The Dr Synonymous Show

Dr Jonas will introduce and interview retired Pediatrician Patricia Fine, MD who is passionate about the health of children.  She will be asked to reflect on how the Pandemic is affecting kids and families.  Dr. Jonas will interact with her about the role of Vitamin D in the health of children before and during the Pandemic. She will comment on vaccines typically required for school attendance in...

Dr. Jonas, your host on the Dr. Synonymous Show, interviews Tricia Labuda Bhat, MD about her career path in Family Medicine that brought her to start a DPC practice in Alexandria, Ohio. Questions may include: Tell us about yourself.  What got you into medicine?  Family Medicine?  Direct Primary Care? Where did you train?   Why Licking County?  What's neat about practicing in Alexandria?  Why the n...

Lose Fat with Dr. Pat:  Preventing or Reversing Diabesity We'll discuss the common thread between obesity and diabetes.  Then review how food affects the path.  Then discuss the power of fasting to break the path.  We;ll have fun. Fasting     History:  Every Culture, every Religion       Religious: Ghandi, Muslim, Christian, etc.       Myths:  Starvation mode, Burning muscle, Low blood sugar, Lead...

Let's talk about obesity and diabetes.   Food Addiction and Fasting Myths of Fasting Types of Fasting Type 2 Diabetes -Insulin, obesity and insulin resistance -Fructose and hyperinsulinemia -Fatty Liver  Myths of Fasting:  Fasting will make you lose muscle/burn protein The brain needs glucose to function Fasting puts you in starvation mode/lowers basal metabolism Fasting will overwhelm you with hu...

In this show Dr. Jonas reviews the nutrigenomics of a gene that impacts everyone regarding focus, attention, memory, personality, and other aspects of our brains and lives.  Thw worrier or the warrior gene.  You'll hear some things that relate to you, and your family and your friends and co-workers. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dr-synonymous-show--653001...

We'll update our previous session with Doug Newton which was our February Chat with Dr. Pat, but didn't record well.   Doug is an integrative health coach among other skills that help people to enhance their health.   With increasing knowledge about epigenetics and moment by moment genomic “adjustments”, Ben Lynch, ND has authored a book titled, Dirty Genes.  In it he explains how to use our daily...

Robert Lovegren, physicist, electronic engineer and health scholar is interviewed by Dr. Jonas, your host.  Bob has activated nutrition strategies that honor his brain and body down to the cellular level.  He is sensitive to the effects of his eating behaviors on his mitochondria and cellular apparatus.  He is not a fan of modern medicine, especially our tendency to make a case for treating everyo...

Dr Jonas, your host on the Dr. Synonymous Show, is a 1968 West Point graduate and Vietnam Veteran.  Listen to his reflections on over 50 years of service to the nation, from his Plebe Year to his 50th reunion last May. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dr-synonymous-show--6530014/support .

Dr. Jonas, your host for the Dr. Synonymous Show will discuss strategies that may enable patients to be better heard by their physicians.  Physicians seem to have less and less time to engage patients.  This may be detrimental to quality in healthcare.  How might we get around this?  Dr. Jonas will engage those present about ways to get their story heard.  This will include some information about...

Sandra Miller, MD has created another medical adventure novel featuring Abigail Willmore, MD.  The second novel in this series (number 3 is almost complete) continues the story of Dr Willmore, who was successful at the Grand Canyon Clinic in Only Rock is Real, the inaugural book for Dr. Miller.  Read my post about the first book on my blog (including a link to the interview recording on the Dr. Sy...

How are decisions made in medical care?  Dr. Synonymous (A. Patrick Jonas, MD) will interview Associate Professor Dan Jonas, MD, MPH about this subject on the Dr. Synonymous show June 14, 2018.  Dan teaches courses at the University of North Carolina to medical students, physicians and public health graduate students about analyzing the medical and other scientific literature.  Full disclosure:  H...

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Dr. Jonas, your host for The Dr. Synonymous Show interviews Sandra Miller on January 21, 2018 about her delightful novel, Only Rock is Real.  The novel deftly combines a geographically and medically accurate setting with astronomy and dynamic human relationships to deliver a message about the life of a woman physician.  Yes, gender matters - to all of us - and Dr. Miller knows it.  She develops he...

