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/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore 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/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore 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 hereVideo archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore 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 transcendentVideo archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore 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/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore 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/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore 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 Intro0:15 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 months16:17 The origins of COVID politicization and Tribalism25:41 Should we not treat unvaxxed people or shame unmasked children?28:13 Having compassion for those who misbehave or attack31:21 The fragility of wishing contrary opinions would disappear36:38 Recognizing our cognitive biases when engaging in sense-making40:21 My experience working in genetics with Drosophila fruit flies43:06 How COVID broke our brains and sense-making ability: masks47:05 Social media attacks, virtue signaling, performative vulnerability, dealing with emotion via social media56:31 Equanimity, desire, aversion, and the roots of suffering1:00:00 Connection and positive feedback1:01:43 Joe Rogan and Sanjay Gupta, Ivermectin1:06:00 Hydroxychloroquine and the importance of randomized trials1:08:00 Is The Temple of Doom racist? The nature of the times in determining appropriateness1:09:29 The nature and art of comedy1:11:06 Squid Game and the darkness of our times1:14:26 What people can do to decrease polarization1:15:23 Vaccine Mandates: the consequences for healthcare and politics1:17:00 Waking up as a society to what matters, how we let people die alone1:20:21 Why doctors put out such shitty YouTube content and what it really MEANS to be in medicine, the nature of real mentorshipsVideo archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore 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/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore 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/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices