Author

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.

Big Pharma: Direct to Consumer Marketing is Unethical

It is time to end direct to consumer advertising of prescription drugs by Big Pharma. It serves no purpose but to drive up drug costs to the US. It is also time to allow importation of “like” drugs from Canada and Europe.

Read More

Chef Graham Elliot: Why His Weight Loss Will Work

Chef Graham Elliot underwent gastric sleeve surgery for weight loss. In the first year having lost over 120 pounds, here is a bit about the surgery he had, and why he will succeed.

Read More

Eat Big But Small – Lamb

Rack of lamb and asparagus – a meal that you can have for under 300 calories that will keep you satisfied for hours. Eat Big but Small is an attempt to show how you can eat more, but less with great food and lots of vegetables.

Read More

Bacteria and Obesity

Is the rise of obesity correlated with the rise in antibiotics? Yes. But while bacteria may be involved in our digestion, there are other factors that are more commonly associated with the rise of obesity.

Read More

Eat Big But Small

Eat big nutritious meals, but small on calorie dense foods. Don’t deny yourself, and see what you come up with. Follow the biology rules for appetite, and you will be able to Eat big, but small.

Read More

Germs: as Much a Part of Us as DNA

The bacteria that occupy our bodies are transmitted to us every much as DNA. They are not a foreign species- an argument can be made that they are every bit a part of us as our own DNA

Read More

Expansion of Primary Care and Relationships Leads to Less ER Visits

The way to provide health care delivery isn’t just to insure everyone, but to develop community based health care on relationships, trust, and listening. This has resulted in decreasing costs of healthcare and provided a model of healthcare in the world.

Read More

Men Don’t Diet – Men Refuel

Dr. John La Puma’s new book: Refuel is a 24 day program written for men. The book is an easy way to implement a lifestyle change – a plan that involves recipes, and will get the man back in the kitchen – where we belong.

Read More

New Health Insurance: What to Look for in a Hospital

A few tips about the hospitals you look for and what they offer as you consider what new insurance you should go for. If you are like the vast majority of Americans, you have no idea what the insurance plan covers, doesn’t cover, and don’t know if the insurance company will keep your doctor in its network.

Read More