Zach Bush - Healthy Planet/Healthy Mind
Mad in America: Rethinking Mental Health
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🗓️ 4 October 2018
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Sharna Olfman Ph.D interviews Zach Bush MD
One of the few triple board-certified physicians in the country, with expertise in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Hospice/Palliative care, Dr. Zach Bush abandoned his prestigious academic career in cancer research, and his conventional medical practice a decade ago, after coming to terms with the fact that not only were his pharmaceutically based research and treatment protocols ineffectual; they were making his patients sicker. He then opened a clinic in the middle of a food desert in rural Virginia, where he swapped out pharmaceutical interventions for the medicinal properties of plants. Now based in Charlottesville, Dr. Bush has assembled an outstanding group of scientists and clinicians who are at the forefront of research on the microbiome and epigenetics. He has developed an impactful approach to healthcare which directly challenges 'big farming, 'big pharma' and conventional medicine.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Mad in America podcast, your source for science, psychiatry and social justice. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello, this is James, and welcome to the Madden America podcast. And this week in a new initiative for us, we present the first in a new series of |
| 0:22.1 | interviews by Dr. Shana Olfman, who will be looking at the science and pseudoscience of mental |
| 0:27.9 | health. Hi, I'm Dr. Shana Olfman, and I'm so pleased to welcome you to the science and |
| 0:35.9 | pseudoscience of mental health podcast. My guests are scientists, |
| 0:41.3 | clinicians, activists, all of whom are making really impactful contributions to both our |
| 0:48.9 | understanding and our support of mental health. At the same time, they're helping to debunk the pseudoscience that has kept the mental |
| 0:59.2 | health system locked into really narrow, pharmaceutically driven treatment protocols. |
| 1:06.1 | My inaugural guest is Dr. Zach Bush. |
| 1:10.3 | He is one of the few triple board certified MDs in the country. |
| 1:15.4 | He has expertise in endocrinology and metabolism, in internal medicine, and also in hospice |
| 1:23.4 | and palliative care. |
| 1:26.3 | Dr. Bush had a very prestigious academic career |
| 1:31.5 | based in cancer research and a successful conventional medical practice. |
| 1:36.8 | But about 10 years ago, he arrived at what was for him |
| 1:40.5 | a really challenging conclusion. |
| 1:44.2 | And that was that his pharmaceutically based treatment protocols were not only not helping |
| 1:51.6 | his patients get well, but he felt that they were actively harming them. |
| 1:58.3 | So he walked away from his research, from his practice. |
| 2:03.8 | He moved to rural Virginia in the middle of a food desert and opened up a clinic with a focus |
| 2:10.9 | on the medicinal properties of plants. |
| 2:14.6 | Today, he runs a really interesting, innovative, integrative medical clinic in Charlottesville, |
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