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Healthcare's only unfiltered voice. Interviews, medical deep-dives, and uncensored rants on a broad range of health and wellness topics hosted by UCSF/Stanford-trained physician Dr. Zubin Damania (AKA ZDoggMD).

The ZDoggMD Show Dr. Zubin Damania

    • Health & Fitness
    • 4.8 • 2.9K Ratings

Healthcare's only unfiltered voice. Interviews, medical deep-dives, and uncensored rants on a broad range of health and wellness topics hosted by UCSF/Stanford-trained physician Dr. Zubin Damania (AKA ZDoggMD).

    Being Here, Now: LIVE Q+A w/John Astin

    Being Here, Now: LIVE Q+A w/John Astin

    John Astin is a professor of psychology, author, teacher, and musician. He returns to do a deep dive into appreciating THIS moment as all there is. Originally streamed live with audience Q+A on YouTube. Watch the video here.

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    • 1 hr 51 min
    The Case Against Reality (w/Prof. Donald Hoffman) -- The Best Of The ZDoggMD Show

    The Case Against Reality (w/Prof. Donald Hoffman) -- The Best Of The ZDoggMD Show

    One of our favorite interviews ever (originally posted in 2019): We have NO CLUE how consciousness emerges from 3 pounds of wet goo. Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman takes us deep into his research that makes a bold claim: we’ve been attacking the problem BACKWARDS.
    The implications of his theories just may change everything you think you know about reality and our place in it. Take the Red Pill and see how deep the rabbit hole goes…
    Here's the original video and transcript of our interview.
    We dive into the Interface Theory of Perception (how evolution hides the truth about reality in favor of a dumbed down user interface that only shows us “fitness” payoffs that help us survive), the “Hard Problem of Consciousness” and how we simply have no idea how consciousness could emerge from physical matter, the theory of Conscious Realism (how reality is really a mathematically-definable social network of conscious “agents” and our perceptions are simply the interface by which we exchange experience with other conscious agents), the math behind conscious agent theory, implications for artificial intelligence (AI), what happens when we die, the limitation of resources in the universe, synesthesia, psychedelics, spirituality, medicine, and much much more.
    1:22 Are we machines? Don’s motives for studying reality & his background in artificial intelligence & mathematics
    6:38 Evolutionary game theory and how organisms are tuned to see fitness payoffs, not objective reality
    11:46 The “Grand Theft Auto” analogy of perception as interface/symbolic representation
    14:41 Differentiating solipsism & why we don’t just see SOME objective reality, we see NONE of it (YOU are the author of space and time)
    21:06 The hard problem of consciousness and WHY it’s hard from a physicalist perspective
    28:38 Conscious agent theory: consciousness is fundamental (rather than emerging from matter)
    39:36 Challenging perceptual psychology; Piaget and object permanence
    7:06 Amplituhedron and projecting quantum mechanics and relativity from conscious agent theory
    50:42 Impact this theory can have on modern medicine and our limited understanding of mental health disorders
    01:01:44 Deeper down the rabbit hole, and what happens when we die?
    01:08:40 Artificial intelligence as a way to open new interfaces into the conscious agent realm
    01:27:58 Examining Evolutionary Psychology; its relation to consciousness and resource limitation, logic & reason as tools of social persuasion
    01:40:30 Psychedelics and meditation as tools to hack our perceptual interface and experience other conscious agents
    01:47:02 Synesthetes as a glimpse into interface theory, evolution, and more
    Prof. Donald Hoffman, apart from being a brilliant scientist, is a wonderful and warm human being in person. Check out our first audio-only conversation from 2018 here, and my take on his theory of consciousness here.

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    • 2 hr 1 min
    Doc Vader LIVE: Silicon Valley Bank, MD vs. NP, & More

    Doc Vader LIVE: Silicon Valley Bank, MD vs. NP, & More

    When Doc Vader goes live to YouTube for a q+a, you never know what Dark Side madness might emerge 😂 Watch the video here.

