The ZDoggMD Show

Family physician, healthcare leader and author Dr. Peter Valenzuela’s new book “Doc-Related” uses art, humor, and clinical and leadership wisdom to highlight challenges in healthcare and propose real solutions.We dive into patient experience vs. patient satisfaction, the challenges of the electronic health record, billing and coding, the Great Resignation how we need meaning/relationships/positive emotions/accomplishment in our work, leadership communication, price transparency in healthcare, quality metrics, malpractice, and more. Get the Doc-Related book here, check out Peter’s website here, and check out his wife’s awesome wines here. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/doc-related/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here's why the CDC recommending COVID vaccine boosters for young and healthy people is a bad idea and might actually prolong the pandemic.Here's a link to the Washington Post piece I reference featuring Dr. Paul Offit. Here are shows we've done with Paul on vaccines and COVID. We also discussed boosters for all on a prior episode of my podcast with Dr. Vinay Prasad, The VPZD Show Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/boosters-4-all/Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More 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/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More 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 here Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More 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 transcendent Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More 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/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More 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/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More 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 Intro 0:15 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 months 16:17 The origins of COVID politicization and Tribalism 25:41 Should we not treat unvaxxed people or shame unmasked children? 28:13 Having compassion for those who misbehave or attack 31:21 The fragility of wishing contrary opinions would disappear 36:38 Recognizing our cognitive biases when engaging in sense-making 40:21 My experience working in genetics with Drosophila fruit flies 43:06 How COVID broke our brains and sense-making ability: masks 47:05 Social media attacks, virtue signaling, performative vulnerability, dealing with emotion via social media 56:31 Equanimity, desire, aversion, and the roots of suffering 1:00:00 Connection and positive feedback 1:01:43 Joe Rogan and Sanjay Gupta, Ivermectin 1:06:00 Hydroxychloroquine and the importance of randomized trials 1:08:00 Is The Temple of Doom racist? The nature of the times in determining appropriateness 1:09:29 The nature and art of comedy 1:11:06 Squid Game and the darkness of our times 1:14:26 What people can do to decrease polarization 1:15:23 Vaccine Mandates: the consequences for healthcare and politics 1:17:00 Waking up as a society to what matters, how we let people die alone 1:20:21 Why doctors put out such shitty YouTube content and what it really MEANS to be in medicine, the nature of real mentorships Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More 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/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More 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/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're more divided than ever it seems. How can we reconcile a COVID thesis and antithesis into an Alt-Middle synthesis? A deep dive.Here's the piece I mentioned from Peter Limburg of The Stoa. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/covidiots/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Social media is blowing up with stories about each of these guys schooling the other. But is that really what this is about? Here's my take (aired LIVE Oct. 14th on YouTube). Video: https://zdoggmd.com/rogan-gupta/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

COVID vaccine answers, straight from Dr. Offit (vaccine co-inventor and member of the FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee) 🔥.Watch all our episodes with Dr. Offit here! Full video with transcript. Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Kids and COVID: current epidemiology 3:59 Vaccine for kids: dosing, data, risks, a polio rant 9:48 Myocarditis risks, kids 5-11 vaccine data 11:48 Single dose for kids? 12:52 Mechanism of myocarditis, is it due to accidental intravenous injection? MIS-C & MIS-A 16:46 Sweden’s Moderna pause for young people, understanding risk 19:46 Booster vs “third dose”: preventing severe disease, inducing B and T memory cells 25:58 Breakthrough Infection is a terrible term: an epic rant 30:17 Israeli booster mandates and data, explained 32:56 Would Paul get a booster for himself? 