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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

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 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: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Seriously y'all, you can't make this s**t up

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 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: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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 bivalent vaccine ​ 06:56 The FDA Vaccine Advisory Committee, political agendas & the seemingly declining burden of proof 13:15 Booster vs. 3rd dose, understanding age stratified risk, potential for vaccine escape 16:52 My dad's COVID story, risk calculation, the problem with broad stroke policies 20:50 What happens to old COVID variants, predictions for the upcoming winter surge 23:07 Viral infection patterns, specifically in children, MIS-C 28:52 Severe disease, death and long COVID in children, vaccine uptake in children 33:53 Kids under 5 & the COVID vax, community vs. individual benefit 38:45 COVID vax mandates & t

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 pandemic 7:50 Rebel Wisdom’s central curation function 11:00 Zoom vs. in person and the effect on connection 23:53 Internet subcultures “leaking” into the real world, Jan. 6th 26:15 The Post-Secular Religiosity of everything, including COVID 31:15 The rise of conspiracy narratives during COVID 37:05 Questioning our own thinking, personal growth 44:10 Hermeneutics of suspicion & a culture of bullshit 56:00 Conspiracies thrive in gaps in the mainstream narrative 57:30 Pre/trans fallacy & the COVID antithesis space 1:05:00 Paradox of being outside the institutions: audience capture 1:09:48 Tech platforms’ warping effect on

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 among lactation specialists, physical breastfeeding vs. feeding breastmilk 08:17 Social determinants, challenges for low socioeconomic and the highly educated, maternal advantages & benefits of breastfeeding 14:50 Infant advantages & benefits of breastfeeding 19:34 Breastmilk vs. formula cost (both monetary and social) 23:11 Debriefing past trauma & why it's often uncomfortable to talk about breastfeeding, more neonatal benefits 27:53 Composition of human milk, immune properties, HIV considerations, positioning for bottle feeding 31:39 Tongue-tied babies, breast-shaped bottles, maternal mental health & the effect of st

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 watch ALL of our videos on awakening with my fellow Dr. D here. Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 1:49 Awakening as a process beyond conceptual knowing 4:00 What to do when thought intervenes on unfiltered reality 7:01 The paradox of the personal and impersonal 8:50 The paradox of practice vs. non-practice 11:12 Investigating the sense gates: sound and hearing 21:10 The non-dual experience of hearing (JUST hearing) 26:10 The prerequisite role of Self-inquiry in awakening 27:52 Investigating the sight gate: gazing into infinity 33:40 Attuning to subtlety and refining perception 36:52 The importance of “just stopping” 4

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://zdoggmd.com/david-fuller-live/ 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: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 dreaming and meditation community. 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: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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

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 loss, and pregnancy termination for medical reasons. Here's another link for emotional support following pregnancy termination. And here's information on birth control, miscarriage management and abortion. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/abortion-facts/ Topics & Timecodes 00:00 Intro 03:13 Scope of obstetrics, abortion as a part of the entire reproductive journey, legislator qualifications (or lack thereof) 07:46 Factors leading to unwanted pregnancy, nuances of birth control including eligibility, access & effectiveness 11:41 Ethical considerations including autonomy (personal control), maleficence (helping) & non-malefic

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 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: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Intro, mask mandates, individual control & benefits of one-way masking 05:22 Long COVID, innate vs adaptive immunity, seroprevalence among varying age groups 10:27 Vaccine protection against severe COVID, natural immunity, media catastrophizing, animal reservoirs & endemicity 15:23 Hepatitis outbreak in children, did pandemic sheltering weaken our kids’ immune responses, masking children & the precautionary principle 20:00 Creating an endpoint, the purpose of non-pharmaceutical interventions, hospitalizations with COVID vs. for COVID, death rate as a key metric 23:53 Hybrid immunity, Omicron as the great equalizer, CDC

A longtime hospitalist colleague and mentor shares hospital hacks that improve life for our patients, our colleagues, and ourselves

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 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: https://zdoggmd.com/about-z/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy #nursesweek to all those on the hero's journey

We had Doc Vader frozen in carbonite for good reason, but today MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU cuz he's offfff the chain, uncensored, and LIVE

Why isn't everyone awakened and able to realize unfiltered reality? Turns out the mind tosses up apparent roadblocks to enlightenment. Here's how to recognize and overcome them. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/awakening-barriers/ 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 watch ALL of our videos on awakening with my fellow Dr. D here. Topics & Timecodes 00:00 Intro 01:38 Unfiltered reality is ALWAYS present, just seemingly obscured 04:59 Barrier 1: not knowing awakening is possible 17:12 Fear disguising itself as acquisition of knowledge 22:00 Barrier 2: doubt and the standing wave of identity/thought 44:35 Barrier 3: realizing what is a thought and what isn’t 55:49 Advice for overcoming sticky beliefs Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact for