The Honest Medicine Podcast

Jim Abrahams' Mission to save lives with the Ketogenic diet. 

Julia Schopick's Honest Medicine Podcast will introduce you to innovative, cutting-edge treatments for life-threatening diseases—treatments that have helped thousands of people throughout the world, when treatments their doctors prescribed for them have failed. Her guests will include physicians who have pioneered these treatments, as well as patients who have found similar ones through their own research. Julia will also interview thought leaders who have blown the whistle on various branches of a medical system that keep patients from getting the care they deserve. This includes whistleblowers from the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. Please join Julia on this journey. She looks forward to being with you. 

Dr. Holly Lucille interviewed Julia several times. In this interview, they talk about ways patients can educate their doctors about treatments their doctors don't know about—treatments like those Julia writes about in her two books.

Ric Bratton interviewed Julia several times. This episode was inspired by Senator John McCain's diagnosis with a glioblastoma, the deadliest of all brain tumors. Julia's experience with her husband taught her that those brain tumor patients who used outside-the-box treatments, in addition to the standard of care, fare much better than those who used the standard of care alone. Listen to this lively conversation.

Julia Schopick talks with Naturopathic Physician, Dr. James Belanger, co-founder of the Lexington Natural Health Center in Lexington, MA about his innovative work with cancer patients. Dr. Belanger performs comprehensive blood tests, which give him vital information about the state of his patients' immune systems and cancer growth factors. Based on the results of these tests, he treats them with natural medicines, with impressive results.

In this informative interview, Julia Schopick talks with nutritionist and author, Dr. Elizabeth Lipski, about how eating unhealthy foods has caused so many of our society's health problems, and how we can turn this around with simple, sensible food choices.

Julia and Frankie again talk about Julia's book, Honest Medicine. Among the topics discussed: how her husband's brain tumor led her to write her book. Also discussed: her background as the daughter of a doctor who didn't like the way medicine was going back in the so-called "good old days" when he practiced medicine. 

Julia and Frankie talk about her book, Honest Medicine: what caused her to become a patient advocate and write this book, as well as about the treatments she writes about. 

Julia Schopick appeared on the Frankie Boyer Health show. Julia's just-published book, HONEST MEDICINE was the topic of conversation.

Burt Berkson, MD, PhD is a medical visionary. In this interview, Dr. Berkson tells Julia Schopick about his successful use for over forty-five years of Intravenous Alpha Lipoic Acid to regenerate livers and other organs. This is also the story of the unfortunate link between money-driven medicine and medical research.

Dr. Ronald Hoffman is one of this country's foremost integrative physicians. He uses the best treatments from both conventional and alternative medicine to provide truly integrative (or "intelligent") care. Medical Director of the Hoffman Center in New York, he is also the author of several books on integrative healthcare. Dr. Hoffman speaks with Julia Schopick on several topics including how so-called scientific "studies" present holistic therapies in the worst possible light –- and how this is sometimes done on purpose.

Everyone who has seen Michael Moore's documentary SiCKO will remember insurance company "hitman," Lee Einer, the person whose job it was to keep the insurance company from paying any large bill -- no matter what he had to do, by finding ANY loophole, so that the insurance company could cancel the policy or jack the rates so high that the average person wouldn't be able to pay them. Lee talks with Julia Schopick about his experience working in the healthcare industry from 1984 to 2004. The time he spent there still stays with him.