34:17 Spacing out the second dose, Paul’s thoughts 35:15 Measuring antibody levels 36:47 Natural infection, dissected 40:58 Psychological reactance to mandates, trust, Scandinavia vs US 43:34 COVID vaccine in pregnancy 46:13 COVID vaccine in autoimmune disease 46:57 Do mRNA vaccines cause clotting 47:40 Long COVID and vaccines 48:45 VAERS explained 51:22 Molnupiravir from Merck as a therapeutic, Ivermectin etc 53:08 Novavax 53:55 Flu, Flu shot and timing with COVID vaccine Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cepheid's chief medical and technology officer returns to talk PCR testing for COVID, flu, RSV, and future variants & viruses not yet discovered.Watch our other episodes with Dr. David Persing here and learn more about molecular testing at Cepheid here. Video with transcript here Click here for easier navigation through this show's key topics. 0:00 Intro 1:27 What happened to flu (influenza) last year (viral exclusion, innate immune response) 3:20 Nasal vaccines and innate immunity 5:10 How SARS-CoV2 evolves to replicate more efficiently 8:33 Do variants evade PCR testing? Experience with H1N1 flu 12:09 False positives and PCR 14:22 How deep do you need to swab? 15:09 PCR vs. Antigen testing 18:41 Four-In-1 PCR testing: flu component, will flu be back? 20:23 RSV update in kids and adults 23:53 The “FluVid” COVID/Flu A + B/RSV 4-in-1 test 26:21 Future proofing testing for new pandemics 29:33 Will SARS-CoV2 become endemic, and how? 32:25 The role of vaccination, breakthroughs, transmission 34:01 Natural infection and vaccination, how long does it last, boosters Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're talking delta's end, kids and COVID, natural vs. vaccine immunity, Moderna and more, LIVE 🔥Here's a Kaiser Health News piece on natural vs. vaccine immunity. Here's an interesting Scientific American piece on why kids are so resistant to COVID's bad effects. And here's a piece on how the risk to kids from COVID compares to other dangers. Video here Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Promising early results for an oral therapeutic for SARS-CoV2. Here's what we know and what it may mean.Here's the topline data from Merck so far. Video with transcript here Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Are we really going to fire healthcare workers who won’t vaccinate…during a pandemic? Here’s my Alt-Middle take.Here’s a New York Times article on the subject. Full video with transcript. Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're talking LIVE with Dr. Marty Makary about all things COVID! We covered MANY COVID-related topics, including natural immunity, mandates, vaccine spacing, gain of function viral research, managing coronavirus risk in different age groups, and much more. Check out Marty Makary's other episodes with me here. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/marty-makary-7/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our COVID science should be much better than it is. Here's a breakdown on spacing doses, natural immunity, gain of function research, therapeutics, healthcare worker burnout & much more. Dr. Marty Makary is a Johns Hopkins physician and editor-in-chief of MedPage Today. Here are all our past shows! Full transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/marty-makary-6/ Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 2:35 NIH spending & COVID research 7:53 Herd Immunity, was Marty wrong, clickbait headlines 11:02 Menstrual changes and vaccines 13:08 Boosters and booster mandates 16:45 Rabies Diffr’ent Strokes rant 18:54 VAERS surveillance 21:44 Tinnitus 23:32 Spacing second vaccine dose, Johnson & Johnson booster 29:34 Natural immunity and a failure of messaging 32:40 Silencing debate and heterodox voices 36:49 Bullying and shaming in healthcare and nursing shortages 44:29 Treatments for COVID at home 49:15 Understanding risk 51:43 NIH gain of function virus research 54:26 Moderna, BARDA, and profit motives in vaccines 57:36 Marty’s thoughts on cloth masks and kids 1:06:04 Nikki Minaj & Marty 1:11:36 9-11 commission for COVID Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The FDA advisory committee voted this week to reject approval of COVID Pfizer vaccine boosters for healthy people 16 and up. Here's what's up with that, and how we can better understand the booster question for the healthy and those at higher risk. Here's an interview I did with Dr. Vinay Prasad that touched on this. And here's another discussion that features boosters with Dr. Monica Gandhi. Video & Transcript Here Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tha’ Notorious VP returns to talk about the numbers around mandates, booster science or lack thereof, masking young kids, and more!Check out Dr. Vinay Prasad’s YouTube channel here and here are the other episodes we’ve done together. