BODYBUILDING, HEAVY LIFTING AND dealing with Hemorroids in training — Transcript

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1. 0:00[Music]
2. 0:15[Music]
3. 0:21Welcome to Rick's tip of the week. This
4. 0:23is a subject that a lot of people don't
5. 0:25like to discuss because it's
6. 0:26embarrassing, but it's a fact of life.
7. 0:28And they say that one out of every three
8. 0:30people suffer from hemorrhoids. Now,
9. 0:32you've seen these commercials on TV, and
10. 0:33if you're in a group of three, you know
11. 0:34that one of you got it. Maybe you. Well,
12. 0:37the reason I even bring this up is
13. 0:39because I've had people ask me about
14. 0:41them in the gym because of training.
15. 0:43Heavy squats, diet, you name it, can
16. 0:45create a lot of pressure at the end of
17. 0:48the colon because you're pushing down,
18. 0:50of course. And what these are, what
19. 0:52hemorrhoids are, what people don't
20. 0:53really realize, they are varicose veins.
21. 0:54They're veins that get big and they
22. 0:58swell up and they start to hurt. They
23. 1:00burn, they itch, they bleed, they can be
24. 1:03very, very annoying. Um, I know a lot of
25. 1:05guys who have them and a lot of guys
26. 1:07that don't take care of them because
27. 1:08they're afraid to go have them looked
28. 1:09at. They're afraid of the doctor going
29. 1:11up there and checking it out and it's
30. 1:12really not that bad. Um, I had them for
31. 1:15years when I was wrestling for years and
32. 1:17it would drive me nuts before a match
33. 1:19and they would bleed and they would burn
34. 1:20and they would itch and they'd bleed in
35. 1:22the toilet and I think, "God, I got to
36. 1:23do something about this.
37. 1:24Finally, I went to a doctor and I said,
38. 1:26"What can we do?" And he he says, I
39. 1:29said, "Do you have to cut them because I
40. 1:30know that the cutting them and stitching
41. 1:32is a whole month or two of recovery and
42. 1:34it burns and it's just miserable." He
43. 1:36said, "No, there's many ways to take
44. 1:38care of this." And for you guys that are
45. 1:40afraid to do this, there's a pretty
46. 1:41simple way. What they do is they numb
47. 1:44the area. They go in with a little gun,
48. 1:47like a staple gun, which you don't even
49. 1:49feel, and it shoots a rubber band, a
50. 1:51tiny little band like you'd find on
51. 1:52braces around the base of the vein,
52. 1:55which strangles it. And then they they
53. 1:57use um um u they freeze it um with a
54. 2:02spray, and then they just disintegrate
55. 2:05and go away. Simple as that. You don't
56. 2:06even feel it. You come home, you soak in
57. 2:08a tub for a couple of days, for a half
58. 2:10hour at a time, and they vanish. They
59. 2:12disappear and you'll never see them
60. 2:14again. Maybe later in life maybe you get
61. 2:16one or two back again. You do the same
62. 2:18treatment. Um I I made some notes about
63. 2:21this because there are a lot of
64. 2:23symptoms. Like I said, there's a lot of
65. 2:24itching, there's pain, sharp pain, and
66. 2:27then there's bleeding. And then you
67. 2:28might not have any of that. You might
68. 2:29just have one of the three. You can also
69. 2:32get what they call as a fissure, which
70. 2:34is a little tear, which comes in there,
71. 2:36and it's about the size of a pin head,
72. 2:37but it feels like it's a razor blade.
73. 2:39And you can get this from squatting. And
74. 2:41when you're squatting deep, you're
75. 2:42putting a lot of pressure on the butt
76. 2:44and a lot of the on the opening. And
77. 2:45when you squeeze and strain and come up,
78. 2:47it creates even more and and it makes
79. 2:49these little veins that come out. Um,
80. 2:52they are varicose veins. They're filled
81. 2:53with blood and as you squeeze, the blood
82. 2:55fills up into them and they start to
83. 2:57protrude. You can feel them when you go
84. 2:59to the toilet and then you can push them
85. 3:01back in with a little Vaseline if you
86. 3:02want and keep them up there and they'll
87. 3:04stay in for a while until you strain
88. 3:05again.
