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About the Author
You probably first saw Dr. Simpson on TikTok or Instagram or Facebook or Twitter. Dr. Terry Simpson received his undergraduate, graduate, and medical degrees from the University of Chicago, where he spent several years in the Kovler Viral Oncology laboratories doing genetic engineering. Until he found he liked people more than Petri dishes. After a career in surgery, his focus is to make sense of the madness, and bust myths. Dr. Simpson, an advocate of culinary medicine, believes in teaching people to improve their health through their food and in their kitchen. On the other side of the world, he has been a leading advocate of changing health care to make it more "relationship based," and his efforts awarded his team the Malcolm Baldrige award for healthcare in 2018 and 2011 for the NUKA system of care in Alaska and in 2013 Dr Simpson won the National Indian Health Board Area Impact Award. A frequent contributor to media outlets discussing health related topics and advances in medicine, he is also a proud dad, author, cook, and doctor “in that order.” For media inquiries, please visit www.terrysimpson.com.

10 Day Holiday Diet

Holiday Diet Hey, you food geniuses. Soon we’re going to start to record our diet episodes, where we scientifically evaluate the most common diets in America, and the myths surrounding those diets, because weight loss is the most common New Year’s Resolution.   But what if we could avoid weight gain? What if we had…

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Talking Canned Spam with Simon Majumdar

Canned spam has a long history in the US and is still popular in Hawaii, Guam, and Alaska. Today’s podcast I talk about the history of spam with Simon Majumdar.

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The Beer and Sausage Diet

Drink beer and eat sausages to lose weight. If you think that is the craziest diet in the world, it probably isn’t. But it was done for fun, but as we went through this we discovered that it was quite scientific and fit into the data about how people lose weight and keep it off….

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Food Fables Veganism

There is a myth that if you eat a “plant strong” or vegan diet that you will greatly reduce your risk of heart disease and cancer. Many of these fables come from the book “The China Study.” Today we dissect this book and find it is more con than conversation.

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Is there no safe level of alcohol?

You may have heard that there is no safe level of alcohol, based on a recent study published. We interview the lead author of that study, and put alcohol in perspective for you.

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The Mediterranean Diet

This week’s podcast is simply called “The Mediterranean Diet,” and we go into why it is important to your health and how you can incorporate it into your daily routine. It isn’t all olive oil and wine – well maybe some wine.

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Farm to Fable [Episode 3]

Some restaurants tell you that they love farm-to-table food, but what they are really selling you is Farm to Fable. This podcast is about uncovering a major food con from restaurants.

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Wine: Terroir Tales and Fables, You Can’t Taste the Soil

Terroir of wine is the hot topic, but lets dispel one myth – you cannot taste the soil in wine.

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Free The Weed [Episode 1]

Hemp seeds are highly nutritious but we import them from China, yet we can easily grow it here. But from that plant have come two FDA drugs, and enough evidence to warrant studying Marijuana for drugs to treat chronic pain, spasticity, nausea, and others. But DEA classification hinders this. We need to free the weed.

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