Beyond Conventional Medical Thinking

Welcome to Beyond Conventional Medical Thinking, a podcast with Dr. Samuel Mann, a physician, researcher, and author. His latest book, Hidden Within Us offers a pioneering new understanding of the relationship between emotions and health, one rarely considered by physicians, patients, and research psychologists.  Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Within-Understanding-Mind-Body...

In this episode, I discuss the FDA (Food and Drug Administration)'s process for approving and reviewing new medications and new treatments. While it's a necessary procedure, there are good and bad things about it. From the perspective of a clinician, here are some of the major drawbacks. Tune in to hear some lessons from my clinical experience plus my perspective of the big drawbacks on this proce...

The unrecognized inaccuracy of very high blood pressure readings: why it happens, why no one realizes it, and how it affects your care.  Welcome to Beyond Conventional Medical Thinking, a podcast with Dr. Samuel Mann, a physician, researcher, and author. His latest book, Hidden Within Us offers a pioneering new understanding of the relationship between emotions and health, one rarely consider...

Welcome to Beyond Conventional Medical Thinking, a podcast with Dr. Samuel Mann, a physician, researcher, and author. His latest book, Hidden Within Us offers a pioneering new understanding of the relationship between emotions and health, one rarely considered by physicians, patients, and research psychologists.  Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Within-Understanding-Mind-Body...

In this episode, Dr. David Schechter will again join me in discussion of a mind-body perspective that is relevant to hypertension, an understanding which bears unrecognized relevance to other medical conditions as well.  Welcome to Beyond Conventional Medical Thinking, a podcast with Dr. Samuel Mann, a physician, researcher, and author. His latest book, Hidden Within Us offers a pioneering ne...

In this podcast I will be joined by Dr. David Schechter, a physician and author of books exploring the mind/body connection. We will be discussing how and in whom a mind/body origin should be considered, and its relevance to treatment. "One does need a certain amount of openness to the idea that we have to go beyond conventional medical thinking to get to the solution to your problems." - Dr. Sche...

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome compromises the lives of patients for decades, yet in most patients, its cause remains a mystery, and treatment is ineffective. I introduce a pioneering mind/body understanding that opens new doors to understanding and treatment. Repression is a gift of evolution. Welcome to Beyond Conventional Medical Thinking, a podcast with Dr. Samuel Mann, a physician, researcher, and...

In this podcast, I present a new, truly pioneering understanding of the mind/body connection that differs from what nearly all patients, physicians and researchers have believed.  TW: This episode briefly mentions sexual assault and rape. It offers new directions in understanding and treating hypertension and, importantly, other common medical conditions whose cause and treatment have remaine...

Hypertension was once considered a classic mind/body disorder, but decades of research failed to confirm the widespread beliefs. In this podcast I emphasize that in most patients with hypertension, it is NOT a mind/body disorder. And when it is, the mind/body connection is very, very different from what physicians, patients, and mind/body researchers believe it is. And, though unrecognized, it is...

In this episode, I am joined by Dr. Robert Cykiert, a prominent ophthalmologist in New York, to discuss aspects of common eye problems, a topic relevant to many. Welcome to my podcast, Beyond Conventional Medicine.  Please subscribe to my channel so you don't miss an episode. My latest book, Hidden Within Us: A Radical New Understanding of the Mind-Body Connection offers a pioneering understa...

ADHD is a chronic condition that affects patients for decades. Well-known medications are prescribed but, in many, the results are unsatisfactory. In this episode I discuss a readily available, and safe, medication that clearly helps adult patients with ADHD, but has been completely overlooked! It’s really worth trying, and you’ll know if it helps within a few days. Welcome to Beyond Conventional...

Optimizing the treatment of hypertension, the most common medical condition, depends on accurate measurement of blood pressure. In this episode I review common, preventable causes of inaccuracy in blood pressure measurement. Welcome to Beyond Conventional Medical Thinking, a podcast with Dr. Samuel Mann, a physician, researcher, and author. His latest book, Hidden Within Us offers a pioneering new...

A best-selling cardiovascular medication (15 million Americans take it) causes mental dullness or confusion that can be subtle, or can mimic Alzheimer’s. And almost no physician or patient is aware that the medication is the cause! Welcome to Beyond Conventional Medical Thinking, a podcast with Dr. Samuel Mann, a physician, researcher, and author. His latest book, Hidden Within Us offers a pioneer...

We’ve made tremendous advances in our treatment of many common medical conditions. But we physicians can do better by individualizing treatment, and by paying attention to the insights gained from many years of taking care of patients. Insights that don’t conflict with what large published studies tell us; they add to it! Get me book here! https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.a...

I'm Dr. Sam Mann. I'd like to invite you to subscribe to my new podcast Beyond Conventional Medical Thinking. In this podcast, I will present treatment strategies that very few doctors and patients are aware of and that are relevant to many common yet often inadequately treated medical conditions, hypertension, chronic fatigue syndrome, migraine, ADHD, and others. I've learned these strategies fro...