#192 – COVID Part 2: Masks, long COVID, boosters, mandates, treatments, and more
“I think people are starving out there for honesty on this topic that’s not tribal” – Marty Makary
#191 – Revolutionizing our understanding of mental illness with optogenetics | Karl Deisseroth M.D., Ph.D.
“It turns out that behavioral states that mammals have, they can be cleanly broken apart into these features, and we could show that with optogenetics.” —Karl Deisseroth
#190 – Paul Conti, M.D.: How to heal from trauma and break the cycle of shame
“Trauma changes the instrument that we use to understand our trauma. It’s changing our brain.” —Paul Conti
#189 – COVID Part 1: Current state of affairs, Omicron, and a search for the end game
“Where’s the humility? People are hungry for honesty right now.” —Marty Makary
#188 – AMA #30: How to Read and Understand Scientific Studies
In this “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) episode, Peter and Bob dive deep into all things related to studying studies to…
#187 – Sam Apple: The Warburg Effect—Otto Warburg’s cancer metabolism theory
“I think [Otto Warburg’s] influence is much wider than many people realize… he ended up having a massive influence on American life. Just nobody knows about it.” —Sam Apple
#186 – Patrick Radden Keefe: The opioid crisis—origin, guilty parties, and the difficult path forward
“Today the opioid crisis is a heroin and fentanyl crisis… absent Oxycontin, we might not be where we are today.” —Patrick Radden Keefe
#185 – Allan Sniderman, M.D.: Cardiovascular disease and why we should change the way we assess risk
“If we’re still saying the same things we said 30 years ago, it could be a problem because we should have learned how to say it better, more accurately.” —Allan Sniderman
#184 – AMA #29: GLP-1 Agonists – The Future of Treating Obesity?
“Getting deeper into how this drug works has certainly made me appreciate its power.” —Peter Attia
#183 – James Clear: Building & Changing Habits
“If you’re going to be building habits anyway, you might as well understand what they are and how they work and how to shape them so that you can be the architect of your habits and not the victim of them.” —James Clear