#37 - Zubin Damania, M.D.: Revolutionizing healthcare one hilariously inspiring video at a time

In this episode, Zubin Damania, a.k.a. Zdogg MD, a Stanford trained physician and founder of Turntable Health, discusses his evolution from disillusioned doctor suffering burnout to leading the charge for a radical shift in how we practice medicine. We also go down the rabbit hole on all sorts of juicy topics from meditation to nutrition to the nature of consciousness itself.

• Med school antics [7:00];
• Hierarchies in healthcare, physician burnout, and a broken system [20:15];
• Why Zubin left medicine, and what lead to the ZdoggMD persona [31:30];
• Peter’s tough decision to leave medicine [44:00];
• Benefits and challenges of meditation [54:15];
• Zdogg’s theory of consciousness [1:11:30];
• Nutrition: Peter’s current strategy with patients [1:31:00];
• The anti-vaccine dispute [1:38:15]
• The common thread of all “diets”, the obesity epidemic, and Peter’s dream experiment [1:44:30];
• Do we have free will? And how do we make better decisions and learn from our mistakes? [1:55:15];
• Peter’s current obsessions: fasting and rapamycin, measuring autophagy, and becoming a kickass 100-year-old [2:03:15];
• Reforming the healthcare payment model [2:14:45];
• How to find doctors like Peter and Zubin in your area [2:28:15];
• Zdogg’s amazing videos [2:31:15]; and
• More.

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