every Wednesday at this time, we're going to be reconnecting.
And the timing is perfect.
The weather is changing.
And so when the weather changes, strange things happen to human beings, right?
Yeah, I think people start to move more towards closed doors and connect and talk and hug and shake hands.?
And then for us in the pharmacy, we start to get busy because we get more questions.?
I'm feeling sick.?
I need a vaccine.?
I need a bit of a new vaccine coming out.?
I need to support my immune system.?
So, there is many questions that come and the pharmacy get to be at the forefront of supporting communities and helping the parents, the seniors, the students stay healthy.?
That's why I think coming back today is such a great coincidence because we have questions to answer them.?
So,?
Dr. Craig, I mean, excuse me, Dr. Omar, vaccines.
The vaccines are under assault in this nation.
And I'm looking and the measles just spreading like wildfire throughout this nation, something that clearly the nation had gotten his arms around that.
And I remember as a young boy, everybody had to get the measles shots.
Nobody argued.
My parents didn't say,
I'm not giving my child, you're not going to give my child the vaccine for measles.
It was accepted.
When my children were born, the vaccine shots, fine.
It was something we all accepted.
But somewhere along the way, bad information gets out.
And social media, which wasn't around at that time,
Anybody can get on on social media and say all manner of things anything dr. Omar and And people don't even ask you are PhD your dr. Omar, okay And so when dr. Omar speaks because of your knowledge and if and your professionalism and you are learned man We listen But people can get on on social media and say
don't give your child a measle vaccine and people don't even ask who the person is or what information they have and they follow that.
What's going on?
It's kind of misconception and the problem is the abundance of the information and people getting the data from social media from AI and not asking back questions and everyone decides that?
We want to follow our own opinion, which is kind of dangerous.?
I want to say that there are two vaccines with data that prove to us that many times vaccines can save lives.?
RSV.?
RSV vaccine have proven, according to a randomized study,?
of over half a million of people.?
I think?
in
Denmark, they did this observation studies and they found that it helped to decrease hospitalization by 70% or over 70%.?
So CDC estimates that RSV causes roughly 110,000 to 180,000 hospitalization annually among the U.S.?
adults more than 50 years of age.?
Currently, the numbers are falling by 70% to people who got the vaccine, and it's once in a lifetime shot.?
So that is kind of a win for that specific vaccine.?
Another vaccine, the Shingles.?
Shingles vaccine, there is a couple of observational studies that are seeing decline in dementia cases for patients who got vaccinated by the Shingrix vaccine.?
It decreases the incidence of happening, of incidence of shingles by more than 90%.?
If you get the shingles vaccine, it's debilitating.?
Patient with shingles, we try to compound the creams, we try to do pain things because it's just this painful kind of blisters that happen anywhere in the body.?
It can affect the eyes, it can affect the skin, it can affect the...?
any part of the skin.?
So we are seeing results from vaccines.?
And if we talk about side effects and something get to be overhyped by the social media, we have to ask professionals who we trust to kind of get answers.?
And unfortunately, we're seeing the comeback of measles.?
hoping that we don't see a lot of flu cases this year.?
This is October and that what we're seeing now is that there is kind of not a lot of cases of flu, which is encouraging to people to kind of who wants to get the shot to start getting this crucial important vaccine.?
And yeah, it's just we have to kind of get the core?
correct information from professionals and go from there.?
And if we decide that we're not going to follow that data and evidence, well, I mean, we just have to be informed of the correct information.?
One of the information that was actually I see people asking me about is, do I need to get the flu shot twice a year??
because some people think that they should get one in October and another one in January.?
And I'm not sure where this came from because the CDC and the ACIP, the agencies that have the authority and the knowledge, top authority and knowledge about the vaccines are saying just to get one flu shot in the year.?
And if you get another flu shot, it's not going to increase your immune system activity against?
the flu.?
So one flu shot in the year, that's the basic thing that many people need to know and do.?
And when it comes to the little ones and deciding not to vaccinate them, well, that is a decision that you have to run by your pediatrician.?
You know, doctor, I have to say that you talk about the CDC today and then talking about the CDC today.
