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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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55:59

Mistletoe Injections - Could these be a valuable...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2025/11/04

Dr Nina Fuller-Shavel discusses the use of injectable mistletoe as a cancer treatment in conjunction with the standard treatments such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy.Nina was working as a doctor in the UK’s NHS when she discovered in her early thirties that she had breast cancer. That was a decade ago, but that experience helped focus her mind on the reality of being a cancer patient and of the importance of treating the whole person not just the disease. Injectable mistletoe

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01:03:45

Diagnosed as a Bipolar Teenager: A Patient's Story...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2025/07/08

Laura Delano, was diagnosed as having bipolar disorder when she was a teenager and would go on to spent 13 years receiving psychiatric care, both as inpatient and outpatient. In the process, she accumulated more and diagnoses, and was given more and more drugs. But - as she explains in her new book: Unshrunk – How the mental health industry took over my life and my fight to get it back, published by Monoray - there was a problem, Laura wasn’t getting better.Despite being a high achieving student

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01:12:16

Alzheimer's Disease Research Fraud: What Are the...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2025/06/24

Investigative journalist Charles Piller explains the remarkable story of fraud he has uncovered in Alzheimer’s Disease research, which he discusses in a new book: Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer’s. Charles argues the result of this is that Alzheimer’s research and treatment has been set by years - if not decades.He goes on to discusse the trial data on which several Alzheimer’s drugs, including Aducanumab, Lecanemab and Donanemab, were approved. Charles says

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49:45

Herbs & Spices: What's The Evidence They Might...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2025/06/10

Kerry Bone, a herbalist who has spent 40 years working in the field, joins the podcast to discuss just what the evidence is that certain herbs and spices might benefit our health.Today we are bombarded with so much confusing information telling us what to eat, when to eat, and often how particular medicinal plants are particularly beneficial to our health. So, today I hope our conversation gives the opportunity to find out what the latest data suggests. One area Kerry discusses is pain managment

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46:17

Medication in Pregnancy: What You Need To Know

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2025/05/27

Obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dr Adam Urato, explains why he is concerned about the huge increase in medications now taken by pregnant women. A figure that has surged in the last few decades. Across the world, women are taking more drugs than ever before while pregnant. In the US, around 90% of women expecting a baby will now take some kind of medication during pregnancyAdam argues the notion a drug is safe until proved otherwise goes completely against the precautionary principle and common

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01:08:06

Overdiagnosis: Has Modern Medicine Gone Too Far?

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2025/05/13

NHS consultant neurologist Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan argues that a range of medical conditions from autism to ADHD are now overdiagnosed, which is completely redefining how we think about sickness and disease. In a new book The Age of Diagnosis; Sickness, Health and Why Medicine Has Gone Too Far, she explains why she believes that creating large numbers of new diagnoses, carries risks for both our mental and physical wellbeing and can turn healthy people into patients.Suzanne is convinced that we

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01:02:55

Cancer: How New Breakthroughs Are Transforming Care

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2025/04/15

In the very first episode of the new season of What Your GP Doesn't Tell you, Liz Tucker talks to medical doctor and researcher, Dr William Li who has treated some of the toughest cancer cases imaginable.He argues for the 21st century treatment of cancer, the solution lies not in a single silver bullet but in an integrative approach. In addition to traditional cancer therapies this also includes newer ones such as immunotherapy and takes into account factors such as the gut biome. Published

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46:47

Why do SSRI drugs and the science behind them...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2025/01/28

Psychiatrist Professor Joanna Moncrieff discusses her new book Chemical Imbalance: The Making and the Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth.I first spoke to Joanna two years ago, just after she had published a review paper suggesting that there was no link between depression and an imbalance of serotonin in the brain. And her book picks up what happened next. As her article gained more and more attention, she found herself in a political maelstrom facing vitriolic personal and professional

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55:54

What You Need To Know Before You Take Any Generic Drug

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/12/31

Journalist Katherine Eban's investigation over more than ten years has uncovered one of the most shocking medical scandals imaginable, which affects millions of patients across the world.In this podcast, she discusses the shocking reality of what happens or perhaps more accurately what doesn’t happen, when generic drugs that we import, are manufactured in countries with poor regulations. When a drug is first approved, it is released with its own brand name, but once the drug’s patent expires, then

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01:07:14

Could Heart Rate Variability Be A Key Tool in...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/12/17

Norwegian GP Dr Torkil Færø argues wearable devices that measure our heart rate and other health metrics, if used in the right way can be transformative in keeping us healthy and helping prevent disease in the future. In his book, The Pulse Cure, he explains why he thinks far more attention should be paid to a key metric which turns out to give a surprisingly accurate snapshot of our level of stress and overall health - and that is our heart rate variability or HRV for short. Torkil explains what

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47:17

Who'd Be a Whistleblower?

