Dr. Barry Baines

And so even though my weight is the same, my BMI is going up.

so i agree with you that we we need a better way to calculate uh bmi um but i think it's a you know one of the solutions is uh community-based efforts rather than just trying to um you know pound on people for you know eat right and exercise and and things like that because everybody's busy um certainly in minnesota not in sarasota but in minnesota

Going outside to exercise, probably starting tomorrow, we're supposed to get some snow.

You know, that's dangerous, too, because I think we're going to probably talk a little bit about polypharmacy and the problem that that gets into with falls and stuff like that if you don't understand the interactions with all the medications.

And then the one last thing, and then hopefully I'm answering the questions okay here, has to do with the explosion in pharmaceuticals.

I go back to when I was in medical school.

And within a few years of graduating medical school, the number of drugs that were out had tripled or quadrupled.

And again, we're talking about medical school for me was 50 years ago.

And it just seems every day more and more medications come out.

And drug interactions.

I remember my first pharmacology lecture.

The first thing the professor said was, just remember, all drugs are poisons.

And, you know, you watch these commercials and it seems that it talks about all these great things.

And then they go through this list for like 30 seconds of all the side effects of medications that make you say, oh, my God, you know, do I really want to take?

Do I really want to take that?

Because all of these side effects are extremely problematic and that doesn't even get into the drug interactions.

You know, it used to be, you know, there were just a few drugs with their interactions.

Now it's just about everything.

And I know that there are some apps online where you can put in your drugs and

And, you know, kind of red flag the ones that are, you know, particularly problematic.