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    • 47 min
    Friday Zen, LIVE

    Friday Zen, LIVE

    Streamed LIVE to YouTube with Q+A 3/10/23. We talked about vaccines and the nature of belief, public health messaging challenges, moral foundation theory, dealing with anger and boundary violations, dropping into the body sense and out of the head, emotional repression and the make believe world of thought, kundalini energy, the nature of negativity bias and how we can shift to positive, Trauma Release Exercises (TRE), body as sensor, shame and its roots (particularly in medicine), self inquiry, the nature and trickiness of ego, the nature of mind-identification and the house of mirrors of thought, empaths and sensitivity to others’ emotions, the excess death question, guilt around setting boundaries, letting go, dealing with fear and more. Here's the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=df5QkTpx3x8

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    • 1 hr 19 min
    Burnout, Identity, Left Brain Dominance, and More

    Burnout, Identity, Left Brain Dominance, and More

    In this episode – originally streamed live to Instagram – I take viewer comments on the topics of healthcare transformation, burnout, identity, and more. We talk about left brain vs. right brain thinking, the absolute vs. the relative world as well as practical solutions and insights for personal transformation.
    Video here: https://youtu.be/NKH5a-wuJEI

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    • 49 min
    Awakening & The Realization Journey (w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo)

    Awakening & The Realization Journey (w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo)

    Originally released in June of 2021, I recently revisited this amazing conversation with Dr. Angelo DiLullo, a physician, author, and teacher of non-dual realization (sometimes called spiritual awakening) and felt compelled to share it again for a newer audience who may be deeply interested in awakening and the end of needless seeking and suffering. The original video and transcript are here. Read Angelo's book on awakening Awake: It's Your Turn here. Check out Angelo's YouTube channel here.

    0:00 Intro: Eckhart Tolle and “The Three Pillars of Zen”
    6:44 Disclaimer/Warning: why you should ONLY watch if you’re deeply interested
    10:17 The possibility of transcending the ego and subject-object duality
    12:10 The paradox of free will/agency on the path to awakening
    16:36 Experiencing the present moment as a kind of flow state
    20:59 Understanding what “presence” is and its relationship to thought
    27:54 The sneaky ego and how it relates to awakening
    34:52 The roots suffering in desire, striving, and egoic constructs
    37:48 Unbound consciousness, the dissatisfaction of seeking via a false “self,” the importance of surrendering and emotional integration
    50:44 The truth behind paradox
    56:31 Awakening is available for anyone, and is not a crazy or paranormal experience
    1:00:20 Is mental illness a hindrance to awakening, or a reason not to go down the path
    1:05:38 Awakening is beyond the mind’s understanding, so how can you tell you’re awake
    1:10:18 Unfiltered reality as the primary truth
    1:16:08 Psychedelics vs. other methods of pointing/awakening

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    • 1 hr 29 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
2.9K Ratings

2.9K Ratings

F**Covid19 ,

DocVader is back!!

Long time listener and fan of ZDoggMD and his work, so glad he brought Doc Vader back! I love how candid and uninhibited DocVader is! Thank you for the honesty and the laughs

RobDogRN ,

The best podcast

I have been a long time listener/fan of ZDoggMD and I have loved every episode. What the show has evolved to has been incredibly helpful to my own professional, personal growth and healing.

Dennis1000010101010111101010101000101011 ,

Doggedness

ZDogg has some very interesting insights about various things, but when it comes to masks I have no idea why he sounds like a broken record. It’s like he’s not humble enough to admit he was wrong, and that on certain issues there is just no “middle ground”. I work in a hospital. We wear masks and eye protection when our patients have colds, flus, RSV, covid, and other respiratory illnesses, and despite being coughed, sneezed and vomited on, masks have prevented me from getting sick. Masks work, not perfectly, but they work.

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