SSRIs - Serotonin Hypothesis, Drug Effectiveness & Emerging Data About Sexual Side Effects

Why Does Medical Science Know So Little About The Female Body?: Journalist Gabrielle Jackson reveals how the research for her book Pain and Prejudice uncovered just how little medical science understands the female body. Astonishingly, it turns out that most of what we know about human biology comes from the stu... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

29 min listen

SSRIs - Serotonin Hypothesis, Drug Effectiveness & Emerging Data About Sexual Side Effects: Professor Joanna Moncrieff discusses the serotonin hypothesis, the evidence for the effectiveness of SSRIs, and the emerging data about SSRI sexual side effects. What Your GP Doesn't Tell You is hosted by Liz Tucker an award winning medical journal... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

37 min listen

Has Medicine Been Too Slow to Explore the Benefits of Fasting?: Dr Jason Fung a kidney specialist, and one of the world's leading pioneers in low carb diets and intermittent fasting, reveals why modern medicine has been so slow to explore the benefits of fasting and discusses its benefits not just for type II di... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

46 min listen

Why The UK Does Poorly For Some Cancers & The Devastating Impact of Covid on the UK’s Cancer Services: In the final part of his interview, Professor Karol Sikora, one of the world's leading cancer experts and a past director of the WHO Cancer Programme, explains why the UK does poorly in the treatment of some common cancers and the reforms he believe... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

25 min listen

Could Stem Cell Transplants Play a Critical Role in MS and Other Auto-Immune Diseases?: Dr Richard K. Burt, a world leading pioneer who performed America’s first hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) to treat multiple sclerosis, discusses how he developed this innovative procedure and its future in the treatment of MS. While the tr... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

56 min listen

Should You Take A Vitamin D Supplement? - Season Two: Dr Michael Holick is a pioneer in vitamin D science and has spent a lifetime researching and exploring what he believes are its potentially life-changing benefits. He argues that across the world guidelines for the amount of vitamin D we need are sim... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

44 min listen

How to Keep Your Gut Healthy - Season Two: Professor Tim Spector reveals how developing research about our gut biome – the microbes in our gut – is revolutionising our understanding of diet and disease. And he argues this may also help explain why we got so many things wrong about food. For ... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

45 min listen

First Drug Company to Be Accused of Racketeering in a US Court: This week’s podcast is about one of the world’s top selling drugs, Neurontin. And it centres on an extraordinary court case which for the very first time accused a drug company, Pfizer and its subsidiary Warner Lambert, of racketeering, under the Ra... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

51 min listen

Could Low-Carb Diets Help Treat Mental Illness? - Season Two: Harvard trained psychiatrist Dr Georgia Ede is pioneering the use of low carb - otherwise known as ketogenic - diets to help treat a range of mental illness from major depression to schizophrenia. An approach she believes could revolutionise psychia... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

65 min listen

How To Be A Savvy Cancer Patient: Professor Karol Sikora, one of the world's leading cancer experts - an oncologist for 44 years and a past director of the WHO Cancer Programme - talks about his experience of treating cancer over the last four decades, and explains what cancer patie... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

38 min listen

What Happens When the Doctor Becomes The Patient?: Neurosurgeon and author, Mr Henry Marsh, pioneer of the awake craniotomy, a brain surgery performed while the patient is still awake, discusses the ethical dilemmas and realities of the surgeon’s role. And he explains why he thinks doctors need a cer... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

41 min listen

Sugar - A Chronic Toxin? - Season Two: Dr Robert Lustig argues sugar is fuelling an epidemic of chronic and metabolic disease, from diabetes and strokes, to cancer and heart disease costing hundreds of thousands of lives. He says in a view that some have seen as controversial that we nee... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

54 min listen

How the Smartphone Could Revolutionise Healthcare: Dr Eric Topol, one of the world’s leading cardiologists, reveals how the smartphone has the potential to revolutionise healthcare and create far more targeted treatment for patients. Eric, who has been listed as one of the top ten cited researchers i... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

32 min listen

The Whistleblower Who Inspired A John Le Carré Novel - Season Two: Welcome to Season Two of What Your GP Doesn't Tell You This week’s story is so extraordinary that the best selling spy writer John Le Carré used it as the inspiration for one of his novels. And indeed if it was a work of fiction it would be dismissed... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