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-mandates/ Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 0:31 The science on masking young children 6:29 Criticizing irrational views held by rational people, kids’ masking 9:47 Bangladesh mask study promoting surgical masks over cloth in adults 13:29 Vaccine mandates, do they make sense to actually improve outcomes, an analysis 23:18 What’s going on with irrational college campus COVID policies, the testing industry’s influence on policy 27:16 FDA resignations and the controversy over COVID boosters 29:18 Flaws/bias in Israeli vaccine data sets 32:00 Boosters in healthy people, the FDA resignations, and political pressure 35:42 Creating psychological reactance and tribalization in response to mandates and poor communication 38:05 The John Mandrola myocarditis study controversy 44:04 #medtwitter madness and using vaccines off-label for kids 52:06 The Ivermectin overreaction in the media 54:32 The modern sense-making crisis and the influence of social media in sowing division and culture wars 58:17 Vinay’s possible dystopian scenario on government overreach 1:03:41 Why the haters, and why block people on Twitter, credentialism, Alt-Middle, religion and science, and more Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sometimes I think our leaders don't understand human beings. At all.See also a relevant discussion with Dr. Monica Gandhi here. Full video with transcript here. Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Immunity (natural and/or vaccine-induced) is the only way past COVID-19. Dr. Gandhi returns to discuss how we get there.Watch all our prior discussions with Dr. Monica Gandhi here. We talk about the bungled messaging around vaccines, masks, and natural immunity, why vaccines decrease actual viral transmission, why the US got hit so hard with Delta & why shame backfires in public health, why masks and lockdowns can't end a pandemic, natural immunity & why a single dose of vaccine should be our recommendation, the correct thinking on "booster" vaccines, the distinction between antibodies levels & B and T memory cells in durable immune responses to coronavirus, why Dr. Gandhi's stance of vaccine mandates and immunity passports has evolved, the high rate of vaccine uptake among doctors, why death is not always the enemy (RIP Frodo), schools and equity (public vs. private), therapeutics like ivermectin, monoclonals, fluvoxamine, and more, turning the pandemic endemic like cold & flu, what's up with Mu variant, and more! Watch the video here. Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A front-line critical care doc talks about why preserving quality of life AFTER an ICU stay matters...a LOT. Dr. Wes Ely's book, Every Deep-Drawn Breath, is available now. Check out the Critical Illness, Brain Dysfunction, and Survivorship (CIBS) Center here. Here's our other episodes with Dr. Ely. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/wes-ely-3/ Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 7:06 Importance of family in ICU care, especially with cultural/language issues 13:08 Testimonial injustice, the A2F Bundle, and a billionaire in the ICU 17:17 COVID & nurse burnout 20:13 Caring nonjudgmentally for patients regardless of their vaccine choices 24:56 The ethics of fetal stem cell lines in vaccine development (and some surprising truth) 28:30 Therapeutics analysis: ivermectin, JAK inhibitors, baricitinib 38:50 Allowing ourselves to feel with our patients, the importance of respecting faith paths 46:31 ICU delirium may damage higher cognitive systems and leave emotion intact (elephant and rider/system 1 and system 2) 54:19 The harm of excessive sedation and delirium as a predictor of death 58:53 PASC, Post-Acute Sequelae of COVID (AKA Long COVID) 01:03:48 Managing delirium and early mobilization in the ICU 01:09:37 Self-forgiveness, shame in medicine, and closing thoughts Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New preprint data suggests prior COVID infection generates fantastic immunity. Can we talk about that? What it means for vaccines, mandates, and more.Here’s a Science summary of the latest information on “natural immunity” vs. vaccines and a combination of the two. Full video with transcript. Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A filmmaker and an emergency physician (who almost died of COVID) teamed up to create a powerful VR time capsule for the pandemic. Is this the future of public health education?You can watch the Inside COVID-19 documentary using an Oculus Quest VR headset here. Here’s a link to the trailer. If you don’t have an Oculus, you can watch a 2d rendered version here. If you have a non-Oculus headset or are watching using the YouTube app on a phone, here’s a cool way to watch. And check out WisdomVR here. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/inside-covid19/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Paul, 37, had elderly parents, an ER nurse wife, and young children, and he had good questions about COVID vaccines. Then everything changed.This is his story. And here's a piece we did on whether you should get vaccinated now. Video & Transcript Here Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We should be ENCOURAGING and answering vaccine questions, not shaming the people asking them. Here are three big vaccination myths, explained. Transcript, video podcast, links: zdoggmd.com/3-vaccine-myths Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here’s what FDA approval of Pfizer’s mRNA vaccine means, why its name is so stupid, the concept of psychological reactance, vaccine “hesitancy” and more, previously LIVE.Here’s an interesting piece on psychological reactance and vaccines. Here’s my interview with Paul Offit on vaccines. Here’s how mRNA vaccines work. Here’s my show on vaccine breakthrough infections. And here’s a show on turning COVID into an endemic common cold. Full video with transcript. Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There’s a good chance this pandemic can be transformed into an endemic common cold, safely and relatively quickly. Here’s some science.Here’s the research piece on coronavirus immunity dynamics that I cited. And here’s a blurb on Iceland’s vaccinated breakthrough surge. Here’s my Iceland video from some months back. Full video with transcript. Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vaccine breakthrough infections, Moderna vs Pfizer waning immunity, boosters for the elderly, and more.Here’s the Intelligencer article I referenced by Dave Wallace-Wells with Dr. Michael Mina. And here’s a post-show live discussion I did on Locals (you can sign up for a free account to watch). Video and Transcript Here Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Previously LIVE Q+A on awakening, meditation, the nature of thought, emotion, non-dual realization, and unfiltered reality. Easy stuff 😂 Here's Dr. Angelo DiLullo's website with links to his book, Awake: It's Your Turn and more info. And here's all our other episodes with Angelo, with links to the book and more. Full video here. Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A deep dive into the risk/benefit of vaccination vs. "natural" COVID infection at this delta-driven stage.We talk mask and vaccine mandates, how variants work, natural immunity, an alt-middle approach to sensemaking, and more, originally LIVE. Video and transcript here.Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Guess what: pandemic dynamics are complex. Let's stop reducing them to mask mandates and indoor dining, OK? Article link, video podcast, transcript, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/delta-crash Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're talking with vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit about variants, kids & COVID-19, boosters, breakthrough infections, misinformation, schools + masks, immunity from natural infection, vaccine mandates, and much more, LIVE 👍Check out all our episodes with Dr. Paul Offit here. Full video with transcript. Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why do we reduce humans who suffer with chronic pain to simple molecules and receptors? Pain psychologist Rachel Zoffness, P.h.D. returns to talk fibromyalgia, stomach pain, anxiety, the role of trauma, and much more.UCSF pain psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness, PhD teaches us methods to take better control of our pain. She is the author of The Pain Management Workbook, a pain educator on faculty at Dartmouth, and columnist for Psychology Today. Full video with transcript. Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Public health mask mandates, who's getting Delta now, vaccine "breakthrough" infections, the politics of the pandemic, kids & COVID-19, and much more, LIVE.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/sunday-roundz-7-18-21 Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Filmmaker and host of the Theories of Everything podcast Curt Jaimungal & I talk sensemaking, medicine 3.0, consciousness and the nature of reality, the challenges of meditation, sleep disturbances, thought storms, free will, and much more, originally LIVE.Watch Curt's outstanding YouTube interview podcast Theories of Everything. And check out his documentary on the radical need for Alt-Middle thinking, Better Left Unsaid. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/curt-jaimungal/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CDC reports a possible association between the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine and a type of autoimmune paralysis called Guillain-Barre. Here's what you need to know.Here's a prior show we did on flu shot and Guillain-Barre. Full video with transcript. Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally streamed live on Sunday 7/11/21. We talked regulatory capture by pharma, the aducanumab outrage, Pfizer's booster bull$hit, masks in kids, virtue signaling, the return of RSV and risk understanding in children, do non-vaccinated people pose a threat, and a ridiculous video aimed at the Black community called Vax That Thang Up 😂 Video at zdoggmd.com/update-7-11-21 The week's videos you missed: https://zdoggmd.com/z-blogg Ways to join our Supporter Tribe: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Weighing the risk of myocarditis vs. the benefit of vaccinating young people (particularly boys) with the Pfizer mRNA vaccine. Transcript, video podcast, links to the op-ed and more with UCSF hematologist/oncologist and medical evidence specialist Dr. Vinay Prasad: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-myocarditis Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have absolutely no idea whether putting masks on kids is net helpful or harmful, and here's why. Links to the op-ed, transcript, video, and more from Dr. Vinay Prasad: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-kids-masking Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two doctors analyze the evidence so far on ivermectin for COVID-19 and Aduhelm (aducanumab) for Alzheimer's. Dr. Vinay Prasad is a UCSF heme/onc doc who specializes in clinical trials and medical decision-making. Video podcast, transcript, links and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-prasad-ivermectin Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A deeper dive into the nitty gritty of spiritual awakening. This is the second interview in our series Awakening, Explained with my guest Dr. Angelo DiLullo. Angelo is a practicing anesthesiologist and author of the book "Awake: It's Your Turn." In this episode we discuss the nature of unbound consciousness, the role of inquiry and curiosity in awakening, how "just stop" can be a powerful gateway, the nature of beliefs as a hindrance to awakening, the importance of humility and authenticity on the path, the origins of the sense of "self" in childhood, the nature of non-dual reality/radical intimacy/love, the question “What Is This?” as inquiry, insane comedic interlude featuring constipation/Sesame Street jokes, what are thoughts, how does thought relate to suffering and the creation of a false "self" and much more. Get Angelo's book and download his free meditation app here. The rest of our Awakening, Explained interview series can be found 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: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A family doctor and an engineer do what government couldn't: provide amazing care to both rich AND poor. A bright spot lesson in grassroots healthcare reform 👍 In this episode we discuss bottom-up direct primary care Health 3.0 solutions that help people in poverty as well affluent individuals—using one group's revenue to help fund the other. Healing Grove Health Center was founded by Dr. Angela Bymaster (a family physician) and her husband Brett (an electrical engineer and entrepreneur) in the heart of one of the more impoverished zip codes in Silicon Valley. In this episode they talk about their faith-based Christian mission and advise on the logistics of how anyone can start a similarly innovative clinic. And check out this report they made on the deleterious effects of COVID-19 shutdowns on the poor. Transcript and Full Video here Here are some important links as mentioned in the show: Healing Grove Health Center: there are also links to donate & enroll as a concierge patient on the site Echo Clinics: Free consulting to help start faith based charitable clinics St Luke's Family Medicine: This is the concierge/free clinic hybrid model that's been operating for >15 years that the Bymasters based their Healing Grove center on. Jim Eischen Law firm: for legal help with DPC/Concierge compliance issues Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Delta variant vs. vaccines, hospitalizations, children, masks and more, explained by a doctor with precisely 97.5% less drama 👍 Transcript, links, video podcast, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/delta-variant Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The "House of God" and "Man's 4th Best Hospital" author talks about his path integrating medicine and writing, the role and importance of spiritual awakening, and a preview of his new book. Check out his latest book, Man's 4th Best Hospital, here. Full video here Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wanna know how deep the awakening rabbit hole goes? Are you SURE? 🤯 This is the fifth interview in our series Awakening, Explained with my guest Dr. Angelo DiLullo. Angelo is a practicing anesthesiologist and author of the book "Awake: It's Your Turn." In this episode we dive into the stages of realization that can occur POST awakening...and it gets pretty wild and largely awesome. Get Angelo's book, contact him, and download his free meditation app here. The rest of our Awakening, Explained interview series can be found here. Full video with transcript. Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices