Armor Men's Health Show
The Armor Men's Health Hour with hosts Dr. Sandeep Mistry and Donna Lee is a weekly show covering a multitude of medical topics important to men. Dr. Mistry is a Board Certified Urologist and Donna Lee is a Manager at the Practice and a comedian. The medical and wellness discussions will be informative, interesting, and funny. Dr. Mistry and Donna Lee discuss topics such as erectile dysfunction, prostate cancer, enlarged prostate, testosterone therapy, fertility, kidney stones, vasectomies and so much more. Their holistic approach to men's health which includes nutrition, weight loss, sleep health, sex therapy, and pelvic floor physical therapy will also be showcased. In addition, they have prominent and respected physicians and specialists throughout the Austin area who will give their views on important men's health topics such as orthopedics, cardiology, endocrinology, internal medicine, general wellness, and much, much more.
Armor Men's Health Show
Bonus Episode: Are "Urine" Control of Your Health? Dr. Mistry Talks Kidney Tumors and Holistic Urology
In this segment, Dr. Mistry and Donna Lee discuss the benefits of a holistic approach to urology. When patients have control over their overall health and medical treatments, they have much better health outcomes. Dr. Mistry also explains the latest in robot-guided laparoscopic surgery when relating the case of a new patient with an 8-inch kidney tumor. After another urologist told her that she would need a huge incision and lose her whole kidney, she sought a second opinion from Dr. Mistry. Fortunately, he was able to offer her the very best, state-of-the-art treatment options. Not only was she able to have the tumor removed laparoscopically while keeping part of her kidney, she had very little down-time during recovery. At NAU Urology Specialists, we are huge fans of the second opinion. If you or someone you love has been diagnosed with any kind of urologic tumor, or is interested in learning more about holistic urology, please give us a call today!
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Dr. Mistry is a board-certified urologist and has been treating patients in the Austin and Greater Williamson County area since he started his private practice in 2007.
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Speaker 2:Welcome back to the Armor Men's Health Show with Dr. Mystery and Donna Lee.
Speaker 1:Hello
Speaker 3:And welcome to the Armor Men's Health Show. I'm Dr. Mr , your host here, as always with my very funny and soon to be a little older. Oh , co-host Donna Lee .
Speaker 4:That's right. 47 Again, thank you.
Speaker 3:You know when you have to lie by your age and you're 47 now you're old.
Speaker 4:Now you know you're old now you're old. You tell I'm why That's
Speaker 3:Right. When Dang , when you're fake ages old.
Speaker 4:Oh, fake ages old. When
Speaker 3:You're fake ages old, that's a problem.
Speaker 4:You're very close to my fake age <laugh> .
Speaker 3:Very good, very good. I'll grow up soon. Day . I'm Dr. Mystery . I'm a board certified urologist. And this is a show that's brought to you by the urology practice, n a u urology specialist that was started in 2007 in the heart of central Texas in Austin, Texas. That's right. Round Rock,
Speaker 4:Texas. Round Rock, Texas. Where there is a round rock. You know,
Speaker 3:There is a round rock. I've
Speaker 4:Never seen it.
Speaker 3:I think it gets defaced and , uh, graffitied all the time. Really? I think so. It's just a rock, you know, in the middle of a stream.
Speaker 4:Oh, I didn't know that.
Speaker 3:Uhhuh <affirmative> . It's not like out in the middle of nowhere, like protected behind glass <laugh> . It
Speaker 4:Should be .
Speaker 3:You . You can stand on the Round Rock. Oh,
Speaker 4:We should record out there someday . Yes. Brought to you by Round Rock. Yes . Round Rock. Yes . Round Rock.
Speaker 3:Round rock babbling. Brooks <laugh> . Our urology practice is unique in the manner in which we approach men's health and urologic health, both for men and women, all told we have a , a very holistic approach. We try to use more natural and nutritional based therapies in addition to surgery and medications and all the standard things you'll get from a urologist. But when you come to us with a problem, it's not just going to be a medication or a surgical procedure that you're gonna be offered. You're gonna be offered ways of behavioral therapy. Can therapy, you'll be offered psychological therapy if that's something that's important to you. Mm-hmm . <affirmative> or your problem justifies it. And I think in the end, you leave , uh, your treatment here feeling much better cared for mm-hmm . <affirmative> and much better prepared to deal with things going forward. That's
Speaker 4:Right. You're the first surgeon I've ever met who , um, will prescribe supplements first. Sometimes, well,
Speaker 3:Sometimes. Mm-hmm . <affirmative> , especially young patients who are not looking to get on meds. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> . And , uh, I'm a big believer that feeling like you're in control of your health, you're in control, is a major step in getting you to take control of your disease process. So
Speaker 4:You mean you are in control, not you're in control.
