Andrew Holecek is an author, teacher, and a renowned expert on meditation, lucid dreaming, and dream yoga. We dive into how increasing your awareness during sleep can have profound benefits for your life. In fact, it might just help wake us up from the "dream" of the waking state itself... Check out Andrew's website with many resources including his podcast and books and his "Night Club" lucid dreaming and meditation community. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe ...
Jun 01, 2022•2 hr 20 min
How can we awaken to life as a continuous flow state? What is no-self & the Unborn? Can suffering be a fierce grace that wakes you up to the natural flow of redemptive love? Trigger Warning: we go DEEP on this one 😂. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/awakening-flow/ Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo's email list for future meditation retreats and updates here. And watch ...
May 28, 2022•1 hr 1 min
The complex ethical, medical, and psychological issues relating to women's health & abortion are nuanced and often non-intuitive. An OB/Gyn doc joins me to help us better understand. Dr. Alexandre (Alex) West is an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Connecticut. Here's a link with support services for people with peripartum mood and anxiety disorders, pregnancy loss, and pregnancy termination for medical reasons. Here's another link for emotional support fo...
May 27, 2022•1 hr 20 min
Here's what you need to know about the current monkeypox outbreak, including how it spreads, how to diagnose and treat, and whether YOU should worry about this in the first place. Here's a good summary in Science. Here's the WHO's information. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/monkeypox/ Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email re...
May 22, 2022•21 min
We now have all the necessary tools to end the COVID "emergency" phase. Here's how (and why) we can live with this coronavirus. Here's an extended Twitter thread outlining the key points we discussed (easy for sharing). And here's every show we've done with UCSF Professor and infectious disease specialist Dr. Monica Gandhi. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/living-with-covid/ Topics & Timecodes 00:00 Intro, mask mandates, individual control & benefits of one-way masking 05:22 Long COVID, innate...
May 15, 2022•1 hr 9 min
A longtime hospitalist colleague and mentor shares hospital hacks that improve life for our patients, our colleagues, and ourselves 🔥 Dr. John Cunniff, MD, MBA is a 22 year veteran hospital doctor with the Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group in practice at Stanford and other local hospitals in the Silicon Valley. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/hospital-hacks/ Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://l...
May 13, 2022•1 hr 9 min
What has our short-sighted COVID approach cost us? Dr. Makary returns to discuss all the other stuff we're damaging or neglecting. Check out Marty's research site on redesigning healthcare here. And watch all our episodes together here. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/covid-myopia/ Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email respon...
May 11, 2022•1 hr 38 min
Happy #nursesweek to all those on the hero's journey 🙏 It's Nurses Week and you know what that means: cold pizza, heroes work here signs and tacky gifts. How about giving nurses what they REALLY need: safe staffing ratios, fair pay, freedom from workplace violence, mental health support and RESPECT. And that means leaders LEADING. To all the nurses: I get it, I hear you and I support you. It turns out we're all on a journey to find our path, our true calling. Whether that means leaving your cur...
May 07, 2022•45 min
We had Doc Vader frozen in carbonite for good reason, but today MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU cuz he's offfff the chain, uncensored, and LIVE 😂. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/doc-vader-live-5-4-22/ Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal email response from me: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/zdoggmd More about Dr. Z: https://zdoggmd...
May 04, 2022•39 min
Why isn't everyone awakened and able to realize unfiltered reality? Turns out the mind tosses up apparent roadblocks to enlightenment. Here's how to recognize and overcome them. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/awakening-barriers/ Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo's email list for future meditation retreats and updates here. And watch ALL of our videos on awakening with my f...
Apr 25, 2022•1 hr 6 min
Live Q+A originally on Facebook. We talked: nurse practitioners, women vs. men, should you leave your job, helicopter parenting and safetyism, un-masked prom COVID catastrophizing, and more! Video: https://zdoggmd.com/live-4-21-22/ Here's my previous episodes on Nurse Practitioners, following your path and the Turntable Health story. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support...
Apr 21, 2022•59 min
Teen mental health has taken a dive over the last decade and the pandemic hasn't helped. I discuss 4 reasons why, and what we can do about it. Here's that Atlantic article mentioned and my previous episode on social media & teenage girls. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/teen-mental-health/ Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal ...
Apr 14, 2022•21 min
Should YOU do a silent meditation retreat? Dr. Angelo DiLullo & I recently held a 6-day retreat with 30 healthcare folks from our audience, and here's what happened 🤯 Video: https://zdoggmd.com/meditation-retreat/ Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo's email list for future meditation retreats and updates here. And watch ALL of our videos on awakening with my fellow ...
Apr 06, 2022•48 min
Former Vanderbilt nurse RaDonda Vaught was convicted of criminally negligent homicide and abuse of an impaired adult...for a medication error. It was a tragic error that many nurses have told me could have happened to many of them: crappy tech, poor systems, understaffing, and human error leading to the death of a vulnerable patient. And now we have the conviction of a nurse on criminal charges for such a mistake. Here are my thoughts on why this is a TERRIBLE precedent for anyone working in hea...
Apr 01, 2022•32 min
The boys are back in town 😂 and we talk COVID policy failures, fact-checking fallacies, criminalizing nurse Radonda Vaught's fatal med error, Twitter "experts," safetyism, fixing healthcare efficacy and costs, and MUCH more.Video: https://zdoggmd.com/prasad-makary/ Here's all our shows with Marty Makary. Here's The VPZD Podcast. Topics & Timecodes 00:00 Fact-checking the facts, COVID policy failures, RCT's & parachute studies 08:11 Masking, vaccinating and boosting kids 22:28 Nurse RaDo...
