A must-watch deep dive into some science!Vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit is less than impressed with evidence to support the Omicron BA.4/5 "bivalent" booster shots now rolling out for everyone 12 and older. We also talk polio and monkeypox and flu 👍Video: https://zdoggmd.com/paul-offit-10/Topics & Timestamps:00:00 Intro1:10 A brief history of the Covid vaccines, groups that benefit from boosting5:12 Incubation periods and vaccination "goals," preventing infection vs. severe disease10:54 Bivalent vaccine, the FDA's EUA approach, crucial dosing issues (ancestral strain vs. bivalent)17:15 BA.4/5 booster immunogenicity data (or lack thereof), mouse data & vax safety profile21:40 Why Paul himself would pass on the new booster, incubation periods, why Covid zero is a fantasy24:28 Paul's "perfect" bivalent vaccine25:37 Yearly targeted boosters, myocarditis and the Thai children's study28:39 BA.4/5: MIS-C, boosters & long Covid, data from JAMA's Italian study31:28 Comparing BA.4/5 & the yearly flu vax, timing of the yearly flu shot38:45 Polio's resurgence, injected inactivated vs. live oral polio vaccines, the role of sanitation48:05 Monkeypox and a history of smallpox vaccines56:43 Reflection w/Dr. Offit: what he's gotten right, what he's gotten wrong and where to go from here1:01:57 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

Should California discipline doctors who "disseminate misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19?" Here's one California physician's take.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/misinfo-bill/And here's the interview with Dr. Paul Offit I referenced. Read the full text of AB2098 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

Seriously y'all, you can't make this s**t up 😂 When Dr. Leana Wen changed her hard core Covidian tune, the Twitter mob went into full attack mode. All to cancel her from speaking at a panel on "the backlash against public health" Oh, the irony! Here's an excellent related op-ed with links and a discussion I had with Dr. Vinay Prasad on The VPZD Show about this.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/leana-wen/ 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

Three pervasive distortions are at the root of tremendous suffering for children AND adults.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/3-great-untruths/Read Haidt & Lukianoff's book The Coddling of the American Mind. Watch my related video on The Social Dilemma. Watch my interview on existential risk with Daniel Schmachtenberger. 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

What happens if you drop the mental labels, constructs and THOUGHTS about reality, and just look directly at your immediate experience? Strap yourself in because psychologist John Astin helps us see what's right in front of us, now and always 🤯John Astin is a meditation teacher, musician, and the author of four books on spiritual practice, including Searching for Rain in a Monsoon. He has a Ph.D. in health psychology and is an adjunct professor of clinical and counseling psychology at Santa Clara and Notre Dame de Namur Universities. Find his books, teachings, and more on his website. Here's the interview with Donald Hoffman that we referenced and check out all our videos on consciousness, meditation, and awakening.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/podcasting/john-astin/Topics & Timecodes0:00 Introduction9:01 The role of psychedelics, self transcendence & wonder13:25 Awakening to non-dual reality18:10 The miracle of our present experience25:00 How words and concepts can’t capture experience28:35 Conceptual vs. Experiential perspective: an exercise34:10 Analogy to the vase illusion image: parts and whole coexist49:28 The inconceivability of any experience, including emotions like worry and anxiety58:29 The fractal/holographic nature of reality, the oneness of experience1:01:28 Awakening as a sense of homecoming1:05:15 The paradox of suffering and our frame of reference1:09:50 “Relative” medicine vs. “Ultimate” medicine, clarifying the nature of pain1:17:18 The impermanence of experiential phenomenon1:26:40 The paradox of striving/seeking, allowing experience to be1:29:00 Drifting reality and what is attention, the groundless nature of experience1:33:28 The paradox of meditation and effort, the role of teachers1:43:06 The dreamlike quality of waking experience1:45:20 Zoom as an abstraction vs. in person experience1:48:50 What is meditation? What is common to all experience: one taste1:55:05 What is consciousness? Reality is “just this”; what is “presence”2:04:55 All views are partial, the Alt-Middle, Integral perspective, thoughts are just thoughts2:07:43 McGilcrist and left brain vs right brain, Jill Bolte Taylor2:10:40 Wrapping up, links, and the book This Extraordinary Moment 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

