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Fork U with Dr. Terry Simpson

Fork U(niversity) Not everything you put in your mouth is good for you. There’s a lot of medical information thrown around out there. How are you to know what information you can trust, and what’s just plain old quackery? You can’t rely on your own “google fu”. You can’t count on quality medical advice from Facebook. You need a doctor in your corner. On each episode of Your Doctor’s Orders, Dr. Terry Simpson will cut through the clutter and noise that always seems to follow the latest medical

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12:00

Alcohol Cuts Healthspan

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2025/12/11

The Holiday Party That Turned DeadlyIt started at a holiday party.Laughter, champagne, a toast — then a collapse.A fifty-two-year-old, active and healthy, suddenly lost consciousness.Paramedics did CPR and shocked her heart twice.She survived — barely.Doctors called it Holiday Heart Syndrome: an alcohol-triggered arrhythmia that can kill.What Is Holiday Heart?Holiday Heart arises after binge or even moderate drinking, especially around celebrations. Alcohol irritates heart cells, disrupts

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13:03

Muscle, Mitochondria, and Healthspan

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2025/12/04

Muscle is Medicine: Why Lifting Weights is Your Best Longevity InvestmentClearly, your body changes as you age. I learned this lesson years ago when my son was three years old. We started him skiing, and he loved every minute of it. When he fell, he tumbled onto his behind, jumped right back up, and skied down the hill like nothing had happened. He was pure rubber and resilience.However, I was 53 years his senior that year. I did an inadvertent 360-degree twirl on the slopes myself. His mother saw

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09:39

Telomeres and Time: Rewind Aging

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2025/11/27

🧬 Telomeres and Time: Can We Really Rewind Aging?The Lowest Hemoglobin I’ve Ever SeenThe lowest hemoglobin I’ve ever seen belonged to a young woman who was still standing. Her blood count was one-fourth of normal. She was pale, short of breath, and strong enough to walk into the clinic.Doctors soon learned her bone marrow had stopped making new blood cells. The diagnosis was aplastic anemia — a true telomere disease.She survived thanks to her fitness, modern science, and a bone marrow transplant

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12:54

Mitochondria Matter: The Story of Aging

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2025/11/20

The Mitochondria Problem: Why These Tiny Powerhouses Shape How We AgeMany people suddenly talk about mitochondria. You hear them in political speeches, on podcasts, and across social media. RFK Jr said he can “see” kids with weak mitochondria just by watching them walk through an airport. Others claim special diets or powders can “fix” aging by supercharging these organelles.However, most of that chatter misses the actual science.This post breaks down what mitochondria do, why they matter for aging,

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10:38

Urolithin A - Mitochondrial Miracle in the Petri Dish

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2025/11/13

Urolithin A: What It Is, How It Works, and Why Your Gut Decides EverythingBy Dr. Terry SimpsonMost people hear the name Urolithin A and think it belongs in a commercial about prostate health. It sounds like something a man named “Gary, 62,” would talk about while fishing. But Urolithin A has nothing to do with plumbing. Instead, it sits at the center of a new wave of longevity science focused on how our cells clean up old, broken parts.As we age, our mitochondria—the tiny power centers inside our

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12:33

NAD The Molecule of Life — and the Hype

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2025/11/06

🧬 NAD: The Molecule of Life — and the HypeHow a lab coenzyme became the latest anti-aging obsessionWhat We Mean by Longevity and HealthspanWhen people talk about longevity, they usually mean how long we live.But healthspan — the years we live well — matters far more.That’s the time before disease steals our energy, mobility, and independence.Modern medicine has already doubled our lifespan in the last century.Now the goal is to extend the healthy part — without falling for pseudoscience along the

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14:29

FORK U #100 — The Hall of Fame and Shame

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2025/10/31

🎙 Celebrating 100 Episodes of Science, Sanity, and a Little SarcasmThis is it — our 100th episode of FORK U.Over the last hundred episodes, we’ve gone from goat-gland hucksters to the microbiome, from Kellogg’s enemas to cholesterol chemistry, and from Blue Zones to bird flu.Today, we look back — not just to celebrate the great scientists who shaped modern medicine, but to expose the modern influencers who sell that same science back to you in a bottle.Welcome to The FORK U Hall of Fame and

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10:48

The Global Thanksgiving Table

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2025/10/23

Thanksgiving is more than a meal — it’s a worldwide celebration of gratitude built around foods that started here in the Americas. Corn, beans, potatoes, and turkey didn’t just feed a nation; they changed global cuisine. Today, we blend culinary history with medical sense to show how to enjoy the feast without the nap.🍁 A Holiday for the WorldOur Canadian friends already finished their celebration. For their Thanksgiving, I roasted a chicken with Swiss Chalet sauce — if you know, you know. Thank

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06:52

When Vitamin D Isn't Sunshine in a Bottle

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2025/10/16

When Vitamin D Isn’t Sunshine in a BottleVitamin D is sold as bottled sunshine. Social media says it boosts immunity, prevents cancer, and makes you live longer. But science says something very different — and megadoses pushed by influencers like Dr. Eric Berg can do more harm than good. Here’s what you need to know.☀️ The Sunshine Vitamin — and the Myth That FollowsVitamin D has been called the sunshine vitamin for over a century.We discovered it when children in industrial cities developed rickets

