There Are No Healthy Humans on an Unhealthy Planet
An ER doctor breaks down how climate change is already affecting your patients — and a practical Educate, Mitigate, Advocate framework for healthcare workers and the public.
Your Cholesterol Is Not a TikTok. Here’s What the Evidence Actually Says About Blood Testing.
This episode of Overheard in the Emergency Room goes deeper — including a full walkthrough of the USPSTF and ADA prevention frameworks, a detailed breakdown of the 2026 AHA/ACC dyslipidemia guideline, and evidence-based mythbusting on the large-fluffy-LDL claim and supplement-linked lab panels.
Why the US Healthcare System Is So Expensive — And What We Can Actually Do About It
An ER doctor explains why US healthcare costs so much, delivers so little, and what Medicare for All, the Great Healthcare Plan, and EMBRACE propose to fix it.
Your Gut Is Lying to You (And Social Media Is Making It Worse)
An ER doctor breaks down the gut microbiome: what it does, how to improve it, and why the carnivore 'gut reset' trend sent a patient to hospital.
Why Weight Loss Is So Hard (And What Actually Works)
Dr. Adrian Cois breaks down one of the most misunderstood medical conditions in modern healthcare: obesity.
Fluoride causes low IQ?
Do we really need to be worried about fluoride in the water in Australia or the US causing reduced IQ?
Metabolic Disease - The Ultimate Guide
Here we discuss all the highlights of metabolic disease - how common is it, how much it costs, how it happens and what you can do about it.
Exercise: the most powerful longevity “pill” (Tier 1 vs Tier 2 blueprint)
If exercise were a pill, it would be the most powerful longevity drug we have. In Episode 3, Dr Cois breaks down exactly what the evidence says about exercise across the lifespan — and turns it into a simple, repeatable plan.
Hypertension – Don’t blow your top – get it under control!
Should we be starting antihypertensives from the Emergency Room?
Here I make a case for considering it and if you have high blood pressure - give you some great tips on how to manage it without blood pressure medicine.
ED Elevator Pitch for Diet
G’day team — welcome back to Overheard in the Emergency Room. In this episode, we tackle the first Tier 1 intervention in our longevity blueprint: diet. If I had 30 seconds in the ED to give nutrition advice, what would I actually say? Not keto vs vegan. Not carb fear. Not clickbait. A repeatable pattern. We’ll use two ED cases (incidental NAFLD and severe hypertension) to make the stakes real, then zoom out to the best available evidence: dietary guidelines, short-term trials, and the world’s largest nutrition cohort studies. What you’ll learn: • Why a healthy diet is a pattern, not a religion • What the U.S., Australian, and heart-health guidelines consistently recommend • How nutrition evidence is built (mechanisms, trials, cohort studies) and why FFQ criticism is often misused online • How ultra-processed foods and the modern food environment sabotage good intentions • A tour of major cohort studies (NHS/HPFS, NIH-AARP, EPIC, UK Biobank, Million Women, China Kadoorie, JPHC, Adventist, PURE) • The 80/20 plate ‘elevator pitch’ and a 3-step plan you can start today Practical takeaways (TL;DR): • Aim for an 80/20 plate: mostly whole foods (especially plants), with room for real life. • Prioritize fiber and minimally processed foods; minimize ultra-processed calories when you can. • Swap red/processed meat more often for beans/lentils/tofu/fish/poultry depending on preference. • Create a ‘friction plan’ for busy days so healthy choices become the default.
Why your ER Doc won’t shut up about Prevention
The Blueprint for Less Bad Days, More Good Decades
