The ZDoggMD Show

Dr. Peter Attia (host of The Drive), Dr. Marty Makary (Johns Hopkins professor) and I team up to try some serious sense-making in the Age of Omicron. Check out full show notes and Peter's podcast, The Drive here. Topics & Timecodes: Comparing omicron to delta and other mutations [4:15] Measuring immunity and protection from severe disease—circulating antibodies, B cells, and T cells [13:15] Policy...

It's been a s**tshow of a year, so let's have some fun, review the year, and do some sense-making, LIVE 🥳Video: https://zdoggmd.com/new-years-2022/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd...

A little year end mind-bender: psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness interviews ME about all the personal things 🙀Video version is available exclusively on Locals (so my parents can’t watch 😂), you can watch there for free (just follow the prompts to create a free account). Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggm...

A new series called Pain Points with UCSF pain and health psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness where we answer YOUR questions 👍 In this episode: detecting homicidal intent in children, what's up with Long COVID, does cannabis help with pain, emotional intelligence, choosing a therapist, and more. See all our episodes with Dr. Rachel Z here. Grab her outstanding Pain Management Workbook here. Find her...

This Rogan interview with hydroxychloroquine advocate Dr. Peter McCullough is generating a LOT of buzz and considerable confusion. So here's an examination of each one of Dr. McCullough's claims along with ways we all might better evaluate science and health information. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/peter-mccullough/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe...

A little Sunday live easy listening: Q+A and Zen Roundz 🙏Video: zdoggmd.com/covid-update-12-12 Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

Family physician, healthcare leader and author Dr. Peter Valenzuela’s new book “Doc-Related” uses art, humor, and clinical and leadership wisdom to highlight challenges in healthcare and propose real solutions. We dive into patient experience vs. patient satisfaction, the challenges of the electronic health record, billing and coding, the Great Resignation how we need meaning/relationships/positiv...

Here's why the CDC recommending COVID vaccine boosters for young and healthy people is a bad idea and might actually prolong the pandemic. Here's a link to the Washington Post piece I reference featuring Dr. Paul Offit. Here are shows we've done with Paul on vaccines and COVID. We also discussed boosters for all on a prior episode of my podcast with Dr. Vinay Prasad, The VPZD Show Transcript, vide...

The WHO just announced that the Omicron variant is a new "variant of concern." Will it be like Delta on crack, or just plain wack (i.e., more fear mongering)? Here's what we know, LIVE. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/omicron/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time do...

He's in his fifties, diabetic, and nearly died of COVID-19. But ICU delirium can feel like a fate worse than death. Learn more about preventing ICU delirium and the post-critical care survivor syndromes here with my interview with Dr. Wes Ely (an expert on this). Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/johns-story/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, m...

Moral injury is driving people to quit their jobs, especially in healthcare. But this may actually be an opportunity for REAL transformation. Here was the video I did early in the pandemic about never forgetting how we were treated. And here's a pre-pandemic video on moral injury. Full video with transcript here Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, socia...

Metabolic health and wellness expert Dr. Ronesh Sinha returns to explore the roots of why we are hurting so much, and how we can keep ourselves and our children well. SPOILER ALERT: it ain't about pills and procedures. Learn more about Dr. Sinha's work in metabolic health and corporate wellness here. And check out his Meta Health podcast if you wanna go DEEP on the science! And here's all of our o...

What do science fiction, storytelling, and mythology have to do with COVID, healthcare, politics, and life? Everything, it seems. Writer and sci-fi expert Damien Walter goes deep on everything from Ken Wilber's integral theory (aka our Alt-Middle) to creating a new mythos for the 21st century. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/damien-walter/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodi...

Deep breaths, y'all, it's gonna be alright. Let's talk kids' vaccines, boosters, pills, all the things. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-chill-chat/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The COVID pandemic has accelerated another epidemic: anxiety, depression, and suicidality in children, especially young girls. It turns out fear may be the WORST contagion of all. Here's what we can do about it. Dr. Rachel Zoffness is a UCSF pain and health psychologist and teaches pain management at UCSF, Stanford, and Dartmouth. Here are all our episodes together. Here is her excellent book, The...

Sense-making on vaccines and young kids, recognizing groupthink, removing ideology and personal attack from scientific discourse, and much more. Watch all our other shows with Dr. Vinay Prasad here. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-broken-brain/ Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 0:15 We turn science debate into good vs. evil, why? 6:27 Understanding FDA decision on kids vaccines...

Here's the scoop on the FDA committee recommendation and the pros and cons of vaccinating young children against SARS-CoV2.Check out our prior show with FDA advisory committee member Dr. Paul Offit here. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/pfizer-4-kids/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Sup...

We talked about turning a pandemic endemic in Portugal, the nature of fraudulent scientific literature, where influenza went and more. Originally streamed LIVE to FB.Here's the WSJ piece on Portugal. Here's the piece I referenced on scientific data accuracy using ivermectin as an example. Transcript, video & more: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-update-10-24-21/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parod...

We're more divided than ever it seems. How can we reconcile a COVID thesis and antithesis into an Alt-Middle synthesis? A deep dive. Here's the piece I mentioned from Peter Limburg of The Stoa. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/covidiots/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a...

Social media is blowing up with stories about each of these guys schooling the other. But is that really what this is about? Here's my take (aired LIVE Oct. 14th on YouTube). Video: https://zdoggmd.com/rogan-gupta/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal em...

COVID vaccine answers, straight from Dr. Offit (vaccine co-inventor and member of the FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee) 🔥.Watch all our episodes with Dr. Offit here! Full video with transcript. Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 1:00 Kids and COVID: current epidemiology 3:59 Vaccine for kids: dosing, data, risks, a polio rant 9:48 Myocarditis risks, kids 5-11 vaccine data 11:48 Single dose for kids? 12...

Cepheid's chief medical and technology officer returns to talk PCR testing for COVID, flu, RSV, and future variants & viruses not yet discovered. Watch our other episodes with Dr. David Persing here and learn more about molecular testing at Cepheid here. Video with transcript here Click here for easier navigation through this show's key topics. 0:00 Intro 1:27 What happened to flu (influenza) last...

We're talking delta's end, kids and COVID, natural vs. vaccine immunity, Moderna and more, LIVE 🔥Here's a Kaiser Health News piece on natural vs. vaccine immunity. Here's an interesting Scientific American piece on why kids are so resistant to COVID's bad effects. And here's a piece on how the risk to kids from COVID compares to other dangers.  Video here Video archive, audio podcast, music parod...

Promising early results for an oral therapeutic for SARS-CoV2. Here's what we know and what it may mean. Here's the topline data from Merck so far. Video with transcript here Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmd...

Are we really going to fire healthcare workers who won’t vaccinate…during a pandemic? Here’s my Alt-Middle take. Here’s a New York Times article on the subject. Full video with transcript. Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: pay...