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Booster Shots For EVERYONE? Nov 30, 2021

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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/

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OMG Omicron? A Doctor Explains Nov 27, 2021

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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/

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John's Story: A COVID-19 ICU Survivor Nov 24, 2021

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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/

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The Great Resignation, Or The Great Awakening? Nov 20, 2021

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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

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Treating The Root Causes Of Our Suffering (w/Dr. Ron Sinha) Nov 20, 2021

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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

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Science, Story, And The Power Of Myth (w/Damien Walter) Nov 17, 2021

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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/

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COVID Chill Chat, LIVE: The Alt-Middle Way Nov 10, 2021

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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/

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The Anxiety Contagion & Healing Our Kids' Mental Health Crisis (w/Dr. Rachel Zoffness) Oct 29, 2021

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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/

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Did COVID Break Our Brains? (w/Dr. Vinay Prasad) Oct 28, 2021

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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

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FDA Decision On Pfizer Vaccine For Kids 5-11 Oct 27, 2021

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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/

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