The KIND Revolution

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San Diego physician Dr. Georgine Nanos, MD, MPH delivers evidence-based medicine for women navigating perimenopause, heart health, and hormones. Real medical expertise, zero medical BS. From cardiac blind spots to menopause myths, get the straight talk your doctor won't give you. Serving women nationwide who deserve healthcare that actually listens and validates their experiences. Breaking down complex health topics into actionable insights for women who refuse to suffer in silence or accept dismissive care.

  1. 3d ago

    You Are Not Too Young for This — A Surgeon on the Cancer That Moved Into Your Thirties

    Colorectal cancer used to be an older person's disease. It is not anymore. Dr. Nanos sits down with Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD, FACS, FASCRS, Chief of the Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery at UC San Diego and the 2024-2025 president of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons, where she is the fourth woman and the first Asian woman to hold the office in 125 years. Here is the shift, in her own practice. 24 years ago, nearly every colorectal cancer patient she operated on was in their 60s, 70s, or 80s. Today they are in their 30s and 40s. Incidence is now climbing about 3% a year in adults aged 20 to 49, and about 14% of new US cases are in people under 50. They get into why it keeps getting caught late, and the answer is uncomfortable. The early symptoms are rectal bleeding and a change in bowel habits, which are also the symptoms of hemorrhoids and of nothing at all. So the patient waits. The majority of young patients later diagnosed with this waited three to twelve months before seeing anyone, and most of them delayed because they did not recognize the symptoms as serious. Then, sometimes, the clinician waits too. Dr. Ramamoorthy's answer is not a scary campaign. It is one instruction, pointed in both directions: if the treatment does not fix it, circle back with your doctor, and doctors, circle back with your patient. Also: why screening now starts at 45, why this is one of the few genuinely preventable cancers, what the exercise and microbiome research actually supports, and the colonoscopy discussed honestly by two physicians who have each had one. This is The Kind Revolution — where we bridge science, compassion, and courage. Hosted by Dr. Georgine Nanos, MD, MPH | Kind Health Group, Encinitas, CA Guest: Sonia Ramamoorthy, MD, FACS, FASCRS | UC San Diego Health For education, not medical advice.

  2. Sep 9

    Why Your Normal MRI Missed It — The Exam That Finds Vertigo, and Why Most Clinics Cannot Do It

    You have had the scans. You have had the labs. Everything came back normal, and you still cannot roll over in bed without the room moving. Dr. Nanos sits down with Dr. Kim Bell, PT, DPT, a vestibular physical therapist who has spent more than 20 years on one problem: the dizziness nobody else could solve. Her patients call her The Vertigo Detective, and they fly in from around the world. Her very first vertigo patient had been dizzy for 20 years. She was in her mid-70s, she had broken almost every bone you can imagine from falling, and the only time she left her house was in an ambulance. Three sessions later the vertigo was gone. That patient looked her in the eye and said, do you understand, you gave me my life back. They get into what a real vertigo evaluation includes, why a normal MRI does not rule out a brain cause, and the single mechanical fact underneath most missed diagnoses: in a lit room your own eyes suppress the sign a clinician needs to see, by as much as 66%. Which means the exam that finds the answer has to happen in the dark, with equipment most clinics do not own. And they get into the part Dr. Nanos keeps coming back to. When every test comes back normal, patients hear a dismissal. It is not one. It means the dangerous causes are ruled out and the real one is somewhere nobody has looked yet. This is The Kind Revolution — where we bridge science, compassion, and courage. Hosted by Dr. Georgine Nanos, MD, MPH | Kind Health Group, Encinitas, CA Guest: Dr. Kim Bell, PT, DPT | betterbalanceinlife.com For education, not medical advice.

  3. Sep 2

    What Testosterone Does to Your Fertility, and What to Know

    Fertility has always been framed as a woman's problem, and meanwhile half the equation is standing quietly in the background with nobody asking about him. Dr. Nanos sits down with Dr. Kian Asanad, a fellowship-trained reproductive urologist and microsurgeon who directs the USC Fertility and Men's Sexual Health Center at Keck Medicine of USC. The number that reframes everything: male factor is involved in about 50% of infertile couples, and it's the sole cause in roughly 20%. Half. And the male workup is now genuinely easy, which makes it strange that it's so often the last thing anyone does instead of the first. They get into what happens when a test comes back with no sperm at all, which is about 10% of men evaluated, and the microsurgery that can still find sperm about half the time. They get into how he tells a couple the odds without taking their hope, and what he sees in those same couples on the other side. And then the part every man in his thirties needs to hear: testosterone therapy is, functionally, a contraceptive. It shuts down the signal that tells the testicles to make sperm, and about 65% of men go to zero within four months. It's usually reversible, but it takes months to years. Dr. Asanad points to a secret-shopper study in JAMA Internal Medicine in which 6 of 7 online platforms offered testosterone to a man with normal levels who had said he wanted children. This is The Kind Revolution — where we bridge science, compassion, and courage. Hosted by Dr. Georgine Nanos, MD, MPH | Kind Health Group, Encinitas, CA kindhealthgroup.com Guest: Dr. Kian Asanad, MD | USC Fertility and Men's Sexual Health Center asanadmd.com For education, not medical advice.

