What happens when you think less and feel more? Here’s how we might drop from our headspace into the infinity of sensation we call “body” and how that simple shift of attention just might change how we relate to everything. And here’s a video from my friend Simon Brown with more tips on this. Join our Supporter Tribe by clicking the Join button on my YouTube channel 🙏 or sign up on Facebook, Instagram or Locals here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We chat about palliative care, psychedelics, my recent COVID experience, and all things alt-middle. Originally streamed to Instagram Live. Drop a like, comment (or both!) on the video version, it helps the algorithm spread the word 🙏 Also, check these previous episodes: I finally got COVID and The day my COVID got worse. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally streamed to Facebook live back in February and released for supporters-only on YouTube, now viewable by everyone 🙏 Join our Supporter Tribe: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Watch the video version here. If you're "into" this kind of content, subscribe & leave a review, it really helps spread the word 🙏 Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Episode 2 of our Pain Points series with the OTHER Dr. Z! In this episode we dive deep into what "mild" Omicron infection means, why depression is biopsychosocial ALWAYS, how to manage imposter syndrome & insomnia, and why benzodiazepine medications are often a disaster. Video, transcript and more: https://zdoggmd.com/pain-points-2/ See all our episodes with Dr. Rachel Z here. Grab her outstanding Pain Management Workbook here. Find her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Topics & Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 03:51 Rachel got the Big O (Omicron) & post-infection immunity 08:31 Why a mild case still sucks, the anxiety contagion, public health communication 14:20 Placebo vs nocebo, why words make a difference in suffering 22:25 Long COVID vs long tail symptoms, cognitive distortions 27:15 "Bug chasing" & why it's a bad idea 31:07 Depression, reductionism & the biomedical model of health 38:15 The psych bubble, role of thoughts, emotions & coping behaviors 48:27 The social bubble, role of relationships, isolation, & other factors 51:47 Depression's complex nature & treatment tools 58:14 What is imposter syndrome & why it's so common 1:05:20 4 steps to overcoming imposter syndrome 1:16:31 The dark side of benzodiazepines & why they're not a magic cure 1:20:01 Alcohol, THC, medications & insomnia 1:28:09 Sunlight, stimulants & what to do if you can't sleep 1:38:42 Napping, melatonin & treatment of underlying factors 1:41:28 Final thoughts, submitting your questions for future episodes 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

Boosters for the young and healthy? Is Pharma dictating public health policy? What's up with VAERS? Did Robert Malone invent the mRNA technology? AND MORE. Video, transcript and more: https://zdoggmd.com/paul-offit-8Check out our other shows with Dr. Paul Offit here. Topics & Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 01:07 Boosters, the CDC, vaccine advisory committee & 3rd dose drama 05:25 Offit's son, The Atlantic article​, booster coverage & mandates 08:34 4th dose, vaccine politicization, childhood vaccines & the anti-vax movement 16:40 mRNA spacing considerations, tribal loyalty 20:25 Pregnancy & COVID-19 vaccines 23:07 Vaccine safety reporting, VAERS pros & cons, PRISM, Vaccine Safety Datalink 26:58 Drug safety, Pharma dictating public health, vaccine effectiveness 30:40 Walenski and CDC, bureaucratic transparency & swine flu lessons learned 36:34 Yearly COVID-19 vax, Omicron parties, chicken pox tragedies & the role of natural immunity 41:53 COVID-19 testing, policy (who it helps, who it hurts) 44:00 What Robert Malone did (and didn't do) with mRNA technology, what it takes to build a vaccine 51:10 Spike protein misinformation & real-life correlation with mass vaccination 56:25 Myocarditis in adults vs. kids, polio in children 1:03:00 The Army's "super vaccine", discussion of gain of function research 1:06:13 Final thoughts 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

Dr. Peter Attia (host of The Drive), Dr. Marty Makary (Johns Hopkins professor), Dr. Monica Gandhi and I team up to drop some mad COVID science.Check out full show notes and Peter's podcast, The Drive here.   Topics & Timecodes:Severity of infection from Omicron—reviewing the data [5:15]; Factors contributing to the relative mildness of Omicron infections [8:30]; Is SARS-CoV-2 evolving to cause less severe disease? [13:00]; Potential of Covaxin—an inactivated virus-based COVID-19 vaccine [17:45]; How B cells and T cells work together to defend against viruses [22:00]; Comparing the COVID-19 vaccines, and the rationale for the time between doses [25:30]; Reviewing the purpose and effectiveness of boosters for reducing severity and transmission [32:30]; Debating vaccine mandates, and putting COVID’s mortality risk in perspective [41:00]; Why the topic of COVID has become so polarized [1:03:15]; Reviewing the data on masks for protecting oneself and protecting others [1:06:30]; The inconsistent logic used for mask mandates [1:16:00]; Long COVID and the potential for vaccines to reduce risk [1:21:45]; Risks for children and policies for schools [1:27:30]; Reviewing the outcomes from Sweden, where the government didn’t impose lockdowns [1:31:00]; Draconian measures implemented in Canada [1:28:15]; Antiviral treatments for COVID and a common-sense approach [1:42:15]; Importance of ending tribalism and having rational discussions with humility [1:47:30]; Treating infection with monoclonal antibodies and convalescent sera [2:01:45]; Reviewing claims made by the controversial Dr. Robert Malone [2:11:15]; A potential exit strategy from the current situation [2:30:30]; Change needed at the NIH [2:40:00] 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

Lots to talk about this week, so LET'S DO THIS 🔥. Originally streamed LIVE to Youtube: zdoggmd.com/covid-update-1-14-22 Topics & Timecodes:00:00 Intro 00:38 Tribalism, the hive mind & social media 04:44 Alt-Middle & holding beliefs loosely 06:53 Vax on vax violence, friendly fire & today's Twitter storm 15:10 My conversation with Karen Ernst, healthy discourse, seeing the human behind the handle 21:38 New CDC mask guidance, why good people disagree 23:43 Emotions & self reflection 26:25 Fair criticism & acknowledging struggles among public health leaders ​ 29:05 Myocarditis, boosters & college students; safetyism​ & the liberal education hive mind 31:45 Vaccine mandates, the Supreme Court & the role of moral values 39:37 Social media themes as a religion 44:07 Politicization of public health, guns 47:08 Red church vs blue church, the value of covid testing 53:53 Final thoughts, assuming good intent & establishing a meditative practice 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

Lately there's been an awakening on the part of hardcore Covidians: Omicron done changed the game, so is it finally time to chill? Here's my take.Check out the Atlantic op-ed I reference here. And here's a story from San Francisco that illustrates the power of vaccination to stop severe disease and the power of dumb public policy to create hospital staffing shortages nonetheless. Video, transcript and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vax-n-chill/ 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

Could the Omicron wave be the beginning of the end of this? What the science so far means for mandates, schools, and more. Video, transcript and more: https://zdoggmd.com/omicold/ Here's a piece I did previously about shifting from pandemic to endemic illness. Here's the podcast I mentioned that I did with Dr. Peter Attia and Dr. Marty Makary on this. Topics & Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:53 Hospitalization vs.Cases 03:13 Vaccination, Reinfections & Mitigation Measures 09:32 Therapeutics 11:17 Omicron & Kids 11:55 Rogan, Malone & Mass Formation Psychosis 13:10 Real World Outcomes, Mandates & Policy 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

