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Good morning, everybody. I'm asking Sandra to see her toenail polish. Oh, wow. I'm going to take a look. The internet. I know. Oh, yeah. True, yeah. We don't like talking about feet. Calm down there. Commercial break. That's a commercial report. Welcome back, Brooke. Yeah. Thanks. Hopefully my voice will join us in a couple days. You sound okay to me. Oh, good. Good, good, good. Yeah, lozenges. Yeah. You guys, today is National Chicken and Waffles Day. That's right. Yeah. The official national day was created in 2021. so recently, by Roscoe's House of Chicken and Waffles here in Southern California to celebrate the soulful comfort food and, of course, highlight community service. When's the last time you guys went to Roscoe's? It's been a very, very, very long time. It's been a long time, but it's so good. They make the perfect, I like a soft waffle. Yes. You know, a waffle that you can bend. I like their waffle. Especially if it's with chicken. It can't be too dry. They make a good omelet, too, with bits of fried chicken in it. They make me very hungry. Very good. I know, yeah. That sounds good, but we're not going to be eating right here. I'll tell you about this, though. Newport Beach has declared a local emergency to prepare for a prepare, of course, for the incoming storm that's planned. And there's king tides expected on Thursday. Mario is there to show us what's going on. The city of Newport Beach declaring a local emergency for the second time this month, now preparing for an incoming storm this week and king tides next week. We're along the Balboa Pier, and you can see crews are out here reinforcing this massive sand berm. One of the barriers protecting this part of the coastline. I'm really excited to see the berms up. I know they're going to help and it's the city's trying really hard to you know protect the homes and protect the homeowners and also preserve our sand and that'll be the next the next big push is how do we keep our sand. These are the scenes from earlier this month just 11 days ago. Parts of the Balboa Peninsula underwater after ocean water pushed into low-lying streets. Drivers navigating flooded roads with water reaching halfway up some car wheels. And the damage extends up the coast to Long Beach. After three storms, the peninsula's boardwalk has been left badly damaged with sections torn apart or closed off. And now an $11 million plus project is planned to rebuild part of the beach using sand from Alamitos Bay. That's expected to start today. We're individually putting sand bags in the spots that would have access to our property. So we're being as proactive as we can under those circumstances. I'm glad that they did this it's super helpful right now and also good for the waves I guess but we need to be protected. I think this is great effort and you see the guys are still working over there and I mean all the way down here so and we get we've got decent surf today bigger than usual. We shall see. And that's what a lot of residents are doing out here waiting and seeing what the ocean does here, keeping a close eye on the coast. For now, in Newport Beach, I'm Mario Ramirez. Back to you. Federal authorities in California are charging 28 foreign nationals in a sweep targeting alleged illegal voting. The Justice Department is saying the residents submitted fraudulent voter registrations as part of an initiative called Operation Protect the Vote. Federal officials blame California leaders for poor voter roll maintenance and earlier this morning we had LA County Registrar Recorder Dean Logan on Good Day LA and asked his reaction to the case well i think similar to the Secretary of State i think what's important to know here is it is two weeks before the election so i think the timing of this is interesting um it is based on um some data matching that the the federal government has claimed that they've done but they haven't shared that information with us in detail they've shared a list with us. They've asked for us to take actions that we don't believe are within our purview under federal or state law. And they immediately filed a lawsuit on it. So this is going to be litigated. It's going to be determined in a court that's appropriate in a situation like this. But I think more importantly is that we don't let this distract us from the election that's coming up two weeks from today. We want voters to feel confident about their voting experience. We want them to not be deterred in participating in the election because the best security for elections comes through voter participation. All right, Metro has broken ground on a new light rail line in the East San Fernando Valley. The 6.7 mile route will run along Van Nuys Boulevard with 11 stations connecting Van Nuys, Arleta, and Pacoima. Metro says the project will link riders to the G-Line, MetroLink, and Amtrak and is projected to support more than 18,000 jobs. It'll be the first local stop rail service on Van Nuys Boulevard in more than 70 years i love hearing about the jobs that is right so the famous Santa Monica neon pier sign is getting a makeover the iconic sign which has served as the pier gateway since 1941 is being dismantled in sections it'll then be shipped to Las Vegas for repairs and refurbishment a temporary half-scale replica is in place so visitors can still get their perfect selfie you know very important