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13:31

Animal Protein and Cancer Risk

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2025/10/09

Animal Protein and Cancer Risk: What the Science Really SaysRecently, Mark Hyman posted on X (formerly Twitter) that a new study suggests eating more animal protein might actually lower your risk of cancer. The study he pointed to came from the NHANES dataset—a U.S. survey of diet and health. It sounded reassuring, but it doesn’t line up with the bulk of the evidence. Here is the story about Animal protein and cancer risk:Let’s dig into what the science really shows.Red and Processed Meats: Where

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12:36

When Green Tea Isn’t Chemotherapy

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2025/10/02

When Green Tea Isn’t ChemotherapyIntroductionFood is powerful. Eating well lowers your risk of many diseases, including cancer. Yet food is not chemotherapy. Still, the idea that broccoli or green tea could replace cancer treatment is tempting. It feels safe, natural, and hopeful.However, cancer is not treated with vegetables or tea. Cancer is treated with medicine. Let’s break down what food can and cannot do when it comes to cancer.Broccoli and Cruciferous VegetablesBroccoli, cabbage, Brussels

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09:08

Why Beans Aren’t Medicine

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2025/09/25

Food Is Powerful, But It’s Not EnoughFood shapes our health. Eating beans, fruits, vegetables, and whole grains can lower the risk of diabetes and other chronic conditions. Yet food does not replace medicine. Clearly, diets high in ultra-processed foods make diabetes worse. And yes, eating better is the most empowering thing anyone can do.Still, some claim that modern food is the only reason we have chronic diseases like diabetes. They argue that if people only ate “real food,” there would be no

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13:11

Salmon isn't a Stent Food and Medicine

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2025/09/18

When Salmon Isn’t a StentHeart disease was four times more deadly than it is today. In those days, we had no statins, no stents, and no bypass surgery. Food was the only weapon doctors had.Pharmacies in Rome and Greece even stocked extra virgin olive oil for patients with “hardening of the arteries.” Doctors sent people to pick up bottles, almost like prescriptions. Olive oil wasn’t curing clogged arteries, but it showed an early recognition that diet mattered.Then scientists noticed something

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11:04

Bananas Aren’t Beta Blockers

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2025/09/11

When Bananas Aren’t a Beta BlockerPeople love to believe that food can replace medicine. We talked about this in Episode One, where I explained that Hippocrates never said “let food be thy medicine.” Still, the myth endures.Food does matter. The right eating pattern can lower blood pressure. One of the best-studied is the DASH Diet—short for Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension. It is often called America’s version of the Mediterranean Diet. While the Mediterranean Diet was being mapped out for

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11:56

Tofu Isn't a Statin: Food as Medicine

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2025/09/04

When Tofu Isn’t a StatinPeople love to say “food is medicine.” Some even claim Hippocrates himself said it. But here’s the thing: he didn’t. The phrase does not appear in any of his surviving writings. In fact, historians believe the line was created centuries later and then falsely attached to Hippocrates to give it weight.Still, the idea persists. Even the current head of HHS, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has repeated the myth. And when RFK Jr. is your fact-checker, you know you’re in trouble.Now, as

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12:29

Pasteurization Saves Lives: Milk Myths vs. Science

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2025/08/28

Milk: Life, Death, and the ParadoxMilk has always been central to survival. When mothers died in childbirth—and this happened often before modern medicine—infants survived only if they had access to another nursing mother or wet nurse. When that wasn’t possible, families sometimes turned to the milk of other mammals.That discovery helped keep our species alive. However, milk’s role in human survival carried a hidden danger. While milk nourished infants, it also became a deadly carrier of

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09:49

Protein Powders: Hype and Science

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2025/08/21

Protein Powders: What’s Real, What’s Hype, and Why It MattersProtein powders are everywhere. Walk into a gym, scroll through social media, or visit a health food store, and you’ll see tubs of whey, egg, pea, and soy protein. Add buzzwords like “isolate,” “hydrolysate,” and “grass-fed,” and suddenly these powders sound like liquid gold. But how much of this is science—and how much is hype?From Surgeons to ShakersSurgeons were among the first to use modular proteins. In the ICU, when patients couldn’t

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07:30

MAHA Myths: Why Nutrition Alone Won’t Save You

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2025/08/14

Make America Healthy Again? Hyman’s Half-Truths ExposedMark Hyman loves a soundbite. One of his favorites is:“If doctors were trained in nutrition, we could prevent 90% of heart disease and type 2 diabetes.”It sounds inspiring. Unfortunately, it isn’t true.Nutrition Is Powerful — But It’s Not MagicI’m certified in culinary medicine, and I live the Mediterranean diet. Good nutrition matters. It lowers risk. It supports treatment. However, it cannot replace medicine for people with established

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08:14

Liver Detox- Carter's to Dose

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2025/08/07

Carter’s Little Liver Pills: The Original Detox Scam and Its Modern CousinsFor more than a century, people have searched for quick fixes to “cleanse” the liver. From old‑time laxatives to today’s wellness shots and hangover probiotics, the promise is the same: remove toxins, feel better, live longer. However, as science catches up with marketing claims, we learn a hard truth — most of these cleanses never did what they promised.The Sluggish Liver MythBack in the 1800s, doctors blamed nearly every

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10:36

Edinburgh’s Surgical Revolution

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2025/07/31

Goat Glands, Chloroform, and the City That Saved Surgery(How Edinburgh dragged American medicine out of the Wild West)When we think about modern surgery, it’s easy to imagine it has always been clean, safe, and scientific. However, that could not be further from the truth. Surgery was more like a horror show just over 150 years ago. Patients faced unbearable pain, filthy instruments, and shocking guesswork.Today, we’ll explore how the Scottish city of Edinburgh transformed surgery — and how America,

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