Dr. Peter Attia (host of The Drive), Dr. Marty Makary (Johns Hopkins professor) and I team up to try some serious sense-making in the Age of Omicron.Check out full show notes and Peter's podcast, The Drive here. Topics & Timecodes: Comparing omicron to delta and other mutations [4:15] Measuring immunity and protection from severe disease—circulating antibodies, B cells, and T cells [13:15] Policy questions: what is the end game and how does the world go back to 2019? [18:45] A policy-minded framework for viewing COVID and the problem of groupthink [24:00] The difference between science and advocacy [39:00] Natural immunity from COVID after infection [46:00] The unfortunate erosion of trust in science despite impressive progress [57:15] Do the current mandates and policies make sense in light of existing data? [1:02:30] Risks associated with vaccines, and the risk of being labeled an anti-vaxxer when questioning them [1:18:15] Data on incidence of myocarditis after vaccination with the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines [1:26:15] Outstanding questions about myocarditis as a side effect of mRNA vaccination and the benefit of boosters [1:35:00] The risk-reward of boosters and recommendations being ignored by policy makers in the US [1:40:30] Sowing distrust: Lack of honesty and humility from top officials and policy makers [1:43:30] Thoughts on testing: does it make sense to be pushing widespread testing for COVID? [1:52:15] What is the end point to all of this? [1:58:45] Downstream consequences of lockdowns and draconian policy measures [2:05:30] The polarized nature of COVID—tribalism, skeptics, and demonization of ideas [2:10:30] Looking back at past pandemics for perspective and the potential for another pandemic in the future [2:20:00] What parents can do if their kids are subject to unreasonable policies [2:25:00] Voices of reason in this space [2:28:45] Strong convictions, loosely held: the value in questioning your own beliefs [2:32:15] 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

It's been a s**tshow of a year, so let's have some fun, review the year, and do some sense-making, LIVE 🥳Video: https://zdoggmd.com/new-years-2022/ 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

A little year end mind-bender: psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness interviews ME about all the personal things 🙀Video version is available exclusively on Locals (so my parents can’t watch 😂), you can watch there for free (just follow the prompts to create a free account). 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

A new series called Pain Points with UCSF pain and health psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness where we answer YOUR questions 👍 In this episode: detecting homicidal intent in children, what's up with Long COVID, does cannabis help with pain, emotional intelligence, choosing a therapist, and more. See all our episodes with Dr. Rachel Z here. Grab her outstanding Pain Management Workbook here. Find her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. And check out her website here. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/pain-points-1/ Topics & Timecodes:  00:00 Intro 01:49 Moderna booster blues 03:38 Disclaimers 05:09 Biomedical vs. biopsychosocial factors 08:55 School shooters: what makes a kid a killer? 13:06 Passive vs. active ideation 16:07 Role of parents & teachers 20:54 Characteristics for screening, red flags; Role of classmates 31:48 The bully vs. the bullied; Epidemic of anxiety/depression in teens 41:32 Teaching kids emotional intelligence (EQ) 44:27 Tea kettling; Teens & the prefrontal cortex development 55:18 Marijuana & pain management 1:00:52 Cannabis research; the power of placebo 1:15:36 Biopsychosocial components of pain, COVID and beyond 1:18:03 Long COVID; stigma & effects on health 1:27:54 Endurance pacing; setting goals 1:31:40 Choosing a therapist; benefits of therapy 1:39:07 Therapy for all Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I took a month break from creating videos, and guess what? It wasn't just about finding peace. There were some serene moments, but anger stole the spotlight. Here's why. #SundayZen. Originally streamed live to YouTube, watch the video here. If you're "into" this kind of content, subscribe & leave a review, it really helps spread the word 🙏 Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This Rogan interview with hydroxychloroquine advocate Dr. Peter McCullough is generating a LOT of buzz and considerable confusion.So here's an examination of each one of Dr. McCullough's claims along with ways we all might better evaluate science and health information. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/peter-mccullough/ 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

A little Sunday live easy listening: Q+A and Zen Roundz 🙏Video: zdoggmd.com/covid-update-12-12 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

Family physician, healthcare leader and author Dr. Peter Valenzuela’s new book “Doc-Related” uses art, humor, and clinical and leadership wisdom to highlight challenges in healthcare and propose real solutions.We dive into patient experience vs. patient satisfaction, the challenges of the electronic health record, billing and coding, the Great Resignation how we need meaning/relationships/positive emotions/accomplishment in our work, leadership communication, price transparency in healthcare, quality metrics, malpractice, and more. Get the Doc-Related book here, check out Peter’s website here, and check out his wife’s awesome wines here.  Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/doc-related/ 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