the historic sign will stay stored in las vegas until the city completes replacing the old bridge connecting Ocean Avenue to the pier by 2028. Boy this story is wild. So new this morning actress Christina Applegate says that she was actually misdiagnosed with MS. She revealed this on her podcast called Messy. Applegate said that she was told this is relatively common and that around 20 percent of people diagnosed with MS don't have it. The problem is there's no single test for the condition. Applegate said she wasn't happy to learn the news and she's now still experiencing symptoms, which in fact she says is ramped up. She revealed her MS diagnosis in 2021 and has largely stepped away from acting ever since. We are exactly two weeks away from election day. L.A.'s mayoral candidates are making their final push to voters, specifically, of course, those undecided voters. A coalition of L.A. progressive community organizations announced their support for Mayor Karen Bass at MacArthur Park. I followed the path that Karen Bass laid out for us 40 years ago because this is a movement. This is not an election for a four-year term or even an eight-year term. This is a movement that many of us, primarily the community folks, have been struggling through and working with to try and change decades of problems. During the event, Mayor Bass spoke with residents about addressing homelessness and affordability. I know that our city can be safe and affordable, and especially for the young people who feel priced out of the very neighborhoods that they grew up in. That is why we are fast-tracking 47,000 units of housing that is affordable, and 10,000 of those units are available right now. Mayoral candidate Nithya Raman addressed recent complaints about the high DWP bills following multiple heat waves in September and October. She says a vote for the mayor is a vote for outrageous water and power bills during peak heat season. Under this mayor, the average DWP bill has gone up more than 40 percent, almost a thousand dollars more every year for water and power. For larger families, and especially those here in the San Fernando Valley, it's worse. After the last heat wave, we have seen residents post bills online that are over $3,000. This is a department that is not being managed with direction and without the urgency and discipline that Los Angeles deserves. Rahman's campaign says she would call for an independent audit of the DWP to provide more transparency in how utility rates are calculated. She also says that summer utility bills should not rival a mortgage or rent. Now, L.A. County Supervisor Lindsay Horvath has endorsed Nithya Raman in the mayoral race, making her the first county supervisor to break ranks with incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. Mayor Bass is backed by the other four county supervisors and 13 of Raman's City Council colleagues. A local community is reacting to a coyote attacking a child. Some people believe a homeowner may be responsible for attracting the animal into the neighborhood, and that led to the attack. Fox 11's Christy Fajardo reports from Atwater Village. I mean, I've actually started having to carry an air horn while walking him. Like many of his neighbors, Peter Miller is now prepared to scare off coyotes. He shared photos with us of the animals on cars. There are also videos on Nextdoor showing them in yards and driveways. Many of the images captured even before Friday when the California Department of Fish and Wildlife says one of the animals bit a 16-month-old toddler. I've even had coyotes come up to me sitting on the sidewalk before. It's like they're pretty chill, actually. But, of course, there's always going to be maybe one that is a little skittish or scared or something. But that's sad about the kid. The toddler was treated and released and fish and wildlife captured and euthanized an animal they believe to be responsible and are waiting on DNA results to confirm it. But neighbors around the 3300 block of Glenhurst Avenue where it happened say coyotes are flocking to the area because a neighbor has been feeding them for months and say one coyote was so familiar they nicknamed him Wiley. We've called animal control. I don't know what they could do, but they said that they did everything they could as far as talking to the guy on the street who's feeding them. A fed animal is a dead animal. So we want to keep them wild. We want them to stay away from us and conditioning them to come. They're just like dogs. Conditioning them to come close is not a good idea. Now neighbors hope authorities will address the issue so they can go back to walking their dogs and pushing strollers in peace. All right, let's switch things up. No matter who wins the World Series this year, they will be a first-time champion. The Tampa Bay Rays punched their ticket with a 7-3 victory over the Cleveland Guardians last night. They win the American League Championship Series four games to two. That means they'll take on the Brewers in the Fall Classic. Neither team has ever won a World Championship. You can see this World Series just in one place right here on Fox 11. So here's the schedule for the first four games, I should say, of the World Series. Game one is Friday in Milwaukee. The series will shift to Tampa for games three, four, and five. All the games are set for 5 p.m. And again, all here on Fox 11. Now, we are