But I'd love to hear how this, um, connection to the other side happened for you.

Mm.

Yeah, well, right as you opened us in, uh, when you opened the space before we really started the recording, um, we were sitting together in kind of the bliss space as you said words [laughs] to invite that bliss space, which is all it takes, friends.

Some, some intentions and, um, some breaths, and you're there.

But as you started that, Becky, I felt Kira and my dad come through, and they're still sitting here.

They're on my left-hand side.

And so my dad crossed over when I was 20.

So tell me about that.

And then you tied that with one, I think maybe Jane, I think you tied the chest feeling to something as well.

Yep.

Yep.

That was more of my shenanigans.

No, true story.

I wasn't tying it.

So my father died of lupus and he had basically his lungs filled up.

So what's going on there?

And that's why a lot of cardiologists recommend that elderly people especially take what's called that baby aspirin, 81 milligrams, as opposed to the much larger regular aspirin, right?

That is absolutely correct.

And we know, especially beyond the age of 60, you know, aging sort of catches up with all of us.

And you can get fragility, fragile capillaries, especially in your hands, in your forearms.

thinning of the skin, loss of collagen that supports all of those capillaries.

And then on top of that, if you are taking quadruple the dose of aspirin, you can end up with what we call senile purpura or actinic purpura, meaning purple patches commonly seen on the dorsal surfaces of your hands, meaning the back of your hands, and also on your forearms.

You know, often patients will think that if one dose is good for me, if I double it, it must be twice as good.

Is it possible that the president is taking other medications that could further contribute to the bruising that has not been disclosed by the White House?

What's your initial reaction to this study? Yeah.

Thanks for having me, Wolf and Pamela.

First of all, this is an abstract.

And so an abstract is sort of an encapsulation of what you expect, but it is not a full flesh release of the data.

Secondly, many limitations in this study, for instance, It's unclear whether people who were in the control group actually had just more chronic types of insomnia or longer durations.

The reason that is important is because sleeplessness in itself is a risk factor for heart disease.

So it's unclear whether melatonin was actually causing that or if melatonin is just a marker of people who have more severe levels of sleeplessness.

From a cardiologist perspective, help us understand how it could impact the heart, or if it's more of just what you said, that dynamic of it could just be people who have insomnia who take it, you know, and that impacts the heart.

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