Episodes
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Daily Dose Ep56. How To Manage (Viral) Gastro(enteritis) During Ease Lockdowns In Sydney
Sydney, enjoy your eased lockdowns during COVID this December 2020. However be aware that viral gastro is in the wild and appearing as nausea, vomiting, and or diarrhoea. Tummy is usually upset too. I still see it this 3rd week in Sydney hence this update. I highly recommend everyone maintain...
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Daily Dose Ep51: How To Feed Problem Babies (Colic, Reflux, Constipation, Allergy)
In Australia and New Zealand we have the Food Standards dictating what’s allowed in your baby’s formula powder. Fortunately most brands have to hit minimums for protein, carbs, and fats. Unfortunately the optional extras are exactly that, optional! I have to also add a disclaimer: breast milk is...
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Daily Dose Ep 50: How To Treat & Prevent Mastitis In New Mothers
Are you a new mum with painful, sore, nipples that feel like a needle is stabbing? If so you may be suffering from the all too common mastitis. An inflammation of the breast nipple and tissue. It's definitely not fun to experience and can even bring on serious illness if the infection spreads or...
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Daily Dose Ep47: Viral Gastro In Sydney
Hey Sydneysiders its Smiling Pharmacist here to warn everyone to keep up their hand sanitizers and hygiene cos there's viral gastro making the rounds Symptoms are diarrhoea, nausea, vomiting, low appetite. Spread easily by coughing, sneezing, sharing utensils. So keep up the mask wearing!…
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Daily Dose Ep45. Best Treatment for Scars (2nd edition)
Sun's out, bums out! With warmer weather in Sydney we're seeing people head outdoors and also seeing more injuries! Grazes, cuts, scabs the lot! Here's how to: 1) prevent fugly scars in the 1st place, and 2) minimize scars that recently formed Topics covered 📖 -types of scars: keloid,...
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Daily Dose Ep44. How To Treat Thrush (Vaginal & Penile)
Embarrassing but it happens! If you're a women over the age of 16 years, you're likely to get thrush at least once in your lifetime. Men you're not off the hook either it can happen on the tip of your penis Now to be clear, thrush is NOT a sexually transmitted disease (STD) and is more a result…
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Daily Dose Ep42. How To Treat Allergies and Get to the Root Of The Problem
The Four-Day-Rule-Of-Thumb: this is a diagnostic tool I used to help uncover the root cause of people's hives (a form of allergy). Often times a customer will come in with a skin rash all over their body and ask for an antihistamine. Of course I give them what they want but when I notice they're...
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The Friday Tune Up Ep2. Grandma’s Cooking, Formula 1, Gary Vee, Learning Mandarin and more!
Considering the cold front Sydney experienced last weekend, this episode shares my taste of Grandma’s cooking of Banh Canh, a vietnamese dish made from rice noodles (hand-made). Nom!
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Daily Dose Ep44. How To Manage a Child with Fever
hey guys I just wanted to quickly rush Ep44 out before the others as I'm getting so many requests for Panadol suppositories.. The update: they're Out Of Stock till Nov 2020 (have been since start of year) In this podcast I share tips for parents on how to manage with aforementioned product Enjoy
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Behind The Counter Ep17: Over Paying Tax 💰💰💰
How to unwittingly get a windfall of $11,000 and how I wish I didn’t have this in the first place. Paying too much tax 💰💰💰
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Behind The Counter Ep16: Connecting with Sophie Cotsis (Member of Parliament)
Serendipity. It happens when you connect with people-but you must get out from behind your desk! I got to lunch with Sophie but also Kiel the General Manager of Canterbury Hospital whom just happened to be at the cafe too!
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Behind The Counter Ep15: Keep Ya Finger on the Pulse
Else you’ll lose money without even knowing!
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Behind The Counter Ep14: Hire That Accountant!
The first person you should hire is not an assistant, not a chef, but and accountant!
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Behind The Counter Ep13: Have systems in place from the small to the big! Don’t be a One Man Show
I had an issue last night we’re a customer left without her script and unhappy. You learn best from your most unhappy customers and this one hit home that we need to systematise every one of our processes-even something we do on a routine basis like dispensing medicine!
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Behind The Counter Ep12: Crucial Business Mistakes To Avoid
Debrief from the three day conference up at Gold Coast February 2019
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Behind The Counter Ep11: The One Skill Needed To Run A Business: Accounting!
Due diligence. That ugly word used before buying real estate, or a business, or anything serious in your life! I didn’t do any before buying this pharmacy except for knowing something called a P&L sheet. Well actually that’s one-third of the pie....the other two essentials are the balance sheet…
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My Girlfriend's Eczema Won't Go Away: How To Fix It Inside-Out
I had the pleasure of meeting my physiotherapist friend, Kevin, and he asks: Q. What should my girlfriend do for her eczema? She gets it on the nape of her neck and it never seems to go away. Having just returned from Taiwan, she’s going to eliminate diary from her diet in hopes of getting some...
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|NIGHTLINE| Vien Tells A 17yo Girl To Quit Hungry Jacks
A quick 2min rant as I destroyed a girl's misguided view of healthy eating habits and tell her to quit her job at Hungry Jacks. Background on this girl: 17yo, life long sufferer of constipation, eats oily food, avoids water and will only eat fruit given by her grandmother. She's on Movicol x4 a...
