Causes or Cures

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Causes or Cures , Dr. Eeks speaks with Dr. Zohar Rubinstein, a clinical psychologist, researcher and trauma expert about an early and deeply sensitive study examining how different substances may have influenced early trauma responses among survivors of the October 7 Nova music festival attack. Many survivors had taken substances just hours before the traumatic...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Causes or Cures, Dr. Eeks talks with Dr. Claudia Suemoto in Brazil about her new 8-year study looking at whether artificial sweeteners are linked to changes in thinking and memory. We cover: • How she started studying dementia and why she became curious about sweeteners. • What the research team hoped to learn and what they actually found. • Why these results ar...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Causes or Cures, Dr. Eeks talks with Dr. Jaap de Roode, an evolutionary biologist and author of Doctors by Nature: How Ants, Apes, and Other Animals Heal Themselves , about one of the most fascinating corners of biology: the ways animals use plants, minerals, insects, and even toxins as medicine. They talk about: What sparked his interest in animals treating the...

Send us Fan Mail Episode: Why Single Women Are Happier than Single Men, with Elaine Hoan Guest: Elaine Hoan, PhD Candidate, Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Forget the “sad cat lady” cliché. In this episode, Dr. Eeks chats with researcher Elaine Hoan about her new study showing that single women are, on average, happier than single men. They explore what that says about modern love,...

Send us Fan Mail Episode: Psychedelics and  Prolonged Grief with Dr. Greg Fonzo Guest: Greg Fonzo, Ph. D., Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Charmaine and Gordon McGill Center for Psychedelic Research and Therapy at Dell Medical School. In this episode of Causes or Cures , Dr. Eeks speaks with Dr. Greg Fonzo about how psychedelics might help people suffering from prolonged grief, a form o...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Causes or Cures, Dr. Eeks chats with Debbie Dobbins, international prosperity consciousness speaker/teacher and author of Your Inner Billionaire. Why listen: Debbie’s origin story isn’t a soft-focus vision board. It's not feel-good Instagram or TikTok reels. It’s making millions... , then dollar-store cookies on food stamps; addiction, cancer, and IRS debt....

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Acosta returns to Causes or Cures to talk about the next big leap in obesity research: using genetics and machine learning to predict which patients will get side effects to popular GLP-1 weight-loss medications like Wegovy and Zepbound. Previously, he was on Causes or Cures to discuss your individual obesity type .  He and his team are uncovering why some people experience ma...

Send us Fan Mail Disclaimer: Entertainment only. Eeks is not a public health historian; just a gremlin who reads too much and asks weird questions  BONUS Episodes are part of the "Public Health is Weird" Causes or Cures Series.   What’s inside The myth of “truth serum” and why scopolamine never earned the badge From twilight sleep in childbirth to spy stories and interrogation lore What...

Send us Fan Mail On this episode, Dr. Eeks chats with Dr. Carlijn Wagenaar about the Plants for Joints research in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA), exploring how a plant-centered lifestyle (not just diet) was tested and what changed in disease activity, inflammation, pain, and function. Episode at a glance: Study design, plainly: who enrolled, program length, and how PFJ was eval...

Send us Fan Mail What if cancer could be detected years before symptoms ever appear? In this episode of Causes or Cures , Dr. Eeks sits down with Dr. Yuxuan Wang, cancer researcher at Johns Hopkins, to discuss her team’s promising work on multicancer early detection (MCED) blood tests. These ultra-sensitive sequencing tests can spot tiny fragments of tumor DNA circulating in the blood. In their re...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Causes or Cures , Dr. Eeks chats with Katie Stewart, Holistic Nutritionist and founder of The Clear Skin Solution , about the emotional and physical toll of breakouts and unhealthy skin, and why lasting healing requires more than just spot treatment. Katie shares how her own struggles with acne led her to ditch conventional prescriptions and create a protocol fo...

Send us Fan Mail Psychedelics are in the spotlight. Some call them dangerous, others call them life-saving, and many believe they could reshape the future of mental health care. In this episode, Dr. Eeks talks with Martín Polanco MD, founder of The Mission Within Foundation and considered the most experienced ibogaine and 5-MeO-DMT physician in North America. Over the past 25 years, he has treated...

