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Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker (formerly known as What Your GP Doesn"t Tell You) was a finalist in the recent 2024 Independent Podcast Awards. This fortnightly podcast reveals the stories from the world of medicine that others don’t, won’t or only very partially report. Aimed at both doctors and the public, it’s hosted by award winning medical journalist and former BBC producer Liz Tucker, who reports not just on the science but on the finance and money that can impact it. Liz asks what

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50:02

Should You Take A Weight Loss Drug?

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/02/20

Dr Barbara Mintzes and Dr Joel Lexchin, have recently published a review paper on the weight loss drug Wegovy (generic name semaglutide). They discuss it and the new generation of similar obesity medications.The hype surrounding this new class of drugs has been huge, but is it justified? These pharmaceuticals are called glucagon-like peptide 1 agonists or GLP-1 for short. They work by stimulating cells in your intestines to release a natural hormone called GLP-1 that tricks your stomach and your

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55:46

Deprescribing from Psychiatric Drugs: The Problems...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/02/06

Dr Mark Horowitz discusses why psychiatric medication has turned out to be far harder to stop than any one expected. For Mark, this is as much a personal as well as a professional interest. For as a patient, at one point he was taking five different psychiatric drugs. Ironically, although Mark was working in London at the Institute of Psychiatry, he found the mostly useful information about deprescribing came - not from the medical profession - but from peer support websites. This experience has

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58:17

Could Changing Your Diet Improve Your Mental Health?

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/01/23

Psychiatrist Dr Georgia Ede argues that the medical profession has completely underestimated the huge impact of diet on our mental health. In her new book, Change Your Diet, Change Your Mind, Georgia reveals improvements we can all make to our diet, and in particular, three different dietary approaches for those looking to improve their mental health. She suggests that early results from a range of trials using this approach to treat conditions from bipolar disorder to schizophrenia, show a much

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43:06

Treating Long Covid

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/01/09

Dr Lisa Sanders, writes a column called Diagnosis in the New York Times magazine, which was the inspiration for the Fox medical drama House, M.D. .The show in which Hugh Laurie, playing Dr Gregory House, regularly managed to diagnose the most obscure of medical conditions. But today Lisa has arguably a rather tougher challenge than Hugh Laurie ever faced, she’s recently become the Medical Director of Yale's Long Covid Multidisciplinary Care Center. Long Covid can affect multiple systems and

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57:32

What Doctors Don’t Get Taught

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/12/12

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 Medicine is Making You Sicker and What You Can Do to Save Your Own Life, published by BenBella books, as evidence for his claims, he points to the epidemics of chronic disease, we are now seeing in the industrialised world. In the US in 2010, 16-21% of adults

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48:39

Thalidomide - The Story You Don’t Know (Part Two)

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/11/28

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 century. It’s now thought to have been responsible for around 100,000 miscarriages and disabled children. In this episode, journalist Jennifer Vanderbes reveals the second half of the story. The result of six years of research, resulting in her recent

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50:03

Thalidomide - The Story You Don’t Know (Part One)

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/11/14

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 drug thalidomide, and it would end up being responsible for around 100,000 miscarriages and disabled children. This week’s guest, journalist Jennifer Vanderbes, in a forensic six year investigation has uncovered compelling and shocking new information

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51:05

The Accidental Drug Advocate

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/09/19

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 (generic name sertraline) for his insomnia. Kim sued the drug company Pfizer for wrongful death, later settling out of court. Pfizer did not admit liability. Since Woody’s death 20 years ago, Kim has become a committed advocate for safer medication. She

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56:02

Why Knowing Your Blood Sugar Level Matters

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/09/05

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 around half his type 2 diabetic patients, who follow a low carb diet, into remission. And as a result, his practice, spends far less on diabetic medication than any of the surrounding GP surgeries. The potential cost savings if this approach was adopted

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46:25

How To Keep Your Brain Healthy Into Old Age

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/08/22

Neuroscientist Dr Sabina Brennan argues that while we may be increasingly aware of the importance of physical health, we neglect the value of brain health. By giving our brains the right stimulation, she believes, not only can we increase our odds of either avoiding or delaying serious diseases such as Alzheimer’s, we may actually be able to build in resilience and slow down the ageing of our brains. Sabina discusses the research that shows how essential it is that at every stage of our lives, our

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40:10

Anorexia: A Patient’s Story

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/08/08

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 of the most puzzling psychiatric diseases. She has just published a book about her illness called: Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia, and during her research for it, also spoke to many experts and patients. Anorexia remains an incredibly

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53:16

Pain: Why We Need to Revolutionise Our Thinking

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/07/25

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 normal work or life almost impossible. Globally around 20% of people suffer from the condition. And getting the help they need can be incredibly difficult. Ravindran explains how many of us totally misunderstand pain. The problem can be someone with

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53:24

Why Having a Healthy Microbiome Is Critically Important

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/07/11

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-immune conditions. And that the rise of these conditions may be at least partially due to the disruption that’s been caused to our biomes, by the food we eat, antibiotics and the environment around us. In his new book: Dark Matter: The New Science of

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43:17

Using Low Carb Diets To Treat Epilepsy And Other...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/06/27

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 patients with epilepsy for 100 years, but fell out of favour when drugs were developed. However, in recent years there has been a resurgence in the use of these diets, and studies suggest that around 50% of pediatric and 40% of adult patients whose

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53:37

Your 24 Hour Body Clock: How It Controls Everything...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/06/13

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 good night's sleep and what do when you just can’t drop off. And explores the huge toll that shift work takes on both our physical and mental health, so much so that the World Health Organization has described the link between shift work and cancer as

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46:15

Can Longevity Drugs and Lifestyle Extend Our Lifespan?

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/05/30

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 the aim is not to live forever, or live longer when we are frail and ill, but to lengthen our healthy lifespan. When we age, the odds of us getting a range of degenerative diseases or life threatening illnesses increase, so the science of anti-aging is

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49:43

Should You Take A Statin?

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/04/11

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 cholesterol levels and the numbers of people recommended to take them continues to increase. Just this year, the UK’s National Institute of Clinical Excellence, NICE, has extended its recommendations to suggest that those with a less than 10% 10 year risk of

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47:21

What You Need to Check Before Taking Any Prescription...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/03/28

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 American market the day before Vanessa's funeral. Terence argues in a new book that it’s essential that we all educate ourselves about drug safety. We can’t just leave it to doctors. He says most of us have absolutely no idea about the true risks and

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48:32

Sugar, Refined Carbs and Polyunsaturated Fats: The...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/03/14

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 giving nutritional advice. Fettke was told: "there's nothing associated with your medical training that makes you an expert, or authority on the field of nutrition, diabetes or cancer, you're not allowed to make any recommendations to your patients on

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55:42

Could Stem Cell Transplants Play a Critical Role in...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/02/28

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 treatment is only suitable for certain MS patients it can be life changing. The US’s National MS Society says there is growing evidence that HSCT may be highly effective for people with relapsing remitting MS who meet very specific characteristics. The

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