Can healing happen when we shine a light on the dark places in medicine? Dr. Emily Silverman is a UCSF hospital physician and host of the popular podcast The Nocturnists. We dive into shame and emotional repression in doctors, healthcare professionals, and beyond.Check out the entire Shame series here. Learn more about Dr. Silverman here. Donate to her nonprofit here. Visit The Shame Space. Here is the gun violence article we referenced.Watch the video of our interview 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

He's a Sith Lord and burned out physician, more machine than doc now. YOU asked him ANYTHING, LIVE! Full video version here.Topics covered:00:00 Intro00:09 Pronouns01:40 Damar Hamlin03:37 Vaccines08:57 Fairness11:44 Societal fails16:37 Shame19:18 Universal masking20:26 Bret Weinstein22:36 Colonoscopy23:44 Vaccine induced myocarditis24:38 Naming your baby26:54 Champagne27:55 Lightsaber Vasectomies29:08 Male nurses31:15 Clinical leadership32:07 Power of the Dark Side35:14 Medication side effects37:33 Perfect families40:26 Dark side philosophy42:13 Personality disorders 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

Avoid the pitfalls of your online "second self" by recognizing & navigating criticism, parasocial projections, audience capture, social media addiction, and creator burnout/metric obsession.Reference courtesy of The Stoa here.Watch the video 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 ever-amazing Dr. Monica Gandhi returns to talk Flu/RSV/COVID, viral interference, China's zero-COVID response, MPox, and public health lessons from HIV for the next pandemic—while searching for true meaning beyond our apparent divisions.Watch the video here.Here's the paper summarizing Monica's proposed pandemic playbook.Find all our episodes with Dr. Gandhi here.Transcript & links here.Topics & Timecodes:00:00 Intro03:27 Influenza, RSV & COVID, "immune debt," viral interference, population immunity, targeted boosting, pregnancy & immunity12:30 Bivalent boosters, age stratified risk, flu shot uptake, public health’s vaccine messaging failures, China’s zero-COVID policy, mRNA vaccines & the immunocompromised22:53 Mpox (formerly monkeypox) messaging, why at-risk population targeting is so important28:17 Monica’s new book Endemic: A Post-Pandemic Playbook, HIV lessons learned but not applied to the COVID pandemic, harm reduction, school closures, global vaccine equity, planning for future pandemics37:42 Social divisiveness & the moral matrix, societal harms due to the pandemic response, mental health, substance abuse & suicide, the Alt-Middle44:15 Burnout, healing divisiveness, fostering compassion, searching for meaning through connection, waking up to what “is”57:46 Final thoughts 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

Our entire conventional lives are based on a case of mistaken identity. Let's look for who we REALLY are, together (originally LIVE on YouTube) 🔥 Watch the video 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

Arguing over vaccines with your crazy relatives might raise your glucose more than dessert; continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) for insight into diet, exercise, sleep, emotional stress, and more with Dr. Ronesh Sinha.Check out Dr. Sinha's website, follow him on Instagram, and subscribe to his Meta Health podcast. All our prior episodes together.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/continuous-glucose-monitoring/Topics & Timecodes:00:00 Intro to lifestyle medicine02:30 ABIM recertification, left vs. right brain medicine, Attia & Thor on National Geographic10:03 Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) as a motivator, exploring root causes, the primary care doc crisis19:25 Insulin resistance, matching carbs to your metabolism, vital role of protein intake & muscle mass, fasting, plant-based diets31:53 Sleep quality, food choices, glycemic variability, glucose spikes & recovery periods, "worry journaling"43:47 Public speaking and stress, cortisol release & glucose levels51:28 Social media & the news, memory recall, creating spaces to give the nervous system a break, biopsychosocial factors, the right brain approach57:45 CGM data patterns, approaching exercise realistically, walking, “EPIC” workouts, positive vs. negative stress1:07:54 The pandemic of emotional repression, teen metabolic health in decline1:18:20 Gender-specific considerations, alcohol1:23:12 Environmental conditioning, the downside to working from home, the approaching societal tipping point, waking up1:27:47 Second-selfing, audience capture, internal capitalism, final thoughts 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

Sunday Roundz, originally live on YouTube 10/30/22.Video: zdoggmd.com/seoulGear: supportertribe4lyfe.com 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

Dr. Angelo DiLullo (author of Awake, It's Your Turn) interviews ME 😂We talk about my own weird history, becoming "ZDoggMD", advice for medical students and residents, and a crazy thing that changed my life back in 2012.If you really wanna wake up, subscribe to Angelo's amazing YouTube channel and check out all our previous conversations here.Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SChalT87vnM 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

Our collective shift towards left brain dominance may be the end of us all.A live discussion of the ramifications of increasing reductionism in healthcare, COVID, and beyond. Learn more about McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/left-right-brain/ 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

John Astin, health psychologist and meditation teacher, discusses the non-conceptual experience of the present moment and the limitations of the thought world. Topics include consciousness, impermanence, integrating realization into daily life, anxiety, the power of attention, and the infinite and impermanent nature of reality.