Terry Simpson, MD, FACS, Molecular Virologist, Bariatric Surgeon, Food Science Expert and Myth Buster
There’s a lot of medical information thrown around out there. How are you to know what information you can trust, and what’s just plain old quackery? You can’t rely on your own “google fu”. You can’t count on quality medical advice from Facebook. You need a doctor in your corner.
On each episode of Your Doctor’s Orders, Dr. Terry Simpson will cut through the clutter and noise that always seems to follow the latest medical news. He has the unique perspective of a surgeon who has spent years doing molecular virology research and as a skeptic with academic credentials. Dr. Simpson has been is medical expert for Rolling Stone Magazine, Huffington Post, National Daytime TV shows, KTAR Radio and PBS news.
Red Meat: Is it good or bad? The answer is sometimes
Red meat is every bit as contentious as politics. In this case carnivores vs vegans - here is the latest data with references
The Carnivore Diet and Myths
The Alaska Native peoples are often cited by the Carnivore diet proponents as an example of people who ate well and had no disease. This is incorrect.
Fish Oil and Atrial Fibrillation
Fish oil capsules are a multi-billion dollar industry that was just hit with the reality that they may cause more harm than good.
COVID Vaccine Myths
Now that the COVID19 vaccine is out, the anti-vaccination crowd has started their nonsense about the vaccine. Some of their myths just don’t fly, but they are now doing a new myth: Isn’t this just too soon – or we rolled this vaccine out too soon. Nothing could be...
mRNA Vaccines – A New Hope
mRNA vaccines are an exciting new development in the field of molecular biology to help cure a disease that will quickly become the number one killer in the world. This is the culmination of years of work and I could not be more excited by this moment in history....
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