Could a sleep supplement help reduce chronic pain?
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From an Ipswich fish and chip shop to the epicentre of Australian politics.
Please explain. One Nation's rise.
This is the unlikely story of One Nation. Well, I'm back. Is it a passing protest vote or a permanent realignment of Australian politics?
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Norman, first of all, commiserations that Scotland didn't make it past the group stage of the World Cup.
That's okay. There's one consolation, which is that they drank Boston by.
Is that why you came back to Australia? You were part of the Tartan army exodus?
There was no beer left in Boston. There was plenty of beer in New York, though. Oh, okay. I see. Not that I drink much. How have you been sleeping since you got back? Does jet lag really get you? Jet lag normally gets me, but I'm using one of those apps at the moment, which includes melatonin at sometimes quite odd times of the day. So I'm actually feeling quite perky, but it's only 24 hours in. Okay, well, that's great. We'll see how you are next week. And interestingly, in relation to one of the stories, this is presumably why you're asking me about my sleep and melatonin. One of our stories today is actually about melatonin helping musculoskeletal pain. And I have to say that my famous knee, well, anybody who listens knows, well, regularly knows I've got a bad knee.
I've got no pain today. So is that magical? Oh, okay. Is that jet lag diluting my brain? I don't know. We've got an N of 1, though. But that's all coming up on The Health Report. I'm Belinda Smith on Wurundjeri land. And I'm Norman Swan on Gadigal land.
Also on the show, T-cells. They're an important part of our immune defences, but they also behave differently in people with celiac disease.
And does it have a clinical, practical outcome? It could. Or it's just really interesting research?
Well, we'll find out, won't we?
Another story we've got today is, does spinal stimulation help people with paraplegia get more mobile? Spinal stimulation's been pretty controversial, but it's a really interesting study. All right, Norman, what's in news this week? Well, an interesting study really reviewing how well people's asthma is under control. It's slightly out of date, although it's a new study just published. But so it goes through to 2021. So really during the middle of COVID. But it's interesting because pre-COVID, there was that thunderstorm asthma event, which you would remember well, Belle. in Melbourne, which really occurred. People got really serious exacerbations of their asthma, some of them life-threatening. And it showed that people whose asthma was really poorly under control.
And this is looking at people, about 5,000 people, and their asthma symptoms here. And what they found was that, at least in 2021, which is kind of the latest data that we've got, that people's asthma control was poor. They were overusing the blue puffer, the Ventolin puffer, and they were underusing preventive treatments, inhaled corticosteroids. And there was a definite relationship between the use of inhaled corticosteroids, because those are preventers, and the quality of their asthma. And we've done a few stories over this in the last few months. It just shows that... The blue puffer should not be the core treatment for asthma. You've got to get down prevention. If you're getting regular wheeze and cough, you're waking up during the night, you're sucking on your blue puffer too much, you've really got to talk to your GP about getting on effective asthma care.
Yeah, it's interesting. You said, like you said, this study is a survey from 2021 before the new asthma guidelines, which came out last year. And this was in the Medical Journal of Australia, led by researchers at the They say that because this survey was undertaken during COVID, when hospitalisations were lower anyway, the actual number reported of people being hospitalised for asthma-related conditions might actually be higher than what was reported in the study because there was this sort of baseline of fewer hospitalisations anyway.
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