Dr Jonas, your host for the Dr. Synonymous Show, is delighted to get to interview Dr. Therese Zink again about her newest book, Mission Chechnya, a novel reflecting many of her insights about that area of the world and global health issues.  She will discuss the origin of the book, its background and her own, and her passion for writing and global health. The book starts with a birth in the airpor...

New Year's Eve Potpouri tonight with Pat Jonas, MD your host for the Dr. Synonymous Show.  Let's talk about everything that gets revved up on NYE- Dick Clark, Guy Lombardo, Time's Square, etc.  You'll hear about childhood and high school and other NYE experiences.  We'll hit nostalgia about "The Good Old Days" a bit and mention ancestors, small town life, end of life, birth, sharing, celebration. ...

Dr. Jonas continues with information about genomic, microbiomic, rpigenomic, nutrigenomic, vaccinomic phenomena driven by the availavility of direct to consumer gene tests suxh as 23 and me. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dr-synonymous-show--6530014/support .

Dr. Jonas continues the preview of omic information in a quest for practical application of information from consumer driven genomic testing including 23 and me, Ancestry.com, ect.  Sites such at Know Your Genetics, MTHFR Support, SelfDecode and others will be mentioned.  This is a reflection of a Family Physician looking at this material and commenting from a medical perspective with a holistic f...

Dr. Jonas explores some of the issues and sites involved in chasing our genome.  It get's complex, deep and confusing, but there's some fun, too.  The computer malfunctioned and Dr. Jons ended this part of the show while discussing 23 and Me's site.  More later from the "Omic" Trail. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dr-synonymous-show--6530014/support .

Host of the Dr. Synonymous show, Dr. Pat Jonas, interviews Andrea Julian about Ehlers Danlos Syndrome (EDS).  Andrea leads the Dayton Zebras, a support/education group for persons with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and their families.  This connective tissue genetic condition seems to be more common (maybe 1 of 100 persons) than predicted and taught to physicians (1 of 5000 persons).  We'll discuss why....

Dr. Jonas, your host for the Dr. Synonymous Show reflects on his knee replacement surgery.  This especially includes comments on the value of nurses.  There may be some humor and some angst.  Here's the blog post about it:  https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5352877448651935316#editor/target=post;postID=3246162802789486293;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=0;src=postname...

Mary Johnson, 49 year resident of Jefferson Township, mother of Jefferson graduates, Township leader and public servant will comment about life in Jefferson Township and Bond Issue 57 for the new school. Your host, Dr Jonas, is a Jefferson alumnus, Class of 1964 and excited about the new school potential.   These questions will be addressed:  How do you reflect on 49 years in Jefferson Township?  ...

So-called "Medical" Marijuana is coming to Ohio.  Let's review the medical perspective to get started on what we might need to know to respond to this dramatic change in Ohio.  Dr. Jonas, your host reviews policies from AMA and OSMA to start the discussion. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-dr-synonymous-show--6530014/support .

Pat Jonas, MD Jefferson Township High School Class of 1964 is your host for the Dr. Synonymous show.  Today he's excited to do another JTHS alumni interview.  Our oldest living graduate and his wife offer a century of Jefferson history via their personal and family histories in Jefferson Township.  Lowell Schenck, class of 1938 and Lois Forrest Schenck, class of 1943 will reflect on their school e...

Dr. Richard Gates, Superintendent of Jefferson Township Local Schools is my special guest on this show.  Your Host for the Dr. Synonymous Show is Pat Jonas, MD, a 1964 graduate of Jefferson Twonship High School, in the country a few miles west of Dayton.  As a Jefferson Bronco for Life, he's excited about the prospect of getting the school replaced to catch up to modern educational standards.  A u...

Dr Jonas, your host on the Dr Synonymous Show, reviews a couple Dr Synonymous Blogs, including "I Am a Family Physician", some tweets and reflects on current trends in health care about quality, changing systems and models of care.  Direct Primary Care is part of the commentary.   Pain, opiates and the Ohio HB523 about "Medical Marijuana" will come up. Blog, Tweet and Literature review are part ot...