89. 3:07What happens when you stand up is the
90. 3:08blood comes out of them and they pull
91. 3:10back up. So, I just want to bring this
92. 3:12up. I know it's a touchy subject. I know
93. 3:13it's touchy for sure. I know it's
94. 3:15something that's embarrassing for a lot
95. 3:16of guys. They want to talk about it. And
96. 3:18so, I'm talking about it because I think
97. 3:19it's something you need to know. They
98. 3:21have uh over-the-counter things like
99. 3:23preparation age. They have all types of
100. 3:25ointments that shrink and reduce and
101. 3:27relieve the pain. Calamine lotion comes
102. 3:29in ointment. It stops the burning. It's
103. 3:30a cooling sensation. I have all these
104. 3:32from my doctor. Uh you can also get a
105. 3:34prescription from him that does things
106. 3:36and one time he gave me a nitroglycerin
107. 3:38ointment. He said what that does is it
108. 3:40creates uh blood to the area if you have
109. 3:43a fissure of course and it helps it heal
110. 3:44because there may not be any
111. 3:46circulation. My question to him was
112. 3:48nitroglycerin if I sit real real hard am
113. 3:50I going to explode? And he just laughed.
114. 3:51No, you're not going to do that. So um I
115. 3:54wouldn't be afraid to go to the doctor
116. 3:55if I were you and have them looked at.
117. 3:57It's really painless to be be honest
118. 3:59with you. They do open it up and go in
119. 4:01with the scope. Yeah, it's a little
120. 4:03uncomfortable, but it's not terrible.
121. 4:04Now, the other thing they can do, which
122. 4:06I've had done, is they inject them. And
123. 4:08it's a phenal oil solution, which
124. 4:12basically creates scar tissue at the
125. 4:14base of the vein. And when the scar
126. 4:17tissue adheres and starts to grow, it
127. 4:19stops the blood supply. By stopping the
128. 4:21blood supply, they disappear. Now, I've
129. 4:24had some bad times where they've really
130. 4:26bothered me and I've gone in, went into
131. 4:28the doctor, he injected. By the time I
132. 4:29left the office, got in my car, it had
133. 4:31already shrunk down. It was It was like
134. 4:33night and day. What a relief that was.
135. 4:36So, if you guys do suffer from this,
136. 4:38there's precautions you can take. First
137. 4:39of all, add fiber to your diet. I have
138. 4:42fiber every night. When you're on a high
139. 4:43pre protein, low carb, you're not
140. 4:45getting that bulk. It will constipate
141. 4:46you. Squeezing can cause these varicose
142. 4:49veins. So having fiber helps relieve
143. 4:51that. Maybe get rid of the symptom.
144. 4:53Maybe you won't even get them. You might
145. 4:54get one or two. I've had as many as
146. 4:56nine. They were removed. So um take care
147. 5:00of it. You don't want this to turn into
148. 5:01something like colon cancer down the
149. 5:03road, which who knows? It could, could
150. 5:05not, but better to take care of it now.
151. 5:08But the injections are painless. You'd
152. 5:09think a needle going in there would hurt
153. 5:10and it doesn't at all. You don't feel
154. 5:12anything. There's no nerve tissue there.
155. 5:13And that's what he explained to me. So I
156. 5:15go in, I ask for the injections maybe
157. 5:16once every six months. I feel an area
158. 5:18that bothers me. I go and give me a
159. 5:19shot, dog. And he does. Gone from there.
160. 5:21Anyway, I want to bring this up. I think
161. 5:24it's uh something you should take care
162. 5:26of. I think if it does bother you, call
163. 5:28a specialist, which is a proctologist.
164. 5:30They know this area well. They take a
165. 5:32look at it. They'll analyze it. And you
166. 5:34know what? It it'll take a big load off
167. 5:35your mind because when you're having
168. 5:37issues like this and you go to train or
169. 5:39you go to eat or go out in the evening
170. 5:40and you want to go to dinner and you
171. 5:41know this is bothering you, it can ruin
172. 5:43your whole night. It can ruin your whole
173. 5:44week. It can ruin your whole month. can
174. 5:46ruin your whole life if you don't take
175. 5:48care of it. So, my advice to you on
176. 5:50Rick's tip of the week, if you do suffer
177. 5:51from hemorrhoids, if you do have this
178. 5:53problem, don't be ashamed to go to the
179. 5:55doctor and ask, get it taken care of,
180. 5:56and you'll be happier if you do. And
181. 5:59that's my tip of the week, and stay
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