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Metabolic health and wellness expert Dr. Ronesh Sinha returns to explore the roots of why we are hurting so much, and how we can keep ourselves and our children well. SPOILER ALERT: it ain't about pills and procedures.Learn more about Dr. Sinha's work in metabolic health and corporate wellness here. And check out his Meta Health podcast if you wanna go DEEP on the science! And here's all of our other episodes with Dr. Ron! Video: https://zdoggmd.com/ron-sinha-3/ Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 2:08 Working from home and chronic pandemic stress 6:23 Work and our identity crisis 9:27 Emotional suppression and the physical effects of stress (blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, etc) 14:21 Continuous glucose monitors and “white coat hyperglycemia” 17:19 Cortisol as stress hormone, shame, intermittent fasting hazards 25:18 The real roots of job dissatisfaction and the creative impulse 29:38 Stress effects on our children, poisonous parental pressure 31:19 Steve Jobs and the central importance of spiritual g

What do science fiction, storytelling, and mythology have to do with COVID, healthcare, politics, and life? Everything, it seems.Writer and sci-fi expert Damien Walter goes deep on everything from Ken Wilber's integral theory (aka our Alt-Middle) to creating a new mythos for the 21st century. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/damien-walter/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deep breaths, y'all, it's gonna be alright. Let's talk kids' vaccines, boosters, pills, all the things. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-chill-chat/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The COVID pandemic has accelerated another epidemic: anxiety, depression, and suicidality in children, especially young girls. It turns out fear may be the WORST contagion of all. Here's what we can do about it.Dr. Rachel Zoffness is a UCSF pain and health psychologist and teaches pain management at UCSF, Stanford, and Dartmouth. Here are all our episodes together. Here is her excellent book, The Pain Management Workbook. Here's her piece on the Anxiety Contagion in Psychology Today. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/rachel-zoffness-3/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sense-making on vaccines and young kids, recognizing groupthink, removing ideology and personal attack from scientific discourse, and much more. Watch all our other shows with Dr. Vinay Prasad here. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-broken-brain/ Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 0:15 We turn science debate into good vs. evil, why? 6:27 Understanding FDA decision on kids vaccines 5-11, myocarditis etc. 12:49 The “Retrospectoscope” and our takes on COVID over the months 16:17 The origins of COVID politicization and Tribalism 25:41 Should we not treat unvaxxed people or shame unmasked children? 28:13 Having compassion for those who misbehave or attack 31:21 The fragility of wishing contrary opinions would disappear 36:38 Recognizing our cognitive biases when engaging in sense-making 40:21 My experience working in genetics with Drosophila fruit flies 43:06 How COVID broke our brains and sense-making ability: masks 47:05 Social media attacks, virtue signaling, performative vulnerability, dealing

Here's the scoop on the FDA committee recommendation and the pros and cons of vaccinating young children against SARS-CoV2.Check out our prior show with FDA advisory committee member Dr. Paul Offit here. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/pfizer-4-kids/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We talked about turning a pandemic endemic in Portugal, the nature of fraudulent scientific literature, where influenza went and more. Originally streamed LIVE to FB.Here's the WSJ piece on Portugal. Here's the piece I referenced on scientific data accuracy using ivermectin as an example. Transcript, video & more: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-update-10-24-21/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're more divided than ever it seems. How can we reconcile a COVID thesis and antithesis into an Alt-Middle synthesis? A deep dive.Here's the piece I mentioned from Peter Limburg of The Stoa. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/covidiots/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Social media is blowing up with stories about each of these guys schooling the other. But is that really what this is about? Here's my take (aired LIVE Oct. 14th on YouTube). Video: https://zdoggmd.com/rogan-gupta/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

COVID vaccine answers, straight from Dr. Offit (vaccine co-inventor and member of the FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee)

Cepheid's chief medical and technology officer returns to talk PCR testing for COVID, flu, RSV, and future variants & viruses not yet discovered.Watch our other episodes with Dr. David Persing here and learn more about molecular testing at Cepheid here. Video with transcript here Click here for easier navigation through this show's key topics. 0:00 Intro 1:27 What happened to flu (influenza) last year (viral exclusion, innate immune response) 3:20 Nasal vaccines and innate immunity 5:10 How SARS-CoV2 evolves to replicate more efficiently 8:33 Do variants evade PCR testing? Experience with H1N1 flu 12:09 False positives and PCR 14:22 How deep do you need to swab? 15:09 PCR vs. Antigen testing 18:41 Four-In-1 PCR testing: flu component, will flu be back? 20:23 RSV update in kids and adults 23:53 The “FluVid” COVID/Flu A + B/RSV 4-in-1 test 26:21 Future proofing testing for new pandemics 29:33 Will SARS-CoV2 become endemic, and how? 32:25 The role of vaccination, breakthroughs, transmission 34:01 N

