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At Least I Don’t Lick Cats – Deep Thoughts on Addiction and Healing

November 13, 2019

So somehow my son and I ended up in front of his laptop with Hulu open. I don’t recall what he wanted to show me, but it ended up not being very interesting.

So, cultural rubber-necker that I am, I was drawn to a thumbnail of a show I had never heard of: My Strange Addiction. Apparently it ran for six seasons on TLC, starting in 2010. Apparently I had missed this cultural phenomenon entirely

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Battling Bullshit with Garth Davis, MD: PYP 336

August 20, 2019
Yeah, them’s fighting words in the title of today’s episode. And Garth David, MD, my lead author of Proteinaholic and co-conspirator in a mission to tell the world that chronic disease and obesity are preventable and reversible, is a fighter. Read More

Feminism, Veganism, and Activism with Carol Adams: PYP 296

November 13, 2018
Carol J. Adams is the author most recently of Burger and Protest Kitchen, and a self-described “feminist-vegan.” Read More

Ketogenic Smoke and Mirrors with Robyn Chuter: PYP 289

September 24, 2018
There’s so much buzz about keto these days, there must be something to it, right? I mean, if it didn’t work to help people lose weight and feel better, they wouldn’t be doing it. I admit, despite my years of research and practice; despite having co-written three books on nutrition; despite seeing the positive effects… Read More

Guest Post: PSA Screening Still a Bad Idea

May 23, 2017

One of the unsung heroes of modern medicine is Richard J. Ablin, professor in the Pathology Department of the University of Arizona. The discoverer of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), Dr. Ablin has spent decades warning doctors and the public that the PSA test is not only useless for population screening for prostate cancer, but is incredibly harmful. For every man whose life is saved via early detection of a deadly tumor, dozens are maimed by treatments for tumors that were never going to hurt them.

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Pharmaceutical Brainwashing of America with Vanessa Sardi: PYP 196

February 7, 2017
When Vanessa Sardi was a drug rep for one of the world’s largest and most powerful pharmaceutical companies, she firmly believed that she was educating doctors to make better prescribing decisions and was helping patients live healthier, more comfortable lives. Read More

“I’m not speeding up; they’re all slowing down” with Ellen Jaffe Jones: PYP 194

January 24, 2017
I ran into Ellen Jaffe Jones at the Raleigh NC Vegfest, where she was inspiring young and old to get off their butts and embrace a healthy, active, vegan lifestyle. We had met on Skype for a podcast interview more than three years ago, but this was the first time we had met in person.… Read More

Keegan Kuhn on Not Hurting Anybody and Questioning Authority: PYP 157

May 31, 2016
Keegan Kuhn was raised with two rules: don’t hurt anybody, and question authority. Judging by what’s he’s become and what he’s accomplished, I think those two rules may comprise a necessary and sufficient philosophy of child-rearing. Keegan is an accomplished bio-intensive farm and garden developer, a social activist, and a documentary filmmaker whose latest project,… Read More

PYP 151: Steven Sashen on Running Barefoot and Feeling the World

April 19, 2016
Steven Sashen is co-founder of Xeroshoes.com, and a fierce critic of the athletic footwear industry. Steven and I met when we were in the digital marketing world, and stayed in touch as we both migrated into health and wellness. Steven has been my “almost barefoot shoe” supplier since 2011, when I read Born to Run… Read More

Robert Whitaker on Institutional Psychiatric Corruption: PYP 139

January 25, 2016
Robert Whitaker has written some of the most dystopian, disturbing, and fascinating stories of evil unleashed that I’ve ever read. Unfortunately for us, he’s not a fiction writer. Instead, he reports on the psychiatric industry. In his 2010 book, Anatomy of an Epidemic, which won the Investigative Reporters and Editors’ 2010 book award, Whitaker showed… Read More

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