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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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40:27

Could Inflammation, Diet and Disease Be Linked?

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/02/14

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 and viruses, in her recently published book A Silent Fire: The Story of Inflammation, Diet and Disease, Shilpa claims many of us are suffering from hidden low inflammation which may be at the root of many illnesses and reveals simple lifestyle changes we

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43:32

Dr David Healy Discusses SSRI Drugs, Suicide and...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/02/02

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 that risk? David also discusses the evidence from healthy volunteer trials, these are small trials that take place before the major trials and regulators can be unaware of these trials' results yet they often contain important information about a drug's

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44:52

How to Keep Your Gut Healthy - Season Two

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2023/01/17

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 example, it turns out that not all calories are equal, because different microbes will deal with identical calorie foods in very different ways. 70% of our immune cells are actually in our gut, so how our microbes interact with these immune cells has a

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44:03

Should You Take A Vitamin D Supplement? - Season Two

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2022/12/20

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 simply too low. And that many of us, even those living in a hot climate, will not be able to get enough vitamin D from sunlight alone. Dr Horlick contends that not only do we need vitamin D for bone health, we also need it for many other critical functions

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01:05:25

Could Low-Carb Diets Help Treat Mental Illness? -...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2022/12/06

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 psychiatric care in the future. She spent a decade treating patients with the standard approaches of medication and psychotherapy but became increasingly frustrated that she was not seeing the results she had hoped. So began to explore nutritional options and

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53:49

Sugar - A Chronic Toxin? - Season Two

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2022/11/08

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 need to see sugar not just as empty calories, but as a chronic, addictive toxin. In this podcast, Rob reveals just what sugar does to our bodies. And he claims that while modern medicine has been highly effective in treating acute illness, it has failed in

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01:01:14

The Whistleblower Who Inspired A John Le Carré Novel...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2022/10/25

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 as too fantastical or improbable. To tell this remarkable tale, I am talking to whistleblower Dr Nancy Olivieri, who became concerned during a trial about the effectiveness of a drug that she was using to treat thalassemia – an inherited form of

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31:58

How the Smartphone Could Revolutionise Healthcare

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2022/10/06

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 in all of medicine and has been voted the number one most influential physician-leader in the United States, explains the huge range of tests that phones can now carry out, from assessing kidney function to controlling asthma. And with technical

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50:52

First Drug Company to Be Accused of Racketeering in a...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2022/09/29

This week’s podcast is about one of the world’s top selling drugs, Neurontin (generic name Gabapentin). 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 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organisations Act, a piece of legislation that was actually brought in tackle organized crime. The company had been accused of encouraging doctors to use Neurotonin not just for its approved use,

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40:36

What Happens When the Doctor Becomes The Patient?

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2022/09/22

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 certain level of self-deception and exaggerated self-belief. But after decades of treating patients, frequently for dangerous and life-threatening conditions, it was a huge shock as Henry describes in his latest book, And Finally, when he found himself

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45:56

Has Medicine Been Too Slow to Explore the Benefits of...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2022/09/15

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 diabetes but for a range of other metabolic and neurological conditions. For decades, patients with type II diabetes were told to eat a high carbohydrate diet, despite the fact that their problem was that their carbohydrate levels were already out of

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25:13

Why The UK Does Poorly For Some Cancers & The...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2022/09/08

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 believes are necessary to change this. And Karol goes on to discuss the devastating impact that Covid has had on the UK's cancer services, which led to palliative care being halted and now means that patients are presenting with much later stage cancers, which

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37:45

How To Be A Savvy Cancer Patient

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2022/09/01

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 patients really need to know. He believes those who take an active interest in their care are in the strongest position to get the best treatment, so knowing how to navigate the health care system effectively can make a huge difference. He talks about his

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28:35

Why Does Medical Science Know So Little About The...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2022/08/24

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 study of men, male animals and male cell lines. Up until the 1990s, women were largely excluded from medical trials. The result of this is that there are many drugs in use today that were never trialled on women. And in fact, eight out of ten drugs that

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37:07

SSRIs - Serotonin Hypothesis, Drug Effectiveness &...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2022/08/17

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 journalist, and former BBC producer/director. You can find out more about Liz and the podcast at whatyourgpdoesnttellyou.com, subscribe to Liz's Substack newsletter with weekly podcast updates at liztucker.substack.com and follow Liz on Twitter at

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