Dr. Gary Steinberg

Yeah.

And the information is still emerging.

For a traumatic brain injury in general, not a good idea to take an aspirin as opposed to a stroke or a TIA.

Where you would want to take an aspirin.

Because if you have injuries, say you have a contusion to the brain and there's some traumatic damage, taking a blood thinner might cause that to worsen or cause a hemorrhage.

I don't know any relationship unless you're taking so much that your blood pressure is sky high.

My blood pressure tends to be pretty low.

Lots of benefits evidently to caffeine in terms of health.

Yeah, and people are getting total body scans.

So I think there are benefits and risks involved.

So the benefit is that you might pick up something that should be treated, like an early cancer or a large aneurysm in the brain, which would have a higher tendency to bleed.

But many times, and I see patients all the time who are referred for a tiny aneurysm,

a blister on a blood vessel in the brain that was found incidentally on a total body scan.

And these aneurysms, which can be one or two millimeters, sometimes we don't even consider those as real aneurysms, they don't need to be treated in most cases.

And so it's a little controversial because people can be worried about them even if they're reassured.

Other examples are you find something in the brain or elsewhere in the body, not sure what it is, and then in order to determine what it is, patients start having more invasive biopsies and tests, which can lead to what we call iatrogenic injuries.

Iatrogenic is caused by the physicians.

So I think you have to be very thoughtful when you interpret the results of these total body or even brain scans.

And I would recommend talking with a specialist about it if you're concerned.

But people wonder, I have this, we were discussing it earlier today, actually, with one of your colleagues.