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Keep tabs on our Upcoming Shows page to find out what’s on deck. Fearless Parent Radio™ airs on Wednesdays at 7pm ET online on PRN.fm or listen by phone at (401) 347-0456. Once the show has aired, the podcasts are uploaded to our Archived Shows page, iTunes, or Podbean. And read why we prefer to be on a first-name basis with our hosts and guests.
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The Doctor of the Future
Guest // Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
Host // Kelly Brogan, MD
We need bright lights on the horizon of medicine.
We need visionaries and heart-centered healers.
We need this because our system is broken and flailing in the complexity of modern illness, and the prioritization of profit-centered objectives.
How can we simplify our health struggles and bring high yield results to every person out there seeking — and deserving — a better way?
Dr. Rangan Chatterjee may very well be the one to show us this answer. Poised to launch a history-making BBC program called Doctor In The House, Rangaan is in the trenches, and moving in to his patients’ homes to show them about what real healing looks like.
Kelly Brogan, MD interviews Rangan about the future of medicine:
- Why medicine needs generalists, not specialists?
- How will we bring evolved medicine to this medical system?
- What are the best strategies for creating and maintaining health?
- and more!
Rangan Chatterjee MBChB, BSc (Hons), MRCGP, MRCP, AFMCP has practiced medicine since qualifying from Edinburgh University Medical School in 2001. He was a hospital doctor for 6 years and has spent the last 7 years working in General Practice. Rangan holds a BSc Honours Degree in Immunology and is a certified functional medicine practitioner via the Institute of Functional Medicine in the United States. He passionately advocates that lifestyle and nutrition are first line medicine and the cornerstone of good health. He empowers his patients with the knowledge and motivation they need to achieve and maintain optimal health. Rangan combines the best of nutritional science, conventional medicine, and advanced diagnostics to find the root cause of illness. For more information about his work and blog, visit www.drchatterjee.co.uk.
Medications and Mitochondria
Guest // Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD
Host // Chandler Marrs, PhD
Mitochondria-what?
Mitochondria are the energy powerhouses in human physiology. You might remember the mitochondria from high school biology. They are the tiny organelles inside our cells that produce adenosine triphosphate or ATP, the energy currency necessary for cell functioning. If you took a few more science classes you might have been required to memorize the various structures and processes associated with ATP production. Once memorized, however, mitochondrial function became a distant memory and the significance of dysfunctional mitochondria, if considered at all, was quickly forgotten, but it shouldn’t have been.
Mitochondria are critical to cell function and by extension human health. Damage or derange their functioning and the disease processes that can be evoked are numerous, varied, commonly chronic or progressive, and often, devastating. Some of the cardinal symptoms of mitochondrial deficiency are fatigue and muscle pain but there is dizzying array of other symptoms. Everything from central nervous system, gastrointestinal and cardiovascular function can be disrupted when the mitochondria do not work properly.
What causes mitochondrial damage and dysfunction?
In addition to genetic dispositions and diet, environmental and pharmaceutical exposures seem to be at the root of many mitochondrially-mediated disease processes. Researchers at the cutting edge of mitochondrial medicine, like our guest, Dr. Beatrice Golomb, link common medications to mitochondrial dysfunction. For today’s show, we’ll be talking about the nuts and bolts of mitochondrial medicine including:
- common medications impact mitochondrial functioning
- symptoms of ailing mitochondria
- what to do if you suspect mitochondrial illness
Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD is the director of the Golomb Research Group has over 15 years of experience serving as a primary care physician. Dr. Golomb is Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Diego. She received a BS in physics from USC and an MD and PhD from UC San Diego.
Dr. Golomb’s research involves mitochondrial function in health and disease. She is best known for her work on Gulf War Illness, statins, placebos and chocolate. More recently, she has begun a study investigating the adverse effects associated with the fluoroquinolone antibiotics; a topic we covered on the Heal with Friends podcast earlier this year. A number of her studies have been featured in the national and international print, radio and television media, from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Economist to Jon Stewarts’s The Daily Show.
Water and the Paradoxes of Biology
Guest // Gerald Pollack, PhD
Host // Sayer Ji
Can humans extract energy directly and/or indirectly from sunlight?
Can the true nature of water explain unresolved paradoxes of biology?
There’s new light on existing research that overturns long held beliefs in biology about our dependence upon other organisms for ‘food’ (i.e. heterotrophic definition):
1) How does the 4th phase of water shed light on controversies and anomalies in our understanding of human physiology?
2) How does water act like a “battery” within all the cells of our body?
3) What are some of the technological implications of the discovery of the 4th phase of water?
4) How might we apply this information practically? What is the best water to drink? Does this have implications for nutrition?
Gerald H. Pollack, PhD is a professor of Bioengineering at the University of Washington, Seattle Washington. Watch his TEDx talk to learn more about his work.
