The ZDoggMD Show

Can awareness and curiosity be the secret sauce to fighting our epidemic of worry and anxiety? The MOST fun you’ll have learning about mental health, I guarantee 😂. Dr. Jud Brewer is an addiction psychiatrist and neuroscientist. He is an associate professor at Brown University and executive medical director at Sharecare. His new book Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of...

We talk masking for kids, vaccine passports, unwinding fear-driven policy, variants schmariants, misguided public health messaging, YouTube censorship, why scientists suck on Twitter, and MUCH more, so strap yo-selves in! Transcript, video, links, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/jay-bhattacharya-2 Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show,...

It looks like the association between AstraZeneca's vaccine and a rare clotting/bleeding syndrome is real. Here's what that means. Links, video, and more: zdoggmd.com/astrazeneca-clot-update Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad c...

When the unimaginable occurred, this ER nurse made it her mission to warn others about the dangers of fentanyl-contaminated street drugs. Here’s a video relating to another child and fentanyl, and here’s another video on this issue that Cindy shared with me. Full video here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email conta...

The physicist responsible for the world's first commercial microprocessor knows something about artificial intelligence, and he thinks we have it all wrong 🤯 His new book, Silicon: https://amzn.to/3dFXhYy Links, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/federico-faggin Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop,...

THE SKY IS FALLING! (except maybe it's not?) A rational COVID update discussion, live. I talk about vaccine safety and efficacy, variants, duration of vaccine effect, the "4th surge", kids, vaccine passports, and more. Transcript, links, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-doom-update Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podc...

Neither science nor sense can explain these idiotic and damaging coronavirus rules. Transcript, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/hospital-covid-rules Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Get the feeling that you’re LESS productive when video is involved? New science says you’re right. Here’s a link to the study. Full video and transcript here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: paypal....

Here's how we might better and more inclusively think about this highly triggering topic 🤓 Transcript, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vaccine-passports Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adcho...

Matter is not fundamental to reality, MIND is. And what if that mind had multiple personality disorder? Oh this rabbit hole goes DEEP… Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has been leading the modern renaissance of metaphysical idealism, the notion that reality is essentially mental. He has a Ph. D. in philosophy (ontology, philosophy of mind) and another Ph....

We go deep on the "science" of double masking, whether an economist can comment on COVID, how a Hopkins surgeon was cancelled by Facebook, medical + government conflicts of interest, the beauty of the Seuss books that were "disappeared" for racism and much more. Transcript, video, and links: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-prasad-8 Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https:...

AstraZeneca's vaccine safety has been a concern after European governments paused vaccination campaigns due to concerns about blood clots. Here's what you need to know. Links, video, and transcript: https://zdoggmd.com/astrazeneca Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://ln...

Dr. Yasmin is a Stanford physician, journalist, author, and former CDC disease detective. We discuss many things, including how to improve medical communication in an era when disinformation spreads faster than truth. https://seemayasmin.com/viral-bs-medical-myths-and-why-we-fall-for-them-hardcover/ Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Sh...

Geert Vanden Bossche has gone viral with claims that coronavirus vaccines will end our species. Yeah, here's the real deal with that. Transcript, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vanden-bossche Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about yo...

Chronic pain is a complex biopsychosocial illness that needs broader and wiser treatment than JUST medications and surgery. UCSF pain psychologist Rachel Zoffness shows us the how and why. Links to her book, full video, transcript, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/rachel-zoffness​ Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters​ Show, podcast, music, s...

New science suggests "aerosolizing procedures" aren't what we thought. Video, transcript, and links to the Kaiser Health News article: zdoggmd.com/healthcare-worker-masks Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaph...

What if we could cut out the medicine middle man and save billions in drug costs? Here’s a doc who partnered with Mark Cuban to do just that. Check out the Mark Cuban Cost Plus Drug Company here. (note: we are NOT sponsored by Mark Cuban…yet, lol) Full video and transcript here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We've been saying vaccinated folks can chill for weeks; I guess the CDC finally got the memo? Why pandemic optimism seems so taboo. Video: zdoggmd.com/cdc-vaccines Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/...

Answering YOUR Covid questions, live. The Tip Jar: https://paypal.me/zdoggmd Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The end is near, but if we had focused on what we CAN do instead of what we CAN'T, we just might have saved lives and sanity. Links, transcript, video, and more: zdoggmd.com/pandemic-truth Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Instagram...

A UCSF infectious disease doctor is convinced this pandemic is ending, and sooner than you think...here's why. Transcript, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/monica-gandhi-3 Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd Instagram: http://inst...

What's up with the side effects from the second COVID vaccine shot? And should you get antibody testing to prove you're immune? Links, transcript, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/second-shot Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http://facebook.com/zdoggmd In...

Will vaccines still be effective against coronavirus variants, what are the differences between the new vaccines, should we delay the second dose, can we mix vaccines, and MUCH more. Links, transcript, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/paul-offit-6 Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDogg...

Do we need to wait for kids to get vaccinated before returning to school? Have lockdowns had the intended effect? The answers are more complex than they seem. Links, video, transcript, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-prasad-7 Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebo...

How do we do the most good with the least vaccine? Delaying second shots, and not vaccinating those who've already had COVID, says Dr. Makary. Links to Marty's op-eds, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/marty-makary-2 Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Website: https://ZDoggMD.com Podcast: https://ZDoggMD.com/podcasts Facebook: http:/...