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The Risks of Luxury Psychedelic Clinics Abroad (opens the original)
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Luxury psychedelic retreats promise healing in beautiful, spa-like settings, but the reality behind the marketing is often far less safe. In this episode, Dr. Wu and Darren dig into "Americans Encounter Risks at Psychedelic Clinics Abroad" by Noah Daly and Andrew Jacobs, published in the New York Times on August 26, 2026. The conversation covers the unregulated boom in ibogaine, 5-MeO-DMT, and kambo treatments across Mexico and South America, real deaths tied to cardiac risk and inadequate monit
Overprescribed Medications in Older Adults (opens the original)
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Millions of older adults take the same daily pills year after year without anyone stopping to ask whether they still make sense. In this episode, Dr. Wu and Darren dig into "3 Common Drugs Older Adults May Be Overusing" by Paula Span, from the New York Times' New Old Age column (published September 5, 2026). The conversation covers three widely prescribed medications, benzodiazepines like Valium and Ambien, antibiotics routinely given for uncomplicated diverticulitis, and daily aspirin taken for
Gene Editing and Allergy-Free Dogs (opens the original)
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Can gene editing finally solve the oldest problem in dog ownership? In this episode, Dr. Wu and Darren dig into "Gene Editing Technology Offers New Ways to Create the Dogs of Our Dreams" by Emily Anthes, published in The New York Times' Pet Theory column on August 31, 2026 (print edition September 8). The story follows Kindred Companion Sciences and CEO Matt Walker, who used CRISPR to disable the Can F1 gene, responsible for the primary canine allergen, and produced two beagles, Alfie and Bailey
Food as medicine Part 1 (opens the original)
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What if the cotton shirt on your back and the sound of traffic outside your window count as food? In this episode, Dr. Wu and Darren explore three traditional medicine systems, separated by thousands of years and thousands of miles, that all arrived at the same radical idea: your environment is nutrition. Drawing on "Indian Traditional Ayurvedic System of Medicine and Nutritional Supplementation" by M. M. Pandey, Subha Rastogi, and A. K. S. Rawat (2013), "Essential role of medicine and food homo
Can Diet Reverse Macular Degeneration (opens the original)
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Wet age-related macular degeneration is the leading cause of blindness among older adults in developed countries, and the standard treatment, anti-VEGF injections, works by blocking abnormal blood vessel growth in the eye. But can nutrition support that treatment further? In this episode, Dr. Wu and Darren break down "Effect of a Nutraceutical-Oriented Dietary Intervention on Serum Carotenoids and Antioxidant Vitamin Concentrations in Patients with Neovascular Age-Related Macular Degeneration,"
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