The People's Pharmacy
Empowering you to make wise decisions about your own health, by providing you with essential health information about both medical and alternative treatment options.
Joe and Terry Graedon
Show overview
The People's Pharmacy has been publishing since 2008, and across the 18 years since has built a catalogue of 553 episodes. That works out to roughly 500 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a fortnightly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 58 min and 1h 1m — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Health & Fitness show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 4 days ago, with 25 episodes already out so far this year. The busiest year was 2025, with 52 episodes published. Published by Joe and Terry Graedon.
From the publisher
Empowering you to make wise decisions about your own health, by providing you with essential health information about both medical and alternative treatment options. 921997
Latest Episodes
View all 553 episodesShow 1478: The Outdoor Prescription for Fighting Dementia, Depression and Heart Disease
Show 1477: Answering Your Questions About Vision Problems
Show 1476: Tell Me Where It Hurts: A Roadmap for Managing Chronic Pain
Show 1475: Your Allergy Survival Guide: What Works, What Doesn’t, What’s Risky
Show 1474: Treating the Cause, Not Just the Symptoms, with Functional Medicine
Show 1473: How Music Heals: The Neuroscience Behind an Ancient Medicine
Show 1472: Beyond Lyme: Stealth Infections from Flea and Tick Bites
Show 1471: Broken Bills: Why Americans Pay Twice as Much for Less Care
Show 1470: Why Your Doctor Should Prescribe Exercise to Treat Depression, Cancer & Aging
Show 1469: Fresh Air & Sunlight: How Some Hospitals Are Rediscovering This Healing Secret
Show 1468: Healing Joints and Nerves: The New Science of Regenerative Therapies
Millions of Americans are in pain. Arthritic joints make exercise difficult, even though moving is one of the best things we can do for joint pain. Pinched nerves can cause excruciating, long-lasting pain. The usual treatments, such as NSAIDs, may help ease the pain momentarily, but do nothing to help heal the underlying condition. What […]
Show 1429: How to Love Your Liver and Protect its Superpowers (Archive)
This week, Joe and Terry discuss liver health with two specialists. You may not have spent much time thinking about your liver. It is, however, an absolutely essential organ. When the liver is working properly, every part of the body gets the nutrients it needs and no parts are exposed to damaging toxins. These are […]
Show 1467: Can You Disagree Without Fighting? Building Bridges, Not Battles!
A chance encounter with a stranger on an airplane offers lessons for all of us in how to disagree without fighting. Infectious disease expert Morgan Goheen, MD, was wary when the person in the seat next to hers struck up a conversation with questions about the origins of Lyme disease and the value of being […]
Show 1466: Could Hidden Infections Be Driving Chronic Disease?
Chronic diseases make up the bulk of the problems that modern health care must address. Each condition seems to have its own drivers–cholesterol for heart disease, airway hyperreactivity for asthma, neurotransmitter imbalance for depression and other psychiatric disorders, a buildup of amyloid beta in the brain for Alzheimer disease. What if all these conditions had […]
Show 1465: Food Fight! Should We Flip the Food Pyramid Upside-Down?
Every five years, the Departments of Agriculture and of Health and Human Services jointly issue guidelines on what we should eat. The most recent Dietary Guidelines for Americans (2025-2030) have been controversial. [Here is a link: https://www.dietaryguidelines.gov] Among other things, the administration decided to flip the food pyramid upside-down in illustrating its recommendations. Why did […]
Show 1464: Can Vaccines Protect the Brain from Dementia?
According to the Alzheimer’s Association, nearly seven million Americans currently suffer from that type of dementia. Experts expect that more will be burdened with it in the future, as baby boomers continue to reach advanced ages. Many people are eager to protect the brain from deterioration. In this episode, we discuss an unexpected approach to […]
Show 1463: Why We Eat Too Much and What to Do About It
Obesity is a big problem in the US. The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases says 2 out of every 5 American adults are obese. What’s more, one in three is overweight, with only about 25 percent of us at a healthy weight. It’s not just adults; children are increasingly suffering weight […]
Show 1462: Using Focused Ultrasound Against Parkinson Disease and Tremor
Most medical interventions are either pharmacological–prescribe a drug–or surgical–remove or repair the offending body part. If those approaches are inappropriate, doctors long for a different technology. In this episode, we discuss the development of a relatively new noninvasive technology, focused ultrasound. Doctors use it to treat conditions such as Parkinson disease or essential tremor. It […]
Show 1461: How Patients Are Using Technology to Heal Healthcare
Medicine has changed enormously over the last several decades. As with other parts of society, digital technology has disrupted previous practices. Clinicians can now care for patients at home, monitoring them with sophisticated sensors for oxygen saturation, heart rhythm, blood pressure and much more. Even more significant, patients now have greater access to medical knowledge […]
Show 1363: Defeating Seasonal Affective Disorder (Archive)
In this episode, we interview the doctor who first identified seasonal affective disorder (back in 1984!) and went on to develop treatments. Even when days are short (but getting longer, little by little) and skies are gray, you don’t have to suffer with a bleak outlook. Find out what you can do to counteract this […]