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Good morning everybody and welcome to the Balancing Act.
We are so glad you joined us this morning.
I'm Julie Moran.
Good morning, I'm Olga Villaverde.
Ok, so are you a car girl?
I love cars.
I don't want to work on the car.
Exactly.
So that means you don't properly maintain yours right?
Sorry, well.
Who can do it?
It's the manicure that counts.
(Laughter).
Especially the tires.
I'm guilty of letting my husband take care of that, but you know
what?
No more.
This girl's going to get down and dirty.
We're learning how to take proper care of our tires, plus
the way you drive can also affect the longevity of your
tires so alot of education here for you this morning.
Yea, I'm glad, I'll get my manicure dirty too.
We'll do it together.
And then we'll get a re-manicure after.
Yea, absolutely.
And switching gears, also an important health topic on
today's show.
IBS, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, an uncomfortable subject for
sure to talk about but we have some
positive news for those who suffer from it.
I got to tell you, my brother suffers from it so it's really
valuable information because it can be painful and life
changing for many people.
Absolutely.
The Balancing Act starts right now.
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Ok, touchy subject alert.
Here it is.
You're in the bathroom constantly because you have the
runs.
Now it could be embarrassing debilitating.
It can even affect your daily life.
And worst of all your doctor may not even think it's a true
medical condition.
So what do you do.
How do you get the right diagnosis?
This morning we're joined by two experts on intestinal disorders.
Here to talk about this are Dr. Christine Frissora and Dr.
Victoria Jasion.
Good morning.
Pleasure to be here.
Thank you for being here ladies.
Thanks Olga.
I do appreciate it.
Doctor, let me start with you Dr. Frissora.
This sounds a little bit like IBS and the reason I say this is
because my husband suffers from this kind of condition
and we talk about it alot.
Open door policy when we talk about things like this.
Is it IBS?
Well IBS or Irritable Bowel Syndrome is a combination of
symptoms that can include abdominal pain,
bloating, diarrhea and urgency.
Ok.
Now, is your husband going to kill you?
How does he feel about America know this?
He knows that I tell everybody everything so there you go.
But you know what?
We need to educate people on things like this.
I think it's important because alot of patients suffer.
It's embarrassing for the patient and their families.
It can interfere with work.
What if you're a pilot and you have to go to the bathroom?
Their fear of having an accident.
Now, I've heard of IBSD.
Now what is that?
IBSD or Irritable Bowel Syndrome with Diarrhea is when diarrhea
is the major problem.
The patients can have fecal urgency, they have to run to the
bathroom, they know where every bathroom is on the way from work
to where ever they're going.
Home or out or they're afraid to go out.
They're afraid to date.
Maybe they've soiled themselves.
They bring extra clothes where ever they go.
They have to wear diapers.
It's demoralizing.
It's debilitating.
It's embarrassing.
They really suffer from it.
And like we said earlier right now.
Alot of doctors don't know what it is.
They'll say it's not really a medical disorder, but for people
it is and it's really just destroying their lives.
It's important to know what is Irritable Bowel Syndrome and
what is cancer.
The most important thing is if there's an alarm system such as
fever, bleeding or weight loss you need to go see your doctor.
It could be cancer.
And education is key here and that's why I'm so happy you both
are here.
Dr. Jasion let me bring you in.
Great news here this morning.
Your company recently helped develop a naturally sourced
option for IBS and I know alot of people, millions of
people, suffer from this.
It's described as a prescription medical food especially for the
IBSD.
Yes, well it's a prescription medical food and it's called
EnteraGam.
And let's start with the discovery of EnteraGam.
So it was found that when you fed these proteins in EnteraGam
to young farm animals they thrived.
They no longer were malnourished, they no longer had
diharrea, they were generally healthier.
And about 60 percent of the proteins in EnteraGam are
immunagolins and that's just a fancy scientific
word for antibodies.
However, it's purified from a non dairy source so it's casein
free, whey free, lactose free.
It's also gluten free, soy free, dye free.
It's completely natural and completely unique.
Unique doctor making a difference in peoples' lives?
As a doctor I see hundreds of patients that suffer from the
diarrhea IBS and when I use this prescription medical food
therapy I see a good response.
Ok, I want to talk more about that response when we come back
so stay right there ladies.
Thank you so much.
And coming up after the break we're going to here more about
this unique break through therapy for IBSD and why it's so
encouraging for disease specialists and their patients.
Stay tuned.
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Welcome back to The Balancing Act.
