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Are You Ready For The Holidays?

• Dr. Michael Koren • Episode 364

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Dr. Michael Koren joins Kevin Geddings to answer the question: What does it mean to be medically ready for the holidays. The doctor discusses how the holidays are fun, but changes in schedules can throw off precise medical routines. The doctor explains that people need to plan around limited pharmacy hours, dietary challenges, and risks of excessive alcohol consumption. As long as you are prepared, you're medically ready for the holidays!

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Kevin Geddings:

Anyway, Dr. Cornet's with us, and of course, Encore Docs has offices right here in St. John's County and throughout our part of North Florida where you can participate in clinical trials, for example, including leading to you know maybe some enhancements to the COVID vaccines, flu shots, all sorts of other items, right?

Dr. Michael Koren:

Absolutely. Absolutely. And I had a question for you today. So how many times in the last week did somebody say, Are you ready for the holidays? Are you ready for Christmas? Um, how many times would you say?

Kevin Geddings:

Dozens, if not hundreds, you know. I'm not sure what the answer is to that, by the way. I mean, am I ready? It doesn't matter if I'm ready, it's coming.

Dr. Michael Koren:

Yeah, well, exactly. That that's right. We actually had a learn with the leaders here at our site on University Boulevard in Jacksonville talking about that, what that means for somebody with heart disease. Are you ready for the holidays? And to your point, I'm not sure exactly what that means, but it's a nice thing to say, I guess, around this time of year, just to to celebrate the end of the year and celebrate the fact that we're running into holiday season and and to create some good fellowship. So that part of it I get, but what does it really mean?

Kevin Geddings:

Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. I guess we're we're trying to gauge people's, you know, have you done all your Christmas shopping? You know, that are you ready for family members to come and invade your home that you you know, that you probably don't even like, you know, that sort of thing.

Dr. Michael Koren:

Yeah, exactly. Yeah, there you go. Well, from a from a medical standpoint and a research standpoint, it may mean something a little bit different. Okay. So, you know, for example, simple things like maybe pharmacies are not open the way they would be normally. So do you have your medicine on board? You're going to have family and guests, and maybe your eating habits are going to change. Well, that's not good for a number of different circumstances. And we talked quite a bit about that for somebody, for example, with congestive heart failure. You don't want to start eating a bunch of salt or increasing your alcohol to a point where you're going to develop atrial fibrillation. So, you know, these are real concerns and and something that needs to be thought through. So, yeah, are you ready for the holidays is not only about meeting the needs of your guests and gifts and and family, but also meeting your own medical needs. And part of that also is to have different health strategies. You and I have talked about that quite a bit. So hopefully by this time of the year you have your vaccines in place for the winter illnesses, but if not, you know, maybe you need to do something to get ready for the holidays. Or if you are in a situation where you have some sort of medical condition that is kind of a little bit teetering, you may want to think, huh, I've got to be a little bit careful here. I need to make sure that I take my medicine correctly. You may want to check in with somebody on how to take my medicine. And maybe I want to actually add some additional protection. So, for example, if you have cholesterol issues, you may be thinking, oh, well, do I have the lipoprotein LA problem? And do I need to address that? I have I've had some problems with my stand in the past, but how much can I take during the holiday seasons? Because they do give me some degree of protection. So those a lot of these questions come out, and certainly we had a great turnout and a great response here at our Learn with the Leaders. And we learned quite a bit from family, uh, excuse me, from our friends and our family that in fact people do think about this, and part of being ready for the holidays is in fact being ready from a health standpoint.

Kevin Geddings:

Well, once again, a great New Year's resolution to make for 2026 that you're going to get a little bit more on top of your health care status, or that you want to participate in some clinical research. It could benefit not only yourself, a family member, but your friends and neighbors and loved ones all around you and society as a whole. And I know that sounds kind of grandiose, but that's exactly what you can do.

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Kevin Geddings:

Korn, we hope you have a great set of holidays. We'll talk with you next Monday morning, though. I hope you uh have a good time.

Dr. Michael Koren:

Seems to Kevin, Merry Christmas. And if I don't talk to you for no reason, happy new year.

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