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Discover trustworthy health insights with your new doctor friends! Join Dr. Jeremy Alland, Dr. Julie Bruene and top experts from around the world each week as they demystify common medical questions and discuss trending health topics in a friendly, informative manner.
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Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Tuesday Jun 04, 2024
Have you heard of the term, "bigorexia"?
It is a form of body dysmorphic disorder, similar in ways to anorexia.
Bigorexia is used to describe muscle dysmorphia, a condition exhibited mostly by boys/men and characterized by excessive weight lifting, a preoccupation with not feeling muscular enough and a strict adherence to eating foods that lower weight and build muscle.
And it is seriously on the rise, and surprisingly under-recognized.
The rise has led to articles titled, “What is Bigorexia?” in the NY Times and “Body Dysmorphia in boys and men can fuel muscle obsession, doctors say” in the Washington Post.
Body image challenges are not a new thing, however the world we live in today presents new accelerants making these conditions even harder to manage. If we are not screening for them in all people, no matter gender status, we are likely missing people who need help.
Lucky for us, there are amazing clinician researchers doing outstanding work to try to help us understand more about these conditions and ways we can help. And today we have a world’s expert whose lab has published extensively on muscle dysmorphia.
Welcome, Jason Nagata, MD!
- Dr. Nagata is a pediatrician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco specializing in adolescent and young adult eating disorders.
- He researches eating disorders, muscle-enhancing behaviors, and social media in boys and men.
- He edited the book Eating Disorders in Boys and Men and is Senior Editor of the Journal of Eating Disorders.
- He has published over 300 articles in academic journals and his research has been covered by The New York Times, CNN, NPR, and NBC News.
- He is the recipient of the American Academy of Pediatrics Emerging Leader in Adolescent Health Award and the International Association for Adolescent Health Young Professionals Prize.
Dr. Nagata recommends the following resources:
The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) website.
Your Doctor Friends recommend checking out Dr. Nagata's "Nagata Lab" page on the UCSF website!
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Tuesday May 28, 2024
Tuesday May 28, 2024
EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT BRAIN TUMORS! We try to keep it simple here on YDF, but today it IS brain surgery!
We are rounding out Brain Tumor Awareness Month! Building on our conversation last week with Alyx Porter, MD, re: how to know if you could have a tumor, this episode focuses on the other side of the conversation. Let's explore treatment! More specifically, answering the question, "I have a brain tumor, can you remove it?"
Cue our UNBELIEVABLE guest, Neurosurgical Oncologist, Edjah Nduom, MD, FAANS!
- Dr. Nduom is the Daniel Louis Barrow Endowed Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Neurosurgery at Emory University School of Medicine.
- He serves as Leader of the Brain Tumors Disease Group for Winship Cancer Institute.
- He has held numerous national and international roles in the neurosurgical and brain tumor community, including Founder and Diasporan Board Member for the Society for Neuro-Oncology Sub-Saharan Africa, Scientific Program Chair for the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting and Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Brain Tumor Society.
- He is also accomplished in basic, translational, and clinical research, developing new immune therapy treatments for malignant brain tumors.
- Dr. Nduom's clinical specialty is the surgical management of brain and spinal cord tumors.
Topics covered in today's episode:
What are common types of brain tumors and their treatment options?
What kind of specialist should you see if you are diagnosed with a brain tumor? Should you get a second opinion?
Which tumors should be surgically removed?
Should people get routine brain or body scans to look for brain tumors?
What are common surgical techniques for removing brain tumors?
Are brain tumor surgeries done while the patient is awake?
Does brain tumor DNA typing help to guide treatment?
And much, much more!
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Tuesday May 21, 2024
Tuesday May 21, 2024
It's Brain Tumor Awareness Month! Have you ever felt perhaps "too aware" - letting your imagination run amok and ponder if its reaaally just a headache, or maybe something a bit more serious?
Most folks can relate. Sometimes we jump to "worst case scenario" when appraising our symptoms, as a defense mechanism. We want to feel prepared, feel like we are one step ahead, that we can control the situation. We also love that sweet release when we realize that it WAS just a headache after all.
