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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If you have type 2 diabetes and are offered a few days of steroid pills for back pain, a rash or a cough, a new Taiwan study is a reason to ask whether you need them and to watch for black stools, fever or shortness of breath over the next month.
No dementia vaccine exists yet, but 72% of Americans over 50 say they would take one, and the shingles shot, already linked to lower dementia risk, is something you can ask your doctor about today.
An FDA panel votes today on GRAIL's Galleri blood test, and FDA's own review found it caught only about 1 in 3 cancers diagnosed within a year, so a negative result is not a reason to skip your colonoscopy, mammogram, Pap test or lung scan.
A chart review of 687 women found those with very large breasts carried more chronic migraine, neck pain, pinched neck nerves and sleep apnea, which matters most for women whose headaches were written off as tension headaches.
A study of 4.2 million emergency visits found that the clinicians with the best looking scan statistics had nearly double the rate of lung clots that went home undiagnosed, which is worth knowing before you leave an ER with unexplained shortness of breath.
Nearly three quarters of the 57 people infected had no documented measles vaccination and 89% were hospitalized, which is the part of this $8.7 million bill worth checking your own family record against.
Dr. Anne Marie Fine is an environmental medicine physician who has spent 25 years measuring what the rest of medicine never tests for. She and Dr. Ravi Kumar get into a UK Biobank study of 44,000 people where the brain and immune system, not the heart, tracked hardest with aging, and where youthful brains behaved like APOE2 carriers and aged brains behaved like APOE4 carriers no matter what the genotype actually was. They work through cadmium, lead released from bone during menopause, mercury vapor from dental fillings, PFAS blunting vaccine antibody response, benzene left behind by a gas stove, mold toxins that shut down glutathione production, DDE that 99% of Americans still carry, and gadolinium from contrast MRI. Then they turn to what you can actually do: avoidance first, air and water filtration, cleaning up makeup and food packaging, and why testing yourself broadly without a plan is bad medicine.
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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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★★★★★"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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