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Empowered! — 239 episodes

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Prostate cancer: Duplicity, deception and betrayal - podcast

2

Eating for two... or 200 trillion? - podcast

3

Of Bugs and Brains - podcast

4

Beyond the Scale: Why your 'weight loss why' matters - podcast

5

Protein, schmotein - podcast

6

Debunking the Timing Hypothesis - podcast

7

Was Lamarck right about evolution?

8

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

9

Can the Pill Make You Overeat? - podcast

10

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

11

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

12

I Informed You Thusly: Part 4 - podcast

13

The Iron Files: Part 5 - podcast

14

The Iron Files: Part 4 - podcast

15

The Iron Files Part 3 - podcast

16

The Iron Files Part 2 - podcast

17

The Iron Files - Part 1 - podcast

18

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

19

In Defense of Sunlight

20

5 reasons to think twice before taking calcium pills - podcast

21

Nutritional Dark Matter - podcast

22

Strong body, younger brain - podcast

23

Rewiring the traumatised brain - podcast

24

Psychedelics vs antidepressants - podcast

25

Get stronger, live longer - podcast

26

The healing power of light

27

The DMSO Files: Part 5 - podcast

28

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

29

The DMSO Files: Part 3 - podcast

30

The DMSO Files: Part 2 - podcast

31

The DMSO files: Part 1 - podcast

32

The DMSO files: Introduction - podcast

33

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

34

Playing the methylene blues Part 2 - podcast

35

Playing the methylene blues Part 1 - podcast

36

Your brain on obesity - podcast

37

5 reasons to think twice before taking sleeping pills - podcast

38

How to keep your brain young - podcast

39

More bad news on the ketogenic diet - podcast

40

Does fruit make you fat? - podcast

41

What has happened to our doctors?

42

The biggest, baddest myth about gluten and wheat - podcast

43

The fast way to better health - podcast

44

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

45

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

46

Twins, SIDS and vaccination

47

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

48

Drugs and gut bugs - podcast

49

Lost your mojo? Check your cholesterol level! - podcast

50

The Fibre Fix: How fibre-derived compounds prevent cancer

51

Vaccination and SIDS

52

Walking away from back pain - podcast

53

Moral courage under fire - podcast

54

Eat your way to better sleep? - podcast

55

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

56

Decoding the science of continuous glucose monitoring - podcast

57

Of Flat Earth and seed oils - podcast

58

Life, the Universe and Everything

59

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

60

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

61

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

62

Drug-free treatments for perimenopausal symptoms - podcast

63

Menopausal hormone therapy: Overpromising and underdelivering? - podcast

64

Marketing perimenopause, for fun and profit - podcast

65

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

66

The colour of health - podcast

67

Under Nature's Influence - podcast

68

On the pursuit of happiness - podcast

69

Your brain on pain - podcast

70

Do antidepressants accelerate cognitive decline? - podcast

71

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

72

On the futility of breast cancer screening - podcast

73

Mending the broken bone business

74

Lean body, healthy brain - podcast

75

Fat body, starved brain - podcast

76

Are you fit enough to save your brain? - podcast

77

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

78

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

79

Is low cholesterol bad for you? - podcast

80

Lectin, schmectin - podcast

81

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

82

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

83

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

84

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

85

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

86

The astonishing rise of cancer in Generation X - podcast

87

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

88

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

89

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

90

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

91

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

92

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

93

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

94

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

95

Dr Dog will see you now - podcast

96

Stop talking about your 'mental health' - podcast

97

The depression misconception - podcast

98

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

99

Drugging ourselves to health?

100

Ozempic linked with blinding eye condition - podcast

101

The 'write' way to learn and remember - podcast

102

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

103

The sweet truth about bitter foods - podcast

104

New hope for people with Alzheimer's disease

105

The placebo paradox - podcast

106

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

107

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

108

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

109

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

110

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

111

Subclinical hypothyroidism - podcast

112

Goldilocks and the iodine bears - podcast

113

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

114

Which foods boost GLP-1? - podcast

115

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

116

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

117

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

118

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

119

Diving down the low-carb rabbit hole - podcast

120

Nine steps to optimal blood pressure - podcast

121

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

122

5 reasons to think twice before taking an antidepressant - podcast

123

Interview with Dr Jessica Funk, awake dentist - Part 3

124

The perils of proton pump inhibitors - Part 3 - podcast

125

Interview with Jessica Funk, awake dentist - Part 2

126

The perils of proton pump inhibitors - Part 2 - podcast

127

Interview with Jessica Funk, awake dentist - Part 1

128

The perils of proton pump inhibitors - Part 1 - podcast

129

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

130

Worried sick - podcast

131

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

132

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

133

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

134

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

135

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

136

Muscle up to beat hot flushes

137

Debunking nutrition myths: A how-to guide

138

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

139

The inflammation discombobulation

140

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

141

The Universe Within - podcast

142

Of Bonds, brawn, brains and blubber - podcast

143

Stop calling them 'side effects' - podcast

144

More proof that the oral contraceptive pill causes depression - podcast

145

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

146

Round 2 with Kathleen Kauth - podcast

147

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

148

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

149

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

150

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

151

How to sharpen your bullsh*t detection skills - podcast

152

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

153

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

154

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

155

Protecting children against the trans agenda - podcast

156

Preventing dementia: Part 2

157

Preventing dementia: Part 1 - podcast

158

Sharpening Hanlon's Razor against granny-killers - podcast

159

Is 'vaccine science' 5th generation war propaganda?

160

Alzheimer's: The gut-brain connection

161

Academia and the new dark age: Part 4 - podcast

162

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

163

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

164

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

165

Academia and the new dark age: Part 3 - podcast

166

Academia and the new dark age: Part 2

167

Academia and the new dark age: Part 1 - podcast

168

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

169

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

170

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

171

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

172

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

173

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

174

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

175

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

176

I informed you thusly: Part 3 - podcast

177

I informed you thusly: Part 2 - podcast

178

I informed you thusly: Part 1 - podcast

179

The COVID myocarditis hustle - podcast

180

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

181

The Great Australian Die-Off - podcast

182

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

183

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

184

Reprogramming your stone age brain for health and happiness - podcast

185

Sugar: Not so sweet for your mood - podcast

186

When ‘routine blood tests’ do more harm than good

187

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

188

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

189

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

190

Ketogenic diets: Part 6 - The gut microbiome - podcast

191

Ketogenic diets: Part 5 - Cancer - podcast

192

Ketogenic diets: Part 4 - Diabetes - podcast

193

Ketogenic diets: Part 3 - Weight loss - podcast

194

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

195

Ketogenic diets: Part 1 - The Basics - podcast

196

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

197

The great osteoporosis scam - podcast

198

99.5% of doctors can’t WHAT? - podcast

199

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

200

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

201

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

202

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

203

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

204

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

205

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

206

Has psychiatry finally reached its Apocalypse Now moment? - podcast

207

The ADHD scam - podcast

208

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

209

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

210

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

211

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

212

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

213

The good news about depression – Part 4 - podcast

214

The good news about depression – Part 3 - podcast

215

The good news about depression – Part 2 - podcast

216

The good news about depression – Part 1

217

The latest depressing news on antidepressant drugs - podcast

218

Beating measles with toilets: The Swachh Bharat Mission - podcast

219

The great molnupiravir swindle - podcast

220

Are doctors the new antivaxxers? - podcast

221

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

222

The strange tale of hydroxychloroquine - podcast

223

Novavax: hope or hype? - podcast

224

The curious case of fat activism and COVID

225

Treating COVID injection injuries Part 2 - podcast

226

Your doctor is not your doctor - podcast

227

Treating COVID injection injuries - podcast

228

Let's talk about sin, baby - podcast

229

Welcome to the Church of Scientism - podcast

230

The Gold Coast random COVID testing debacle - podcast

231

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

232

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

233

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

234

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

235

Lies, damned lies, and ATAGI statements - podcast

236

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

237

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

238

Omicron or omnicon?

239

The COVID-19 vaccine treadmill - podcast