The ZDoggMD Show

Can diet, exercise, sleep, stress reduction, supplements, and breath training help you beat COVID-19 like a boss? Dr. Ronesh Sinha teaches us how to optimize our chances. Links, transcript, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/ron-sinha-2 Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe to get exclusive videos, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: h...

Dr. Christiane Northrup went viral with some interesting claims about the mRNA COVID vaccines. Here's what's REALLY going on. Links, transcript, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/northrup-vaccine-lies Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe to get exclusive videos, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd...

Here's how we can make sense of (and do something about) the rising cases and hospitalizations. Transcript, links, and full video: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-winter Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe to get exclusive videos, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/beco...

Here's how to interpret the latest news on Pfizer's coronavirus vaccine. Links, transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/pfizer-vaccine Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe to get exclusive videos, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd P...

Meatpacking plants, nursing homes, schools…here’s how we can get back to work while lowering coronavirus transmission risk. Dr. Bob Harrison, MD is a clinical professor of medicine at UCSF and an occupational and environmental medicine specialist. He’s a specialist in preventing coronavirus spread in the workplace environment. In this interview we talk about the tiers of protection that can help p...

"Stories are how we make sense of the world." Novelist and Stanford Professor of Medicine Dr. Abraham Verghese reminds us that story matters, now more than ever. Transcript, links, full video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/abraham-verghese Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Sup...

Cases rising, news orgs banging the drums of doom, yet Americans seem to be throwing up their hands. Here's what's up with #pandemicfatigue, LIVE. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/pandemic-fatigue-explained/ Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe to get exclusive videos, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtu...

The UCSF professor & Chief of Head & Neck Oncologic Surgery returns to talk about van Halen, thyroid nodules, head & neck cancer screening, COVID, and more. Links to other episodes with Dr. Patrick Ha, transcript, video, CME conference links, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/patrick-ha Your support keeps this content independent and awesome, so join the Supporter Tribe to get exclusive videos, live d...

I'm a rationalist, skeptic, and a doctor, and meditation is a central part of my life. Here's why. Originally recorded LIVE to Facebook. Links, video, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/why-meditate/ Subscribe and click the notification bell so you never miss our videos! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFyRz1N_T-rnSkbaAH_TFAw?sub_confirmation=1 Your support keeps this content independent and awesome,...

Our pandemic response has generated untold fear and untold harm to our most vulnerable communities. Here's a possible way out. Dr. Monica Gandhi is a UCSF professor of Medicine in the division of HIV, infectious diseases, and global medicine. Her current research involves masks and their effects on COVID disease severity. In this interview we talk about the effects masks and mask mandates may have...

The President's disease course can teach us a LOT about risk, treatment, and more. Streamed live 10/4/20. Video, links to related shows, and more at https://zdoggmd.com/trump-covid Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesuppor...

COVID-19 doesn't spread like flu; it "clusters." Could this be a key to stopping it? Video, links to the Atlantic article, transcript, and more: zdoggmd.com/superspreaders Love our show and wanna support us just for a single donation? paypal.me/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Why a data-driven, holistic, and nuanced approach to our COVID-19 response is long overdue. Vinay Prasad MD MPH is a practicing hematologist-oncologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. He studies cancer drugs, health policy, and clinical trials and better decision making and hosts the Plenary Session podcast. In this encore podcast we talk about th...

Is social media tearing society apart? Here's a doctor's live take on the new Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma. Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd Patreon: http://patreon.com/zdoggmd PayPal: https:...

What if our response to COVID-19 was minimally effective but inflicted a TON of harm? Why do those who dare to ask this question run afoul of the academic establishment? Dr. Eran Bendavid is associate professor of medicine at Stanford and an infectious disease specialist and health outcomes/health policy researcher. He is co-author of the Santa Clara and Los Angeles COVID-19 antibody prevalence st...

When we empathize with a story, we can lose sight of the bigger picture. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-irrational Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd Patreon: http://patreon.com/zdoggmd PayPal: https://...

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya is a Stanford physician and economist and co-author of several seroprevalence studies on COVID-19. In this must-hear interview we talk about EVERYTHING. Including the true infection fatality rate, comparisons to influenza, drama around his Santa Clara antibody trial, reinfections, vaccine development, economic and social impacts, why we MUST reopen schools NOW, the horrors of...

What if masks acted to reduce severity of COVID-19 infection for the WEARER, fostering immunity like a vaccine and allowing a full societal reopening? UCSF medicine professor Dr. Monica Gandhi recently proposed just such a theory in the New England Journal of Medicine. Links to papers, transcript (coming soon), and more at https://zdoggmd.com/monica-gandhi Your support makes what we do possible! J...

Zak Holdsworth creates technology—and community—that just might drive healthcare's next revolution: Direct Primary Care. Register for the Hint Summit (and automatically get $50 off using this link or the code "ZPAC50": https://go.hint.com/3jddPIn Transcript, video, links, and more on Direct Primary Care at: https://zdoggmd.com/hint Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get...

This outrage is yet another symbol of the utter brokenness of our healthcare system 😡 Time to stop playing these money games NOW. Link to the ProPublica article, video, full transcript, and more at zdoggmd.com/covid-money-games Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd...

Norman Wang...#MedBikini...do white docs kill black babies? Triggered yet? Applying a rationalist framework to emotionally charged "research" should be a priority for everyone, but too often we're failing. Dr. Vinay Prasad, UCSF hematology-oncology maven and host of the Plenary Session podcast, returns for a truly authentic discussion on the LACK of authenticity in healthcare. This is required lis...

Cases up, deaths less so...why? And should you get a flu shot and WHEN? Video at zdoggmd.com/covid-update-9-7 Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd Patreon: http://patreon.com/zdoggmd PayPal: https://www.pay...

Two docs go deep on the failures of our research infrastructure during the COVID-19 war. If you're a fan of our current system, be prepared to be triggered. We talk about convalescent plasma, the tyranny of institutional review boards (IRBs), the failures of peer review, hydroxychloroquine, and much more. Dr. Marty Makary is Editor-in-Chief of Medpage Today and is Professor of Surgery and Health P...

You've seen images on the news of patients in the ICU on their bellies? Here's what's up with that. Transcript, video, and more at zdoggmd.com/proning Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becomesupporter/zdoggmd Patreon: http://pa...

The internet's been lit up regarding recent COVID-19 death statistics from CDC. Here's what they actually show. Links, video, transcript, and more at https://zdoggmd.com/covid-death-stats Your support makes what we do possible! Join the SuperPac and get exclusive content, live discussions, and other crazy perks: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/zdoggmd/join Facebook: http://facebook.com/becom...