The ZDoggMD Show

Avoid the pitfalls of your online "second self" by recognizing & navigating criticism, parasocial projections, audience capture, social media addiction, and creator burnout/metric obsession. Reference courtesy of The Stoa here. Watch the video here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/z...

The ever-amazing Dr. Monica Gandhi returns to talk Flu/RSV/COVID, viral interference, China's zero-COVID response, MPox, and public health lessons from HIV for the next pandemic—while searching for true meaning beyond our apparent divisions. Watch the video here. Here's the paper summarizing Monica's proposed pandemic playbook. Find all our episodes with Dr. Gandhi here. Transcript & links here. T...

Our entire conventional lives are based on a case of mistaken identity. Let's look for who we REALLY are, together (originally LIVE on YouTube) 🔥 Watch the video 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 m...

Arguing over vaccines with your crazy relatives might raise your glucose more than dessert; continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) for insight into diet, exercise, sleep, emotional stress, and more with Dr. Ronesh Sinha. Check out Dr. Sinha's website, follow him on Instagram, and subscribe to his Meta Health podcast. All our prior episodes together. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/continuous-glucose-monit...

Sunday Roundz, originally live on YouTube 10/30/22. Video: zdoggmd.com/seoul Gear: supportertribe4lyfe.com 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: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: h...

Dr. Angelo DiLullo (author of Awake, It's Your Turn) interviews ME 😂 We talk about my own weird history, becoming "ZDoggMD", advice for medical students and residents, and a crazy thing that changed my life back in 2012. If you really wanna wake up, subscribe to Angelo's amazing YouTube channel and check out all our previous conversations here. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SChalT87vnM V...

Our collective shift towards left brain dominance may be the end of us all. A live discussion of the ramifications of increasing reductionism in healthcare, COVID, and beyond. Learn more about McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/left-right-brain/ Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email...

A deep dive down the rabbit hole of our astonishing, non-conceptual experience of what IS. John Astin is a health psychologist, meditation teacher, musician, and the author of four books on spiritual practice, including This Extraordinary Moment. His guided meditations can be found on Sam Harris's Waking Up app. He has a Ph. D. in health psychology and is an adjunct professor of clinical and couns...

A must-watch deep dive into some science! Vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit is less than impressed with evidence to support the Omicron BA.4/5 "bivalent" booster shots now rolling out for everyone 12 and older. We also talk polio and monkeypox and flu 👍 Video: https://zdoggmd.com/paul-offit-10/ Topics & Timestamps: 00:00 Intro 1:10 A brief history of the Covid vaccines, groups that benefit from boost...

Should California discipline doctors who "disseminate misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19?" Here's one California physician's take. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/misinfo-bill/ And here's the interview with Dr. Paul Offit I referenced. Read the full text of AB2098 here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and ema...

Seriously y'all, you can't make this s**t up 😂 When Dr. Leana Wen changed her hard core Covidian tune, the Twitter mob went into full attack mode. All to cancel her from speaking at a panel on "the backlash against public health" Oh, the irony! Here's an excellent related op-ed with links and a discussion I had with Dr. Vinay Prasad on The VPZD Show about this. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/leana-we...

Three pervasive distortions are at the root of tremendous suffering for children AND adults. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/3-great-untruths/ Read Haidt & Lukianoff's book The Coddling of the American Mind. Watch my related video on The Social Dilemma. Watch my interview on existential risk with Daniel Schmachtenberger. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership opt...

What happens if you drop the mental labels, constructs and THOUGHTS about reality, and just look directly at your immediate experience? Strap yourself in because psychologist John Astin helps us see what's right in front of us, now and always 🤯 John Astin is a meditation teacher, musician, and the author of four books on spiritual practice, including Searching for Rain in a Monsoon. He has a Ph....

Why did Dr. Offit vote NO on Omicron-specific boosters at the FDA advisory meeting? What's up with vaccine for the youngest kids? AND MUCH MORE... All our videos with Dr. Paul Offit here. And check out Paul's recent op-ed on variant-specific boosting in Stat News. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/paul-offit-9/ Topics & Timecodes: ​ 00:00 Intro, Omicron-specific vaccine, brief COVID history, what is a bi...

A pandemic post-mortem that looks ahead to how a post-COVID awakening might unfold, with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller. Find more from David and his guests here, check out the recent live show we did together. Here's the Culture Wars 2.0 piece we referenced.  Video: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-culture-wars/ Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 4:40 Health 3.0 & a broken healthcare system going into the pand...

Just getting infants and toddlers fed seems harder than ever given formula shortages and lack of support for moms. Lactation consultant and educator Mirine Richey, MPH, IBCLC helps us unwind all the knots. Learn more about her work at Florida State. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/formula-crisis/ Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro, the role of the lactation consultant 05:25 Infant nutrition, diversity amon...

Most of our lives are spent lost in the thought stream. But the senses can be our gateway to unfiltered reality right here and now. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/sense-gates/ Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo's email list for future meditation retreats and updates here. And...

We dive into your questions about consciousness, personal growth, and more with Rebel Wisdom's David Fuller. We discuss all the things including manspark™️, responsible heterodoxy, the hero’s journey, health 3.0, psychedelics, meditation & the ego, Enneagrams, free will and much more. Also, check out Rebel Wisdom's YouTube channel and watch our previous episodes with David here. Video: https://zdo...

Andrew Holecek is an author, teacher, and a renowned expert on meditation, lucid dreaming, and dream yoga. We dive into how increasing your awareness during sleep can have profound benefits for your life. In fact, it might just help wake us up from the "dream" of the waking state itself... Check out Andrew's website with many resources including his podcast and books and his "Night Club" lucid dre...

How can we awaken to life as a continuous flow state? What is no-self & the Unborn? Can suffering be a fierce grace that wakes you up to the natural flow of redemptive love? Trigger Warning: we go DEEP on this one 😂. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/awakening-flow/ Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos h...

The complex ethical, medical, and psychological issues relating to women's health & abortion are nuanced and often non-intuitive. An OB/Gyn doc joins me to help us better understand. Dr. Alexandre (Alex) West is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Connecticut. Here's a link with support services for people with peripartum mood and anxiety disorders, pregnancy l...

Here's what you need to know about the current monkeypox outbreak, including how it spreads, how to diagnose and treat, and whether YOU should worry about this in the first place. Here's a good summary in Science. Here's the WHO's information. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/monkeypox/ Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email...

We now have all the necessary tools to end the COVID "emergency" phase. Here's how (and why) we can live with this coronavirus. Here's an extended Twitter thread outlining the key points we discussed (easy for sharing). And here's every show we've done with UCSF Professor and infectious disease specialist Dr. Monica Gandhi. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/living-with-covid/ Topics & Timecodes 00:00 Int...

A longtime hospitalist colleague and mentor shares hospital hacks that improve life for our patients, our colleagues, and ourselves 🔥 Dr. John Cunniff, MD, MBA is a 22 year veteran hospital doctor with the Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group in practice at Stanford and other local hospitals in the Silicon Valley. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/hospital-hacks/ Video show archive, audio podcasts, music...

What has our short-sighted COVID approach cost us? Dr. Makary returns to discuss all the other stuff we're damaging or neglecting. Check out Marty's research site on redesigning healthcare here. And watch all our episodes together here. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-myopia/ Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email con...