Here's why the CDC recommending COVID vaccine boosters for young and healthy people is a bad idea and might actually prolong the pandemic.Here's a link to the Washington Post piece I reference featuring Dr. Paul Offit. Here are shows we've done with Paul on vaccines and COVID. We also discussed boosters for all on a prior episode of my podcast with Dr. Vinay Prasad, The VPZD Show Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/boosters-4-all/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

The WHO just announced that the Omicron variant is a new "variant of concern." Will it be like Delta on crack, or just plain wack (i.e., more fear mongering)? Here's what we know, LIVE. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/omicron/ 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

He's in his fifties, diabetic, and nearly died of COVID-19. But ICU delirium can feel like a fate worse than death. Learn more about preventing ICU delirium and the post-critical care survivor syndromes here with my interview with Dr. Wes Ely (an expert on this). Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/johns-story/ 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

Moral injury is driving people to quit their jobs, especially in healthcare. But this may actually be an opportunity for REAL transformation.Here was the video I did early in the pandemic about never forgetting how we were treated. And here's a pre-pandemic video on moral injury. 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

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 growth 40:52 The peril of reductionism in medicine, destigmatizing lifestyle medicine 45:07 The central role of “identity” in human suffering, burnout in healthcare 49:43 The role of vulnerability in medicine, the next generation’s challenges and how to better raise kids 56:02 The role of envy 59:28 Understanding and un-repressing emotion 1:03:00 The Pre/Trans Fallacy 1:07:19 Journaling as a tool, why writing is different than typing 1:12:30 Breathing and posture at work, “email apnea” 1:19:48 A different SOAP note 1:22:30 Dropping into “presence” 1:23:03 Men At Work’s greatest song 1:25:38 Doing exercise right 1:30:09 The role of laughter and breathing 1:32:39 Reconnected with the inner child, accepting emotion 1:38:07 Sleep & Anxiety, Yoga Nidra, Compassion, setting boundaries 1:48:38 The importance of Wonder and the transcendent 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

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

In a galaxy not so far away, you asked, and Vader delivered. The Dark Lord of Medicine enlightens us on vaping, tight scrubs, and the untold secrets of space cancer. Video version here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ 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 with emotion via social media 56:31 Equanimity, desire, aversion, and the roots of suffering 1:00:00 Connection and positive feedback 1:01:43 Joe Rogan and Sanjay Gupta, Ivermectin 1:06:00 Hydroxychloroquine and the importance of randomized trials 1:08:00 Is The Temple of Doom racist? The nature of the times in determining appropriateness 1:09:29 The nature and art of comedy 1:11:06 Squid Game and the darkness of our times 1:14:26 What people can do to decrease polarization 1:15:23 Vaccine Mandates: the consequences for healthcare and politics 1:17:00 Waking up as a society to what matters, how we let people die alone 1:20:21 Why doctors put out such shitty YouTube content and what it really MEANS to be in medicine, the nature of real mentorships 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

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) 🔥.Watch all our episodes with Dr. Offit here! Full video with transcript. Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Kids and COVID: current epidemiology 3:59 Vaccine for kids: dosing, data, risks, a polio rant 9:48 Myocarditis risks, kids 5-11 vaccine data 11:48 Single dose for kids? 12:52 Mechanism of myocarditis, is it due to accidental intravenous injection? MIS-C & MIS-A 16:46 Sweden’s Moderna pause for young people, understanding risk 19:46 Booster vs “third dose”: preventing severe disease, inducing B and T memory cells 25:58 Breakthrough Infection is a terrible term: an epic rant 30:17 Israeli booster mandates and data, explained 32:56 Would Paul get a booster for himself? 34:17 Spacing out the second dose, Paul’s thoughts 35:15 Measuring antibody levels 36:47 Natural infection, dissected 40:58 Psychological reactance to mandates, trust, Scandinavia vs US 43:34 COVID vaccine in pregnancy 46:13 COVID vaccine in autoimmune disease 46:57 Do mRNA vaccines cause clotting 47:40 Long COVID and vaccines 48:45 VAERS explained 51:22 Molnupiravir from Merck as a therapeutic, Ivermectin etc 53:08 Novavax 53:55 Flu, Flu shot and timing with COVID vaccine 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

