Dr. Ravi Kumar is a board-certified neurosurgeon who left the operating room to explore the questions that matter most about your health.
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A new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper found soda purchases dropped about 12% among SNAP households in 10 states with new restrictions, but recipients shifted up to 39% of that money into juice and other sugary drinks the rules do not cover.
A UK Biobank study of 46,448 people born around the end of British sugar rationing found lower rates of adult anxiety and depression in those restricted the longest, but the design cannot separate sugar from everything else that changed in 1953.
A Columbia team mapped nearly half a million cells from donated human hippocampus tissue and found that in major depressive disorder, new neurons start forming but fail to mature.
A 376,511-person Swedish cohort found that people who returned their mailed stool kit had 43% lower colorectal cancer mortality, while everyone who was merely invited had 26% lower mortality, and the difference between those two numbers is behavior, not biology.
Federal officials traced an unusual two-pathogen outbreak to Calco and Everything Sprouts brand alfalfa sprouts, which the grower is now recalling.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has reported 5,290 confirmed Bundibugyo virus cases and 2,516 deaths in the largest and fastest-growing Ebola outbreak ever recorded, and the one licensed Ebola vaccine was built against a different species.
Put 100 people with no symptoms into a modern cardiac CT with AI plaque analysis and only about 1% come out completely clean. Dr. Ravi Kumar sits down with preventative cardiologist Dr. John Osborne to explain why a calcium score only sees the extinct volcano and misses the lava, why 10 to 50% of people with a zero score still carry significant soft plaque, how plaque volume is staged in cubic millimeters, why plaque burden shows no correlation with LDL, ApoB, or Lp(a), and what an evidence based plan to actually reverse plaque looks like.
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Dr. Ravi Kumar is a board-certified neurosurgeon and assistant professor of neurosurgery at the University of North Carolina. After years in the operating room, a transformative sabbatical in India changed how he saw medicine forever.
Now, through The Dr. Kumar Discovery, he explores the intersection of modern science, traditional wisdom, and the questions most doctors never think to ask.
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★★★★★"I love this podcast! It's smart and covers the science in very accessible ways. After each episode I feel empowered to make some changes in my life. Thanks, Dr. Kumar!"
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★★★★★"Dr Kumar's podcasts have been such a great find! As an OR nurse I have worked with neurosurgeons for years. I found the podcasts to be informative, easy to follow and just the right length."
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