We're talking delta's end, kids and COVID, natural vs. vaccine immunity, Moderna and more, LIVE

Promising early results for an oral therapeutic for SARS-CoV2. Here's what we know and what it may mean.Here's the topline data from Merck so far. Video with transcript here Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are we really going to fire healthcare workers who won’t vaccinate…during a pandemic? Here’s my Alt-Middle take.Here’s a New York Times article on the subject. Full video with transcript. Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're talking LIVE with Dr. Marty Makary about all things COVID! We covered MANY COVID-related topics, including natural immunity, mandates, vaccine spacing, gain of function viral research, managing coronavirus risk in different age groups, and much more. Check out Marty Makary's other episodes with me here. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/marty-makary-7/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our COVID science should be much better than it is. Here's a breakdown on spacing doses, natural immunity, gain of function research, therapeutics, healthcare worker burnout & much more. Dr. Marty Makary is a Johns Hopkins physician and editor-in-chief of MedPage Today. Here are all our past shows! Full transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/marty-makary-6/   Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 2:35 NIH spending & COVID research 7:53 Herd Immunity, was Marty wrong, clickbait headlines 11:02 Menstrual changes and vaccines 13:08 Boosters and booster mandates 16:45 Rabies Diffr’ent Strokes rant 18:54 VAERS surveillance 21:44 Tinnitus 23:32 Spacing second vaccine dose, Johnson & Johnson booster 29:34 Natural immunity and a failure of messaging 32:40 Silencing debate and heterodox voices 36:49 Bullying and shaming in healthcare and nursing shortages 44:29 Treatments for COVID at home 49:15 Understanding risk 51:43 NIH gain of function virus research 54:26 Moderna, BARDA, and profit motives in vaccines 57:36 Ma

The FDA advisory committee voted this week to reject approval of COVID Pfizer vaccine boosters for healthy people 16 and up. Here's what's up with that, and how we can better understand the booster question for the healthy and those at higher risk. Here's an interview I did with Dr. Vinay Prasad that touched on this. And here's another discussion that features boosters with Dr. Monica Gandhi. Video & Transcript Here Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tha’ Notorious VP returns to talk about the numbers around mandates, booster science or lack thereof, masking young kids, and more!Check out Dr. Vinay Prasad’s YouTube channel here and here are the other episodes we’ve done together. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-mandates/   Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 0:31 The science on masking young children 6:29 Criticizing irrational views held by rational people, kids’ masking 9:47 Bangladesh mask study promoting surgical masks over cloth in adults 13:29 Vaccine mandates, do they make sense to actually improve outcomes, an analysis 23:18 What’s going on with irrational college campus COVID policies, the testing industry’s influence on policy 27:16 FDA resignations and the controversy over COVID boosters 29:18 Flaws/bias in Israeli vaccine data sets 32:00 Boosters in healthy people, the FDA resignations, and political pressure 35:42 Creating psychological reactance and tribalization in response to mandates and poor communication 38:05

Sometimes I think our leaders don't understand human beings. At all.See also a relevant discussion with Dr. Monica Gandhi here. Full video with transcript here. Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Immunity (natural and/or vaccine-induced) is the only way past COVID-19. Dr. Gandhi returns to discuss how we get there.Watch all our prior discussions with Dr. Monica Gandhi here. We talk about the bungled messaging around vaccines, masks, and natural immunity, why vaccines decrease actual viral transmission, why the US got hit so hard with Delta & why shame backfires in public health, why masks and lockdowns can't end a pandemic, natural immunity & why a single dose of vaccine should be our recommendation, the correct thinking on "booster" vaccines, the distinction between antibodies levels & B and T memory cells in durable immune responses to coronavirus, why Dr. Gandhi's stance of vaccine mandates and immunity passports has evolved, the high rate of vaccine uptake among doctors, why death is not always the enemy (RIP Frodo), schools and equity (public vs. private), therapeutics like ivermectin, monoclonals, fluvoxamine, and more, turning the pandemic endemic like cold & flu, what's up with Mu variant, and