Dodgers fans here, right? But if we had to care about, because we're going to care. It's on Fox 11. We're going to care, right? We don't love it, but we're going to care. Who wins? Who do you think? you know because okay because i'm from ohio okay okay we had the guardians the guardians lost to the rays okay okay and now the dodgers lost to the brewers right i don't know i really am stuck yeah i'm gonna go with the brewers only because it's hard because you you don't want you want to see them lose because yeah but it looks better if we got beat by the best team in the league it's do you know what i mean if they get beat it feels like it like we messed up okay you know i see a lot but that see i equate that to like if your ex has moved on to like a very beautiful woman you're like i don't know what that would make me more upset about you if your ex cheated on you with a man then i would feel better i would feel better if she was a supermodel if she was shrek i would be like what i would feel much better about that i'd be like you downgraded are you kidding me so downgrade that means that no good-looking person was interested in you. If he cheated on you. That means that I'm the best you'll ever do, right? And you lost that. Yeah. Oh, boy. I cannot have you move on to better things and be happy. Yeah, but they're not gonna be happy, he's a loser, he's a cheater. The point is just that at least it's Heidi Klum. No, I wouldn't want him to have that satisfaction ever, ever, ever. All right, you don't deserve that. You're a liar and a cheater and you don't deserve that. Yeah, you deserve to not be. Speaking of looking good, okay, coming up, the pressure to look perfect. More people are using AI tools to create fake or augmented images. The warning for teens and parents about the negative impact on mental health. There you go. For the real ones. Have you been to North River Landing? No, I have not. I have not. It's on Lake Erie, though, I guess. Does it look like Ohio? It does. Look at all the green, of course, and the leaves changing. Look at that. pretty pretty pretty what's the temperature do we know i do not know sorry we'll get back to that maybe find out so from ai generated images to people using ai tools to augment their features we've learned how social media can be full of fake or enhanced pictures and videos well now experts warn ai generated images are making it even harder for teens to separate fact from fiction. Psychology researchers say comparing on-screen images to real life can hurt our self-image, even when you know those pictures are AI. So experts point to an increasing use of editing tools that blur the line between what's real and what's filtered. What do I look like? What do I not? And same with, like, we've seen a big uptick in AI as a tool for editing people's photos. And so I think that has made it harder for people to figure out too, we see this Snapchat dysmorphia thing happening where they don't know what they genuinely look like anymore because they put a filter on everything. Experts are encouraging parents and teens to think critically about online images and reminding users that what shows up on screen is often far from reality. It's gotten so hard. Do you remember the time when you didn't immediately think, is this AI? When you saw a photo or a video or something like I think that's all I think of. Yeah. I hope that you grow out of it because I know at least for me, like I do a little light filtering here and there, but like nothing crazy like I used to. Yeah. I used to like nearly blur the nose off my face. No, I used to look like a cartoon. Yeah. Yeah, it was awful. Or using like the Snapchat filters and so the whole screen is yellow. And I'm like, this looks crazy. Yeah. Or the flowers, the dog ears. Those are fun though. Those are cute. Those are a fun feature. but it also makes you depressed because you take a picture of yourself you make maybe a lightly filtered picture or we have the lights here and then you go out in the real world and you look at yourself when you pass a mirror and you're like oh gosh that's what I look like so yeah it's all about lighting yeah I think a lot of it is lighting because and I think that there are filters that just perfect your lighting because sometimes I'll look at a picture and I'll be like did I filter this and I didn't it's just normal me but I just happen to be in like good lighting or it's golden now we're outside yeah it's lighting you know but um i think i will say we don't need to like you guys you know what you looked like in the 80s you were there so just post that picture you know what i mean like you don't have to go and do oh that whole thing like just go or like making it their profile picture i don't like what why why are we doing yeah no it's um it's not the best parts of us right now yeah yeah all right when was the last time you guys had people over for dinner a couple weeks ago okay yeah it's been it's been a while it's been a while yeah me too and you find many of us are hosting less than we used to 42 percent of people say they used to have friends or family over at least once a month now that's down to 12 percent some of the reasons hosting less well people are just tired expectations are too high it gets expensive and maybe we have fewer friends and screens make staying home easier people are busy though too yeah it's about busy it's about that you know i