We're rejoined by Gastro Interologists Dr. Christine
Frissora and medical scientist Dr. Victoria Jasion.
And we're talking about a ground breaking therapy for the
debilitating condition called IBSD.
Dr. Jasion, let me start with you know.
The therapy again is called EnteraGam.
Tell me what you saw, obviously it's a game changer here, what
you saw in the connection between the therapy and the
clinical trials you observed.
Well in clinical trials which were completed in both men and
women, patients reported a significant reduction in the
number of days per week that they experienced loose stools,
abdominal discomfort, urgency, flatulence, bloating and the
feeling of complete evacuation over a total
period of six weeks.
As far as how EnteraGam works, there's emerging evidence that
IBSD patients may have altered Gut Barrier function.
So Gut Barrier function just describes the job of your
intestinal wall.
It's the job of your intestines to make sure that you keep the
food stuff within your intestines but also allow
nutrients thru while keeping the bad things out.
So EnteraGam or the antibodies within EnteraGam, can bind to
bad microbrew components and prevent them from getting
into your intestinal wall.
Doctor Frissora, let me bring you in.
Um I know for a fact that 40 to 50 million Americans suffer from
IBS.
Two thirds of those are women.
How is EnteraGam helping them?
Well I do have alot of female patients who suffer from
diarrhea IBS and stress makes it worse.
I have a patient who's a lawyer and every time she has a trial
coming up she can't even function because she has
cramping and diarrhea and abdominal pain.
And what happens is when your stressed these gut bacteria that
Dr. Jasions' talking about they start growing and eating
everything you eat and the result is the diarrhea IBS
attack.
So stress can make IBS worse.
And here we have a way to break the cycle.
And Dr. Jasion, just to reiterate again, EnteraGam is a
prescription medical food.
Yes.
And that means it's drug free, dairy free, gluten free, soy
free and naturally sourced.
Correct.
Big game changer here.
How does a patient take it?
Is it a pill, is it powder?
Well it's actually a powder in a little sasche.
And they just tear open the sasche and they can mix the
product in anything they'd like so they can mix it in water,
they can mix it in flavored drinks, or they can mix it in
yogurt.
Soft foods for example.
Easy.
Dr. Frissora, you mentioned the lawyer.
You have hundreds of stories I'm sure, but I always like to end
on a high not especially for patients who suffer from
this, which is really difficult.
Tell me about a story you say, wow that person just changed
their life completely.
Well I remember a mom and she had three children.
She was a single mom and she had been at a restaurant where she
ate something that gave her terrible food poisoning and
after that food poisoning with the diarrhea she never quite
recovered.
She couldn't get to work on time and she couldn't lose her job.
She's a single mom.
But with this prescription medical food that you mix in
with the water she was able to get to work on time and her
intestinal function was able to normalize.
Excellent.
Thank you so much.
I really do appreciate your time.
I'm glad we could be here.
Thank you.
Dr. Jasion for more information on EnteraGam or anything IBSD
related, where do patients go?
EnteraGam.com.
And not just patients, everyone.
Everyone.
Thank you so much for your time and thank you for the education.
I do appreciate it.
And if you have IBSD symptoms, IBS, or you want to learn more
about EnteraGam go to our website, TheBalancingAct.com and
right now you can get all the resources you need right there.
And don't forget to join us on Facebook and Twitter.
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Did you know that you can own a fully loaded, high quality
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Joining me, high tech expert Elizabeth Little of iRULU
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Great to have you here again.
Thanks for having me back.
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Well this is a cool tablet.
What do you think is one of the reasons that makes it such a
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Well they run on Android technology, which connects to
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Wait a minute.
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Thank you Elizabeth.
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Ladies, the last time someone in your household needed tires who
bought them?
Well most likely it was you.
That's because, listen to this, over half of all tire purchases
are made by women.
Wow.
But the bad news is most of us know very little about tire
care.
In fact over 80 percent of Americans don't even check their
tire pressure properly.
That would be me.
Thankfully National Tire Safety Week is coming up next month so
who better to teach us some tire etiquette then Maureen Kline and
Dori Seaman from the most glamorous tire maker on earth,
Pirelli Tire.
Did you like that lead in?
Yea, I did.
Very glamorous.
Glamorous.
And you look glamorous today.
Thank you.
Welcome, thank you so much for being here.
Alright, so your the perfect person to tell us a little bit
about Pirelli and its' historic, iconic, larger then life brand.
Let's talk about that.
Well it's Italian so that's really why it's so glamorous.
And Italians are gorgeous.
(Laughter).
And the companys' been around 140 years, more then that
actually.
