I talk with Dr. Marty Makary LIVE about many things, including natural immunity, spacing vaccines, gain of function research, and multiple audience questions about managing coronavirus risk, mandates, and more.

Video and links: zdoggmd.com/marty-makary-7

Live COVID Update w/Dr. Z & Dr. Marty Makary 9/26/21

In this inaugural episode of our new collaborative show, Dr. Vinay Prasad (UCSF hematologist/oncologist) and Dr. Zubin Damania (AKA the hospitalist known as ZDoggMD) team up for a medical show designed to bring you up to speed on the weeks events with a nuanced, Alt-Middle perspective.

Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast: vinayakkprasad.com/plenarysession
Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast: zdoggmd.com/z-blogg

More info for Vinay and Zubin at https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd and vinayakkprasad.com/bio

Ep. 1: Medication, Mandates, Middle Ground

Dr. Marty Makary joins the fray for a science & reason SMACKDOWN 🔥 How many Omicrons does this register on the media fear-o-meter? Weigh in 😂👇

Video version, links, transcript, and more: https://zdoggmd.com/vpzd-4

Topics and time codes:

0:00 Intro

2:17 Boosters for All?

8:47 Young people + Covid, flawed CDC studies?

12:45 Natural immunity, Myocarditis, population risk vs. benefit

21:15 The narrative of simplicity and one-size-fits-all in public health

27:12 How we’re treating college students re: COVID quarantine, boosting, testing

30:45 Omicron, animal source?

34:08 Journalistic responsibility, and natural immunity revisited, what healthcare CEOS should do

43:28 Dr. Oz and the state of politics due to COVID disruptions in economy and freedoms

47:40 Socioeconomic status effects under COVID policies

53:59 Why so slow to learn more about vaccine resistance and omicron? The role of media

57:31 Therapeutics like fluvoxamine (Luvox) vs. molnupiravir

1:04:50 Zero COVID is a delusion, so focus protection where it matters

1:05:27 Fluvoxamine and the hydroxychloroquine/ivermectin debacle

1:08:23 Fauci’s foibles

1:12:12 Gain of function research

1:21:56 Listening to doctors

1:26:45 Pandemic of lunacy, gain of fear, and Fear-naught values

1:32:57 Cloth masks, and masking as distraction from real risks

1:34:58 Chemotherapy shortages

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Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast: vinayakkprasad.com/plenarysession
Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast: zdoggmd.com/z-blogg

More info for Vinay and Zubin at https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd and vinayakkprasad.com/bio

Ep. 4: Omicron Panic, Natural Immunity, Fluvoxamine, Boosters, Fauci (w/ Dr. Marty Makary)

Boosters for the young and healthy? Is Pharma dictating public health policy? What's up with VAERS? Did Robert Malone invent the mRNA technology? AND MORE.

Transcript, video, and links to more with the amazing Dr. Paul Offit: https://zdoggmd.com/paul-offit-8

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Topics covered: 
00:00 Intro
01:07 Boosters, the CDC, vaccine advisory committee & 3rd dose drama
05:25 Offit's son, The Atlantic article​, booster coverage & mandates
08:34 4th dose, vaccine politicization, childhood vaccines & the anti-vax movement
16:40 mRNA spacing considerations, tribal loyalty
20:25 Pregnancy & COVID-19 vaccines
23:07 Vaccine safety reporting, VAERS pros & cons, PRISM, Vaccine Safety Datalink
26:58 Drug safety, Pharma dictating public health, vaccine effectiveness
30:40 Walenski and CDC, bureaucratic transparency & swine flu lessons learned
36:34 Yearly COVID-19 vax, Omicron parties, chicken pox tragedies & the role of natural immunity
41:53 COVID-19 testing, policy (who it helps, who it hurts)
44:00 What Robert Malone did (and didn't do) with mRNA technology, what it takes to build a vaccine
51:10 Spike protein misinformation & real-life correlation with mass vaccination
56:25 Myocarditis in adults vs. kids, polio in children
103:00 The Army's "super vaccine", discussion of gain of function research
106:13 Final thoughts

Vaccine Nonsense, Debunked (w/Dr. Paul Offit)

We're back! In this episode we talk: dumb COVID policies, mask shaming on both sides, Kyrie Irving vaccine controversy, worshipping Lord Zero COVID (Hong Kong and elsewhere), press coverage biases, a FOURTH booster shot, ethical considerations around pharma not providing meds to Russia, dumber college COVID policies, the deal with early treatments, Ash Jha and John Ioannidis, and the James Webb telescope and STEM inspiration.

Dr. Prasad's "Plenary Session" podcast: vinayakkprasad.com/plenarysession
Dr. Damania's "ZDoggMD Show" podcast: zdoggmd.com/z-blogg

More info for Vinay and Zubin at https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd and vinayakkprasad.com/bio

Ep. 14: Worship Lord Zero COVID, 4th Booster, Dumb Policies

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 🤯

John Astin is a meditation teacher, musician, and the author of four books on spiritual practice, including Searching for Rain in a Monsoon. He has a Ph.D. in health psychology and is an adjunct professor of clinical and counseling psychology at Santa Clara and Notre Dame de Namur Universities.

Find his books, teachings, and more on his website: https://johnastin.com

Video of this interview: zdoggmd.com/john-astin

Here's the interview with Donald Hoffman that we referenced: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd6CQ...

Here are all our videos on consciousness, meditation, and awakening: https://bit.ly/3NYbBvx

0:00 Introduction
9:01 The role of psychedelics, self transcendence & wonder
13:25 Awakening to non-dual reality
18:10 The miracle of our present experience
25:00 How words and concepts can’t capture experience
28:35 Conceptual vs. Experiential perspective: an exercise
34:10 Analogy to the vase illusion image: parts and whole coexist
49:28 The inconceivability of any experience, including emotions like worry and anxiety
58:29 The fractal/holographic nature of reality, the oneness of experience
1:01:28 Awakening as a sense of homecoming
1:05:15 The paradox of suffering and our frame of reference
1:09:50 “Relative” medicine vs. “Ultimate” medicine, clarifying the nature of pain
1:17:18 The impermanence of experiential phenomenon
1:26:40 The paradox of striving/seeking, allowing experience to be
1:29:00 Drifting reality and what is attention, the groundless nature of experience
1:33:28 The paradox of meditation and effort, the role of teachers
1:43:06 The dreamlike quality of waking experience
1:45:20 Zoom as an abstraction vs. in person experience
1:48:50 What is meditation? What is common to all experience: one taste
1:55:05 What is consciousness? Reality is “just this”; what is “presence”
2:04:55 All views are partial, the Alt-Middle, Integral perspective, thoughts are just thoughts
2:07:43 McGilcrist and left brain vs right brain, Jill Bolte Taylor
2:10:40 Wrapping up, links, and the book This Extraordinary Moment

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Reality Is Not What You Think (w/John Astin)

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