You almost have to question it now because of the guy who's in charge of it, who is saying all manner of crazy things and the CDC that we knew has been challenged by the guy who's in charge.
Does that matter?
Of course it matters.?
but we have to take politics out of the medicine and try to kind of follow and respect evidence-based medicine, evidence-based pharmacy, evidence-based data that we give to the public and that's why we are trying to kind of?
How do we say it??
Take politics out of our recommendations to save lives because every healthcare professionals, what we are trying to do is to make sure that we are saving lives.?
If someone come and their political opinion is just kind of out of the norm of the evidence-based science and medicine, we try to kind of stop and just kind of question that.?
And that's why when it come to, let's say, a hot topic like vaccines,?
There's people that say don't take any vaccines.?
Other people say take all of the vaccines.?
The answer should always be personalized.?
Let's see where you are, how old are you, what are the health conditions, and try to protect you and try to save the loved ones.?
I am not going to risk the life of someone?
who is immune compromised with chronic health condition and tell them don't take any vaccines because these are new vaccines.?
I have priority now according to the evidence-based science to give them the flu shot, give them the RSV, give them the pneumococcal vaccine.?
There are recommendations.?
And by the way, when you go to the doctor, just ask the doctor what is the recommended vaccines for me.?
And you can go to the?
Wisconsin immunization registry and type in your name and you can get this information to yourself because every vaccine that you get, we as healthcare professionals enter this data into the immunization registry.?
So we know what vaccines you can get now and recommend it for you.?
And that's why it's not a number.?
It is not either do it or don't do it.?
Let's just?
get the information and that and work with it.?
So let me ask you, Dr. Omar, there are vaccines that are paid for by your insurance companies or by Medicare.
I'm on Medicare.
So my COVID, my RSV, which I had, my shingles,
my flu, those things are paid for by my health provider.
What about these other vaccines that if you go to a pharmacist or somewhere else, they're offering that aren't paid for by the health insurance?
Should that be a sign or how do we, because there are many different vaccines that they're offering?
But how do we again know?
That's a great
question.?
That's a great question.?
So the main core vaccines that you mentioned are paid by Medicare and Medicaid for the most part.?
So the flu vaccine, the COVID vaccine, the RSV.?
But let's say if you got the RSV vaccine a year ago or a couple of years ago, insurance and Medicare is not going to pay for it again.?
It's going to be a stop.?
a hard stock from the insurance company, and that is for the sake of the patient, because you should not get it more than once in a lifetime, according to the data that we have now.?
So these general recommendation vaccine for the public in the United States of America, they should be paid by the Medicare, Medicare that even private insurance, most of them will pay for the flu and for the COVID for certain people with certain health conditions.?
And then there are other ones that can be or can be not paid.?
That's the shingles vaccine, 50 plus years old.?
It's going to be paid by Medicare.?
It's not paid by Medicaid.?
I want to tell you, pneumonia vaccine, it will be paid by the insurance company.?
So these ones that we talk about all day long, these are going to be paid by the insurance.?
question gets to be about things that you need if you travel to certain countries like yellow fever vaccine, like, yeah, things that you need it if someone is going for pilgrimage, they need to take other vaccines.?
But the main ones are paid by the?
insurance and that's why there is always a hot debate among politicians what should we pay and what should we not pay for but I want to tell people when you see the sign that tells you free vaccine at a pharmacy I think this is kind of misleading because your insurance is paying for these vaccines all right so we do eligibility checks and we give the vaccine?
based on your insurance.?
So make sure when you go, you have your Medicare card, white and blue card, so we can do this eligibility check and give you the vaccine that you need.?
I want to tell you that I almost look at the vaccine questions as individualized vaccine question.?
So for my parents, I give them everything I can give them from vaccines.?
I give them?
the Shingrix vaccine, the RSV, the flu vaccine, the COVID vaccine, I am not taking risks with their health?
because
as we age and our health can be, if I get a cold flu symptoms, I'm not sure what's going to happen from it.?
I want to be protected, but at the same time, I am giving them the multivitamins, the vitamin C, then acetylcysteine.?
I make sure the vitamin D levels?
in their blood are high enough above 50.?
So if they catch cold or catch something, they would be able to fight it.?
That would be a different advice from someone who is 25 or 35 that walks into my store and asks me to get vaccines.?
I would prioritize the flu shot if they get it every year.?
I would prioritize that if they?
If I want to give them one thing, I would give this to them.?
So it's according to the case itself.?
For the children, I only recommend the flu shot as well.?
So we have to look at different questions when we meet patients.?
And we have to understand that we're all different in how we perceive science and how we perceive medicine.?
But the core piece of information?
that we tell everyone is try to keep politics out of your decision.?
So Dr. Amar, so COVID, you know, I have conversations with people and they say, well, listen, I'm going to get the COVID vaccine.
So what are you still getting a COVID vaccine for?
COVID is done.
You don't even have to worry about COVID anymore.
These are just lay people just saying, man, why are you risking getting the COVID shot?
It's over.
COVID is done.
The
publicity of COVID is done.?
But actually, it is still out there.?
People get sick and no one is talking about it.?
And the virus changes every year.?
And that's why there is an updated vaccine that comes every year now.?
Actually, there is more understanding of those changes in the COVID.?
And it's just that's why they come out with a new vaccine, but it's not done, especially for immunocompromised people.?
Patients who have chronic health conditions, they should check?
their eligibility to get the COVID vaccine, but it didn't go away.?
It's just the hype of it went away.?
We remember back in the days before I was born, the flu was new, and when the vaccine came out, it was just something new.?
Now, we don't talk about the flu anymore.?
Even sometimes, some years, the flu killed more people than COVID now.?
And no one is talking about it just because it's not that hot of a topic.?
So, yeah, we need to stay protected and just make sure that we understand that science doesn't listen to politicians.?
You know, Dr. Omar, the actual disease.
You know, Dr. Omar, it's, you know, like I said, I'm coming to get protected.
I don't let people determine what's best for me as it relates to, and I'm having conversations with people, and I'm not saying that these are people who aren't bright people.
They're pretty smart people, but as I say to them, you got your PhD in something else, but it's certainly not in the medical field.
So it's not transferable you got a PhD and something else But you can't use that to tell me about why I shouldn't take vaccines Okay, and and so it just to me it's mind-boggling that those people who are so well educated Don't under don't seem to understand
that the different disciplines that they're educated in, you know, that they're not transferable.
And then there's the group of sheep who just, you know, kind of led down the wrong path.
And it's kind of heartbreaking because when one person gets sick in the family, the whole family has to suffer through that, right?
Yeah, that is...?
What happens??
And that's when questions start to arise.?
So we have to really be smart in giving the advice.?
We get some really good questions in the pharmacy this year.?
One of them is that there is a new FDA approved vaccine, mRNA vaccine for a flu shot for adults 50 years old and older.?
And this is a newly approved mRNA vaccine.?
People are asking why is there a new flu shot when there is an old working flu shot??
That's a good question.
Yeah, and actually the reason is very simple because the way of production of traditional flu shots is kind of outdated and sometimes it takes a longer time to find the correct vaccine for?
the influenza virus that's circulating and they're trying to come out with a new way, an easier way of production of these vaccines.?
But also in vaccine production, not the newest vaccine is always the best.?
If you've been taking traditionally the COVID vaccine, the old flu shot and it has been working for you, take the old one that?
traditional one.?
If you can't find the traditional one, you can take the new mRNA vaccine.?
It's not going to give you the flu.?
It's just made with new technology.?
They give it to 35,000 people to make sure that it is safe and people can take it.?
But it is safe if above 50 years old up to 64 years old people can?
taken.?
We are just seeing that they have good results compared to the traditional vaccines, but we understand that people want to take something tried and tested.?
So I want to tell everyone that the old vaccines are still available.?
They are still updated in the season of 2026, 2027.?
And we get requests from people to take the same old one.?
So?
The new one is safe, but the old one is also available.?
If you ask me, Omar, the pharmacist, what do you recommend to your patients and to your parents??