It can be an exhausting cycle. How do you know if you're one of the "worried well" or if there's really something there, especially when it comes to brain tumors??
Cue today's unbelievable guest, Alyx Porter, MD, FAAN!
- Dr. Porter is the Director of the NeuroOncology Section at Mayo Clinic in Arizona and is an Associate Professor of Neurology.
- Having been with Mayo for over two decades, she has worked diligently to provide care for patients with tumors and cancers involving the nervous system in addition to patients who have neurologic complications resulting from their systemic cancers.
- Her research interests are aimed at ensuring that patients with brain cancers have the best quality of life as possible.
- She is also co-author of the book, Navigating Life with a Brain Tumor, a resource for patients and families.
- She and her husband, Dr. Gregory Umphrey founded a national non-profit in 2019, ElevateMeD.
- To date, ElevateMeD has awarded over $1,000,000 in scholarships and support to medical students from underrepresented backgrounds.
- ElevateMeD is committed to elevating the field of medicine by providing financial support, mentorship and leadership training to future physicians from racial and ethnic backgrounds underrepresented in medicine.
Sometimes it's a tumor. Sometimes it's not. Either way, be informed, be prepared, keep asking questions and listen to Your Doctor Friends :)
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Tuesday May 14, 2024
Tuesday May 14, 2024
Have you ever stood up quickly and felt a little lightheaded or felt your heart racing? What if, out of the blue, that started happening EVERY TIME YOU STOOD UP?
This can be reality for folks with POTS (postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome), or other forms of "orthostatic dysfunction". It can be quite debilitating, especially since it seems to target young athletic folks. Also, like many other health conditions which can manifest as nebulous, subjective symptoms (fatigue, dizziness, heart racing, brain fog, etc)- patients with POTS often feel misunderstood, ignored, and gaslit by their healthcare providers (who may not be well trained in these conditions.)
Let's fix all that, shall we??
Your Doctor Friends came across a great article in the Washington Post titled "They're young and athletic. They're also ill with a condition called POTS" that featured our guest today, Camden Hebson, MD (as well as his colleague at University of Alabama Birmingham, Sara Gould, MD). Among other expert opinions in the article, Dr. Hebson outlined the increasing diagnosis of POTS, especially in young athletes. What is it? Who gets it? Why do we think this happens? How can we manage it?
Resources for today's episode include:
UAB website for Dr. Hebson's and Dr. Gould's Sports Medicine Cardiology Clinic for Young Athletes.
The website for Dysautonomia International, a great advocacy organization for folks with POTS, and other similar autonomic nervous system dysregulation conditions.
Vanderbilt University Autonomic Dysfunction Center website outlining all their recent research projects and publications.
Cleveland Clinic's website on POTS.
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Tuesday May 07, 2024
Tuesday May 07, 2024
Do you remember "scoliosis check" during middle school? That embarrassing moment where, as a 12/13 year old, you had to do a shirtless forward fold in front of the school nurse?? MORTIFYING.
Perhaps you never had to live through this torture. Or perhaps, even WORSE, you were told by said nurse that your screen was POSITIVE, and now your parents had to know! And they would have to *gasp* take you to the doctor to DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN!
Nightmare!
Well, thankfully we've come a long way since then! And today we have insights from TWO guests in the world of scoliosis to educate us!
We invited our friend and colleague, Chris DeWald, MD, who between him and his father, have over 60 years of experience treating scoliosis patients. Dr. DeWald is an orthopedic spine surgeon at Rush University Medical Center, who specializes in spine deformity, and is legit one of the kindest people on the planet :)
And to add a different dimension, we asked Lauren Higginson, the founder of Higgy Bears, and a scoliosis patient herself, to give her insights into living with this condition, the observations she has from her community and her thoughts on screening.
You may be met with a twists and turns in life (or in your spine), either way we are here for you :)
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Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
Tuesday Apr 30, 2024
PART 2 of our coverage of young-onset colorectal cancer! This week our guest is an Oncology expert, here to give us in-depth information about colorectal cancer, with actionable items on how we can protect ourselves.
Colorectal cancer in younger folks (under 50 years old) is unfortunately on the rise. According to the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, in the US, about 10% of colorectal cancer cases are diagnosed in people under 50.
