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The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

Dr Mike: The Hidden Side Effects Of Vaping! The Dark Side Of Being A Doctor! We Need To Stop Medical Misinformation!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.613.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2024

⏱️ 110 minutes

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Summary

He might be known as the ‘Sexiest Doctor Alive’ but his true talent is fighting against the ugly side of medical misinformation. Doctor Mike is a family medicine doctor and YouTube’s #1 Doctor. He has over 25 million followers on social media and is also the host of ‘The Checkup with Doctor Mike’ podcast. In this conversation, Doctor Mike and Steven discuss topics such as, the errors in the biggest online health trends, which popular diets are destroying your health, the real truth about calorie counting, and the one thing that helped Dr Mike cure his depression. 00:00 Intro 02:01 Helping People Make Better Health Decisions 05:10 Why Have People Resonated With You And Your Approach True Medical Information 09:54 How Do You Check The Evidence Of The Studies You Share? 11:56 The New Health Trends: Optimisation, Longevity, Anti-Ageing 16:17 Lifestyle Changes Is The First Doctor's Advice 18:14 Do Shortcuts Exist In Medicine? 19:03 What's Your Take On Calories In, Calories Out 21:02 How To Make A Diet Stick 23:16 The False Illusion Of A Good Body Equals Good Health 26:46 Calories In And Calories Out Does Work 28:49 The Benefits Of Exercising 30:21 Where Is The Direction Of Travel With Our Health? 32:51 What Would Happen If There Was A Deadlier Pandemic Than Covid 34:41 Is Vaping Dangerous? 39:27 The Real And Painful Reason Why I Started Boxing 41:32 Losing My Mum 47:07 What's The Best Way To Heal From Grief? 49:49 Your Journey With Mental Health & Social Media Bullying 54:05 The Best Advice I Received From My Therapist 55:55 Are Certain People More Prone To Get Addicted To Social Media? 57:12 Have You Considered Quitting Social Media?? 58:25 Are Vitamin Supplements Good For Us? 59:45 Can We Get All Our Nutrients And Vitamins From Foods? 01:03:36 Do Prebiotics And Probiotics Work? 01:05:19 We Should Listen To The Health Advice Our Grandmothers Told Us 01:08:15 Mentioning Experts That Are Wrong 01:10:46 People Are Losing Trust In Doctors Because Of This 01:18:28 Look After Your Children, We Need This Out Of Schools 01:25:09 Are You A Deep Thinker? 01:27:39 How Do You Deal With So Much Loss And Grief? 01:29:01 What Was Your Hardest Day? 01:33:53 How To Save Someone's Life Doing CPR 01:41:23 I Asked The Doctors To Stop Doing CPR On My Mother 01:43:29 Last Guest Question Here is a link to an article discussing the inefficiency of the anti-depression drug, Paxil: https://bit.ly/3X867q2 Follow Doctor Mike: Instagram - https://bit.ly/3V4pJsy Twitter - https://bit.ly/4bVeidJ YouTube - https://bit.ly/3yPtKcQ Watch the episodes on Youtube - https://g2ul0.app.link/3kxINCANKsb My new book! 'The 33 Laws Of Business & Life' is out now - https://smarturl.it/DOACbook Follow me: https://beacons.ai/diaryofaceo Sponsors: ZOE: http://joinzoe.com with an exclusive code CEO10 for 10% off Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to the team Jack, so here you'll find your crouching desk.

0:04.0

Oh great, I've been meaning to crouch more.

0:08.0

Now, your team is right down this hallway.

0:11.0

It's quite narrow. How did this not come up in the interview? And finally here is the

0:17.7

conference cupboard. Where do I put my legs?

0:21.4

Feel like nothing about your job fits. Find where your skills fit in with Thanks. Your mission at the moment to myth bust and call out disinformation as it relates to health care.

0:35.0

Let's get into that.

0:37.0

Okay. Dr. Mike Varshaski.

0:39.0

He is the actively practicing medicine doctor with over 25 million followers who's created one of the largest health education platforms in the world

0:47.2

Dr Mike what's the key to finding a diet that's gonna stick there's two real things that you need to think about.

0:53.6

One calories in and calories out is true. Second, and this is important, you need to have...

0:59.1

What about the prevailing narrative that if you want to lose weight you've got to get on a

1:02.4

running machine.

1:03.0

Nutrition that's where the majority of the change will come from.

1:06.0

What's the medical advantage if I go to the gym every day?

1:08.6

Literally everything else.

1:10.3

Is vaping dangerous? Yes and no one knows this by the way. This is why I do what I do but the more dangerous part of it is

1:15.5

What's your PAB on supplements? They will make you skip on doing things that are healthy for you and supplements have side effects you have too many of them we notice that they

1:24.0

but no one talks about that because you can't really sell it.

1:27.0

And then considering you care so much about your health why would a doctor choose

1:30.5

boxing? Because I unfortunately lost my mom to cancer.

1:34.0

To ask the doctors to stop doing chest compressions on your mom.

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