would love to have people over if i had a free night yeah it would be nice it would be nice a lot of work like you could make get a lot of work yeah but yeah no she would have like buffet on the thing yeah stress event when you host a dinner party it was a lot different than when i host like i bring out my stuff like i bought stuff right this occasion yeah like the charger i have full platters yes absolutely i'm from oklahoma let's go yeah that's right the linens yeah all of that i have the guest um in the bathroom like the tray with the the individual napkins oh it's a good napkins yeah the ones where you're like do i throw this away or do i put in the laundry right you know it's like a cute little trick too i someone taught me this but like you know those cute little decorative napkins yeah taking one and wrapping your toilet paper in it oh yeah so if you have extra rolls out it's they just become this cute little like decorative so you take you know like the decorative napkin it's like a pattern yes yeah take it open it up put your new roll in it and wrap it up so you have extras out in case guests need them but yeah it is i like that it's so simple also you know what not for nothing but like going out for dinner like we had a date night for the first time in like a very long time where'd you go that we went to oh my gosh the Wilks okay in um Brentwood and lovely dinner lovely place it cost it cost a fortune to go out because we we don't have family close by and so we had to pay a nanny yeah to come we had to pay her for the full eight hours even though we were only gone for two and a half wait is that make it worth her time wait right because she lives further away wow um and then to to get like the Waymo or the Uber to get there right so you're responsible about it right right it's just like yeah i i should just stayed home and cooked you could have gone to Hawaii literally yeah right Or just brought takeout in. It's too expensive. But I'm so glad that you got out of the house. Yeah, but not for that money. Oh, well. You also, if I believe, that was Friday? That was Friday. You also had to redo your makeup because you were... Oh, right! That was the day. Oh, I missed it. The Halloween thing on the show. That was so awesome. That was a commitment. It would have scared the pants off of you. It would, yeah. I scare easily. Yeah. But I'm saying that alone. Yeah, all the time. And to scrub all that makeup off, too. Yeah. And then... Yeah. I would have just stayed in sweats At the end of the day that's what I wanted to do Okay speaking of dating Even though these ladies are dating their husbands If you were dating Not your husband In your 40s First impressions don't end at the restaurant door A new survey from matchmaking service Talkify Reveals that half of singles over 40 Have dumped a date on the spot Just after seeing their home Uncleanliness Foul odors and photos of an actual list of immediate deal breakers with more than a third admitting they faked an excuse just to flee a messy house. It goes both ways, though. Two thirds assume a well-kept home means you have your life together with a clean, stocked bathroom, taking the top spot for earning a second date. You know what I think most interesting about this? After college, you kind of just like up for whatever. But after college, I absolutely judge like the way a man lives. And not that I think he's like less than, you just realize he's probably not going to be a good fit. Like if he doesn't have like sheets and stuff. That's a problem. The men don't. They love a blanket and a bottle. But like, you know, like you can kind of just tell. You can tell like this is like, you know what, this is not my vibe. You got to have a sheet. Yeah, like if you go in the house and there's knickknacks everywhere. There's records all over the wall. Like, you know, or there's like, he's got a gamer chair. oh i realized oh you know what that's not for you yeah so it doesn't start in my 40s you have a list i like it i just think i realized like there are perfectly good men so i'm not saying there's anything wrong with it okay because i get to talk about men you know the people get it's just that they're different they're for someone else yeah yeah you know and i think you realize that by how young a person's home look it's a reflection of you for sure most definitely but if the guy's house is too clean or his condo whatever is too clean that makes that like american psycho no that means he hired a cleaner because he knew you were coming over and i actually really love the intention have you ever done a spontaneous drop by because i'll tell you i was dating a guy for a couple of months did the spontaneous drop by took a nap in his bed reeked like sweat wait i'm confused wait he was there was he there yes Okay, okay, okay. And he seemed embarrassed, like on edge the entire time. And I think that's why. Because the place was like, I'll tell you, not up to par. The place was dirty. The place was just a mess. It was just like stuff everywhere, you know? And then the sheets smelled like sweat. I will never forget. I will never forget what that smelled like. And then what happened? I mean, that was it. That was the beginning of the end. The sheets smelled. Yes, yes. And I even said, when's the last time you washed these sheets? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I forget what answer he said. I kind of blacked out. didn't smell before uh i that was the first time i had ever you have to buy his house the first time you went over there that was the first impression of his bed of his bed yes disgusting wash your sheets yeah wash your sheets and wash your drawers yeah what about it like a towel what does a futon tell you like what if the bed his bed was a futon oh yeah it's too young That's like college, right? College. I live like Martha Stewart, okay? We're too far apart in the vibes. Do you know what I mean? Like, you're probably not going to like my vibe. Do you know what I mean? I'm doing you a favor by recognizing it. Right, right, right. Do them a favor, yeah. Yeah. Okay. Anytime I hear somebody say the word futon, I always think of my dad who called it a futon. Cute. A fruiton. Oh, my God. I admit. But wait, it's not. You do. I wanted to keep the wig. giving like rocker Elvira, yeah Marathon, Florida, pretty we'll take it, Florida has just like some of the best beaches, so humid so true, your hair, yeah you just gotta go just for the beach yeah you're not gonna look great, no the bugs are gonna get you, right, but the water is warm so something scary happening at the movies, horror films seem to be bringing out some of the biggest crowds and it's not just because it's Halloween season, Teresa Priolo takes a closer look at why this genre has become so popular, you need a grown-up to help you, a good scare, a dark theater and someone next to you screaming for Gen Z moviegoers, that is the ultimate night out leaving Hollywood asking one big question: why that's a tough question, why don't you ask me to solve the economy while you're at it a worldwide Statista survey reveals 91 percent of Gen Z respondents regularly watch horror movies or TV shows, the highest percentage of any generation I was raised on horror movies so of course I'll go with this like slasher creature feature outside an afternoon showing of Other Mommy, this group's choice between horror and superheroes is easy, a horror movie, you tell horror movie, I'm superheroed out man, there're just too many superhero movies be super, you know where are they on the Marvel 55, I mean it's crazy, you know they're gonna be in wheelchairs saving the world, the joke gets a laugh but the appetite for horror is serious movie critic David Rooney says young audiences crave the shared adrenaline rush going into a theater and screaming along with everybody else in terror or surprise or shock or whatever every time there's a jump scare is a fun night out. Rooney adds that real world anxieties outside the theater can often fuel the thrill inside. Horror tends to thrive whenever there's a big moment of historic uncertainty. And I feel like the tech revolution that's happening now and the anxiety about AI and all of that is also feeding into the whole appetite for horror. If we're judging popularity based on box office numbers, horror has already brought in $1.3 billion at the North American box offices here. And we still have two months left to go. It is on track to smash last year's record. In Clifton, New Jersey, Teresa Priolo, Fox News. Okay, you know, not everyone is getting into the Halloween spirit. Who are these people? Sandra. Excuse me. I mean, I feel attacked. Did you decorate? No, no, me, too. I'm not into the home. Okay, not yet. But I will decorate. Not yet. There's two weeks left. Yeah, but she's the person who got a Christmas tree taped before Christmas. What's the point? This is true. We haven't had time. We took out our decorations out of the, yeah, out of the garage. You took them out. Okay. We took the bins out. They took the bins out. Okay, that's one step. Step one. Thank you. So now they're in the house. Yes, they're in the house. They're not opened. Not yet. Maybe today you can open them. So you're going to enjoy them for like a couple of days. She's enjoying them now. They're in the house. You know, everyone's mom, they look over and they're like, hey, those are our Halloween decorations. Mommy's birthday. It's in the bin. See? It's Halloween. The bin is inside. Anyway. A YouGov poll finds only 40% of adults plan to celebrate. Millennials lead at 61%, followed by Gen Z at 55%. Just 17% of baby boomers plan to join in. Do you think adults are too into Halloween? I will tell you, I didn't really start enjoying Halloween until I had little kids. Right. Yeah. I mean, I enjoyed it as a child. And then there was a period of time where I didn't really care for it. Because I don't like costumes and dressing up. I hate it. It's like not my thing. I don't remember enjoying Halloween as a child. Oh, really? You didn't even like it as a kid? I don't think so. No, as a kid, it was great. I had the flu when I went. You had what? The flu. I had the flu when I went. And you still went. That's how much I loved it. Yeah. My mom was like, no, you're going to stay home. I'm like, nope. Wow. I'm going to eat the soup and I'm going to go out. Wow. But having kids now and just doing all these activities with them is fun, I think. Yeah. I've been taking nightly walks after dinner just to go see the Halloween decorations in our neighborhood. Spooky, spooky walks. Yeah. I love it. So instead of having your own decorations, you can see others. I love that. No, but eventually we'll hopefully do our house this weekend. Uh-huh. I hope, yeah. I mean, that requires taking out a ladder and like... Why would