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 Natural infection and vaccination, how long does it last, boosters 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 delta's end, kids and COVID, natural vs. vaccine immunity, Moderna and more, LIVE 🔥Here's a Kaiser Health News piece on natural vs. vaccine immunity. Here's an interesting Scientific American piece on why kids are so resistant to COVID's bad effects. And here's a piece on how the risk to kids from COVID compares to other dangers.  Video 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

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

I take your questions on everything from transforming healthcare to identity shifts to practical decision making strategies and more. Originally streamed LIVE to Instagram, watch the video version here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://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 Marty’s thoughts on cloth masks and kids 1:06:04 Nikki Minaj & Marty 1:11:36 9-11 commission for COVID 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

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 The John Mandrola myocarditis study controversy 44:04 #medtwitter madness and using vaccines off-label for kids 52:06 The Ivermectin overreaction in the media 54:32 The modern sense-making crisis and the influence of social media in sowing division and culture wars 58:17 Vinay’s possible dystopian scenario on government overreach 1:03:41 Why the haters, and why block people on Twitter, credentialism, Alt-Middle, religion and science, and more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 more! Watch the video 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

A front-line critical care doc talks about why preserving quality of life AFTER an ICU stay matters...a LOT. Dr. Wes Ely's book, Every Deep-Drawn Breath, is available now. Check out the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center here. Here's our other episodes with Dr. Ely. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/wes-ely-3/ Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 7:06 Importance of family in ICU care, especially with cultural/language issues 13:08 Testimonial injustice, the A2F Bundle, and a billionaire in the ICU 17:17 COVID & nurse burnout 20:13 Caring nonjudgmentally for patients regardless of their vaccine choices 24:56 The ethics of fetal stem cell lines in vaccine development (and some surprising truth) 28:30 Therapeutics analysis: ivermectin, JAK inhibitors, baricitinib 38:50 Allowing ourselves to feel with our patients, the importance of respecting faith paths 46:31 ICU delirium may damage higher cognitive systems and leave emotion intact (elephant and rider/system 1 and system 2) 54:19 The harm of excessive sedation and delirium as a predictor of death 58:53 PASC, Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID (AKA Long COVID) 01:03:48 Managing delirium and early mobilization in the ICU 01:09:37 Self-forgiveness, shame in medicine, and closing thoughts 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

New preprint data suggests prior COVID infection generates fantastic immunity. Can we talk about that? What it means for vaccines, mandates, and more.Here’s a Science summary of the latest information on “natural immunity” vs. vaccines and a combination of the two. 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

A filmmaker and an emergency physician (who almost died of COVID) teamed up to create a powerful VR time capsule for the pandemic. Is this the future of public health education?You can watch the Inside COVID-19 documentary using an Oculus Quest VR headset here. Here’s a link to the trailer. If you don’t have an Oculus, you can watch a 2d rendered version here. If you have a non-Oculus headset or are watching using the YouTube app on a phone, here’s a cool way to watch. And check out WisdomVR here. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/inside-covid19/ 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 rap about everything from the generation gap to pronouns to musical taste. Fun for the whole family 🥳 Originally streamed LIVE to YouTube, video version here. And check out the Australian generation gap lamb ad! Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul, 37, had elderly parents, an ER nurse wife, and young children, and he had good questions about COVID vaccines. Then everything changed.This is his story. And here's a piece we did on whether you should get vaccinated now.  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

We should be ENCOURAGING and answering vaccine questions, not shaming the people asking them. Here are three big vaccination myths, explained. Transcript, video podcast, links: zdoggmd.com/3-vaccine-myths Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here’s what FDA approval of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine means, why its name is so stupid, the concept of psychological reactance, vaccine “hesitancy” and more, previously LIVE.Here’s an interesting piece on psychological reactance and vaccines. Here’s my interview with Paul Offit on vaccines. Here’s how mRNA vaccines work. Here’s my show on vaccine breakthrough infections. And here’s a show on turning COVID into an endemic common cold.  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