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Today, we have Kassondra Ola joining the podcast for part 2 of a patient perspective interview on the dangers of psychiatric polypharmacy. Kassondra is a mental health advocate who was misdiagnosed as bipolar at the age of 10 and put on multiple psychiatric medications over the subsequent decade. She is here to tell her story and promote a positive message that we, as psychiatric prescribers, need to think long and hard about whether or not to use medications in youths and teenagers... and if we decide medication is necessary or warranted, to do it extremely carefully, monitoring for immediate and sustained progress of each medication, giving time for medications to have an effect, and tapering patients off of one medicine before we start the next medicine. This way, kids don't end up in the position Kassie and so many other children end up in being prescribed several medications at once and having unmanageable side effects. In 1987, we medicated 0.2% of our youth with mental health problems and prominent psychiatrists of the time believed severe mental illnesses essentially required puberty and the resultant expansion of consciousness and brain development. Now, we medicate 15-20% of American youths... Have we really become so mentally ill in a matter of 2 generations, OR are we being marketed and sold pharmaceutical products as if they were child play things... you know where I stand on that question, but what do you think? If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills. Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational. For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment

Join myself and Dr. Ken Gillman, MD, as we discuss the inherent problems with modern scientific research, and the lack of emphasis put on building critical thinking skills endemic to our academic institutions. In Part 3 of our conversation, we continue to illuminate how and why most modern medical research is flawed and why you can't just TRUST THE GUIDELINES or allow industry to dictate what is considered evidence-based versus what is not considered evidence-based. At the end of the day... WE, being psychiatric and medical providers, HAVE TO TAKE BACK OUR FIELD FROM those who wish to dumb it down and promote their own financial interests. Join the skepticism in medicine movement! ENJOY! If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills. Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational. For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment

Join myself and Dr. Michael Shuman, PharmD, BPCC, as we discuss the latest overhyped and under-delivering class of medications, the new Alzheimer's drugs. These drugs can cause brain swelling and bleeding in a substantial proportion of patients and even death in some. Not only are they NOT SAFE, but they're also NO MORE EFFECTIVE than currently existing treatments. It's another clear ploy to sell hope and promise to the American public in an effort to continue to line the pockets of industry executives and recoup the money spent on the research and development of these drugs... Put another way... THEY'RE JUST TOO BIG TO FAIL. Sadly, it has been revealed in the last several years that several keystone research studies/papers in the field of neurodegenerative disease (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's being the most recognizable) research have been outright fraudulent. While it seems conspiratorial, join us as we discuss the facts and the neurodegenerative research experts' appraisals of some of the "evidence' that laid the groundwork for the release of this new class of medications that work by removing beta-amyloid from the brain (but also may remove some of your brain, or the walls of your blood vessels, with that beta-amyloid). The manipulated research goes all the way back to the 1990s... I fear we have been guided down a path by narcissistic researchers standing to directly profit from their feigned research. I wish it was only me saying these things, that you could discount the fraudulent research discussed in this series and actually have the promise of a novel class of medications... but it's not just Ethan Short, MD, from University of Louisville saying this. There are plenty of Ivy League-trained and well-respected neurologists, psychiatrists, and neurodegnerative disease researchers who have come to the same conclusions, that images from the original research were 'doctored,' and this new class of drugs (Aducanumab, Lecanemab, and Donanemab) are NOT SAFE and NOT EFFECTIVE. The FDA has allowed pharmaceutical companies to increasingly seek 'accelerated approval,' typically reserved for rare diseases that progress quickly to fatality, in which case it makes sense to take an experimental drug. But in this case of a disease like Alzheimer's, that typically carries a life expectancy of close to a decade with it, is going to lead to earlier death and disability. We'll undoubtedly look back on these drugs in 10-15 years and wonder how we could have been duped again by the fraudulent and unregulated healthcare system we are forced to interact with. I have a lot of passion with the things I talk about on this podcast, but there are very few examples as blatant as this class of drugs. I hope you enjoy..... and stay safe! If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills. Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational. For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Join myself and Dr. Michael Shuman, PharmD, BPCC, as we discuss the latest overhyped and under-delivering class of medications, the new Alzheimer's drugs. These drugs can cause brain swelling and bleeding in a substantial proportion of patients and even death in some. Not only are they NOT SAFE, but they're also NO MORE EFFECTIVE than currently existing treatments. It's another clear ploy to sell hope and promise to the American public in an effort to continue to line the pockets of industry executives and recoup the money spent on the research and development of these drugs... Put another way... THEY'RE JUST TOO BIG TO FAIL. Sadly, it has been revealed in the last several years that several keystone research studies/papers in the field of neurodegenerative disease (Alzheimer's, Parkinson's being the most recognizable) research have been outright fraudulent. While it seems conspiratorial, join us as we discuss the facts and the neurodegenerative research experts' appraisals of some of the "evidence' that laid the groundwork for the release of this new class of medications that work by removing beta-amyloid from the brain (but also may remove some of your brain, or the walls of your blood vessels, with that beta-amyloid). The manipulated research goes all the way back to the 1990s... I fear we have been guided down a path by narcissistic researchers standing to directly profit from their feigned research. I wish it was only me saying these things, that you could discount the fraudulent research discussed in this series and actually have the promise of a novel class of medications... but it's not just Ethan Short, MD, from University of Louisville saying this. There are plenty of Ivy League-trained and well-respected neurologists, psychiatrists, and neurodegnerative disease researchers who have come to the same conclusions, that images from the original research were 'doctored,' and this new class of drugs is NOT SAFE and NOT EFFECTIVE. The FDA has allowed pharmaceutical companies to increasingly seek 'accelerated approval,' typically reserved for rare diseases that progress quickly to fatality, in which case it makes sense to take an experimental drug. But in this case of a disease like Alzheimer's, that typically carries a life expectancy of close to a decade with it, is going to lead to earlier death and disability. We'll undoubtedly look back on these drugs in 10-15 years and wonder how we could have been duped again by the fraudulent and unregulated healthcare system we are forced to interact with. I have a lot of passion with the things I talk about on this podcast, but there are very few examples as blatant as this class of drugs. I hope you enjoy..... and stay safe! If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills. Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational. For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Join myself and "Clever Trevor" Jones for Part 2 of our discussion as we talk about the role of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in GOLF. Trevor works with professional golfers to optimize their mental game, through ACT processes like acceptance, defusion, meditation and mindfulness, flexible perspective-taking, and values-driven living. It's easy for our primary focus in golf (or any other sport or life goal for that matter) to be on the score (or outcome), but the reality is that the only way we get to our desired score is through engaging in the process (that we decide gives us the best chance of achieving our desired outcome) moment-by-moment. Let me know how you like the sports psych content! If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills. Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational. For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment

I can only imagine the surprise and energy that must have been flowing through Jim Murphy's body on Sunday night when he started receiving hundreds, if not thousands, of texts, when he incidentally went viral with AJ Brown reading his book, Inner Excellence, on the sidelines of Philadelphia Eagles' 22-10 victory over the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night. I may have the longest-form interview existing on the airwaves currently with Jim, which we recorded back in February of 2024, when his book ranked 520,000th on Amazon's best-sellers list. Today, it's #1. Enjoy our conversation! If you're passionate about what we do here at Renegade Psych, we're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support our work, you can! Or not... I'll continue putting out content as long as my other jobs pay the bills. Other things you can do: liking, commenting, and sharing our posts also go a long way! https://patreon.com/RenegadePsych. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational. For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment

Join myself and Dr. Michael Shuman, PharmD, BPCC, as we discuss the negative impact of Direct-To-Consumer-Advertising (DTCA) in the US Healthcare System. This is a recurring series where Dr. Shuman and I will talk about various examples of the negative impacts of DTCA in America over the last 40+ years. We're living and working in a system now that is rife with misinformation and poor-quality research, and we want to make everyone a little more aware of just how many examples exist in US healthcare history of poorly designed and carried out drug trials and direct manipulation of data, leading to tragedies like with Vioxx, and eventual recalls of drugs touted as 'state of the art' and a 'technological advance.' Hopefully, we can instill systematic change that will improve how we go about measuring the safety and efficacy profiles of each new drug. In this 3rd episode, we talk about various ways clinical trials can be manipulated by those that design them, emphasizing the need for ACTUAL REGULATORY AGENCIES that do their job and remain independent of those they regulate. We need more peer review in the field of medicine; if a researcher can convince one of his competing researchers that his theory or his work is valid, it would lead to a lot more certainty that the medications that gain FDA approval are legitimately safe and effective. From ghostwriters to surrogate markers, using rating scales to show 'statistical significance' when clinical relevance is unproven, using enriched study designs and removing difficult data points/patients due to 'concurrent illnesses, inclusion/exclusion criteria that make the studied population nothing like the intended treatment population, not publishing negative trials, and major journal editors being paid by the pharmaceutical companies themselves, the problems are seemingly endless. We also discuss the potential pitfalls of AI being used as tool for propaganda, as well as the importance of journal clubs and for all of us reading these studies to be highly critical of them. Hope you enjoy. Michael will be a recurring guest for this series on DTCA for our listeners to enjoy over the next several months. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational. For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.

Join myself and Dr. Michael Shuman (PharmD, BPCC - Board Certification in Psychiatric Pharmacy) as we discuss the negative impact of Direct-To-Consumer-Advertising (DTCA) in the US Healthcare System. This is a recurring series where Dr. Shuman and I will talk about various examples of the negative impacts of DTCA in America over the last 40+ years. We're living and working in a system now that is rife with misinformation and poor-quality research, and we want to make everyone a little more aware of just how many examples exist in US healthcare history of poorly designed and carried out drug trials and direct manipulation of data, leading to tragedies like with Vioxx. Hopefully, we can instill systematic change that will improve how we go about measuring the safety and efficacy profiles of each new drug. In this 2nd episode, we discuss Vioxx, or Rofecoxib, an NSAID (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drug) created and marketed by Merck Pharmaceuticals just a couple of years after a loophole made DTCA essentially legal in the US. Vioxx was marketed as safer in terms of the risk of GI bleeding (which it was), but Merck's own internal study (VIGOR) clearly showed a 4-5x increased risk of much more serious problems related to clotting, including heart attacks and strokes. From 1999-2004, it is estimated that over 50,000 Americans died as a result of taking Vioxx and it was eventually pulled from the market in 2004. Efforts were made by Merck representatives to silence Doctors who tried to sound the alarm (shoutout to cardiologist Eric Topol for putting his neck on the line for his patients and the American public) on the dangers. Eventually, Vioxx was recalled, but not before tens of thousands of Americans died, and more than a hundred thousand suffered from heart attacks/strokes. Hope you enjoy. Michael will be a recurring guest for this recurring series on DTCA for our listeners to enjoy over the next several months. Thanks for listening to the audio podcast... You should check out our posted video podcast on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaZ1bds1MGMM4tSbY7ISqug) as there are graphics overlaying the video to make it all more interactive and educational. For more social media content, check us out on all social media platforms @RenegadePsych. If you have any comments, questions or challenges to the information we've presented here, if you'd like to be a guest to the show, or if you have general comments, questions, or suggestions, email us at Renegadepsych@gmail.com and follow the link https://renegade-psych.podcastpage.io/ to our website for source material, transcripts, and additional links for my guests. If you feel passionate about our message and what we're trying to do, and you'd like to donate, you can also follow the link in the show notes to our website. Disclaimer, this podcast is for informational purposes only. The information provided in this podcast and related materials are meant only to educate. This information is not intended as a substitute for professional medical advice. While I am a medical doctor and many of my guests have extensive medical training and experience, nothing stated in this podcast nor materials related to this podcast, including recommended websites, texts, graphics, images, or any other materials should be treated as a substitute for professional medical or psychological advice, diagnosis or treatment. All listeners should consult with a medical professional, licensed mental health provider or other healthcare provider if seeking medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.