Dr Karan Explores

💬 “If you're feeling a particular way - sad, upset, angry, thirsty, hungry - your automatic reaction is ‘I've got comfort in my phone’. So it becomes a pattern that is ingrained. Not deeply ingrained, because we can break it.” -Dr Nicole Vignola ⚡️ Dr Nicole Vignola is a well-known neuroscientist and brain expert, and author of Rewire: Break the Cycle, Alter Your Thoughts and Create Last...

💬 “Is it something truly in our water, what we eat, the types of stressors that we have in the life that we lead today? It's very challenging to pinpoint.” -Dr Austin Chiang ⚡️ Dr Austin Chiang is a gastroenterologist and well known health influencer. He’s also the author of ‘Gut: An Owner’s Guide’ and is the Chief Medical Officer of Medtronic. ⚡️ In this episode, Austin and I discuss vario...

💬 “Nature has lots of things that are really harmful. It has lots of things that are really benign. And that's the same with synthetic things. Synthetic things can be really toxic. They can be really safe.” -Dr Michelle Wong ⚡️ Dr Michelle Wong is a science educator, cosmetic chemist and founder of Lab Muffin Beauty Science, where she helps people figure out which beauty products are and are...

💬 “It's giving you very perverse and misleading and possibly even damaging advice by this glucocentric approach to nutrition.” -Dr Nicola Guess ⚡️ Dr Nicola Guess is a nutrition scientist at the University of Oxford, specialising in the dietary prevention and management of type 2 diabetes. She also debunks pseudoscience and misinformation on Instagram and Substack. ⚡️ In this episode, Nicol...

💬 “Breast milk really is a nutritional powerhouse. It's more than nutrition. So many different factors come together to give your infants the best start in life.” -Dr Sioned Jones ⚡️ Dr Sioned Jones is the co-founder of BoobyBiome, an all-female team of doctors working out the science behind breast milk, what makes it so beneficial to the health of babies, and how we might be able to replica...

💬“The mistake people make is thinking the route to mental health is in self deprivation - in discipline - and I think that is probably misguided.” -Camilla Nord ⚡️ Camilla Nord is an award-winning neuroscientist, leads the Mental Health Neuroscience programme of research at the University of Cambridge, and is the author of The Balanced Brain: The Science of Mental Health. ⚡️ In this episode Cam...

“We have, because of the nature of our information landscape now, essentially zero capacity to hold any accountability to sources of misinformation. So it's a really terrible time to be an evidence-based healthcare professional.” -Dr Alan Flanagan Dr Alan Flanagan is a major myth buster in the nutrition space, holding an MSc and PhD in nutrition from the University of Surrey. In this episode A...

“The human body is made for pleasure. Every bit of your body can give you an intense amount of pleasure. It just depends on how you treat it” -Seema Anand Seema Anand is an expert in sexual health and pleasure and an authority on the ancient Indian text the Kama Sutra. In this episode Seema and I break the taboo around sex and she explains how people can find a deeper sense of pleasure and sexual...

“The vegans hate the carnivores. The carnivores hate the keto people. And a lot of these folks are in a battle for a non-existent entity, and that entity is the crowned king of ‘this is the best diet for everyone’.” -Dr Mike Israetel Dr Mike Israetel is an exercise scientist, bodybuilder, YouTuber and founder of Renaissance Periodization. He’s known for his no-nonsense, science backed approach to...

“If you enjoy coffee, just go and enjoy coffee, and the data in general suggests that actually caffeine or coffee consumption overall is very beneficial for a number of health outcomes.” -Dr Bryan Saunders Dr Bryan Saunders is a researcher at the University of São Paulo, who specialises in the study of caffeine, and in particular its effects on exercise performance. He’s co-authored multiple studi...

“A lot of women's health stuff - there's no easy diagnosis. So very, very often women's health things end up getting put into, you have fibromyalgia, you're a hypochondriac, or something like irritable bowel syndrome.” -Dr Karen Tang Dr Karen Tang is a gynaecologist who specialises in the treatment of pelvic pain, endometriosis and fibroids. She also does a great service educating the public on so...

“Like most other herbal medicines, CBD is understudied, unregulated, and often wrongly vilified.” -Dr Jeff Chen Dr Jeff Chen is co-founder of Radicle Science and is doing tons of research advancing our understanding of CBD and other herbal remedies. In this episode, I ask Jeff about the new science of CBD - both its potential health benefits and challenges. We also explore the promising trials int...

“Ozempic has changed the conversation around obesity. Unfortunately a lot of people are misusing the medication.” -Dr Andres Acosta Dr Andres Acosta is an obesity expert at the Mayo Clinic, and regularly helps patients achieve double digit weight loss thanks to semaglutide, often branded as Ozempic or Wegovy. But as healthy people look to it for a quick fix, he raises a red flag about the drug. In...

“Women’s pain and women’s suffering has just been ignored” -Dr Jen Gunter Dr Jen Gunter is an OB/GYN, known for busting myths about women’s health online. She’s the author of Blood, The Menstruation Manifesto and The Vagina Bible. In this episode I ask Jen for the truth behind the biggest period myths, from cycle syncing, to menstrual cycles, to the effects of food and why period blood is consider...

“The last 55 years of banning psychedelics is the worst censorship of research in the history of the world.” -Professor David Nutt Professor David Nutt is THE go-to expert on psychedelics. His charity Drug Science is on a mission to break the stigma around hallucinogenic drugs, and inform the public on the real science behind their effects. In this episode I ask David how drugs like magic mushroom...

“It’s not that we’ve lost some microbes, it’s actually that we’ve gained others. And the ones that we’ve gained are causing us harm.” Professor James Kinross is a world-leading microbiome expert and bowel cancer surgeon at Imperial College London. He’s also the author of Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome. In this episode I ask James about the impact of gut health on all aspects of our...

“Instead of taking a coffee break, take a nap break!” -Professor Gina Poe Professor Gina Poe is a world renowned neuroscientist who runs Poe Lab at UCLA, which investigates the role of sleep in learning and memory consolidation. In this episode I ask Gina about the latest science on how to improve and optimise our sleep - with lots of actionable advice. Stay tuned to find out: How to sleep longer...