Doctor Mike (Mike Varshavski) is a primary care physician and content creator on YouTube with over 5.9M subscribers and 600M views. His content focuses on educating the mainstream audience with common health advice using entertainment.

On this episode of Growth Minds, Doctor Mike and Sean discuss the story of how he rose to fame by documenting his journey in medical school, the pressing issue of lack of transparency in medicine, debunking the most common health myths, and more.

Subscribe to Doctor Mike's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0QHWhjbe5fGJEPz3sVb6nw

SHOW NOTES:
[02:20] Doctor Mike's immigrant story from Russia
[15:54] Discrimination in STEM fields
[19:27] The story of how Doctor Mike saved someone's life on a plane ride
[23:30] Why Doctor Mike still practices medicine to this day
[31:52] The lack of transparency coming from online medical gurus
[37:45] How Doctor Mike was able to go from shy introvert to confidence speaker
[40:20] Focusing on Intrinsic Happiness versus Extrinsic
[54:30] Doctor Mike shares his opinion on supplements

Links mentioned in the episode:
1) Feeling good: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009UW5X4C/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
2) Divided mind: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEHJOI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1#ace-g25456946

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Past guests on Growth Minds include: Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad Poor Dad), Steve Aoki, Robert Greene, Dr. Jason Fung, Dr. Steven Gundry, Neil deGrasse Tyson (StarTalk), Dennis Rodman, Wim Hof, Robin Sharma, Vanessa Van Edwards, King Bach, Daniel Pink, Dr. William Davis, Doctor Mike, Lewis Howes (School of Greatness), Tom Bilyeu (Impact Theory), Andrew Yang, Dr. Paul Conti, Charles Hoskinson (Ethereum), Dr. Drew (After Dark), Jo Koy, Jordan Belfort (Wolf of Wall Street), Gad Saad, Adam Carolla, Louis the Child, Vishen Lakhiani (Mindvalley), Bret Weinstein (DarkHorse Podcast), James Nestor, Dave Rubin, Scott Adams (Real Coffee with Scott Adams), Dave Asprey (Bulletproof Coffee), Gabby Reece, Rich Roll, James Altucher, R3hab, and more.

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