you do a ladder at that point? Just call it a walk. Because we have a huge spider. We have a couple of pumpkins. Why do you have a huge spider? Why don't you just have, you know, like the version that works for you? I didn't do lights. I don't even have pumpkins yet. Oh, okay. What's in that box? You have a huge spider? Is there a big spider in the box? No, we have like a couple of monsters, like mummies, you know, that hang there. Just throw them out. That's it. Just throw them on the front lawn. Right? Okay. I'll hang them off the car. Just get them out there. Okay. except amanda hey you know what sorry about the headset you know we all have the what was that i didn't hear you hang on what was that brooke is back brooke is back thank goodness brooke honestly stu i heard you showed up to work last week looking like Allen Iverson uh-oh here it goes why wouldn't i have corn it has been windy as i'll get out and you know What do you do when you've got long hair and it's windy? Cornrows. Why wouldn't I have cornrows? I don't understand. I'm kind of lost there. But I'm happy you noticed, and I'm happy you look forward to seeing them. What did you think? I look forward to seeing you, Stu. Oh, I appreciate that. That's even better. Brooke, I appreciate it. Anyway, we've got to get going. I hear Christian in the background. Let's go right out to tape. What is going on? What is going on in downtown? You know what? This is one of the blessings that we have in Sky Fox. You look out the window, and you're like, hey, what are they doing to their Coca-Cola building? Well, it's going through a remodel. They're making the ship-shaped building ship-shaped once again. It is an icon of downtown, and it is owned by the Coca-Cola Corporation. You know what? Before the freeways, before any of the other icons, 1902, Coca-Cola shows up in Los Angeles. They say, hey, you know what? We need a building. We need to do something. 1929, they built that original building, but they said, you know what? Need something. 1936, they turned it into the ship that we know today. It is actually called the Coca-Cola West Tower by the Coca-Cola Corporation, oddly enough. Anyhow, it is going through a $47.5 million restoration. And one of the weird things about it is, yes, they're going to keep all the historic outside. They're doing some changes on the rooftop and in that courtyard area, but it's not really open to the public. They're saying this is more for internal meetings and other internal Coca-Cola things. So, you know what? We're going to peek in on them. We're going to see what's going on. But at any rate, they are working on the Coca-Cola building. If you see some construction on the outside, that is coming as well. They're going to redo the whole thing. They're going to bring it all back. And, of course, you know when the date is. You know when the date is. They're going to have it done by 2028, oddly enough for the Olympics. But at any rate, if you're looking at it, you're driving by, and you see some construction, no, they're not going to tear it down. They're just bringing it back. They're pristine of the day. And I was thinking about names for the place, but it is actually the bottling building boat or the boat bottling building. Anyways, it's a tongue twister any way you play it. But I like ship shape, ship shape. And that's what I'm going to say. And she sells seashells by the seashore. That's right. There you go. Yeah. I feel like everything's going to be done in 2028. We're just looking for the Olympics. That's what they say. 2028, we'll see. 2028, the big reset for Los Angeles. I know, that's exactly what it is. Thank you, Stu. Be right back. Thank you. So October, as you know, is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. And it's a good time to remind women about the importance of getting screened. It's also a good time to go over other important tips, including being your own advocate. So important there. It's extremely important. Our next guest speaks from experience. Dr. Taiz Aliabadi went through it, and she's here now to talk about her story, also what women should know. Thank you for being here this morning. Thank you for having me. It's such an important message, right? And we just, it's timely too, because just this morning we found out that Christina Applegate back in 2021 was misdiagnosed for having MS. So it really can happen to anybody, these misdiagnoses, but you have personal experience with all of this. Tell us about it. So when I was 48, I had an abnormal mammogram, I was called back for additional imaging. They did a biopsy and my biopsy showed atypical lobular hyperplasia. These are cells that are not cancers, but they have the potential to turn cancerous. So my doctor recommended removing and doing an excisional biopsy, so I removed that area. And she told me to follow back in six months for a follow-up MRI. At that point, I went back to my office. I always calculated a woman's lifetime risk of breast cancer, but up to that point, I had not done it for myself because I had no family history. I don't drink. I don't do drugs. so how would you have i mean my risk would have been really low and so i calculated my risk and as soon as i checked that box of atypical hyperplasia my lifetime risk went all the way up to 37 percent i called my doctor and i'm like you told me to come back in six months but 37 percent is such a big number i have