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Lately there's been an awakening on the part of hardcore Covidians: Omicron done changed the game, so is it finally time to chill? Here's my take.Check out the Atlantic op-ed I reference here. And here's a story from San Francisco that illustrates the power of vaccination to stop severe disease and the power of dumb public policy to create hospital staffing shortages nonetheless. Video, transcript and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vax-n-chill/ 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

Could the Omicron wave be the beginning of the end of this? What the science so far means for mandates, schools, and more. Video, transcript and more: https://zdoggmd.com/omicold/ Here's a piece I did previously about shifting from pandemic to endemic illness. Here's the podcast I mentioned that I did with Dr. Peter Attia and Dr. Marty Makary on this. Topics & Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 00:53 Hospitalization vs.Cases 03:13 Vaccination, Reinfections & Mitigation Measures 09:32 Therapeutics 11:17 Omicron & Kids 11:55 Rogan, Malone & Mass Formation Psychosis 13:10 Real World Outcomes, Mandates & Policy 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 questions: what is the end game and how does the world go back to 2019? [18:45] A policy-minded framework for viewing COVID and the problem of groupthink [24:00] The difference between science and advocacy [39:00] Natural immunity from COVID after infection [46:00] The unfortunate erosion of trust in science despite impressive progress [57:15] Do the current mandates and policies make sense in light of existing data? [1:02:30] Risks associated with vaccines, and the risk of being labeled an anti-vaxxer when questioning them [1:18:15] Data on incidence of myocarditis after vaccination with the Pfizer and Mo

It's been a s**tshow of a year, so let's have some fun, review the year, and do some sense-making, LIVE

A little year end mind-bender: psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness interviews ME about all the personal things

A new series called Pain Points with UCSF pain and health psychologist Dr. Rachel Zoffness where we answer YOUR questions

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 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

A little Sunday live easy listening: Q+A and Zen Roundz

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/positive emotions/accomplishment in our work, leadership communication, price transparency in healthcare, quality metrics, malpractice, and more. Get the Doc-Related book here, check out Peter’s website here, and check out his wife’s awesome wines here.  Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/doc-related/ 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 megaphone.fm

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, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/boosters-4-all/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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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, 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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, 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 other episodes with Dr. Ron! Video: https://zdoggmd.com/ron-sinha-3/ Topics & Timecodes: 0:00 Intro 2:08 Working from home and chronic pandemic stress 6:23 Work and our identity crisis 9:27 Emotional suppression and the physical effects of stress (blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, etc) 14:21 Continuous glucose monitors and “white coat hyperglycemia” 17:19 Cortisol as stress hormone, shame, intermittent fasting hazards 25:18 The real roots of job dissatisfaction and the creative impulse 29:38 Stress effects on our children, poisonous parental pressure 31:19 Steve Jobs and the central importance of spiritual g

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 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Pain Management Workbook. Here's her piece on the Anxiety Contagion in Psychology Today. Transcript, video and more: https://zdoggmd.com/rachel-zoffness-3/ 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 5-11, myocarditis etc. 12:49 The “Retrospectoscope” and our takes on COVID over the months 16:17 The origins of COVID politicization and Tribalism 25:41 Should we not treat unvaxxed people or shame unmasked children? 28:13 Having compassion for those who misbehave or attack 31:21 The fragility of wishing contrary opinions would disappear 36:38 Recognizing our cognitive biases when engaging in sense-making 40:21 My experience working in genetics with Drosophila fruit flies 43:06 How COVID broke our brains and sense-making ability: masks 47:05 Social media attacks, virtue signaling, performative vulnerability, dealing

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 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices