How the Food Industry Influences Public Health Policy: Hi everyone! If you are a frequent listener of Causes or Cures, you’ll notice that I’ve focused a lot on the relationship between industry and health policy. Mostly drug companies, but this podcast will explore how the food industry influences public health policy. My guest is an […]
The history of psychedelic medicine…and what might happen in the future: The prospect of psychedelic medicine is (once again) all the range, particularly its usefulness for various psychiatric conditions. I became interested in psychedelic medicine, because people I knew from my Army days began turning to it to help with things like PTS, depression, […]
Deer to Human COVID Transmission? A first case may have been identified. Hi guys. on a past episode of my podcast Causes or Cures, I interviewed a researcher at Penn State University who talked about his study into COVID-19 viral spillover into white-tailed deer from humans. He discussed the evidence for it and how viral […]
Team Sharing and The Opioid Epidemic, with founder Cheryl Juaire Hey guys. I’m back to blogging and posting podcasts. I was out of the loop a bit due to a respiratory virus and work but getting back on track this week. Expect several podcasts in the next few weeks and don’t forget to sign up […]
My Long First Date with Death By: Dr. Eeks (This is based on an experience I had during medical school.) Still crusty-eyed, I sluggishly walk into the New York City hospital’s musty surgical on-call room. It’s 6 AM and still dark out. To lighten the mood, I start joking with the other medical students, identically […]
Have you ever been fat-shamed? I have. I remember the day vividly, because one always remembers the day he or she was fat-shamed. I was in junior high and in the teachers’ lounge getting my homeroom teacher’s coffee. Mr. Simon. That was his name, and Lord knows why he trusted a sixth grader to get […]
Interview & Blog by Dr. Erin Stair Hi guys. Below is a fun, casual, organic, informative and entertaining conversation I had with Christopher and Robyn Alesich. They are married to each other, polygamists and founders of SisterWives.Com, the largest polygamy dating site and the only polygamy matchmaking site on the web. They were also delightful […]
By: Erin Stair, MD, MPH When I became depressed, I was also anxious, stressed, sleep-deprived, eating terribly and poorly focused. I was everything BAD and the embodiment of the Chicken/Egg dilemma, as I had no way of knowing if poor sleep and a terrible diet were leading to my depressed and anxious state, or vice […]
I just accidentally smashed a bottle of coconut oil on the kitchen floor and thought, “I should write about this stuff!” You never know what is going to inspire a great blog. Sometimes a Tetanus infection will do that. 😉 Coconut Oil ( from Cocos Nucifera) became the craze a few years ago, mainly because everyone is […]