Speaker 3:Not you're in control .
Speaker 4:We offer
Speaker 3:Also not You are . Yeah. We offer lots of urine control. <laugh> . Yeah . That's pretty good. Thank you. That's why you're a professional. Mm-hmm . <affirmative> , uh, the idea that many times when patients are diagnosed with a new cancer diagnosis or stones or anything else mm-hmm. <affirmative> that they feel is outta their control, the first thing they ask about is what should I eat?
Speaker 4:Yeah. Every time you said, and
Speaker 3:It, it psychologically has everything to do with about control. Well, I can't control that disease process. It sounds like it's outta outta control. Right. But what can I control? And I can control what I put in my body. It'd be nice if we did that when we're healthy, not after we get sick, but there's still things that we can do after we get sick. And so if you want to come see us as a patient , uh, want to establish care or our favorite second opinions mm-hmm. <affirmative> . That's right. So you're already under care. That's , you're happy. Not Happy's recently diagnosed with prostate cancer, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, and want a second opinion. It may be that we recommend the exact same treatment as your other doctor , surgery, radiation, whatever it may be. Mm-hmm . <affirmative> . But then at least we can layer it on with all of our nutritional and biomechanical and physical therapy and all the other things that we do here. Right. Uh , to maximize what your functional outcome's gonna look like afterwards.
Speaker 4:Sunny second opinion mystery,
Speaker 3:Sunny second opinion mystery
Speaker 4:<laugh> . I like that. But how the ,
Speaker 3:It's not the best nickname that I've had.
Speaker 4:No second opinion mystery <laugh> . I like it though . It wasn't ver
Speaker 3:Pro probably the most accurate though. Right.
Speaker 4:<laugh> . So how your wellness, our wellness department started was back in the day when surgeons would tell patients , uh, you should really go lose 40 pounds before I do surgery. And then they would send them off into the world, didn't they? They didn't really have a plan.
Speaker 3:That's right. Many and many of them, you know, even after treatment, whether it be for like kidney stones or anything else, like they just, there's just no follow up mm-hmm . <affirmative> on how , how they're gonna be managed. And I , I think that that management's real important. Right. Uh, your questions really drive this practice and the, and the show mm-hmm . <affirmative> . And so we encourage you to ask us questions and really engage us. Donna, how do people make an appointment with us? Where do they meet us? And what's our email? Our
Speaker 4:Email address is Armor men's health@gmail.com, where you can send your amazing questions. I try my best to respond to every one of them, and if you miss the show where we answer your question, I will send it to you in a podcast , um, to your email address. Our phone number is (512) 238-0762 during the week. You can certainly ask for me. And our website is armor men's health.com, where you can see our smiling faces right there on the front. Dr. Mystery , we were about halfway through this segment, but I wanted to ask you, what were your favorite cases last week in, in office ? I love it when you talk about the actual in-office things.
Speaker 3:Well , uh, uh, two things happened that were awesome. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> . So number one, we had a superfan. Oh,
Speaker 4:Warren. Hello Warren.
Speaker 3:One of our patients, <laugh> , who's listened to every show, knew I everything and his cataloged every single thing came in and he's exactly why we do the show. Right. He is someone who has a longstanding history of B P H. He had elevated p ss a , he's got other things going on with him mm-hmm. <affirmative> and helping him navigate this process in a way that helped where he understood what was going on. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and he understood what the next steps were and making sure that he was holistically taken care of, I think is exceptionally , uh, good for him. Right. Uh, we have ways of treating erectile dysfunction that people don't , uh, necessarily utilize everywhere. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and if, if , if the treatment's not right for you, we don't do it. Right . And that's, that's also great. But I think my favorite case , um, uh, this week was , uh, an eight centimeter kidney tumor.
Speaker 4:Ooh . Kidney tumor. That's
Speaker 3:Right. We had a 62 year old woman, she was sent to us , uh, because of a CT scan she had in the emergency room for abdominal pain. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> and a and a , the CAT scan found a tumor on her kidney. Oh my . Now this , uh, what was interesting is, so number one, about 90% of kidney tumors today are found incidentally. That means that mm-hmm . <affirmative> , they don't have any pain or symptoms.
