This episode will make a great companion for a long drive.
An essential checklist for cognitive longevity — filled with specific exercise, heat stress, and omega-3 protocols for boosting BDNF. Enter your email, and we'll deliver it straight to your inbox.
In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, MedCram emerged as a valuable resource, providing continuing coverage and perspectives as the global health crisis evolved. Dr. Seheult founded MedCram, a medical education platform to meet the needs of the digital generation of medical students and other healthcare professionals. Through MedCram, Dr. Seheult combines his passion for teaching with his deep understanding of the scientific literature, along with his experience as a front-line medical provider. In this clip, Dr. Roger Seheult discusses how he has always had a passion for teaching and simplifying complex topics.
Dr. Seheult: So, this all started back when I was, well, I mean, I could go for far back. But I've always had a passion for teaching and taking things that are complicated and making them easy and understandable. And all through my college, medical school, residency, and now as an assistant professor at a couple of medical schools, that's what I do. And one day, I had the honor of having a PA student, a physician, assistant student that would change my life. It's not every day that a student changes your life. It's usually a teacher that changes your life. And Kyle Allred who is the other half of MedCram. And he happened to be my PA student for a month. And he, he said, "Dr. Seheult, students don't go to the library, check out articles." Like, you know, I used to do. "They go to YouTube, they go to Google, and they Google the question they have, and they look for the shortest video they can find."
And so he saw a real need there. Because as they go through the PA program, which is a two-year program, you know, sometimes they don't get all of the education that they feel that they need to get. They have to do a lot of studying on their own and it's very time constraining to go and check all of these things out.
Long story short is we started making videos about medical topics. So COPD, congestive heart failure, pneumonia, asthma, and we started posting them on our YouTube channel. And we'd gotten up to, you know, few 100,000 subscriptions. We were doing some videos that were very helpful. And then Coronavirus hit. And one day we decided to do a Coronavirus video. This was probably in late February, early March. And it just exploded because here was this virus that was basically taking over in China and people wanted to know about it. People were concerned about it. And people wanted to know more. And so instead of the world looking at, you know movie stars or sports stars, they were now for the first time looking at people like you and me, Rhonda, people who had been working in medicine and nutrition and medicine and science.
And really, there was a lack of communication. I mean, we have whole TV shows on sports, about how to communicate what's happening in the world of sports, and we have a whole infrastructure for that. We don't have that for medicine and science. And so it really put a lot of people like myself and a number of other people like myself and you on the hot seat to describe this to millions and millions of people. What is it that's really going on? And really, the question was begs is what do we do about it? And that sort of changed our lives.
The end stage of heart disease, characterized by reduced capacity of the heart muscle to pump blood. Also referred to as heart failure, it represents the culmination of all forms of cardiovascular disease and affects nearly 65 million people worldwide.
A group of related viruses that cause illness in birds and mammals, including humans. Members of this group include SARS-CoV-1 (which causes severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS), MERS-CoV (which causes Middle East respiratory syndrome, or MERS), SARS-CoV-2 (which causes COVID-19), and HCoV-OC43 (which causes the common cold).
An essential mineral present in many foods. Iron participates in many physiological functions and is a critical component of hemoglobin. Iron deficiency can cause anemia, fatigue, shortness of breath, and heart arrhythmias.
The highest level of intake of a given nutrient likely to pose no adverse health effects for nearly all healthy people. As intake increases above the upper intake level, the risk of adverse effects increases.
Learn more about the advantages of a premium membership by clicking below.
Listen in on our regularly curated interview segments called "Aliquots" released every week on our premium podcast The Aliquot. Aliquots come in two flavors: features and mashups.