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Empowered! — 222 episodes

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Fibre: The forgotten nutrient that could save your brain - podcast

2

In Defense of Sunlight

3

5 reasons to think twice before taking calcium pills - podcast

4

Nutritional Dark Matter - podcast

5

Strong body, younger brain - podcast

6

Rewiring the traumatised brain - podcast

7

Psychedelics vs antidepressants - podcast

8

Get stronger, live longer - podcast

9

The healing power of light

10

The DMSO Files: Part 5 - podcast

11

The DMSO Files: Part 4 - DMSO and cancer - podcast

12

The DMSO Files: Part 3 - podcast

13

The DMSO Files: Part 2 - podcast

14

The DMSO files: Part 1 - podcast

15

The DMSO files: Introduction - podcast

16

What's wrong with the new US Dietary Guidelines? - podcast

17

Playing the methylene blues Part 2 - podcast

18

Playing the methylene blues Part 1 - podcast

19

Your brain on obesity - podcast

20

5 reasons to think twice before taking sleeping pills - podcast

21

How to keep your brain young - podcast

22

More bad news on the ketogenic diet - podcast

23

Does fruit make you fat? - podcast

24

What has happened to our doctors?

25

The biggest, baddest myth about gluten and wheat - podcast

26

The fast way to better health - podcast

27

Should you get an annual checkup? The experts say ‘no' - podcast

28

Who says you're depressed or anxious? Pfizer does - podcast

29

Twins, SIDS and vaccination

30

Does taking paracetamol during pregnancy increase the risk of autism and ADHD? - podcast

31

Drugs and gut bugs - podcast

32

Lost your mojo? Check your cholesterol level! - podcast

33

The Fibre Fix: How fibre-derived compounds prevent cancer

34

Vaccination and SIDS

35

Walking away from back pain - podcast

36

Moral courage under fire - podcast

37

Eat your way to better sleep? - podcast

38

The dark side of weight loss: Are GLP-1 agonists putting patients at risk for blindness, depression and suicidal thinking? - podcast

39

Decoding the science of continuous glucose monitoring - podcast

40

Of Flat Earth and seed oils - podcast

41

Life, the Universe and Everything

42

Gut bugs and human health: A tale of two evolutionary trajectories - podcast

43

From Kilimanjaro to the kitchen: Debunking social media nutrition advice with an African diet swap study - podcast

44

Blind spot, or blindsided by the menopause industry's ghosts? A closer look at Marty Makary's defence of HRT - podcast

45

Drug-free treatments for perimenopausal symptoms - podcast

46

Menopausal hormone therapy: Overpromising and underdelivering? - podcast

47

Marketing perimenopause, for fun and profit - podcast

48

The Inflamed Brain: Unravelling the connection between inflammation and depression - podcast

49

The colour of health - podcast

50

Under Nature's Influence - podcast

51

On the pursuit of happiness - podcast

52

Your brain on pain - podcast

53

Do antidepressants accelerate cognitive decline? - podcast

54

PSA screening leads to unnecessary treatment... and suffering - podcast

55

On the futility of breast cancer screening - podcast

56

Mending the broken bone business

57

Lean body, healthy brain - podcast

58

Fat body, starved brain - podcast

59

Are you fit enough to save your brain? - podcast

60

Cholesterol and depression: What’s bad for the heart is bad for the brain - podcast

61

What is high cholesterol, what is low, and why should you care? - podcast

62

Is low cholesterol bad for you? - podcast

63

Lectin, schmectin - podcast

64

Lessons in critical thinking: Reader feedback from last week's post - podcast

65

Academia and the new dark age: Part 11 - Nature's Trump meltdown - podcast

66

Antinutrient villain or bone health superhero? The secret life of phytate - podcast

67

Unpacking the ‘ketogenic diet cures cancer’ myth: Part 2 - podcast

68

Unpacking the 'ketogenic diet cures cancer' myth: Part 1 - podcast

69

The astonishing rise of cancer in Generation X - podcast

70

Diet, biological aging, and evolutionary trade-offs: The Twins Nutrition Study - podcast

71

Academia and the new dark age: Part 10 - Can a chatbot cure "conspiracy theorists" of wrongthink? - podcast

72

The vitamin D-ilemma Part 6: Optimising vitamin D activation - podcast

73

The vitamin D-ilemma Part 5: Optimising your vitamin D status - podcast

74

The vitamin D-ilemma Part 4: Reverse causation - cart before horse? - podcast

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The vitamin D-ilemma Part 3: What is a ‘normal’ vitamin D level? - podcast

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The vitamin D-ilemma Part 2: The many faces of vitamin D... or, what doesn't vitamin D do? - podcast

77

The vitamin D-ilemma Part 1: Origin story - podcast

78

Dr Dog will see you now - podcast

79

Stop talking about your 'mental health' - podcast

80

The depression misconception - podcast

81

Cancer, COVID jabs and the upside of having unvaccinated children!