Speaker 4:Why? Why incidentally, because they had, they literally
Speaker 3:Have no pain. A CAT scan for no rea for some other reason. So by luck, by luck in some ways it's kind of, you know, super lucky that they had this imaging done. And because if you do have symptoms of a kidney tumor mm-hmm . <affirmative> , it'll be blood in the urine or pain or feeling something in your flank, and that means that thing is super big. Oh my
Speaker 4:God. Like
Speaker 3:12 inches big, and now you have really little chance of surviving this kind of thing. Oh
Speaker 4:My heaven . So
Speaker 3:If you have symptoms of, of cancer, it could already be too late. Mm-hmm . You're beyond the curative stage. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> , uh, which, which leads me to what a lot of patients say all the time when we diagnose 'em with prostate cancer or bladder cancer or kidney cancer, the first thing they say is, well, I'm not feeling anything as if they're like, questioning that I gave them like a false diagnosis. You know, like , well, I'm not feeling anything. I don't think I should have treatment. Right . I say to them, well, once you start feeling something, things go downhill real quick. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> . So better to find these things early in the process. Right. So we perform something called a robot assisted, laparoscopic, partial kidney removal or partial nephrectomy. Mm-hmm. <affirmative>, it's a surgery. Takes about two hours of operative time. We go in, we find the kidney, we find the kidney tumor. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> , we ultrasound , uh, right there inside the body and try to determine how, how, how deep into the kidney it goes. We find the artery and the vein of the kidney and clamp them off with a clamp. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> . And then in under 30 minutes it's like, race by the clock.
Speaker 4:Oh, wow.
Speaker 3:Because you can't keep the thing clamped forever. Oh. You'd have to take the kidney tumor off and sew it back together.
Speaker 4:Robotically.
Speaker 3:Robotically.
Speaker 4:Wow. That's , it's super cool superhero stuff.
Speaker 3:It is super cool every time . Do you care wear a cape every time ? <laugh> and nothing else <laugh> ? Uh , it is. No, no, no. I wear, I'm fully clothed in the operating room, but , uh, it is , uh, it is , uh, one of the coolest operations that we do. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> , and this is , uh, in distinction, when I trained 15 years ago, we didn't have the robot. We didn't have Oh , right . All of this laparoscopic stuff. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> , like she would've lost this kidney. Like we didn't, we would never even would've tried to remove part of it 20 years ago, let's say we would've just booked her and taken her kidney out. That's not
Speaker 4:Too long
Speaker 3:Ago. That's not too long ago compared to , uh, but , but, but how science and technology has changed over the last, even just during my , uh, medical career has been amazing. Right . And so if you're out there and you've been diagnosed with a kidney tumor , um, this particular patient came to me actually as a second opinion. Oh, really? She had no insurance. She was seen in the emergency room, saw another doctor in town, that other doctor didn't feel fully confident that they could remove just the tumor and Oh . And they thought the kidney needed to go. And that
Speaker 4:Was a
Speaker 3:Neurologist . They , they were gonna do it with a bigger incision. Mm . And , uh, I'm so happy for her that she came to us because we were able to, you know, provide her with state-of-the-art treatment and you , she's gonna go home in two days and do Well, the tumor was removed and , uh, you know, she'll probably live a completely normal life with just missing just a little part of her kidney . What's
Speaker 4:The downtime for that? She's gonna be in bed for a week or so.
Speaker 3:No, you're not in bed at all. We want you to get up and walk around. Oh. Uh, and so we want you to walk around. There's a lifting restriction mm-hmm. <affirmative> , uh, that lasts for about four weeks. Hmm . But for the most part, you're gonna feel and do fine , uh, within just a few days. Wow.
Speaker 4:That's amazing.
Speaker 3:And that's really true of a lot of our advanced prostate , uh, and kidney robotic operations. Mm-hmm. <affirmative> , uh, people are up and walking , uh, much sooner than you think that they would be. And they feel pretty normal pretty quickly.
Speaker 4:Really. Well, that's fascinating. That was a good, I'm glad I asked you that question. Hmm . Um, before we forget though, let's give a very clear shout out to Warren.
Speaker 3:Yes. Warren.
Speaker 4:Say Warren. Warren,
Speaker 3:We love you. We love you , Warren. We hope , we hope that you're listening right now.
Speaker 4:He was lucky enough to get a very fancy t-shirt that says he's nuts for urology, just like the rest of us.
Speaker 3:If you call us with a question or send us a question or send us any personal insights, we'll send you a shirt too. We have, you know, a few of them .
Speaker 4:Well, we actually don't. I had to order more so there. Hmm . That's our marketing budget, dead in the water with the t-shirts.
Speaker 3:How do people send those questions and how do they get hold
Speaker 4:Of ? You can reach us at Armor men's health@gmail.com. Our website is armor men's health.com. And please check out our podcasts wherever you listen to podcasts. They are awesome. They're free, and they are amazing. Because
Speaker 3:I said something .
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