The ZDoggMD Show

Guess what: pandemic dynamics are complex. Let's stop reducing them to mask mandates and indoor dining, OK? Article link, video podcast, transcript, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/delta-crash Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're talking with vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit about variants, kids & COVID-19, boosters, breakthrough infections, misinformation, schools + masks, immunity from natural infection, vaccine mandates, and much more, LIVE 👍Check out all our episodes with Dr. Paul Offit here.Full video with transcript.Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dr. Rachel Zoffness, a UCSF pain psychologist and author, shares her insights on the complexities of chronic pain management. She discusses the biopsychosocial model, emphasizing how emotional health and trauma are intertwined with physical pain. Zoffness critiques the stigma surrounding chronic pain, advocating for holistic treatments that blend therapy with lifestyle changes. She also explores the therapeutic effects of humor and emotional expression, offering listeners practical strategies to reclaim control over their pain.

Public health mask mandates, who's getting Delta now, vaccine "breakthrough" infections, the politics of the pandemic, kids & COVID-19, and much more, LIVE.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/sunday-roundz-7-18-21Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Filmmaker and host of the Theories of Everything podcast Curt Jaimungal & I talk sensemaking, medicine 3.0, consciousness and the nature of reality, the challenges of meditation, sleep disturbances, thought storms, free will, and much more, originally LIVE.Watch Curt's outstanding YouTube interview podcast Theories of Everything. And check out his documentary on the radical need for Alt-Middle thinking, Better Left Unsaid.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/curt-jaimungal/Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

CDC reports a possible association between the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine and a type of autoimmune paralysis called Guillain-Barre. Here's what you need to know.Here's a prior show we did on flu shot and Guillain-Barre.Full video with transcript.Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmdSupport us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email thank you from me: paypal.me/zdoggmdMore about Dr. Z: zdoggmd.com/about-z Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Originally streamed live on Sunday 7/11/21. We talked regulatory capture by pharma, the aducanumab outrage, Pfizer's booster bull$hit, masks in kids, virtue signaling, the return of RSV and risk understanding in children, do non-vaccinated people pose a threat, and a ridiculous video aimed at the Black community called Vax That Thang Up 😂 Video at zdoggmd.com/update-7-11-21 The week's videos you missed: https://zdoggmd.com/z-blogg Ways to join our Supporter Tribe: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Weighing the risk of myocarditis vs. the benefit of vaccinating young people (particularly boys) with the Pfizer mRNA vaccine. Transcript, video podcast, links to the op-ed and more with UCSF hematologist/oncologist and medical evidence specialist Dr. Vinay Prasad: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-myocarditis Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We have absolutely no idea whether putting masks on kids is net helpful or harmful, and here's why. Links to the op-ed, transcript, video, and more from Dr. Vinay Prasad: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-kids-masking Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two doctors analyze the evidence so far on ivermectin for COVID-19 and Aduhelm (aducanumab) for Alzheimer's. Dr. Vinay Prasad is a UCSF heme/onc doc who specializes in clinical trials and medical decision-making. Video podcast, transcript, links and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vinay-prasad-ivermectin Your support keeps us independent and mild-to-moderately awesome: https://zdoggmd.com/supporters Show, podcast, music, support, shop, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices