Dr Joe Unplugged

Mission creep is a problem in medicine. The tendency to lower thresholds where disease can be diagnosed is now compounded by reclassifying people with no problem as having pre- disease. There is a bet...

17 Jul 20247min

It comes as no surprise to learn that only 29% of clinical guidelines mention de prescribing, and under 10% provide guidance on exactly how medication dosages should be ceased or reduced. There is no ...

14 Jul 20249min

Dr Joe is joined by philanthropist, entrepreneur and author Ron Manners. They discuss life, philosophy, how to stay healthy into later years and Ron’s latest book. https://www.mannwest.com/ https:/...

10 Jul 202442min

Lowering the cut off at which a person can be diagnosed with a medical condition is good for the medical industrial complex but maybe less so for citizens. The Body mass index is already a useless mea...

8 Jul 20248min

Dr Joe is joined by Dr James Nuzzo to talk about strength training mens health, and problems in medical research. They also go down the rabbit hole of “peer review”. This may surprise or shock you. Fo...

3 Jul 202452min

We constantly breathe and do not generally focus on it. Turns out that focussed or deeper breathing has positive effects on a surprising variety of conditions as well as being good for our health in g...

30 Jun 20248min

Goals are great but arbitrary targets set by big public health can be counter productive. Whether you want to measure activity or minutes of exercise or neither- the most important thing is being acti...

26 Jun 20249min

Australia's Therapeutic Good Administration (TGA)  is following the European Medicines Agency in recognising long term adverse effects of SSRI antidepressants and requiring manufacturers to include wa...

23 Jun 202410min