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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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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A 168-patient French randomized trial found that adding a soft lumbar belt to usual care improved disability and pain more than usual care alone, and cut the share of patients using pain medication from 67.6% to 50.6%.
A 28-person Japanese study found that a rare tumor-fighting immune cell climbs steeply after age 100, but the direction of cause and effect is still wide open.
A 27-dataset genetic study of more than 63,000 people with eating disorders found that anorexia and binge eating pull in opposite genetic directions on body size, and that most of their genetic signal is not the genetics of BMI.
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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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