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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.

Tofu Isn’t a Statin: Food as Medicine

The Portfolio Diet lowers cholesterol, but not like statins. Food helps build the foundation—medicine keeps the roof from caving in.

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Pasteurization Saves Lives: Milk Myths vs. Science

Milk: Life, Death, and the Paradox Milk has always been central to survival. When mothers died in childbirth—and this happened often before modern medicine—infants survived only if they had access to another nursing mother or wet nurse. When that wasn’t possible, families sometimes turned to the milk of other mammals. That discovery helped keep our…

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Protein Powders: Hype and Science

Protein powders aren’t miracles—they’re tools. From surgeons to gym shelves, here’s what’s real, what’s hype, and how to choose wisely

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MAHA Myths: Why Nutrition Alone Won’t Save You

Nutrition matters, but it can’t replace medicine. From Samoa’s measles crisis to my dad’s 98 years, science saves lives

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Liver Detox- Carter’s to Dose

Carter’s “liver pills” were just laxatives. Today’s detox shots, probiotics, and olive oil flushes? Same scam—your liver doesn’t need cleansing

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Edinburgh’s Surgical Revolution

How Edinburgh’s breakthroughs in anesthesia and antisepsis rescued surgery from quacks — and why today’s wellness fads echo the same old scams.

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Ancient Neurosurgery and Modern Brain Scams

People once drilled holes in skulls to treat madness. Today, we sell brain gummies. Same fear, different tools. Let’s unpack the hype—and the harm.

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Radium to Cleanses: Why We Still Fall for Bad Science

In the 1920s, people drank radioactive water for “health.” Today’s liver cleanses and hydrogen water follow the same scam with better branding

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The Steak That Tried to Cure Everything

Dr. Salisbury blamed veggies for disease and pushed steak as the cure. His meat-only myth still lives on in today’s diet fads.

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