Podcast with Dr. Abby Philips.
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Sources:

[1]: Paper presented at American Association: No.18 and No.260 in this link: https://aasldpubs.onlinelibrary.wiley...

[2]: Herbalife paper: https://retractionwatch.com/wp-conten...

[3]: Talent of Magical Research. The study - https://www.tmrjournals.com/article.h... and the journal section - https://www.tmrjournals.com/tmrde/

[4]: 14 yr old girl arsenic and alcohol poisoning: https://academic.oup.com/omcr/article...

Studies on common Ayurvedic herbs:
Turmeric: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36252...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32656...

Giloy: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

Ashwagandha: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31991...

Chapters:
0:00 - Intro
1:52 - Who is Dr. Abby?
3:11 - How Abby became Dr. Abby
7:08 - Specialization after MBBS
11:46 - A timeline of Dr. Abby’s medical education
13:40 - How Dr. Abby discovered the problems with Alternative Medicine
21:50 - Why are we seeing these problems only now?
24:26 - Fearmongering vs. genuine evidence (and alternative medicine apologists)
28:08 - Why should anyone believe Dr. Abby?
33:43 - What is the importance of evidence?
38:19 - Dr. Abby’s Twitter
45:44 - Legal battles & The Streisand Effect
46:33 - How big is this problem?
51:18 - Specific Herbs and Toxicity
56:53 - Why do alternative medicines escape legal regulation?
1:00:14 - What is the Government doing/should be doing about it?
1:04:38 - Public tax money being wasted
1:09:06 - Research done by Ayush
1:11:57 - Integrated Medicine
1:16:17 - Mistrust of the Pharma Industry
1:20:02 - The value of patient - doctor interaction
1:25:05 - The flaws of modern medicine vs. alternative medicine
1:25:57 - Please support this podcast
1:26:15 - Is the AYUSH ministry doing anything beneficial?
1:27:59 - Genuine research or smoke and mirrors trick?
1:32:39 - Alternative Medicine outside India
1:35:54 - Liver injury from Alt med outside India
1:41:08 - Herbal drug that won the Nobel Prize - Artemisinin
1:45:44 - Advice for BAMS Ayurveda Graduates
1:52:44 - Was Dr. Abby ever tempted to go into BHMS?
1:54:02 - Separate Entrance Exams
1:54:50 - Ayurveda Families
1:56:00 - There is no “Alternative Engineering”
1:57:00 - Doctor - Patient Ratio
1:58:53 - Can tax money help improve that ratio?
2:01:20 - How can you protect yourself?
2:05:02 - Fake Experts
2:08:41 - How to think vs. what to think
2:11:30 - Are doctors misinformed due to lack of time?
2:18:37 - Why don’t more doctors call all this out?
2:23:32 - Are modern medicine doctors scared they’ll lose business?
2:25:48 - Are we trying to attack alternative medicine professions?

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