I would tell them that all the tested traditional vaccines still because we kind of in medications, in vaccines, we always say if we wait longer to make sure that we see more results, more data, more evidence on the vaccines that will help us.?
to kind of recommend it better because we can see all of the side effects that come along.?
So Dr. Omar, we don't think, you know, we're just living our lives.
We don't know what goes on in the healthcare industry.
Listening to you, it means that this ongoing investigation, this ongoing development, the scientists continue to work.
around the clock on developing and improving medications.
There's never any stop.
This is a live reality in scientists and them looking to improve.
the medications and the things that will improve the health of human beings and the longevity, is it safe to say that?
We don't understand, but this whole mechanism is taking place every day.
Changes?
are happening
every day.?
Changes
are happening every day.?
And the topic of medicine is...?
always changing and evolving according to the new data, according to the new studies, according to the incidents that happened here and there.?
Because we see people are talking, let's say, about the COVID and the flu vaccines, but how about the other ones that have been out there in the field for a while and?
you still see people that didn't take the Shingriks vaccine.?
I consider it one of the smartest vaccines, one of the smartest moves that people can do after 50 years of age to take the Shingriks vaccine to cross it off the list.?
So the thing is like, whatever is in the news can be different from what we're going to recommend to different people with different health conditions.?
If I have?
To give you an example, when I see a newborn with their parents coming to the pharmacy, I make sure to tell them, if you have someone who's going to be above 50 or 60 years of age, please make sure that they have the RSV vaccine.?
And after the vaccine, there is two weeks past before they can see the baby and kiss the baby, and better not to kiss the baby at all, because we want to save lives, right??
If I have someone walking into my store and tell me I want to get the flu and COVID shot because I'm traveling after tomorrow for a short vacation, I'll come back.?
I tell those patients, those clients, just wait until you come back because the vaccine is not going to work for two weeks.?
And if you get cold and flu symptoms for one or two days, it might mess up your travel.?
So we just have to be kind of calm and offer?
smart recommendations, evidence-based, and things are evolving and changing, and we're always going to be transparent in the advice that we give you, because at the end of the day, yes, I make money of giving the shots and selling the vaccine, but I will be more profitable if I gain your confidence, right??
You know, Dr. Omar, it is...
Here we are.
We're in the twinkling of an eye.
It's going to be 20 degrees and wind is going to be blowing and people are going to have runny noses and not even know that they're infected.
And they don't mean any harm, but they're just people who are just living their lives and life is so difficult.
that they don't even give it a second thought.
They're just, how do we reach people?
Dr. Omar, who really don't even know the correlation between being vaccinated and health and being healthy, right?
I mean, it's out for
you.?
Being patient and make sure that we can listen.?
and kind of address people's concerns because we're all afraid, we all want the best health.?
So I try to address the concerns one by one.?
I have patients, you know, I sell supplements and I believe?
in
supplements and they're healing power, but I have patients that come with cardiovascular risks with health conditions.?
I look at the numbers, I ask about symptoms and many times I tell the patient,?
You don't need that supplement.?
You need a medication to get healthier and better.?
And sometimes we disagree on that.?
And then we speak to the doctor and we try to find a way to combine between the best of the Western medicine and best of the supplements and herbs and kind of the nature.?
We want to have the nature heal us.?
That's great.?
That's great.?
But nature is not going to decrease your LDL if it's above 200.?
nature is not going to cure your blood pressure when it's going up and we check it and we see that the numbers are not coming down so we have to kind of go with the flow of understanding people and just work on the basics if we can't reach?
resolution in terms of changing mindset of I don't want this I don't want that try to protect the basics the sleep the move the metabolism staying away from the fast food as much as possible if you're eating fast food three four times a week try to make it once a week no like?
No one is going to come and tell you fast food is making me healthy.?
So try to find the common ground discussions.?
Well, somebody ought to tell the president that.
But anyway, go ahead.
So yeah,
we try to find the common ground, focus on it and build on it, you know.?
We have to protect the vulnerable people?
around us.
As a society, this nation should be in a better position than almost any other nation to get that message to its people, right?
I mean, because of the resources that we have, we should be able to, but there's not enough outlets.