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Behind The Counter Ep10. Baby Formula Rage
Re-thinking my strategy of selling baby formula to China. Focussing more of local communities
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Behind The Counter Ep9. How NOT To Do Business with Family
Setting New Years Resolutions the Tim Ferris way. Keeping Your Cool. Working In A Family Business
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Behind The Counter Ep8: How to Read More Effectively
Happy Boxing Day everyone in this episode I talk about my reading habits that I’ve learned from successful people and what I’m doing this Boxing Day
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Behind The Counter Ep7: You Get What You Pay 💰
Lessons in running a small business: work with the professionals and know ur rights as a paying customer. Saying No.
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Behind The Counter Ep6: Time Management
I think I’ve found the best time management tool! Go back to high school days and set yourself a timetable!
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Behind The Counter Ep5: From The Horse’s Mouth: Coach JT Foxx
Today’s format is a little different: I read a chapter from the World famous business coach JT Foxx’s book: Millionaire Underdog
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Behind The Counter 365 Ep3: What Goes Around Comes Around, Universe Speaks
I believe what you give out into the universe comes around in kind.
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Behind The Counter Ep2: Give Me 10 Push-ups! Mindset is Everything
In this episode I preach to myself the virtues of getting my head in the right space. How? Through body movements that hack my mental state. Tony Robbins is famous for the line “Motion is Emotion!” It’s true.
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Behind The Counter is a journey of a young pharmacist starting his own business: the ups and downs
Never Work For Less Than $20/hr
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|NIGHTLINE| Ep13: Fixing Internal Fires
With the audio stripped from the Facebook show NIGHTLINE, I apologise for any long silences. This Ep I talk inflammation and how to fix it internal to get to the root of one lady’s rosacea, and related acne, eczema, gout etc. Hope you enjoy it. Xoxo vien
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Ep14: Hand Foot Mouth dis-ease
While scary sounding it’s quite harmless.
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Ep13: Chest Pain Won't Go Away
A young healthy lady comes in with two scripts for her chest pain. Vien digs past the diagnosis to see what else could be wrong
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Ep12: Chlamydia
Not the sexiest topic but very frequent occurring in the community
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Ep11: No Free Meal!
After buying some camping gear with my gf we decided to stop for some Jap. It was on the cheap $5 for a bento box. Oh man did I pay for it with running diarrhoea..
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Ep10: Whats your Job?
This simple question the unlock to a host of clues about my patients. From what they eat, to their sleep patterns. I can read your health better than the next ten questions I ask. What does your job tell me about you?
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Ep#9 Super Charged Brain
This podcast was recorded specially for my friend David K. He wanted to optimise his brain performance for 2018 and was seeking nutritional supplements like fish oil and ginkgo. The latter being the topic today. Summary points: 1) clinical trials show some benefit for short term memory 2) takes...
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Ep8# Hives
Vien has a new podcast! If u wanna know why I hate some doctors it’s cos of the way they mismanage simple problems like hives Listen in #anchor #podcast #allergies @smilingpharmacist
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Ep7# Moobs! Aka Man Boobs 😱
Moobs! Aka Man Boobs and How to Fix em As always I get interesting questions everyday about this amazing thing we call the human body! Today is no different and I had bill ask me about his very disconcerting issue of MOOBS aka man boobs aka gynaecomastia We talk about the XY chromosome in men vs...
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Dec 27th 2017
On the #AskVienShow we talk stomach ulcers! The reason you get it and how it’s traditionally treated vs how natural products may help. In particular we ask whether mastic gum helps. For Info Follow on: ||Facebook & Insta @pharmacistvien ||Snapchat @vienraphael
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Constipated? 😱 Help is here
How do you treat constipation? Better yet how do you treat the yucky bloating feels, or the abdominal spasms? Tune into @pharmacistvien in this latest podcast We delve into * Types of constipation * Latest research * Role of probiotics Follow on: ||Facebook & Insta @pharmacistvien ||Snapchat...
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Part 2: Facial Botox
Need facial Botox? We talk Bell’s Palsy 🛎 Elie our engineer friend wants to know WHY science hasn’t got an answer to the root cause of Bell’s Palsy. Well on the #AskVienShow we get digging at that answer Follow me on Insta and Facebook @PharmacistVien
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Need Facial Botox? Bells Palsy
Need facial Botox? We talk Bell’s Palsy 🛎 Elie our engineer friend wants to know WHY science hasn’t got an answer to the root cause of Bell’s Palsy. Well on the #AskVienShow we get digging at that answer Follow me on Insta @pharmacistVien Facebook @pharmacistVien
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Man-Boobs due to Estrogens 💉
How do Oestrogens cause saggy Man-Boobs? Oestrogens are found not just in women but also men. Even in the prostate! In excess it acts like a carcinogen causing breast cancer, prostate cancer, causing insulin and leptin levels to rage out of control. It causes diabetes and erectile dysfunction.…
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Raising awareness for #RUOKDay
This Thursday is R U OK day where we talk suicide prevention. Grab a mate and reach out with a question, start some dialogue, it might just be what they need to steer clear of suicide #ruok
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Ep.3 Say What?!
On the train and annoying dude behind you is blasting his headphones; in the elevator and hipster is blaring the volume. Seems like we can't escape the decibels but at what cost to their hearing?
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Ep.2 Chicken and Egg
The Rooster and the Golden Egg: looking after the Rooster 🐔
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Ep.1 The Pillars of Health
The Facebook Pharmacist turns 30