Why did Dr. Offit vote NO on Omicron-specific boosters at the FDA advisory meeting? What's up with vaccine for the youngest kids? AND MUCH MORE...All our videos with Dr. Paul Offit here. And check out Paul's recent op-ed on variant-specific boosting in Stat News.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/paul-offit-9/Topics & Timecodes: ​00:00 Intro, Omicron-specific vaccine, brief COVID history, what is a bivalent vaccine ​06:56 The FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee, political agendas & the seemingly declining burden of proof13:15 Booster vs. 3rd dose, understanding age stratified risk, potential for vaccine escape16:52 My dad's COVID story, risk calculation, the problem with broad stroke policies20:50 What happens to old COVID variants, predictions for the upcoming winter surge23:07 Viral infection patterns, specifically in children, MIS-C28:52 Severe disease, death and long COVID in children, vaccine uptake in children33:53 Kids under 5 & the COVID vax, community vs. individual benefit38:45 COVID vax mandates & their effect on childhood immunizations, public health messaging43:58 Recognizing & overcoming bias, Dr. Offit's emotional experience upon approval of the rotavirus vax47:59 Paul shares his COVID experience, long COVID as a biopsychosocial condition, 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

A pandemic post-mortem that looks ahead to how a post-COVID awakening might unfold, with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller.Find more from David and his guests here, check out the recent live show we did together. Here's the Culture Wars 2.0 piece we referenced. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-culture-wars/Topics & Timecodes:0:00 Intro4:40 Health 3.0 & a broken healthcare system going into the pandemic7:50 Rebel Wisdom’s central curation function11:00 Zoom vs. in person and the effect on connection23:53 Internet subcultures “leaking” into the real world, Jan. 6th26:15 The Post-Secular Religiosity of everything, including COVID31:15 The rise of conspiracy narratives during COVID37:05 Questioning our own thinking, personal growth44:10 Hermeneutics of suspicion & a culture of bullshit56:00 Conspiracies thrive in gaps in the mainstream narrative57:30 Pre/trans fallacy & the COVID antithesis space1:05:00 Paradox of being outside the institutions: audience capture1:09:48 Tech platforms’ warping effect on creators1:13:40 Jordan Peterson’s tragic arc1:17:54 The return of the “repressed”1:24:00 Return of psychedelic medicine1:29:44 Limitations of psychedelics1:34:13 Meditation & Awakening, pitfalls1:38:58 Ayahuasca1:44:12 Culture War 2.0 & Memetic Tribes1:53:15 Post Pandemic Awakening & Personal Growth 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

Just getting infants and toddlers fed seems harder than ever given formula shortages and lack of support for moms.Lactation consultant and educator Mirine Richey, MPH, IBCLC helps us unwind all the knots. Learn more about her work at Florida State.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/formula-crisis/Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro, the role of the lactation consultant05:25 Infant nutrition, diversity among lactation specialists, physical breastfeeding vs. feeding breastmilk08:17 Social determinants, challenges for low socioeconomic and the highly educated, maternal advantages & benefits of breastfeeding14:50 Infant advantages & benefits of breastfeeding19:34 Breastmilk vs. formula cost (both monetary and social)23:11 Debriefing past trauma & why it's often uncomfortable to talk about breastfeeding, more neonatal benefits27:53 Composition of human milk, immune properties, HIV considerations, positioning for bottle feeding31:39 Tongue-tied babies, breast-shaped bottles, maternal mental health & the effect of stress on infants, breastmilk is best41:21 Formula composition, cow milk vs. goat milk based, clever marketing, soy based formulas50:29 The simplicity of supplementing with formula & it's effect on milk supply, the formula industrial complex, clever marketing59:43 Baby friendly hospitals, informed consent, alternatives to breastfeeding, donor milk, synthetic milk1:05:25 Milk production for multiples, pumping pros & cons, mastitis, temperament & personality in infants & beyond1:14:58 The formula crisis, causes & possible solutions1:18:40 Final thoughts, tying it all together, finding a lactation consultant 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

Most of our lives are spent lost in the thought stream. But the senses can be our gateway to unfiltered reality right here and now.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/sense-gates/Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo's email list for future meditation retreats and updates here. And watch ALL of our videos on awakening with my fellow Dr. D here.Topics & Timecodes:0:00 Intro1:49 Awakening as a process beyond conceptual knowing4:00 What to do when thought intervenes on unfiltered reality7:01 The paradox of the personal and impersonal8:50 The paradox of practice vs. non-practice11:12 Investigating the sense gates: sound and hearing21:10 The non-dual experience of hearing (JUST hearing)26:10 The prerequisite role of Self-inquiry in awakening27:52 Investigating the sight gate: gazing into infinity33:40 Attuning to subtlety and refining perception36:52 The importance of “just stopping”40:11 The end of suffering and living truth investigating itself 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 dive into your questions about consciousness, personal growth, and more with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller.We discuss all the things including manspark™️, responsible heterodoxy, the hero’s journey, health 3.0, psychedelics, meditation & the ego, Enneagrams, free will and much more. Also, check out Rebel Wisdom's YouTube channel and watch our previous episodes with David here.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/david-fuller-live/ 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