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Curiosity fuels discovery, and in medicine, it’s the key to transformation. Too Curious MDs explores the frontiers of healing through narrative medicine, integrative therapies, psychedelics, and patient-centered care. Hosted by Dr. Alya Ahmad and Dr.
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Not Feeling Like Yourself Anymore? The Truth About Perimenopause, Menopause, and the Female Brain and Body with Dr. Liz Lyster, MD (opens the original)
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Dr. Lyster brings decades of experience in women's health and a particular focus on helping women navigate hormonal changes in midlife. In this episode, she joins us to explore the critical questions women face in their 40s and 50s. We discuss why perimenopause starts years before the last period, the science behind menopause brain fog, and how estrogen and progesterone interact with the brain to trigger sudden anxiety, insomnia, or ADHD-like symptoms. We navigate confusing territory—including b
Discovering the Alchemy of Story in the Body with Dr. Gina Dang, DAIM (opens the original)
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Gina and I met in the healing world around Pasadena. She defines liberatory embodiment as work centered on the energy body, the site of transformation, moving toward the rhythms of a sovereign life. Her guiding line: knowing is not healing. Patients aren’t asked to retell anything — the work happens on the table. The hour is surprisingly clinical. She trained in a Japanese-style program long practiced by blind practitioners, a detail that hit home, since her grandfather was blinded in the war. S
Why Is the Hardest Part of Psychedelic Medicine Not the Molecule? (opens the original)
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When I used sub-anesthetic ketamine in pediatrics for years, no one blinked. The moment I brought the same molecule to mental health, the stigma arrived, and that gap is really what this episode is about. Nick Nowak walked me through the machinery that sits between a promising psychedelic and a patient who could use it. He explained why a background in compounding pharmacy, where almost nothing is FDA approved and everything lives in the space between state and federal law, turns out to be usefu
Can Your Fingertips Reveal What Is Happening Inside Your Brain? (opens the original)
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For most of medical history, we have asked patients to tell us how their brains feel, and then tried to read between the lines. Dr. Mark Tommerdahl offered us a different starting point: a way to measure it. He explained how Brain Gauge uses precisely controlled vibrations on two fingertips to track the building blocks of information processing, things like lateral inhibition, plasticity, and timing, that sit underneath memory, focus, and pain. We talked about why the brain behaves like one conn
How can Music and Sound be the "Hidden Therapist" in Psychedelic Healing? with Shane Aspegren (opens the original)
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The track at the end of the episode "Temple Garden Stream" by Shane Aspegren is available here: https://shaneaspegren.bandcamp.com/album/four-bowls-the-high-desert-field-recordings-in-northern-new-mexico In this episode, we explore sound as medicine with Shane Aspegren, who spent three decades as a professional musician before his creative and healing practices merged. He tells us how a dark night of the soul pushed him deeper into sound just as he burned out on music, and how being of service b
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