I mean, we're doing this, right?
But this should be multiplied everywhere that this information is going to make the people healthier when you're talking about the cost of health care, Dr. Omar.
And when people get sick and yet we're saying we can't afford to have people insured because it costs too much during the hospitals, shouldn't we be doing everything we can to prevent?
people from becoming sick in the first place and then healthcare wouldn't cost so much?
Yes.?
Oh my God.?
That would be what we need to do.?
That's why it's just very important to keep spreading the message in our community and in these outlets and kind of encourage other healthcare professionals to do the same because it is just very clear that we are doomed with the luxury we live in.?
for people who travel to other third world countries and see the kind of conditions and the resources and what other people have.?
We will understand how much we're blessed and we need to use this blessing to kind of thank God and thank ourselves and thank our communities for what we have and use it for our best purpose, but to use?
this luxury to always order Dordesh and stay inside and not move and not eat healthy and have poor sleep and stress out and we should work differently and that's only going to happen when we talk to each other and understand each?
other.
You know we're talking about vaccines and you know it's one thing for adults to make decisions on whether or not they are going to be vaccinated and
But what really, to me, Dr. Omar is one thing to say that about you.
You are in control of your own life as an adult, but those who are in control over the lives of their children and that they don't do what is necessary to protect them.
There was a time in this society, Dr. Omar, that when you had a child,
the child had to get X amount of vaccinations.
I don't remember.
It's been so long.
My kids are pretty far up there.
But is it still the way it was when, you know, back at night, and I know I'm aging myself, but babies had to get X amount of vaccines.
They couldn't get out of the hospital before they got them.
Parents couldn't say, I don't want my child not to take this vaccine.
That's change, right?
There is like a schedule when to take what and there is recommended vaccines, but the parents have the right to refuse for the children to take certain vaccines as far as I understand.?
And kind of, yeah, we have the vulnerable ones that we have to always protect, but just make sure that you have an informed decision of what you.?
decided because these vaccines for the children have been tested, tried for years and years, tens of years, and they are updated regularly.?
Most of the vaccines now don't have preservatives.?
there was a doctor that spread wrong information and he had to come back and explain that the studies that he used to say like some vaccines are causing autism he said that these studies have been kind of misinterpreted or wrong and?
The challenge that we're living again early is the misinformation that affected the adults and that affects the vulnerable ones.?
So we have to make sure that we have the right prescription from the right health professional and I have a prescription for the audience today.?
My prescription today about the vaccines and it certainly is not don't take vaccines and it is also not to take every vaccine.?
It is simply to know your risk, know your options, know the evidence-based options, know what you have already received because I have patients that come and tell me I need my RSV vaccine.?
I look at the system and I find they got it a couple of years ago.?
So if you're not interested in the new mRNA flu vaccine, take the traditional?
If you didn't receive the RSV vaccine, there's great data that will help you.?
If you're above 50 years of age, it will help you to prevent hospitalization.?
Take the RSV vaccine.?
You don't want to take a vaccine, protect yourself, do the basic things, stay healthy, and let's keep connecting and sharing information and empowering each?
other.
the vaccines and the evolution of the vaccines.
That's all of them.
They don't remain the same.
You talked about the thing with the flu vaccine.
Is that the same way with the RSV and with all the others?
Do they continue to evolve or do they remain the same?
They are watching and doing studies, ongoing studies to see how are people protected.?
from certain vaccines.?
So for the RSV, it's once in a lifetime until now.?
For the shingles vaccine, they still see that it's protecting people after they took it, the two shots.?
And that has been over more than 10 years ago.?
It's just two shots.?
So it's according to the?
evolution that happens with medicine, with medications, and what we see as new studies that come around.?
So again, as you mentioned, things are changing day to day, and that's why it's just kind of we try to provide that information to patients who call us, ask us.?
So it's like, yeah, every year there is the new flu shot, there is now a new COVID shot, and for the RSV, for the?
shingles it's just once in a lifetime for now we have the t-depth the t-depth people are not getting the tetanus shot every 10 years this is an important one every 10 years because some people get hurt in the street and they come for the tetanus shot sometimes a little too late so that is why you can easily?
just go to the Wisconsin immunization registry.?
