A Good Man and Thorough

In this episode, I sit down with my podcast producer, Nic Murphy , who shares his powerful story of resilience—from years of battling eosinophilic esophagitis and endless esophageal dilations, to discovering how nutrition and lifestyle changes gave him years of remission, to facing and overcoming testicular cancer. We explore the role of an everyday food bogeyman—that was overlooked in his care fo...

    What is a clinician to do when patients are not responding to the health care innovation du jour that you helped create? Tell them they're wrong, or there is something wrong with them while clinging to a story that is not true because it does not support the pervading narrative? A clinician with integrity will listen to their patient. They will learn from their patient. They will continue to s...

Addressing modern medical practices, combining functional medicine with conventional protocols, and exploring lifestyle changes and informed consent for actualizing therapeutic potential. In this episode, Dr. Joe interviews women's health trailblazer Allison Imel PA to explore how integrating functional medicine into women's health and metabolic wellness can address issues like vaginal dryness, in...

In this first episode of  A Good Man and Thorough , Dr. Joseph Smith, a chiropractic neurologist, sits down with Chesley Heymsfield, producer of the documentary  All About ME  and founder of the Chesley Initiative. The discussion delves into Heymsfield's personal battle with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), also known as chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), and the broader implications of the condition,...