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Empowered! — 232 episodes

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1

One Meal a Day or Breakfast Like a King? - podcast

2

Can the Pill Make You Overeat? - podcast

3

Smells Like Neurodegeneration: GLP-1 Drugs Linked to Taste and Smell Disturbance - podcast

4

New Study Reveals Alarming Drop in Physical Activity Among GLP-1 Users - podcast

5

I Informed You Thusly: Part 4 - podcast

6

The Iron Files: Part 5 - podcast

7

The Iron Files: Part 4 - podcast

8

The Iron Files Part 3 - podcast

9

The Iron Files Part 2 - podcast

10

The Iron Files - Part 1 - podcast

11

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

12

In Defense of Sunlight

13

5 reasons to think twice before taking calcium pills - podcast

14

Nutritional Dark Matter - podcast

15

Strong body, younger brain - podcast

16

Rewiring the traumatised brain - podcast

17

Psychedelics vs antidepressants - podcast

18

Get stronger, live longer - podcast

19

The healing power of light

20

The DMSO Files: Part 5 - podcast

21

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

22

The DMSO Files: Part 3 - podcast

23

The DMSO Files: Part 2 - podcast

24

The DMSO files: Part 1 - podcast

25

The DMSO files: Introduction - podcast

26

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

27

Playing the methylene blues Part 2 - podcast

28

Playing the methylene blues Part 1 - podcast

29

Your brain on obesity - podcast

30

5 reasons to think twice before taking sleeping pills - podcast

31

How to keep your brain young - podcast

32

More bad news on the ketogenic diet - podcast

33

Does fruit make you fat? - podcast

34

What has happened to our doctors?

35

The biggest, baddest myth about gluten and wheat - podcast

36

The fast way to better health - podcast

37

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

38

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

39

Twins, SIDS and vaccination

40

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

41

Drugs and gut bugs - podcast

42

Lost your mojo? Check your cholesterol level! - podcast

43

The Fibre Fix: How fibre-derived compounds prevent cancer

44

Vaccination and SIDS

45

Walking away from back pain - podcast

46

Moral courage under fire - podcast

47

Eat your way to better sleep? - podcast

48

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

49

Decoding the science of continuous glucose monitoring - podcast

50

Of Flat Earth and seed oils - podcast

51

Life, the Universe and Everything

52

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

53

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

54

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

55

Drug-free treatments for perimenopausal symptoms - podcast

56

Menopausal hormone therapy: Overpromising and underdelivering? - podcast

57

Marketing perimenopause, for fun and profit - podcast

58

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

59

The colour of health - podcast

60

Under Nature's Influence - podcast

61

On the pursuit of happiness - podcast

62

Your brain on pain - podcast

63

Do antidepressants accelerate cognitive decline? - podcast

64

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

65

On the futility of breast cancer screening - podcast

66

Mending the broken bone business

67

Lean body, healthy brain - podcast

68

Fat body, starved brain - podcast

69

Are you fit enough to save your brain? - podcast

70

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

71

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

72

Is low cholesterol bad for you? - podcast

73

Lectin, schmectin - podcast

74

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

75

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

76

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

77

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

78

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

79

The astonishing rise of cancer in Generation X - podcast

80

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

81

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

82

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

83

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

84

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

85

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

86

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

87

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

88

Dr Dog will see you now - podcast

89

Stop talking about your 'mental health' - podcast

90

The depression misconception - podcast

91

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

92

Drugging ourselves to health?