I think people can download the recommended vaccines.?
It's an easy to read one page or ask for this one page from the pharmacy and see what's recommended for you and start to ask more questions.?
So that T-Dep vaccine is one of those that is not financed by Medicare or Medicaid, but you just see it.
That's really important as well.
Yeah, I see that many times it's paid early.?
Oh, really??
So I see that many times it's paid by the different insurances.?
And if not, I think it's $25 for a shot.?
But I can see that it's paid by insurances as well.?
So?
let me ask you then.
So that vaccine and the really
important thing that people should know is that all of these different vaccinations that you'll be taking, excuse me, don't, don't cause any friction between one another.
They're all, they all can, can.
You can take them together in the same.?
The body is very smart.?
The body, the immune system is very smart to identify what you got as a shot if you take them on the same day.?
But if you didn't take them on the same day for most of the vaccines that you're getting, that part of the virus, if you take one today and you want to take the other one at least two weeks.?
So I have several patients that want to take one shot today and the other one in two weeks.?
at least that's the gap that should be between two vaccines.?
But if you want to take them the same day, you can take one, two or three or sometimes even four.?
But some people are feel more comfortable to take one shot at a time.?
So leave a gap of two weeks.?
You know, this continued discussion on vaccines and even
the improvement of medications, because if there are more and more medications coming out on the market, we see them on television, right?
You see it every time you look up there, something new that has come out.
And man, they really make you think you can fly, right?
Oh, you can get back.
I used to be able to dunk a basketball, right?
I mean, there was a time when I could do that, right?
But if you're
but now I can barely touch the net.
I don't think I can touch the net as a matter of fact.
But what I'm saying is, can things be too good to believe when you're watching these commercials?
Yeah, many people are asking for these commercials to not be commercials because these?
These medications have very serious side effects and they don't provide that information in the air just in the last fine print online very quickly.?
They tell you the side effects.?
They're not suitable for everybody, but they are selling hope.?
And for some people, for many people, it can be false hope.?
So I think that commercials are good for people to ask questions.?
Is this suitable for me??
But if an older drug is working and keeping us healthy and stable, we can continue with it.?
And I have patients who tried these commercial medications several, one after the other, and it's just failing them and other people that are seeing great results.?
But this is a conversation that you should just run by your doctor.?
Is this suitable for me??
And not to insist on taking this new medication.?
And then we?
can read about it and get informed with decision, but it's very important not to get the news to drug in the market right away.?
Just wait for a little bit because again, for new medications, it up to seven years to say that we have enough studies on this drug so we can see more side effects and we can recommend it more liberally rather than having a new drug in the market and just try to.?
offered to everybody.?
You know, Dr. Omar, as a guy who's, you know, who's, you know, kind of live now, you know, into my 70s, it's just the quality of life that people from my generation are able to live if we look at those before us.
some of our grandparents and others who couldn't make it past 50.
Of course, they never said cigarette smoking was bad, so they smoke cigarettes all day, right?
Nobody said anything about it.
Nobody said it was dangerous.
You could eat pork all day because nobody ever said the studies didn't tell you that those things.
would impact the length and the quality of your life.
So as all of this research that's happening that we don't see that continues to make the longevity of the human life quality and worth living, we just, this is going to continue, right?
It's not going to stop.
And so we have to take that into consideration.
The generations that follow
Well, it should be offered an opportunity to be even healthier and live even longer, more quality of life.
That's what all this is about.
Is it safe to say
that??
Always a big question and the biggest topic as we age and it's not about how many years we're going to live It's about can you get off the floor without help??
Can you carry your groceries??
Can you walk up two flights of stairs??
Can you travel??
Can you be independent??
Play with your grandchildren??
Can you drive??
Can you sleep and feel healthy??
The question of how we keep ourselves and our bodies healthy is very important.?
And I want to tell you something.?
Someone invested time to run a study on all of the questions, all of the studies that have been looking at people who aged up to 100 and 110 and 120 years of age.?
common thing that helps people to thrive is stress management.?