three beautiful kids i love my husband i don't want to get breast cancer and i was told because i was healthy and because i didn't have family history and because I didn't have any genetic mutations I was okay but that didn't sit right with me so I you know started interviewing different doctors until I found the doctor who was willing to do my double mastectomy against her advice everyone called me crazy paranoid you know um until she finally did it and a week later I get a call back that I had invasive stage one breast cancer no kidding that's how I diagnosed my breast cancer and and you I mean you're OB-GYN right yes so you know a thing or two about a thing or two, right? You're more educated than I would imagine, like most of the population when it comes to this. So if even someone like you, you're intuitive enough to understand that something is not right here. So that should be the message that a lot of patients should be resonating with right now. Absolutely. And I say, if you know your first name, last name and date of birth as a woman, you need to know your lifetime risk for breast cancer. Yes. It's a must absolutely because if you're over what 20 percent lifetime risk of getting breast cancer then you qualify for special screenings which by the way are also covered under insurance absolutely so basically you take this test it's a you know you can go on gmdpodcast.com it's a free formula you enter your information they ask for your age height weight density of your breast family history your reproductive history your hormone history and density of the breast and also whether or not you've been tested for BRCA and they calculate your lifetime risk of breast cancer over 10 years but over your lifetime wow if that number is average woman one out of eight women will get breast cancer in her life so that's 12.5 that's average 15 to 19.9 is considered intermediate risk but if your lifetime risk is 20 percent or more you have to start breast imaging as early as 30 not 40. And in addition to mammogram and ultrasound, you also need to ask your doctor for a breast MRI. So it's so important to understand and know your risk. It is. And also knowing your family's history too, because if you know, for example, a first or a second degree relative, whatever age they were diagnosed with breast cancer initially, you should go back and get your mammogram 10 years before that age. Prior to that, but I want to make sure our listeners understand that 85% of women who get diagnosed with breast cancer have no family history. So be very careful. Less than 5% of women with breast cancer have some form of genetic mutation. So when it comes to breast cancer, it's so important. You need to know your lifetime risk of breast cancer. If that number is 20% or more, you start breast imaging as early as 30 with 3D mammogram. If you have dense breast tissue, ultrasound and also MRI, you need to know the density of your breast. Dense breast tissue increases your lifetime risk of breast cancer two ways. A, by basically making it more difficult for the radiologist to look for tumors in your imaging. But dense breast tissue by itself increases your lifetime risk. And 40 to 50 percent of women above age 40 have dense breast tissue. So you need to know the density of your breast. And that information you can find on your mammogram. You can't just touch your breast and figure out whether or not you have that dense breast tissue. And the third thing is if you have family history, please, please ask for genetic cancer testing. Yes. And that genetic testing can be done through either saliva, blood. Right, or blood. But I want to cover something today that's very, very important. And we can test for major genetic mutations. Like you've heard of BRCA with Angelina Jolie. So we all know, we've heard about that. But there are about a dozen of genetic mutations, major pathogenic genetic mutations that have been linked to breast cancer. However, a lot of us, like myself, walk around with a high polygenic risk score. Polygenic score, these are variations throughout the DNA, through hundreds or thousands of DNAs. These are, I'm sorry, variations in the DNA that can increase your risk of breast cancer. these are variations that individually have no power but some of us like myself walk around with hundreds of thousands of these variations that together can significantly increase someone's lifetime risk of breast cancer and that's your polygenic risk score and how do you how do you test for that so a lot of companies already run that it's a newer test you have to ask your doctor in addition to genetic testing for cancer you need to be tested for your polygenic score so you would ask your OBGYN, ideally? Correct, for your primary care. Yes. Okay. You want to ask them, what's my lifetime risk? What's the density of my breast? Do I need genetic testing? And if you're doing genetic testing, are you checking my polygenic risk score for breast cancer? Write all these things down, because it's true. What you say, it is important to be your own advocate. There's a high chance that, I mean, doctors are not infallible, right? They can miss some things that maybe if you were to ask the right kinds of questions, unfortunately, that's the system that we have right now, that it has to be done. There's also a chance, by the way, of getting a false positive on some of these exams. Tell me what that is and if it's common. Very good question. 