57: How Stress Impacts Your Body

Buck Joffrey MD speaks to Justin Houman MD who is a urologist regarding the idea of aggressive testosterone treatment to decrease the risk of metabolic syndrome and therefore multiple other disease processes that are downstream. Other topics disgust include erectile dysfunction, early treatment with ED meds and the correlation with Alzheimer’s disease.

Show Notes:

1:27 Is it true that the testosterone in men in general has gone down?

02:43 Common symptoms of love testosterone

05:15 Normal level of testosterone

07:19 Testosterone and metabolic syndrome

12:49 Testosterone replacement therapy and cancer

16:03 Downside of testosterone replacement therapy

19:18 Different options to supplement testosterone

29:03 What’s on the horizon?

32:50 ED and cardiovascular diseases

38:35 Should all 40+ men be on daily Cialis?

40:43 Penile pump

Buck Joffrey, MD and Linda Tyler, PhD discuss the topic of plant-based only/Vegan diets. The conversation includes topics on inflammation and nutritional concerns.

Show Notes:

2:55 A plant-based diet for better health?

11:53 Balancing nutritions for the plant-based diet

20:39 Accessibility of the plant-based diet

22:30 Processed plant-based food

Buck Joffrey, MD interviews Anoop Kumar, MD on his perspective on health and wellness. Dr. Kumar is an emergency medicine doctor who is also knowledgeable about traditional Indian Philosophy and medicine.

Show Notes:

00:43 Near-Death Experience and Shift in Perspective

07:04 The Three Minds Framework

23:03 Reevaluating the Model of Human Anatomy

27:20 The Four Engines: Nutrition, Movement, Connection, and Rest

39:24 The Four Engines of Health and Healing

41:01 Harnessing the Placebo Effect and Self-Healing

In this episode, Buck addresses questions from listeners. Topics include:

00:34 What is a healthy range in your weight?

04:28 The dangerous kind of fat

07:53 Male hormone replacement and cancer

13:12 How long does it take for the circadian rhythm to adjust to a new time zone?

18:35 The risk of cell phones?

Buck Joffrey, MD interviews Dr. Daniel Bowling from Stanford University on the science behind music and mental health. Bowling discusses the fundamentals of musicality and the research that has been done in this relatively new field of music as treatment for health-related issues.

Show Notes:

02:59 What is musicality?

04:47 What is tonality?

07:05 How does music affect the brain?

11:20 Music as treatment for mental health

22:22 Does music sharpen our intellect?

27:05 Musical vs pharmaceutical interventions

30:38 How to get started on music therapy

Buck Joffrey, MD welcomes pharmacist and glutathione expert Dr. Nayan Patel. This podcast discusses the role of glutathione as an antioxidant including why it is known as the "master" antioxidant. The discussion reviews the physiology of glutathione in the body focussing on disease prevention and also discusses different mechanisms of supplementation.

Show Notes:

00:48 What is oxidative stress?

04:12 What is an antioxidant and how does it work? 

10:24 Glutathione and its relationship to longevity

29:12 Dr. Patel’s Auro Wellness

Buck welcomes Tina Sindher, a specialist in food allergy from Stanford University Medical Center to discuss the basics of food allergy.

Topics include root causes of food allergy, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

Show Notes:

04:33 Does where you live affect your allergies?

06:46 How do you know you have an allergy and not something else?

09:40 Life-threatening allergies explained

13:41 Does allergy develop from childhood?

16:28 What makes some foods trigger allergies?

20:22 Rising gluten sensitivity

23:03 Are restrictive food policies increasing cases of allergies

26:20 The relationship between eczema and allergy

29:00 Microbiome

32:43 Desensitizing allergies

Buck Joffrey, M.D. discusses metabolic syndrome which affects 1/4 of the global adult population and how it underlies the development of virtually every other major cause of death.

Show Notes:

00:13 Understanding Metabolic Syndrome

05:29 Criterias of Metabolic Syndrome

23:40: Insulin Resistance and Hyperinsulinemia

24:49: Metabolic Syndrome and Diabetes

37:49: Recommended Lab Tests

42:05: The Health Implications of Liposuction

50:42: The Importance of HSCRP

Buck talks about the common cold. He discusses the etiology, the role of cold weather, prevention and treatment of this common and frustrating problem.

Buck interviews Dr. Corey Frucht, MD, PhD, a board-certified dermatologist on the topic of aging skin and skin cancer. This episode explores the causes of aging skin and skin cancer, as well as what we can do to combat the inevitable effects of skin aging.

Show Notes:

00:00:50:12 How and why can skin look young or old?

00:03:51:20 Why does the skin of people of color age slower?

00:05:14:09 How exactly does UV light damage your skin?

00:07:05:01 Sunscreen 101

00:11:41:08 Physical blockers vs chemical blockers

00:13:41:00 Can you get tan without damaging your skin?

00:14:16:06 How to keep your skin young

00:29:24:14 Skin Cancer