82

Drugging ourselves to health?

83

Ozempic linked with blinding eye condition - podcast

84

The 'write' way to learn and remember - podcast

85

The 3 things you must do if you want to live to 100 - podcast

86

The sweet truth about bitter foods - podcast

87

New hope for people with Alzheimer's disease

88

The placebo paradox - podcast

89

Academia and the new dark age: Part 9 – The doctor will propagandise you about climate change now - podcast

90

New episode of Stand Up Sits Down drops tomorrow...

91

Academia and the new dark age: Part 8 - Why the "misinformation experts" won't, and can't, stop spreading misinformation - podcast

92

Academia and the new dark age: Part 7 – The doctor will propagandise you about vaccines now - podcast

93

Ending the 'trans' insanity... with AI? - podcast

94

Subclinical hypothyroidism - podcast

95

Goldilocks and the iodine bears - podcast

96

The case of the disappearing alcohol-mortality J-shaped curve - podcast

97

Which foods boost GLP-1? - podcast

98

GLP-1 agonist weight loss drugs: Leaning the ladder against the wrong wall - podcast

99

The high price of weight loss: GLP-1 agonist side-effects - podcast

100

GLP-1 agonists: Weight loss wonder-drugs, or disaster in the making? - podcast

101

Ultra-processed foods: Cheap, tasty, convenient, and deadly - podcast

102

Diving down the low-carb rabbit hole - podcast

103

Nine steps to optimal blood pressure - podcast

104

5 reasons to think twice before taking blood pressure drugs - podcast

105

5 reasons to think twice before taking an antidepressant - podcast

106

Interview with Dr Jessica Funk, awake dentist - Part 3

107

The perils of proton pump inhibitors - Part 3 - podcast

108

Interview with Jessica Funk, awake dentist - Part 2

109

The perils of proton pump inhibitors - Part 2 - podcast

110

Interview with Jessica Funk, awake dentist - Part 1

111

The perils of proton pump inhibitors - Part 1 - podcast

112

Is 'mental illness' in the mind, or the body... or both?

113

Worried sick - podcast

114

Beat the holiday season blues - with broccoli and berries! - podcast

115

A truly low salt diet lowers blood pressure as effectively as medicine - in one week - podcast

116

Kevin Loughrey: What's up with climate change - Part 3

117

Kevin Loughrey: What's up with climate change - Part 2

118

Antidepressant discontinuation syndrome: An underrecognised and rapidly escalating problem - podcast

119

Muscle up to beat hot flushes

120

Debunking nutrition myths: A how-to guide

121

Major study finds that cancer screening programs don't extend life - podcast

122

The inflammation discombobulation

123

Osteoarthritis: Curse of old age or plague of modernity? - podcast

124

The Universe Within - podcast

125

Of Bonds, brawn, brains and blubber - podcast

126

Stop calling them 'side effects' - podcast

127

More proof that the oral contraceptive pill causes depression - podcast

128

New paper demolishes the claim that 'COVID vaccines saved lives' - podcast

129

Round 2 with Kathleen Kauth - podcast

130

A quick update on skin cancer screening and melanoma incidence - podcast

131

Academia and the new dark age: Part 6 – Head Girls vs physician thought criminals - podcast

132

How to spot bullsh*t arguments – Part 2 - podcast

133

How to spot bullsh*t arguments - Part 1 - podcast

134

How to sharpen your bullsh*t detection skills - podcast

135

The surprising - and disturbing - effects of paracetamol on your mind - podcast

136

My (non)submission to the Ministry of Truth - podcast

137

Academia and the new dark age: Part 5 - Revenge of the Nerds - podcast

138

Protecting children against the trans agenda - podcast

139

Preventing dementia: Part 2

140

Preventing dementia: Part 1 - podcast

141

Sharpening Hanlon's Razor against granny-killers - podcast

142

Is 'vaccine science' 5th generation war propaganda?

