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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.

When Green Tea Isn’t Chemotherapy

Broccoli and green tea lower cancer risk, but they’re not chemotherapy. Food prevents disease, but only medicine treats it.

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Animal Protein and Cancer Risk

Eating more animal protein doesn’t lower cancer risk. Red & processed meats raise it, while fish may protect, poultry is neutral, and dairy is mixed.

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Why Beans Aren’t Medicine

Beans lower blood sugar, but they’re not metformin. Learn why food helps prevent diabetes, but medicine is what truly saves lives.

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Salmon isn’t a Stent: Food and Medicine

The Mediterranean Diet lowers risk, but it can’t replace statins or stents. Food helps, medicine saves, and together they’re the strongest defense

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Bananas Aren’t Beta Blockers

When Bananas Aren’t a Beta Blocker People love to believe that food can replace medicine. We talked about this in Episode One, where I explained that Hippocrates never said “let food be thy medicine.” Still, the myth endures. Food does matter. The right eating pattern can lower blood pressure. One of the best-studied is the…

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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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