“You know, Africa has no peanut allergies.” - Dr. Marty Makary

I was honored to be joined this week by Dr. Marty Makary to promote his new book “Blind Spots”, which published this week and is currently a national bestseller.

To purchase “Blind Spots”, use this link: https://geni.us/blindspots

Dr. Marty Makary is a surgeon, researcher, and author, as well as an advocate for better approaches to public health. He’s known for challenging medical dogma and asking the questions nobody else will. In our conversation, we talked about his new book, why these misguided public health recommendations get broadcast in the first place, and why it’s so important to have better health conversations in this country.

One of the bigger topics that we covered was the peanut allergy epidemic, and why Marty Makary believes that recommendations based on opinion instead of data caused so many more kids to get peanut allergies than they would otherwise.

Chapters:

00:00:00 Introducing Dr. Marty Makary
00:08:13 Misguided Public Medical Recommendations
00:14:49 Challenging Established Health Norms
00:24:46 Why The Low-Fat Diet Was Misinformation
00:36:45 Why Are We Doing So Many C-Sections?
00:41:46 Unnecessary Medical Care
00:47:56 Questioning Medical Dogma
00:50:11 Influential Figures Shaping Health Conversations

Key Links for Social:

@SelfFunded on YouTube for video versions of the podcast and much more - https://www.youtube.com/@SelfFunded

Listen on Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/1TjmrMrkIj0qSmlwAIevKA?si=068a389925474f02

Listen on Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/self-funded-with-spencer/id1566182286

Follow Spencer on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencer-smith-self-funded/

Follow Spencer on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/selffundedwithspencer/

Key Words:

Blind Spots, Medical Dogma, Evidence Based Medicine, Public Health, Nutrition Misinformation, C-Section Consequences, Healthcare Challenges, Health Awareness, Public Health Figures, Critical Thinking, Health Discourse, Quality Healthcare, self funded, podcast, peanut allergies, peanut allergy, peanut allergy epidemic, marty makary, dr marty makary, pediatricions, public health recommendations

#BlindSpots #MedicalDogma #EvidenceBasedMedicine #PublicHealth #NutritionMisinformation #CSectionConsequences #HealthcareChallenges #HealthAwareness #PublicHealthFigures #CriticalThinking #HealthDiscourse #QualityHealthcare #selffunded #podcast