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Beyond the Prescription, 100 episodes.

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Today is the day!

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The Box on the Front Stoop 📚

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What I Wish Every Woman Knew About Breast Cancer

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The Silent Killer: What Everyone Should Know About Blood Pressure

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Can People Actually Change?

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Mattering: An Overlooked Determinant of Human Health & What To Do About It

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Health & Human Connection: A Conversation with Former U.S. Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy

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What the New Cholesterol Guidelines Mean for You: A Conversation with NYU Cardiologist Dr. Greg Katz

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Cutting Through Wellness Noise: 6 Rules for a Long & Healthy Life with Dr. Zeke Emanuel

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Rethinking Hormone Therapy, Hot Flashes & Sexual Health with Dr. Lauren Streicher, MD

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The Real Reason You're Googling Facelifts

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Can AI Fix Healthcare? A Conversation Dr. Bob Wachter, Chair of Medicine at UCSF & Author of A Giant Leap

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Rethinking GLP-1s & Metabolic Health with Ashley Koff, RD

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How to Protect your Health When the World Feels Like It's Falling Apart

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The New USDA Food Pyramid: Wacky or Well Done?

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Making Sense of Hormone Therapy & the FDA’s Removal of the Black Box Warning ⛔️

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Testosterone for Women: What You Need to Know with NYT Journalist Susan Dominus

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How to Manage Anxiety When It Feels Like the World is Falling Apart with Dr. Jessi Gold

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Cutting Through the Noise Around COVID Vaccines with Shira Doron MD

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How to Get What You Need from Our Broken Healthcare System

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Top Tips for Brain Health: A Conversation with cognitive neuroscientist Dr. Julie Fratantoni

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Is a "Good Death" Possible?

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[B]oldly exploring old age, from the blessings to the b******t, with writer Debbie Weil

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Fired Up 🔥 A Conversation with Shannon Watts about Turning your Spark Into Flame at Any Age

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A Conversation with Dr. Mary Claire Haver about menopause, perimenopause & HRT 🔥

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Sexual health is health: a conversation with urologist & sex med expert Dr. Rachel Rubin about menopause, HRT, & genitourinary health

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Gut Health: Practical Solutions for Common GI Issues

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Navigating COVID in 2025: A Conversation with Adam Cifu, MD

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How to manage stress & improve your mental health: a conversation with best selling author and physician Dr. Aditi Nerurkar

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Brain Care is Self Care: Practical Strategies for Cognitive Health

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My Live Video about Sleep: Why it Matters & How to Get It

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Live Q&A about cardiovascular disease—cholesterol, blood pressure, & how to protect your heart

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A live video: Managing Anxiety During Times of Uncertainty

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A conversation with Dr. Sharon Malone on menopause, hormone therapy, & how to be your best self-advocate in the doctor's office

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Pre-diabetes & metabolic health!

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Friday Q&A: topics include healthy weight loss, “normal” vs. unhealthy anxiety, when to seek a 2nd opinion, sleep tips & more!

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Live Q&A discussing pre-diabetes, thyroid disease, gastro-esophageal reflux, treatments of arthritis & more

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Live Q&A discussing measles, cancer prevention, Lipoprotein (a), preventing heart disease & more

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How To Make Sense of Medical News

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Live Q&A now! Topics include cholesterol, statins, full body, MRIs, how to talk to a family member with mental health problems

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Free live Q&A starting now! Answering your questions about weight loss medications, aging, cognitive health, cancer screenings, & managing blood pressure.💊

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Looking for calm amid chaos? Me too 😩😭 join me now for a conversation with Shannon Watts

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Join my live Q&A. It’s free! All are welcome

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Our first live Q&A! Greetings from my bedroom! 😆

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Post-Election Distress: How to Move Forward with Purpose & Hope (Regardless of your Politics)

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When the Kids Leave Home: A Conversation with NPR's Mary Louise Kelly

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How Worried Should You Be About COVID & Winter Viruses? 🦠

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Is There a Link Between BMI & Health?

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Finding Hope & Light within Darkness

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Dr. Devorah Heitner on Growing Up in Public

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Suneel Gupta on Finding Your Dharma

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Monica Gandhi on What's Next with COVID

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The Healing Power of Psychedelic Medicine

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Let’s Talk About Sex

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Should You Take Hormone Replacement Therapy?

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Jessica Lahey on Talking to Teens about Alcohol

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Nedra Tawwab on The Freedom (and Health) of Self-Expression

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Dr. Rachel Zoffness on Re-Conceptualizing Pain & Pain Management

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Health is a Process, Not an Outcome

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Jessica Grose on the State of American Motherhood

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Caitlin Murray on the Healing Power of Humor

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Dr. Samantha Boardman on Turning Stress into Strength

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Trust Your Gut

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Melissa Urban on Overcoming Addiction

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How to Turn Injury into Opportunity

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Dr. Lisa Damour on The Emotional Lives of Teenagers

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Dr. Suzanne Koven on Why Storytelling Matters in Medicine

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A COVID Roundup: Where to Go Now?

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Chrysta Bilton on Fertility, Femininity & Uncovering Family Secrets

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What Are You Feeding Your Brain?

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Natalia Petrzela on America's Fitness Obsession

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Does Invisible Suffering "Count" in the Doctor's Office?

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Dr. Emily Silverman on Caring for Caregivers

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Let’s Re-Conceptualize Health: Introducing the Four “I”s

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Tashira Halyard on Fashion, Fearlessness, & Finding Her Voice

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A Preview of Beyond the Prescription: Season 2!

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Daniela Pierre-Bravo on Why Belonging Matters for Our Health

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Tiler Peck on How A Career-Threatening Physical Injury Helped Unlock Her Body & Mind

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Dr. Glynis Albright on Rejecting Diet Culture & Using Food as Medicine

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Anya Kamenetz on “The Stolen Year” for Kids during COVID

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Laurie Cameron on Mastering Mindfulness

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Mike Bassett on Redemption, Self-Compassion, and Digging out of “The Ditch”

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Elise Loehnen on Reconceptualizing Wellness and Healing

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Jeffrey Blount on Elevating Underrepresented Children to Improve Health & Well-being

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Soledad O’Brien on Lifting Marginalized Communities Through Storytelling

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The U.S. Surgeon General on the Epidemic of Loneliness

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Jon Favreau on Screen Addiction and the Importance of Social Connection for Mental Health

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Shannon Watts on the Personal and Societal Toll of Gun Violence in America

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Caralena Peterson On Effortless Perfection

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Tori Nelson on Healing Through Boxing

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Gloria Riviera on Surviving Brain Cancer

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Meghan Daum On the Unspeakable Elements of Life, Death, and Health

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Dr. Sunita Puri on Dying with Dignity

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Phyllis Fagell, LCPC, On Post-Pandemic Parenting and the Triumphs and Struggles of Middle School

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Dr. Susan Landers On Burnout, the “Good Enough” Mother, and the Selflessness of Self-Care

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Larissa May on Digital Hygiene & the Adolescent Brain

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Hamilton Leithauser on Performance Anxiety, Grief, and the Rockstar life

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Keri Blakinger on Reclaiming her Humanity after Addiction and Incarceration

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Dr. Kwadwo Kyeremanteng on Doctoring, the Pandemic, and “Changing the Boogey”

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Katherine Kendall on Sexual Trauma, Harvey Weinstein, and Healing through #MeToo