Send us Fan Mail What if your biological age could be younger than the candles on your birthday cake? On this episode of Causes or Cures, Dr. Eeks chats with Chris Mirabile who says he did just that . After surviving a brain tumor at just 16 years old, Chris committed himself to mastering his health. That journey led him to found NOVOS, the first health company to develop science-based solutions t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Causes or Cures , Dr. Eeks chats with Dr. Irene Papanicolas, Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice at Brown University, about her recent New England Journal of Medicine paper examining the links between wealth and mortality across the United States and Europe. There’s a lot of focus on longevity today, from biohackers chasing longer lives to new medi...

Send us Fan Mail Disclaimer: Causes or Cures is for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, and no medical claims are being made. Always talk to a qualified healthcare provider about your personal health.  🎙️ In this episode of Causes or Cures , Dr. Eeks talks with Dane Johnson, CEO and founder of Crohn’s Colitis Lifestyle. Dane shares his story of going from modeling and acting in...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Causes or Cures , Dr. Eeks chats with Dr. Jerry Avorn, a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, drug safety watchdog, and author of Rethinking Medications: Truth, Power, and the Drugs You Take . If you’ve ever felt uneasy about the rising cost of prescription drugs, the process or speed by which new meds are approved, or why the side effects list is lo...

Send us Fan Mail Disclaimer: Causes or Cures is for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, and no medical claims are being made. Always talk to a qualified healthcare provider about your personal health.  Can a Daily Supplement Really Reverse Biological Age? A 12-Month Study, Explained What actually happens when real people take a daily “healthy aging” supplement for an entire year...

Send us Fan Mail Modern medicine rests on a centuries‑old decision to split mind from body.  That fault line still runs through every clinic and classroom, raising an uncomfortable question: if the foundation ignores half of human experience, how scientific are we really? In this episode, Dr Eeks talks with physician‑author Dr Robert Smith about why his new book Has Medicine Lost Its Mind? argues...

Send us Fan Mail Disclaimer: Causes or Cures is for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, and no medical claims are being made. Always talk to a qualified healthcare provider about your personal health.  In this episode of Causes or Cures , Dr. Eeks chats with immunology expert Dr. Maziar “Maz” Divangahi about his research on how fiber found in mushrooms may help us beat the flu,...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Dr. Eeks sits down with world-renowned cardiologist and nutrition dynamo Dr. Kim Williams to pull the lid off “healthy” plant-based restaurant meals, and a whole lot more. What’s on the menu: First-of-its-kind restaurant study – How Dr. Williams scored plant-based dishes for heart health, what shocked him, and the sneaky “health halo” traps you’ll now spot a mile...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Causes or Cures , Dr. Eeks chats with Erin Williamson, a national expert on child trafficking and a leader at Love146 , an organization dedicated to ending child trafficking and caring for its survivors. We dive deep into what child trafficking really is—both labor and sex trafficking—and explore its prevalence, evolving risk factors, and the role social media p...

Send us Fan Mail Could gene drive mosquitoes be the key to ending deadly diseases like malaria and dengue or do the risks outweigh the benefits?  In this episode of Causes or Cures, Dr. Eeks talks with Dr. Michael Santos about the controversial yet potentially groundbreaking technology known as gene drive. Unlike traditional genetically modified organisms, gene drive mosquitoes are engineered to p...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Causes or Cures , Dr. Eeks chats with Professor Maureen Cropper, Chair of the Economics Department at the University of Maryland and a leading environmental economist, about her recent research on the health and economic impacts of toxic chemicals in plastics. We explore how an economist came to study chemical exposures and what her research reveals about the tr...

Send us Fan Mail Disclaimer: Causes or Cures is for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, and no medical claims are being made. Always talk to a qualified healthcare provider about your personal health. In this episode of Causes or Cures, we explore insights into brain health and longevity with NYT bestselling author and neurologist Dr. Dale Bredesen. Dr. Bredesen explains why he...

Send us Fan Mail Disclaimer: Causes or Cures is for informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, and no medical claims are being made. Always talk to a qualified healthcare provider about your personal health.  In this episode of Causes or Cures , Dr. Eeks chats with aging and longevity expert Dr. Heike Bischoff-Ferrari about whether simple lifestyle interventions, like supplementation a...