93

Ozempic linked with blinding eye condition - podcast

94

The 'write' way to learn and remember - podcast

95

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

96

The sweet truth about bitter foods - podcast

97

New hope for people with Alzheimer's disease

98

The placebo paradox - podcast

99

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

100

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

101

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

102

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

103

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

104

Subclinical hypothyroidism - podcast

105

Goldilocks and the iodine bears - podcast

106

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

107

Which foods boost GLP-1? - podcast

108

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

109

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

110

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

111

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

112

Diving down the low-carb rabbit hole - podcast

113

Nine steps to optimal blood pressure - podcast

114

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

115

5 reasons to think twice before taking an antidepressant - podcast

116

Interview with Dr Jessica Funk, awake dentist - Part 3

117

The perils of proton pump inhibitors - Part 3 - podcast

118

Interview with Jessica Funk, awake dentist - Part 2

119

The perils of proton pump inhibitors - Part 2 - podcast

120

Interview with Jessica Funk, awake dentist - Part 1

121

The perils of proton pump inhibitors - Part 1 - podcast

122

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

123

Worried sick - podcast

124

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

125

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

126

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

127

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

128

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

129

Muscle up to beat hot flushes

130

Debunking nutrition myths: A how-to guide

131

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

132

The inflammation discombobulation

133

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

134

The Universe Within - podcast

135

Of Bonds, brawn, brains and blubber - podcast

136

Stop calling them 'side effects' - podcast

137

More proof that the oral contraceptive pill causes depression - podcast

138

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

139

Round 2 with Kathleen Kauth - podcast

140

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

141

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

142

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

143

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

144

How to sharpen your bullsh*t detection skills - podcast

145

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

146

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

147

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

148

Protecting children against the trans agenda - podcast

149

Preventing dementia: Part 2

150

Preventing dementia: Part 1 - podcast

151

Sharpening Hanlon's Razor against granny-killers - podcast

152

Is 'vaccine science' 5th generation war propaganda?

153

Alzheimer's: The gut-brain connection

154

Academia and the new dark age: Part 4 - podcast

155

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

156

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

157

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

158

Academia and the new dark age: Part 3 - podcast

159

Academia and the new dark age: Part 2

160

Academia and the new dark age: Part 1 - podcast

161

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

162

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

163

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

164

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

165

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

166

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

167

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

168

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

169

I informed you thusly: Part 3 - podcast

170

I informed you thusly: Part 2 - podcast

171

I informed you thusly: Part 1 - podcast

172

The COVID myocarditis hustle - podcast

173

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

174

The Great Australian Die-Off - podcast

175

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

176

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

177

Reprogramming your stone age brain for health and happiness - podcast

178

Sugar: Not so sweet for your mood - podcast

179

When ‘routine blood tests’ do more harm than good

180

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

181

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

182

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

183

Ketogenic diets: Part 6 - The gut microbiome - podcast

184

Ketogenic diets: Part 5 - Cancer - podcast

185

Ketogenic diets: Part 4 - Diabetes - podcast

186

Ketogenic diets: Part 3 - Weight loss - podcast

187

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

188

Ketogenic diets: Part 1 - The Basics - podcast

189

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

190

The great osteoporosis scam - podcast

191

99.5% of doctors can’t WHAT? - podcast

192

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

193

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

194

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

195

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

196

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

197

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

198

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

199

Has psychiatry finally reached its Apocalypse Now moment? - podcast

200

The ADHD scam - podcast

201

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

202

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

203

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

204

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

205

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

206

The good news about depression – Part 4 - podcast

207

The good news about depression – Part 3 - podcast

208

The good news about depression – Part 2 - podcast

209

The good news about depression – Part 1

210

The latest depressing news on antidepressant drugs - podcast

211

Beating measles with toilets: The Swachh Bharat Mission - podcast

212

The great molnupiravir swindle - podcast

213

Are doctors the new antivaxxers? - podcast

214

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

215

The strange tale of hydroxychloroquine - podcast

216

Novavax: hope or hype? - podcast

217

The curious case of fat activism and COVID

218

Treating COVID injection injuries Part 2 - podcast

219

Your doctor is not your doctor - podcast

220

Treating COVID injection injuries - podcast

221

Let's talk about sin, baby - podcast

222

Welcome to the Church of Scientism - podcast

223

The Gold Coast random COVID testing debacle - podcast

224

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

225

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

226

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

227

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

228

Lies, damned lies, and ATAGI statements - podcast

229

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

230

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

231

Omicron or omnicon?

232

The COVID-19 vaccine treadmill - podcast