The boys are back in town 🔥. We talk about the future of social media, Elon Musk’s Twitter, misinformation policing failures, metabolic health, being your authentic self and more.
Here’s VP’s Sensible Medicine article we referenced. Subscribe to The VPZD Show on your favorite podcast app. Check out all my previous episodes with Dr. Prasad and Vinay’s Plenary Session podcast.
Topics & Timecodes
00:00 Verbal & non-verbal communication, listening & presence
02:43 The future of social media, Zuckerberg, Elon’s authenticity, Twitter & the blue checkmark disaster
10:49 Z’s alleged 30-millionaire status, calculating net worth, the importance of supporting content & creators you care about
14:54 Sensible Medicine & VP’s Misinformation Police article, suppression of ideas vs. presenting a better counter-argument, the far left & tribal identity
27:08 Terrible midterm election predictions, Dr. Oz’s inauthenticity & subsequent loss, pseudo-science “influencers”
33:26 America’s Frontline Doctors & Simone Gold’s alleged implosion
35:02 Masking kids & NEJM’s paper, observational vs randomized control trials, bad science & its overlap with politics, myocarditis, MedScape & the attack on Mandrola
46:30 Insulin resistance, the pros & cons of glucose monitoring as “health entertainment”, metabolic health, cold plunge
1:07:53 Bob Califf tweets & long Covid claims, Ashish Jha changes his tune
1:13:36 Authenticity, being seen for who you authentically are, ZDadd tech support, post-meditation retreat realizations
1:25:23 Predictions on the approaching world shift, final thoughts