Really??
Some people are eating anything that is stress management.?
If you're happy, smiling, stress free, you're going to live longer, healthier than most people around you.?
Stress kills cells, stress ages cells.?
Stress makes our hair fall, our hair gray earlier than it should.?
So if we can manage stress by that managing sleep and by that, there is no stress eating.?
So it's going to change everything and you're going to have better informed decisions about your life and everything around you about your financials about things that will make you feel young.?
You know, Dr. Marceau, I was reading something the other day and it was about the longevity of life with the Japanese, the Chinese, the Orientals and living
into the hundreds is not so uncommon.
And those people who are living into the hundreds, they aren't in wheelchairs.
They aren't, I mean, they're functional.
And so it's not the case in our nation, a nation of plenty.
So there are, I mean, if you really look at it, you,
You don't have to throw in the towel at 75, right?
So when people see me, they say, well, man, man, you're still getting around.
I said, well, what is a person at 72?
Am I supposed to be bent over?
Am I supposed to not be able to walk?
Am I supposed to be in firm because I'm in my 70s?
I think we're accepting that in this nation.
And that shouldn't be the case, right?
Yeah.?
It's correct.?
It's correct.?
And that's why I remember that famous saying, best time to plant a tree 20 years ago, next best time to plant a tree, put the seed today in the soil so it will plant and will flourish.?
So movement, less stress, movement.?
being able to be independent is key.?
I made a poll on my Facebook page and I put five things and I asked everyone to vote.?
Those five things.?
One of them, I'm going to earn $19 million today.?
One of them being able to have 10 years younger and one of them being able to go to the bathroom independently and not have constipation.?
And I ask it my Facebook followers and I encourage them to answer me.?
And I have more than 200 answers.?
Most of them are putting, not having constipation, being able to go to the bathroom every day as number one priority for them.?
And only two people put the money first.?
You know, Dr. Omar,?
people don't understand that the commode should be your best friend.
Right?
They don't know.
I didn't know until I was up in age that you should connect with the commode every day.
It's part of that because your body, the way it's configured and the way it's created is a perfect machine in theory.
God created us perfect.?
But at the same time, we keep using our bodies in many different ways.?
And at a certain time, we just need to understand the stage where we are in life, that the food that we used to eat without a problem now, your gut cannot produce the same energy to help you digest this food.?
You need help.?
The same level of?
of activities that you were doing, maybe you need to change that.?
So we are perfect human beings and we need to just understand where we are in life and we'll work with that.?
But at the same time, just priorities shift when we're younger.?
want to work, we want to take care of the children.?
Then after that, when we start to feel sick, we start to take care of ourselves.?
When we start to have health condition, we try to address it.?
So it's according to what we see is important.?
We don't realize when we're younger that we were able to just go to the bathroom easily without a problem.?
We start to appreciate more of these small things as we?
get older and we start to have problems in digestion.?
I want to tell you in the pharmacy problems with gut health and digestion, constipation, diarrhea, these are very common after 40 years of age and currently also because of how stress is over the roof for many people and we have like the screens are taking many hours of our day now.?
So that all make it harder and harder to go to the bathroom.?
Is it never too late to get active?
It's never too late.?
It's never too late.?
Start today.?
But if you have not been active for a while, try to have some guidance what kind of activities that you can do.?
If you want to go to the gym from today and you haven't gone for years and years, please get guidance from the gym instructor or someone who can help you to just kind of start slowly so you don't hurt yourself.?
Hey, Dr. Oma, it's been a blast.
As always, it's really great to reconnect with you.
I'll be coming in to get my blue and COVID shots later on this morning and be armed for what we know is coming, right?
friend.
All right.
Once again, that's Dr. Oma on the farmers.
How can people get in touch with you, Dr. Oma?
people can always call us at 262-429-9429 or go to www.wiltopiarx.com.?
All right, that's the one and only Dr. Omar the pharmacist and it's so great you've been in the pharmacy with Dr. Omar on the Earl Ingram show.
Dr. Omar, we'll see you the next time.
you.
All right, that's a wrap for what's going on with Earl Ingram.