Dr Karan Explores

💬 “Anybody can fall prey to this type of misinformation. It does a lot of harm” ~Dr Andrea Love ⚡️ Dr Andrea Love is an immunologist and microbiologist, and founder of ImmunoLogic - an organisation dedicated to debunking the worst of internet pseudoscience and improving science literacy. ⚡️ Andrea and I have a long list of misinformation to get through in this episode. Claims like fluoride lowers your IQ, GMOs are scary and mammograms give you cancer - and that’s not the half of it. 🎧 Stay tuned to find out: ➡︎ How we all have the capacity to fall prey to misinformation - and how to spot it ➡︎ How cancer misinformation can be lethal ➡ The dangers of the raw milk trend ➡︎ What the science really says about fluoride ➡︎ Why organic probably isn’t worth your money 📕 Chapters (1:02) Why good information is hard to find (3:36) Coffee and aloe vera gives you cancer? (9:45) Mammograms cancer myth (16:06) The real harm of misinformation (23:14) Do supplements work? (30:34) What does organic actually mean? (34:53) GMO fear (42:31) Fluoride lowers IQ? (49:04) Rise of the raw milk craze 📱 Connect with me: TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/drkaranrajan Instagram: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.karanr 📱 Connect with Andrea: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.andrealove/  Website: https://www.immunologic.org/  🔥 Get my free weekly newsletter filled with easy to action health tips, interesting facts and science to fill your curiosity: https://drkaran.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🔥 For more useful science for your everyday life, grab my best selling book “This Book May Save Your Life”: https://geni.us/DrKaranBook  🎙️ An OG Podcasts production.

💬 “There's compelling evidence now that with a fairly minimalistic routine you can see very good results” ~Dr Brad Schoenfeld ⚡️ Dr Brad Schoenfeld is the go-to guy when it comes to muscle building advice. Known as “The Hypertrophy Specialist”, he’s authored more than 200 scientific papers on the subject and his work is cited by fitness professionals around the world. ⚡️ In this episode Brad and I discuss the trend of science-based lifting, cutting through the noise of all the advice out there, to help you choose the stuff that’s really going to help you the most. 🎧 Stay tuned to find out: ➡︎ Whether you can get in shape with just one session a week ➡︎ Why you don’t need to train to failure for the best results (and how many reps to do) ➡ Why free weight exercises aren’t superior to machines ➡︎ The science of supersets and drop sets ➡︎ Why you might not need a full range of motion to build muscle 📕 Chapters (1:06) The rise of science based lifting (2:50) Where do beginners start? 4:09 How many gains in 1 session per week? (5:57) Training to failure (8:46) Are you training hard enough? (12:13) Machines vs free weights (16:32) How many reps should you do? (24:36) Rest periods (27:30) Supersets (29:00) Drop sets (30:23) Lengthened partials (33:22) Creatine hyper responders (35:10) Is muscle memory real? (38:41) The pump (41:26) Putting it all into action 📱 Connect with me: TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/drkaranrajan Instagram: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.karanr 📱 Connect with Brad: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bradschoenfeldphd/  Website: https://www.lookgreatnaked.com/  🔥 Get my free weekly newsletter filled with easy to action health tips, interesting facts and science to fill your curiosity: https://drkaran.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🔥 For more useful science for your everyday life, grab my best selling book “This Book May Save Your Life”: https://geni.us/DrKaranBook  🎙️ An OG Podcasts production.

💬 “Chocolate has got more complexity of flavour than just about anything else on the planet” ~Spencer Hyman ⚡️ Spencer Hyman is the Co-Founder & Chair of Chocolate at Cocoa Runners, a company that sources the world’s best craft chocolate and brings them all together under one roof. Spencer is a chocolate and flavour nerd and hosts regular tasting events to share his passion. I even get to taste some myself! ⚡️ In this episode Spencer and I explore the history of humankind’s love of the cocoa bean, why craft chocolate is so much healthier than your classic supermarket bar, as well as the surprising range of health benefits it offers. 🎧 Stay tuned to find out: ➡︎ How modern processing strips all of the good out of supermarket chocolate bars ➡︎ The sneaky tricks “Big Chocolate” uses to get you to scoff bar after bar ➡ The difference between flavour and taste, and how to savour your food more ➡︎ Whether dark chocolate really is healthier than milk ➡︎ Why toxic heavy metals have been showing up in chocolate bars 📕 Chapters (1:47) How your chocolate is made (3:38) Chocolate’s history (5:08) Why it matters where your chocolate is from (6:31) Normal vs craft chocolate (11:29) Health benefits of good chocolate (17:21) Can milk or white chocolate be healthy? (22:12) Flavour, taste and mouthfeel (26:15) Chocolate and heart health (32:38) Why you should savour your food (37:26) Why we find it hard to describe flavour (41:46) Taste test (58:39) Where can you buy craft chocolate? (1:00:25) How much chocolate should you eat? (1:01:58) Heavy metal contamination (1:06:47) Why ‘fair trade’ isn’t very fair 📱 Connect with me: TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/drkaranrajan Instagram: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.karanr 📱 Connect with Spencer: Website: https://cocoarunners.com/  🔥 Get my free weekly newsletter filled with easy to action health tips, interesting facts and science to fill your curiosity: https://drkaran.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🔥 For more useful science for your everyday life, grab my best selling book “This Book May Save Your Life”: https://geni.us/DrKaranBook  🎙️ An OG Podcasts production.

💬 “Microbes can influence things like behaviour, mood, cognition. We're starting to see links with things like Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease as well.”  ~Dr Jonathan Swann ⚡️ Dr Jonathan Swann from the University of Southampton is one of the UK’s leading experts on the gut microbiome, with a particular interest in the gut-brain axis. ⚡️ In this episode Jonathan and I explain how your brain and gut communicate with each other, and why you might experience IBS, depression and other negative health effects when that connection breaks down. 🎧 Stay tuned to find out: ➡︎ How your gut not only talks to your brain, but your brain also talks to your gut ➡︎ Why meditating monks have super-healthy guts. ➡ How you can give a mouse depression by messing with its gut microbiome ➡︎ Whether gut-brain therapies like psychobiotics are any good ➡︎ News about human trials of poop transplants 📕 Chapters (1:12) How the gut-brain axis works (6:22) How many microbes live in the gut? (9:32) What can go wrong with the gut-brain connection? (18:19) Diet and mood (20:07) Gut transplants (21:48) The role of fungi and viruses (24:35) “A gut feeling” (26:11) Psychobiotics (32:22) Antibiotics (33:37) Microbiome’s impact on Alzheimer’s (36:34) Age-related cognitive decline (38:28) Management strategies (43:24) The problem with poop analysis 📱 Connect with me: TikTok: https://www.instagram.com/drkaranrajan Instagram: https://www.tiktok.com/@dr.karanr 📱 Connect with Jonathan: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-swann-58a83b66/?originalSubdomain=uk Website: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/people/5y5nsv/doctor-jonathan-swann  🔥 Get my free weekly newsletter filled with easy to action health tips, interesting facts and science to fill your curiosity: https://drkaran.beehiiv.com/subscribe 🔥 For more useful science for your everyday life, grab my best selling book “This Book May Save Your Life”: https://geni.us/DrKaranBook 🎙️ An OG Podcasts production.