  4. Aug 25

    "Just Aging" Is Not a Diagnosis

    You looked in the mirror and something had changed. And someone told you it was just aging. Dr. Nanos sits down with Dr. William Umansky — a board-certified plastic surgeon with over 30 years in practice in La Jolla, Stanford-trained, named by his peers one of San Diego's Physicians of Exceptional Excellence — for the plain-language conversation most women never get. They get into what estrogen actually does to skin, and why up to 30% of dermal collagen goes in the first five years after menopause, which is why the change can genuinely feel like it happened overnight. They get into rapid weight loss and the face, and Dr. Nanos makes the point that it was never really about the medication — the same thing happens after any large, fast weight loss. They get into where fillers stop working and what that conversation should sound like. And then the part that should make you sit up: there is no medical board preventing a physician from another specialty from performing your facelift or your liposuction. "Cosmetic surgeon" is not a recognized board. Dr. Umansky explains exactly what to check, in about five minutes, before anyone operates on you. Plus breast implants start to finish, saline vs. silicone, how long they last, when to scan them, the rare lymphoma, and whether mammograms are safe, and a rapid-fire round on sunscreen, side-sleeping, and "preventive" facelifts. This is The Kind Revolution where we bridge science, compassion, and courage. Hosted by Dr. Georgine Nanos, MD, MPH | Kind Health Group, Encinitas, CA Guest: Dr. William Umansky, MD | drumansky.com For education, not medical advice.

  5. Aug 19

    Burnout Isn't a Time-Management Problem: What High Achievers Keep Getting Wrong

    You hit the goal, and the peace you were promised didn't arrive. So you set a bigger goal. If that loop sounds familiar, this one's for you. Andrew Poles has coached more than 10,000 leaders — across NASA, Netflix, Dell, Schwab, and Epic Games — and he left the corporate world to build a practice that hit six figures in six weeks. He's also an ultra-endurance athlete, and his forthcoming memoir Over the Gate is about what a 100-mile mountain-bike race taught him about identity and worth. He and Dr. Nanos get into the thing so many high-achieving people quietly struggle with: burnout that no amount of time management seems to fix. Andrew's argument is that burnout isn't a scheduling problem — it's a nervous-system and identity problem. We're trained to believe our value as human beings is something we earn through production, and so we run down "tunnels with no cheese," working harder and harder toward a fulfillment that achievement was never going to deliver. They also talk about fear — why, neurologically, "fear happens to you" and the only real choice is what you do next — and the very personal story of the race Andrew took on specifically because he was certain he couldn't. This is The Kind Revolution — where science meets courage and medicine meets humanity. Hosted by Dr. Georgine Nanos, MD, MPH | Kind Health Group, Encinitas, CA Guest: Andrew Poles | Executive & Founder Coach | andrewpoles.com

  6. Aug 11

    From Bomb Squad to Fighting Medical Misinformation

    He learned to stay calm defusing bombs. Now he uses the same steady hands and the same nervous system to take on medical misinformation online. Dr. Zachary Meade took the least conventional route into medicine imaginable. A childhood in and out of foster care. Years as an explosive ordnance disposal technician in the military. A detour through electrical engineering. Then med school, and now a career as a military anesthesiologist in San Diego. He and Dr. Nanos get into the whole thing: how he researches a viral health claim (start with the nugget of truth, then go to the actual evidence), why "big wellness" has quietly become bigger and in some ways worse than big pharma, and the simple rules he gives patients for spotting a fake — like the 60-second credential test and watching what someone's actually selling at the end of the video. They also talk about the human side: informed consent in the OR, how he talks a terrified patient through the minutes before anesthesia, what a hard childhood and the bomb squad taught him about handling relentless online hate, and a closing message to anyone who's ever felt unloved or alone that is, honestly, the best part of the episode. This is The Kind Revolution — where science meets courage and medicine meets humanity. If this episode brings up a hard time for you, you're not alone. In the U.S. you can call or text 988 for the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, any time.

