Reconciling Medicine

The Doctors Paro will equally make you laugh and ruffle your feathers with this episode about diets. Listen..... we've been working on figuring out the truths about nutrition for weight loss, body composition and overall health. We've fallen into SO MANY "fitness and wellness" traps. After lots of reading and trial and error - we've come to understand a lot.

We are in no way dietitians or nutritionists. But the truths we speak of here are backed in nutrition science - no gimmicks. And spoiler alert - the way to achieve the goals most people have when searching for a diet is not sexy or flashy. It's boring and takes way more time then we want it to.

Episode Takeaways:
Brief Review of Episode 13 Food is Fuel.
The Pyramid of Importance.
If A Diet Requires You To Buy A Bunch Of Shit, Don't Trust It.
If A Diet Promises Fast Results, Don't Trust It.
What Are The Reasonable Expectations?
Common Diets And Why They Work But Aren't Magic.

The Doctors Paro EXCITEDLY welcome the very first guest on the podcast, Dr. Lauren Powell. 

Dr. Powell aka "The Culinary Doctor" is a board certified family medicine physician who's on a mission to end generational health issues in the African-American community. She empowers her patients and community by making healthy eating accessible and delicious both in her clinic room and virtually with her social media platform, Cooking Queen community as well as in her book "Food Essentials for the Busy Professional".

Recently, Dr. Lauren and Dr. Renee collaborated on an extremely successful Instagram campaign entitled #SharetheMedicalMic. This campaign was inspired by #Sharethemicnow that took place in June in an effort to amplify Black voices in an effort to support the Black Lives Matter movement. 

#SharetheMedicalMic took place on July 22nd and featured 80 female physicians, 40 Black female physicians and 40 non-Black female physicians with the same goal - amplification of Black female physician voices that make up only 2% of physicians in this country. It was beyond incredible.

In this episode Dr. Renee and Dr. Lauren cover a broad range of topics including 

- their similar passions for lifestyle counseling as a cornerstone of medical practice
- how they met 
- the making of #SharetheMedicalMic
- important takeaways from the campaign 
- future goals for #SharetheMedicalMic (yep there is more coming!)

It was an honor to have Dr. Powell as the first guest of the Podcast. You can find her on Instagram @drlaurenpowell. Her website is www.DrLaurenPowell.com. You can also download her free cookbook with healthy budget friendly recipes: www.DinnerwithDrLauren.com 

The music of this episode is by Karl "KP" Powell, Dr. Lauren's husband! Check out his music by searching "The Colleagues" on any music streaming platform.

In this episode The Doctors Paro touch on adapting rather than abandoning your 2020 fitness goals, how that looks in the Paro Household, and talk about a new campaign called  #racingtowardsjustice 

The Doctors Paro return after another few weeks off. This time was spent listening and reflecting on the future directions of life in the wake of recent events, specifically the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement. In this brief episode you'll hear early thoughts on a life now reconciled with committed activism to be anti-racist.

Join The Doctors Paro (and mostly John) for a totally self-indulgent listening party for his Quarantine EP, being released today on streaming platforms.  Written and recorded over the past two months, it's a multi-genre collection of songs that captured the rapidly oscillating emotional spectrum of sheltering in place.  Think of it like a Kanye style listening party, but with less expensive champagne.

In this episode, The Doctors Paro discuss a few attitude adjustments that have helped during this heaping dumpster fire that is 2020.

Episode Take-Aways:
- It's OK to not be OK.
- Hobbies and creative outlets are great for stress reduction.
- Control what you can, and let go of the rest.
- Get out of your f&#*ing house.
- Acceptance can alleviate a lot of resistance.
- It will end.  All is not lost.  

The Doctors Paro share some of their parenting wins and fails during these "unprecedented times."

The Doctors Paro are back for a Quarantine episode.  And, since we a really Corona-ed out, this episode is 5% COVID updates, and 95% telling embarrassing stories about themselves.  Enjoy!

In this episode the Doctors Paro answer allllllllll of your burning questions - or at least some of the ones submitted that they felt like answering. :) From thoughts on medical school (like recent changes to a pass/fail Step 1) to their biggest turn offs to parental guilt to whether or not John has Canadian roots - they really go everywhere.

No concrete Episode Takeaways on this one (I know, Renee's freaking out). Hoping you enjoy getting to hear some candid responses from the hosts. Make sure to listen to the end for the "Rapid Fire Round".

In this episode, the Doctors Paro dive into a topic that might seem a little taboob.  You will hear about overall choices involved in breast augmentation, some of the risks involved, and a bit about recovery.  This will be tackled from a surgeon and patient's perspective