And we started in motor sports in 1907 with a race from Paris
to Peking.
And we are still in motor sports.
We've been doing that ever since.
We're a really dynamic brand.
You are dynamic.
Dori, would you like to add anything?
Yea, sure.
So today we are the official tire supplier of Formula One
which shows our focus on technology and engineering,
which basically translate into safer tires.
And not only that, but you also focus on sustainability which is
really important.
Let's talk about that quickly.
Well I'm very passionate about sustainability.
It spans environmental, social, and governance issues so we
track our carbon footprint for every tire for the whole
life cycle of the tire.
We have important sustainability goals that we seek to achieve.
And on the social front we do things like we provide
scholarships to the children of the Indonesian farmers
that we work with...
Oh that's great.
Who farm the natural rubber.
And we have a line of green performance tires.
Now I was reading here, National Tire Safety week is coming up
between May 24 thru the 30th.
So we want to talk about tire safety today and I think it's
really important because I'll be honest, my manicure is very
important before I touch a tire and I think alot of women...
PLease don't chip it.
(Laughter).
Exactly.
So listen to this 69 percent of cars have at least one under
inflated tire and 12 percent have at least one bald tire.
So lets do a bit of educating this morning.
Lets start with, let's see, tire pressure.
Maureen take that away.
So I keep this in my purse.
You keep it in your purse?
This is a tire gage.
She's a tire dork.
(Laughter).
Um, I do, you can keep it in your car though.
Ok, I'll do that.
And you just take it, you look inside the sticker on the car
door to find out the PSI that your tires need
to be inflated to.
Ok.
And you check it once a month.
Do you check your tires once a month?
Ok, I've never checked it at all.
Ohhhhhh, not good Olga.
Once a month, ok.
Now let's talk about bald tires and tread depth.
Yea, so you should check your tire depth.
It's easy just using a penny.
Olga, I brought you one if you don't mind demonstrating for us.
I've never done this.
Ok, you have to put Lincoln's head up, yup, so you can see it.
Then you place it head down into the tread.
If you can see, yup there you go.
Perfect.
You can't see any of his head, that means these are great you
know, it has great tread depth.
So your good to go.
If you can see any of his head though it means it's time to
replace and or rotate your tires.
It's important that the tires wear at the same level and so
you have to rotate them every five to eight thousand miles or
whatever your vehicles owner manual says.
And quickly educate me.
The danger behind having the bald tire.
Yea, I mean, it doesn't grip the road as well so it's not nearly
as safe.
You can slide around especially in wet conditions.
What about checking your tires when they're cold?
You want to check them when they're cold.
Um three hours after you drive let them sit and then you check
it because you know, the warm air over inflates them.
And what about climate?
Lets say I live in South Florida as opposed to someone that say
lives in Wyoming.
Does that make a difference in what you choose?
It does and Americans don't always know about winter time
tires.
It is so much better to change your tires in the winter.
Like would you wear high heels on a hike in the snow.
If your going to be driving around in snow and icy
conditions change your tires for the winter.
Really important.
And once again Dori, you mentioned it briefly.
Pirelli makes tires for Formula One drivers and for drivers with
baby formula all over them right?
Yes.
That's pretty nice.
We sure do.
We run the gamete.
Um I brought two with us today.
Over by you we have the brand new P0 All Season Plus.
It's a part of our most popular line P0 which is ultra high
performance which means it has exceptional grip and handling
which basically translates to a safer ride.
Right here we have our Scorpion Verde All Season Plus, which is
the tire for SUVs and CUVs.
Um if you notice it has Verde in the title which means green and
so this is environmentally conscious.
Also we have as part of our plus line which is the line made in
North America for this market specifically is our Chinteroto
P7 All Season Plus, which is another great touring tire.
I never thought I'd learn so much about tires in less then
five minutes.
Ladies if we want more information on tires safety
where can we go.
You can go to the rubber manufacturers association
website which is RMA.org or you can go to Pirelli.
Yea, you can visit our website.
US.Pirelli.com.
Can you imagine when I get home today I'm going to say to my
husband, watch this.
You show him.
He's going to be like, what happened to you today.
Thank you so much.
I don't know about changing a tire, but I will check the tire.
Yea, I wouldn't recommend you change it.
The manicure cost too much money.
Ladies, thank you for your time..
Thank you.
Now get your hands on some of these beautiful Italian Pirelli
tires and let me tell you they look nice.
Head to TheBalancingAct.com to find out how and don't forget to
follow us on Facebook and Twitter.
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