Mar 24, 2022•2 hr 10 min
The US Senate just voted to make Daylight Savings Time (DST) permanent. Sleep doctors think this is unsafe, and here's why.Check out the position paper from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM). And check out this interview I did with pediatrician Dr. Blair Duddy on why teens need later school start times and more sleep. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/daylight-savings/ Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: https://lnk.bio/z...
Mar 17, 2022•12 min
Awakening from the dream of separation and suffering may be as simple as looking for WHO is trying to wake up. Who ARE you? Using self-inquiry (like meditation on steroids) to unlock your true identity. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/self-inquiry/ Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo's email list for future meditation retreats and updates here. And watch ALL of our videos on ...
Mar 06, 2022•49 min
A Swedish study is causing anxiety among many that mRNA vaccines can insert into our DNA. Here's what's REALLY going on.Here's the study. Here's a good outline of reverse transcriptase and integrase. And here's another piece on viral genome integration. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/pfizer-dna/ 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:...
Mar 02, 2022•12 min
I finally deleted my Twitter account, here's why. Also, Putin, Boosters, and more, LIVE. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/live-2-27-22/ 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
Feb 27, 2022•46 min
You don’t have to be a writer or “creative” type to channel authenticity and spontaneity in your life and work. A fascinating conversation with book & television writer Johnny B. Truant.Watch our prior show on changing your life story, get Johnny's book The Story Solution here, and check out his multimedia story studio. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/creativity/ Topics & Timecodes 00:00 Intro, how story is excavated vs created 04:19 Working with a partner, why planning too much sucks, mistak...
Feb 23, 2022•2 hr 6 min
A deep dive discussion of the effects of race in healthcare and beyond.Dr. Ian Tong is a Black physician, a clinical assistant professor at Stanford, and the Chief Medical Officer of Included Health. We explore stereotype threat, biological weathering, equity vs. equality, structural racism in America, bias in healthcare and medical admissions, the effects of zip code & social determinants of health, and MUCH more. Here's his STAT op ed. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/ian-tong/ Video archive, au...
Feb 18, 2022•1 hr 33 min
It's time to get back to living life. A discussion, LIVE.Join our Supporter Tribe on Locals here. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/sunday-live-2-13-22/ 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
Feb 13, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Daniel Schmachtenberger studies existential risk. Here's how we might thread an Alt-Middle way to a civilization whose tech, healthcare, social structures, and built environment promote well being rather than divisional apocalypse. Video, topic list and timecodes, and transcript: https://zdoggmd.com/daniel-schmachtenberger Here's more about Daniel and details on his Consilience Project. Video archive, audio podcast, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership, merch, social media, and email: http...
Feb 11, 2022•2 hr 41 min
Storywriting expert and author of over 100 books Johnny B. Truant teaches us how we can use story to completely reinvent our lives.Get his book The Story Solution here. Check out his multimedia story studio. And watch a related video I did on The Great Resignation during COVID. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/the-story-solution/ 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 ...
Feb 08, 2022•1 hr 37 min
Have you had a profound glimpse of awakening/enlightenment but you're afraid to dive deeper (or you don't know how)? Here's a direct guide to further exploring your true nature. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/awakening-doubt/ Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo's email list for future meditation retreats and updates here. And watch ALL of our videos on awakening with my fell...
Feb 06, 2022•56 min
A deep dive into actually FEELING emotion as part of the process of awakening. Video, transcript and more: https://zdoggmd.com/awakening-emotion/ Get Dr. Angelo DiLullo's book on awakening, Awake: It's Your Turn, here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel with excellent pointer videos here. Sign up for Angelo's email list for future meditation retreats and updates here. And watch ALL of our videos with my fellow Dr. D here. Topics & Timecodes: 00:00 Intro 02:26 Consciousness as a movie screen ...
Feb 01, 2022•53 min
Episode 2 of our Pain Points series with the OTHER Dr. Z! In this episode we dive deep into what "mild" Omicron infection means, why depression is biopsychosocial ALWAYS, how to manage imposter syndrome & insomnia, and why benzodiazepine medications are often a disaster. Video, transcript and more: https://zdoggmd.com/pain-points-2/ See all our episodes with Dr. Rachel Z here. Grab her outstanding Pain Management Workbook here. Find her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Topics & Timec...
Jan 30, 2022•1 hr 48 min
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. Video, transcript and more: https://zdoggmd.com/paul-offit-8Check out our other shows with Dr. Paul Offit here. Topics & Timecodes: 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...
Jan 25, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Dr. Peter Attia (host of The Drive), Dr. Marty Makary (Johns Hopkins professor), Dr. Monica Gandhi and I team up to drop some mad COVID science.Check out full show notes and Peter's podcast, The Drive here. Topics & Timecodes:Severity of infection from Omicron—reviewing the data [5:15]; Factors contributing to the relative mildness of Omicron infections [8:30]; Is SARS-CoV-2 evolving to cause less severe disease? [13:00]; Potential of Covaxin—an inactivated virus-based COVID-19 vaccine [17:4...
Jan 24, 2022•2 hr 48 min
Lots to talk about this week, so LET'S DO THIS 🔥. Originally streamed LIVE to Youtube: zdoggmd.com/covid-update-1-14-22 Topics & Timecodes:00:00 Intro 00:38 Tribalism, the hive mind & social media 04:44 Alt-Middle & holding beliefs loosely 06:53 Vax on vax violence, friendly fire & today's Twitter storm 15:10 My conversation with Karen Ernst, healthy discourse, seeing the human behind the handle 21:38 New CDC mask guidance, why good people disagree 23:43 Emotions & self refl...
Jan 15, 2022•59 min