Did you know that in 2021, the USPSTF (the federal task force that creates and implements screening guidelines in the US) changed their colorectal cancer screening guidelines? Instead of average-risk folks getting their first screening colonoscopy at 50 (the previous standard), the recommendation is now to start at 45!
Your Doctor Friends are happy to present a physician expert in colorectal cancer to provide even more helpful information about why this disease may be targeting younger people, and what we can do as individuals to protect ourselves and those we care about :)
Welcome, Meena Sadaps, MD!
Dr. Sadaps is a board certified oncologist and assistant professor with Your Doctor Friends at Rush, and practices at the RUSH MD Anderson Cancer Center. She attended Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University before completing residency and fellowship at Cleveland Clinic.
HEADS UP! The Colorectal Cancer Alliance Blue Hope Bash annual fundraising event in Chicago is Friday, May 3rd, 2024, at Galleria Marchetti (where Jeremy got married!) and Your Doctor Friends plan to attend!
If you can't attend the Blue Hope Bash, PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING to the Colorectal Cancer Alliance!
Resources for this episode include:
A 2021 review article from the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology regarding young-onset colorectal cancer.
The National Cancer Institute's website re: warning signs of young-onset colorectal cancer.
A CNN article about the rise of young-onset colorectal cancer.
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Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
Tuesday Apr 23, 2024
Colorectal cancer in younger folks (under 50 years old) is unfortunately on the rise. According to the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, in the US, about 10% of colorectal cancer cases are diagnosed in people under 50.
- Those numbers are rising about 1-2% percent each year, and researchers are still finding out why.
- Young adults are the only population group experiencing an increase in colorectal cancer
- Colorectal cancer is currently the deadliest cancer among young men and the second deadliest among young women.
In August 2020, the world lost amazing actor, Black Panther himself, Chadwick Boseman, to colorectal cancer at the age of 43.
Did you know that in 2021, the USPSTF (the federal task force that creates and implements screening guidelines in the US) changed their colorectal cancer screening guidelines? Instead of average-risk folks getting their first screening colonoscopy at 50 (the previous standard), the recommendation is now to start at 45!
Sharing personal experiences, and highlighting the stories of people touched by colorectal cancer is POWERFUL, and the ripple effects flow far.
Your Doctor Friends are SO HONORED to highlight two wonderful individuals on this episode- Ashley Bowman, MHA and Dawn Schneider, PhD, MBA. Ashley and Dawn have quite a bit in common- they are both advocate volunteers at the Colorectal Cancer Alliance, members of the Never Too Young Taskforce Advisory Board, and unfortunately both lost sisters to young-onset colorectal cancer.
Ashley and Dawn share their amazing, heartbreaking, and inspiring personal stories in this episode. We are so grateful!
We will follow up next week with a physician expert in colorectal cancer to provide even more helpful information about why this disease may be targeting younger people, and what we can do as individuals to protect ourselves and those we care about :)
HEADS UP! The Blue Hope Bash annual fundraising event in Chicago is Friday, May 3rd, 2024, at Galleria Marchetti (where Jeremy got married!) and Your Doctor Friends plan to attend! (Julie is already shopping for a fancy blue outfit :)
COME JOIN US! Opportunities to register for the event CLOSE ON TUESDAY 4/23/24 (the day THIS EPISODE DROPS)!
If you can't attend the Blue Hope Bash, PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING to the Colorectal Cancer Alliance!
Resources for this episode include:
A 2021 review article from the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology regarding young-onset colorectal cancer.
The National Cancer Institute's website re: warning signs of young-onset colorectal cancer.
A CNN article about the rise of young-onset colorectal cancer.
A CC Alliance article highlighting our guest, Ashley Bowman!
A CC Alliance article highlighting our guest, Dawn Schneider!
Thanks for tuning in, folks! Please sign up for our "PULSE CHECK" monthly newsletter! Signup is easy, right on our website page, and we PROMISE we will not spam you! We just want to send you cool articles, videos and thoughts :)
For more episodes, limited edition merch, or to become a Friend of Your Doctor Friends (and more), follow this link!
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