  7. Jul 28

    Treatment-Resistant Doesn't Mean Hopeless. It Means Under-treated

    A psychiatrist missed her own perimenopause. She thought her antidepressant was causing the night sweats. Dr. Carlene MacMillan is a child and adolescent psychiatrist, the Chief Medical Officer at Radial, and spent years chairing the Clinical TMS Society's insurance committee — which means she is one of the few people in the country doing the tedious, unglamorous work of getting brain treatments actually covered. She is also a woman in midlife who walked into a routine OB-GYN appointment, got asked whether she still gets her periods, said yes, and watched the conversation end there. "It's not a bad doctor," she tells Dr. Nanos. "The standard is just so low." What follows is a conversation about where women's symptoms go to get misfiled. Dr. MacMillan describes patients whose depression she successfully treated — who then said I'm not depressed anymore, but I still feel awful — and who turned out to have PCOS, endometriosis, or autoimmune disease that had been dismissed for years as being in their heads. They also get into high-THC cannabis and the adolescent brain, why TMS is covered after roughly two failed medications rather than four, what accelerated protocols mean for access, and why she'd like the field to stop calling itself psychiatry and start calling itself brain medicine. This is The Kind Revolution — where science meets courage and medicine meets humanity. 🎙 Hosted by Dr. Georgine Nanos, MD, MPH | Kind Health Group, Encinitas, CA 👤 Guest: Dr. Carlene MacMillan, MD | Chief Medical Officer, Radial | https://www.meetradial.com/carlene-macmillan

  8. Jul 22

    Real Longevity Is Not Sexy: Dr. Nanos on Peptides, GLPs, and the Boring Stuff That Actually Works

    Nobody asks their doctor the questions they actually Google at 2 AM. So we collected them anonymously. Dr. Georgine Nanos sits down with Lauren Luscombe Holder, Director of Marketing and Operations at Kind Health Group, for a no-judgment round of the questions patients whisper but rarely say out loud. Peptides. Weight-loss medications. Nightly wine. A decade on SSRIs. What longevity medicine actually means once you strip out the biohacking. Along the way, two patient stories that show what real medical oversight buys you: a woman in her early 60s who went from a vague hip pain to a multiple myeloma diagnosis and the start of treatment in ten days — a process that typically takes two months. And a woman in her late 60s whose "off, a little fatigued" turned out to be a significant coronary obstruction caught on advanced imaging before it became a heart attack. In this episode: • Whether a microdose of a weight-loss medication is safe long term — and the red flag that means you should find a different provider • Why muscle preservation and protein are non-negotiable on these medications, and the osteoporosis fear circulating online • What true medical oversight looks like week to week • The peptide boom: why "not for human use, research only" is printed on the bottles, and the angiogenesis tradeoff nobody mentions • What real longevity actually is — thinking clearly, hiking, keeping muscle, avoiding frailty, staying independent • The unglamorous fundamentals: blood pressure, lipids, glucose, muscle mass, sleep, anti-inflammatory diet, not smoking • Advanced screening: Galleri multi-cancer detection, Prenuvo whole-body MRI, Invitae genetics — and what epigenetics means for a bad genetic hand • Advanced cardiac markers most primary care never orders: ApoB, lipoprotein(a), homocysteine, advanced lipid NMR, coronary CT angiogram • The 10-day cancer catch, start to finish • Why women rarely present with textbook cardiac symptoms • Nightly wine, honestly — without the shame • "California sober" — why swapping alcohol for daily cannabis isn't the win people think it is • Ten years on SSRIs and birth control: why the medications aren't the problem, but autopilot is • Why Dr. Nanos built a concierge practice after 4,000 assigned patients and 5-to-10-minute visits 🔗 CONNECT WITH KIND HEALTH GROUP 🌐 kindhealthgroup.com 📱 Instagram: @kindhealthgroup 📍 Encinitas, CA Got a question you'd rather ask anonymously? DM us — we'll answer it on a future episode.

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San Diego physician Dr. Georgine Nanos, MD, MPH delivers evidence-based medicine for women navigating perimenopause, heart health, and hormones. Real medical expertise, zero medical BS. From cardiac blind spots to menopause myths, get the straight talk your doctor won't give you. Serving women nationwide who deserve healthcare that actually listens and validates their experiences. Breaking down complex health topics into actionable insights for women who refuse to suffer in silence or accept dismissive care.

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  • Creator
    Kind Health Group
  • Years Active
    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    43
  • Rating
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