143

Alzheimer's: The gut-brain connection

144

Academia and the new dark age: Part 4 - podcast

145

HRT and depression: More bad news about the impact of messing with women's hormones - podcast

146

New study finds all forms of hormonal contraception raise breast cancer risk - podcast

147

Never trust, always verify... even your allies - podcast

148

Academia and the new dark age: Part 3 - podcast

149

Academia and the new dark age: Part 2

150

Academia and the new dark age: Part 1 - podcast

151

Informed consent for vaccination died decades ago: A reader's story - podcast

152

Wholesome plant-based foods - NOT vegan junk food - help you live a longer, healthier life podcast

153

Psychedelics: panacea or psychiatry's new shiny object? - podcast

154

Long COVID: Truth, lies and propaganda - Part 2 - podcast

155

Long COVID: Truth, lies and propaganda - Part 1 - podcast

156

The WHO thinks there’s a ‘vaccine crisis’ (and that’s good news) - podcast

157

Déjà vu all over again: The whooping cough vaccine fiasco - podcast

158

Do childhood vaccines save lives, or cost them? - podcast

159

I informed you thusly: Part 3 - podcast

160

I informed you thusly: Part 2 - podcast

161

I informed you thusly: Part 1 - podcast

162

The COVID myocarditis hustle - podcast

163

There must be fifty ways to leave your little people (dead, disabled or injured, that is) - podcast

164

The Great Australian Die-Off - podcast

165

Skin cancer checks: life-saver or scam? - podcast

166

Why New Year’s resolutions fail… and what to do instead, for better health and greater happiness - podcast

167

Reprogramming your stone age brain for health and happiness - podcast

168

Sugar: Not so sweet for your mood - podcast

169

When ‘routine blood tests’ do more harm than good

170

Major trial finds screening colonoscopy fails to 'save lives' - podcast

171

Queensland is still denying organ transplants to people who refuse a COVID-19 injection - podcast

172

Navigating the maze of Australia’s healthcare worker vaccine mandates - podcast

173

Ketogenic diets: Part 6 - The gut microbiome - podcast

174

Ketogenic diets: Part 5 - Cancer - podcast

175

Ketogenic diets: Part 4 - Diabetes - podcast

176

Ketogenic diets: Part 3 - Weight loss - podcast

177

Ketogenic diets: Part 2 - Is ketosis 'natural'? - podcast

178

Ketogenic diets: Part 1 - The Basics - podcast

179

Osteoporosis drugs: Not all they're cracked up to be - podcast

180

The great osteoporosis scam - podcast

181

99.5% of doctors can’t WHAT? - podcast

182

Funding better COVID propaganda: The Mercury Project – Part 3 - podcast

183

Funding better COVID propaganda: The Mercury Project - Part 2 - podcast

184

Funding better COVID propaganda: The Mercury Project - Part 1 - podcast

185

New study confirms the bleeding obvious: most COVID-jabbed people don’t read science - podcast

186

Backlash: How the vaccine pushers turned true believers into vaccine sceptics - Part 3 - podcast

187

Backlash: How the vaccine pushers turned true believers into vaccine sceptics – Part 2 - podcast

188

Backlash: How the vaccine pushers turned true believers into vaccine sceptics - Part 1 - podcast

189

Has psychiatry finally reached its Apocalypse Now moment? - podcast

190

The ADHD scam - podcast

191

Australia’s drug regulator is leading the race to the bottom - podcast

192

COVID-19 injections are screwing with immunity: Part 4 - podcast

193

COVID-19 injections are screwing with immunity: Part 3 - podcast

194

COVID-19 injections are screwing with immunity: Part 2 - podcast

195

COVID-19 injections are screwing with immunity: Part 1 - podcast

196

The good news about depression – Part 4 - podcast

197

The good news about depression – Part 3 - podcast

198

The good news about depression – Part 2 - podcast

199

The good news about depression – Part 1

200

The latest depressing news on antidepressant drugs - podcast

201

Beating measles with toilets: The Swachh Bharat Mission - podcast

202

The great molnupiravir swindle - podcast

203

Are doctors the new antivaxxers? - podcast

204

Why you need to stop saying “I’m not an antivaxxer, but…” - podcast

205

The strange tale of hydroxychloroquine - podcast

206

Novavax: hope or hype? - podcast

207

The curious case of fat activism and COVID

208

Treating COVID injection injuries Part 2 - podcast

209

Your doctor is not your doctor - podcast

210

Treating COVID injection injuries - podcast

211

Let's talk about sin, baby - podcast

212

Welcome to the Church of Scientism - podcast

213

The Gold Coast random COVID testing debacle - podcast

214

Reader responses to "Is Hanlon's Razor sharp enough for COVID-19?" - podcast

215

Is Hanlon's Razor sharp enough for COVID-19? - podcast

216

If the COVID-19 injections work, why are more people dying? Part 2 - podcast

217

If the COVID-19 injections work, why are more people dying? Part 1 - podcast

218

Lies, damned lies, and ATAGI statements - podcast

219

Why COVID-19 "vaccines" will never end the pandemic - podcast

220

An open letter to Australian politicians on COVID-19 vaccine mandates for healthcare workers

221

Omicron or omnicon?

222

The COVID-19 vaccine treadmill - podcast