10% of women who go for mammography will get a callback. But of those women who go back for additional imaging, 90% will have benign results. So they're not going to have cancer. However, so don't get scared. If you get a callback, you have to go. We see that mostly in women with their first imaging because we can't compare it to old imaging and we also see it especially in women with dense breasts so because it makes it harder to look right right so we if you get a call back go back don't get scared and majority of the time it's nothing but you have to go back and you cannot ignore it something else i found out that that is was interesting because i coincidentally just did a breast mri yesterday with a mammogram and i was told that, uh, a breast MRI is 20% more likely to catch possibly a cancer that a mammogram would miss. So let's talk about that. Mammogram is still first line, gold standard, gold standard. It saves countless lives and you have to do it depending on your lifetime risk. That's when you start, you know, your breast image, right? So that's number one. If you have dense breast tissue, you want to ask for breast ultrasound, right? But for women who fall into the high risk category, 20% or more, or women in the intermediate risk with, let's say, a mom or a relative with breast cancer, then they also need to do an MRI because MRI, especially when it comes to lobular breast cancer, it will have the likelihood of picking up cancers that the mammogram can miss. Mammograms can miss one out of eight cancers. This is all such important information thank you so much and hey listen you can catch dr a on your podcast she md you have all the information right there new episode drops today and every tuesday on spotify apple at all the usual places thank you so much doctor for your insight we appreciate it thank you for having me wow yeah that's lulu the husky doodle probably the worst color of dog if you have to live in all that snow right you have to really look in that video to find them they still managed to spot the dog and one of the owners was actually injured in that avalanche and taken to the hospital his girlfriend then organized a massive search using dozens of hikers and a helicopter thankfully they had an air tracker on lulu's collar they were eventually able to spot the four-year-old pup from the sky stranded in some heavy snow on the top of the mountain She's now at home, safe, and hopefully near a fireplace having some treats. I know. She's going to do it. Yeah. A bride says she couldn't stop crying, so when the priest handed her part of the stole, she thought he was being nice, offering her an alternative to wipe her tears. But really, the priest was just following Catholic tradition of placing the stole over the couple's hands to bless them. She's laughing here, though. Lauren Bruce says she felt embarrassed when she realized and the priest says he was trying so hard not to laugh, adding it was one of the best moments he's had in his ministry. I've seen that one video where the priest is like I saw it yesterday. Wait, what happened? Like a christening or something and the priest is going like this to like, and she thought that he was high-fiving. So she high-fived him. But he was blessing, you know. He was just blessing. So funny. Oh, you gotta pay attention. Yeah, you do. Keep your head in a swivel. Okay. There's a new trend filling the air. Researchers say there's a rise in dessert inspired perfumes known as gourmand scents. So top fragrance houses, including L'Oreal, they're reshaping their product lines. This is interesting. Supposedly around the surge in weight loss drugs. Research, I know. Okay. So this is what we're going with here. Okay. So researchers say as GLP-1 patients lose their appetite for food, they are simply swapping taste for scent okay edible and gourmet fragrances now make up nearly a quarter of all new perfume launches did you try the candy corn perfume we have here the other day it didn't no it's not but i wouldn't call that a gourmand i would call that for children yeah okay keep going okay yeah they should spend uh 26 percent more on scents to gratify to satisfy cravings for everything from warm milk to roasted sesame are they just naming wait so what do you do you spray it in the air? No, I don't know on your skin. What? Why would you want to smell like roast beef? No, it's more like spraying themselves with roast beef. You know, this story, this is these researchers. We got to ask them more questions. Yeah. But in general, do you know gourmands are the scents that they say attract men the most food? Really? Men love vanilla scents. Oh, yeah. Vanilla. Vanilla food. It's gourmand. Right. But like how about pistachio? they like pistachio vanilla but i feel like they're just naming it these things but the the fragrance is really you can kind of smell it i think it could be something else there's a fragrance called bianco latte and i would guess that is like the number one performer of like men are going to stop you people who at work who are like quiet people wait what to be like smell it like oh you smell good yeah wait so it's latte bianco latte i don't Yeah, but it might smell good on you, but it wouldn't smell good on other people, right? I bought it to test it because I saw online people were saying, I asked Courtney, this company, you know, my friend Courtney.