61 min listen

Your 24 Hour Body Clock: How It Controls Everything from Sleep To When You Should Take Medication: Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at Oxford University, reveals the key role our body clock plays not just in controlling how and when we sleep, but in every aspect of our biology and health. He discusses his tips for getting a goo... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

54 min listen

Could Inflammation, Diet and Disease Be Linked?: Dr Shilpa Ravella, a transplant gastroenterologist, argues that inflammation may be a common factor in many of the diseases we face today from heart disease to cancer. While our bodies' inflammatory response is essential in fighting off infections an... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

40 min listen

Sugar, Refined Carbs and Polyunsaturated Fats: The Perfect Storm?: Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Gary Fettke frustrated by the increasing number of diabetic patients' limbs he was having to amputate, started prescibing low sugar diets to these patients. But then found himself sanctioned by the Australian medical board for... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

49 min listen

Anorexia: A Patient’s Story: As a teenager, journalist Hadley Freeman spent over two and half years in hospital being treated for anorexia. In this interview, she gives a brutally honest account of her experience and describes how she was finally able to recover from what is one... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

40 min listen

Should You Take A Statin?: Dr John Abramson, who has published several peer reviewed papers examining the data behind statins, discusses the facts you need to know before deciding with your doctor whether to take one of these drugs or not. Statins are drugs that lower choleste... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

50 min listen

Dr David Healy Discusses SSRI Drugs, Suicide and Sexual Dysfunction: Dr David Healy was one of the first psychiatrists to suggest that while in some cases the antidepressant drugs, the SSRIs may help prevent suicide, in other very rare cases, they might actually increase the suicide risk. So how does a doctor balance ... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

44 min listen

What You Need to Check Before Taking Any Prescription Drug: Former Canadian politician Terence Young became a safety advocate, starting the non-profit group Drug Safety Canada, following the tragic death of his 15 year old daughter Vanessa after taking the drug Propulsid. The drug was withdrawn from the North... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

47 min listen

Can Longevity Drugs and Lifestyle Extend Your Lifespan?: The idea of staying fit, young and healthy for longer, is something many of us would love to achieve, but just how possible is it? Dr Robert Lufkin, who has a particular research interest in the science of longevity discusses the reality. He says th... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

46 min listen

Pain: Why We Need to Revolutionise Our Thinking: Dr Deepak Ravindran, a NHS consultant in pain medicine, reveals how we need to completely rethink our views about pain. Pain, particularly long term intractable chronic pain, can be one of the most difficult medical conditions to live with, making no... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

53 min listen

Why Having a Healthy Microbiome Is Critically Important: Colorectal surgeon Mr James Kinross reveals the remarkable impact that our microbiomes have on every aspect of health from the moment we are born. He argues that the biome may hold the key to understanding diseases as varied as cancer, bowel and auto... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

53 min listen

Using Low Carb Diets To Treat Epilepsy And Other Neurological Diseases: Dr Tanya JW McDonald discusses the use of low carb (otherwise known as ketogenic) diets for patients with epilepsy, Alzheimer’s Disease, malignant glioma and other neurological conditions. Remarkably, low carb diets have been used successful to treat... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

43 min listen

The Accidental Drug Advocate: Kim Witczak's life was changed for ever one tragic day in 2003 when her husband Woody killed himself. Several weeks earlier, Woody, who did not have a history of depression or mental illness, had been prescribed the SSRI anti-depressant drug Zoloft (... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

51 min listen

Thalidomide - The Story You Don’t Know (Part 2): This is the second episode of a two parter about a new investigation into the drug thalidomide, so if you haven’t listened to part one, please do go back and listen to that first. Thalidomide is one of the greatest medical catastrophes of the 20th ... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

49 min listen

What Doctors Don’t Get Taught: Dr Robert Lufkin argues that modern medicine hasn’t paid nearly enough attention to the underlying causes of diseases, and has tended to treat symptoms instead. And in a controversial new book Lies I taught at Medical school, How Conventional Medicin... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

58 min listen

Thalidomide - The Story You Don’t Know (Part 1): It was one of the greatest medical tragedies of the 20th century. In 1957, a new wonder drug was launched in Germany. It was marketed as an astonishingly safe sedative. Tragically, this could not have been further from the truth. For this was the dru... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

50 min listen

Why Knowing Your Blood Sugar Level Matters: GP Dr David Unwin has been a pioneer in the UK developing and promoting a low-carb approach for treating type 2 diabetes. In 2016, he won the NHS innovator of the year award for his work. His treatment approach has been so successful that he has put... by What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

56 min listen

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