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/11/19

Whistleblower Dr Carl Elliott's life changed for ever, when he tried to alert his university about the running of a drug trial which had resulted in the suicide of a patient. A patient whose mother felt should never have been enrolled in a trial in the first place.Carl’s battle came at a huge personal and emotional cost and at the end of years of campaigning and lobbying, little had really changed. His disillusioning experience as a whistleblower has driven him to meet others who have had similar

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01:27:04

Could Dementia Be Preventable and Treatable?

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/11/05

The idea of developing dementia is probably one of our greatest health fears. We tend to think of it as an irreversible disease that gradually robs us of our faculties. But podcast guest, psychiatrist Dr Kat Toups is one of a group of doctors and researchers who argues that certainly in its early stages, the disease is actually reversible. The mistake - she says - is to think of dementia as an illness with a sole cause and instead we need to see it as multi-system disease, which requires a

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01:05:37

Personalised Nutrition: How It Is Transforming Our...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/08/20

Professor Sarah Berry discusses her research in personalised nutrition, which is uncovering the hugely varied effects different foods may have on one particular group or individual compared to others. This variability can be due to our genetics, metabolism or a number of other factors.This may well have important implications for what, when and how we should eat. For example, research is revealing that as we age, many of us have a worse tolerance for eating carbohydrates in the evening compared

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50:58

Are High Cholesterol Levels Dangerous On A Keto Diet?

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/07/23

This week's guest is Dave Feldman, who unusually for this podcast is not a doctor or a medical researcher, but actually a software engineer.For a long time, there has been concern that those on a very low carb or ketogenic diet are pushing their cholesterol to very high levels. This is something that Dave experienced personally, when he noticed the amount of his so called bad cholesterol - the low density lipoprotein, known as LDL - shoot up on a keto diet. And when he found others reporting

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47:18

How Diet Can Help In The Prevention and Treatment of...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/07/09

Oncologist Professor Robert Thomas, argues along with standard conventional cancer treatments - all of which he uses - that exercise and diet can play a pivotal role in improving cancer outcomes.Robert says for the newer biological therapies which require a patient to have robust immunity, research is revealing that a healthier lifestyle and gut health, can improve the chances of responding well to these biological agents by 30-40%. He discusses his research using supplements which have shown

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49:07

Why is the Death Rate Higher for US Dialysis...

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/06/25

Author and journalist Tom Mueller, after meeting whistleblowers working in the US dialysis industry seven years ago, decided to investigate further. Tom argues what he found is a cautionary tale not just about dialysis, but about the impact on healthcare of for profit medicine in general.His book How to Make A Killing: Death, Dollars and the Business of Blood, contains one statistic that I found extraordinary. Although the US has one of the most sophisticated health care systems in the world,

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51:32

How Processed Food Is Engineered To Be Irresistible

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/06/11

Investigative reporter Michael Moss has spent many years uncovering just what it is about processed and fast food that makes it so hard for many of us to resist.This is the final podcast of three that I am doing in conjunction with the International Food addiction Consensus conference held on 17th May. Michael says he now believes from his decades of research, that particular combinations of flavour, texture, fat, protein and carbohydrates can create food that has the potential to be

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47:41

Is Food Addiction Real?

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/05/14

Dr Rob Lustig discusses whether it’s really possible to become addicted to food, and if it is, does that change how we view those who struggle in their relationship with food?In our conversation, Rob argues that the phrase "food addiction" is a misnomer, and that the real issue is food additive addiction. He says all the medical evidence suggests that two additives drive this - sugar and caffeine. And while foodstuffs such as fat and salt may make our food more palatable or enticing, they are not

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47:39

Allergies: What You Need To Know

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/04/02

In the last few decades, there has been a huge increase in allergy and allergic reactions, but why? Just what has changed in our health and environment to bring this about? Consultant NHS allergist Dr Sophie Farooque discusses one of the biggest puzzles in medicine.For example peanut allergies were almost unknown before the 1990s, but today it and other food allergies are much more common. Sophie reveals the best thing to do to stop a child developing a food allergy is - perhaps counter

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45:44

Why Hormones Not Calorie Counting May Be Key In Obesity

Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker ·

2024/03/19

Dr Jason Fung argues that much of what we think we know about weight loss is simply wrong.Jason says that the critical factor in losing weight is hormones - not calories. He believes calorie counting is an overly simplistic approach. And that actually dieting may be the worst thing you can do, because it slows your metabolic rate which actually makes it harder to reduce weight in the future. Jason argues medical science reveals that we all have what is effectively a fat thermostat in our bodies

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