The Pain Rebel Podcast By Straight Shot Health

I get five emails from Google every week. Each email contains recent news articles or blog posts about particular health topics. One of those emails is on back pain and…as I talk about in this episode…I have a hard time reading that one. There are SO many bad “myths” on back pain already but when […]

What can thinking about airplanes tell us about healthcare?  More than we may think… Things like… What should be your goal when you get on an airplane (or go into a hospital)? Why a common way to pick your airline doesn’t mean it’s safe. How can a key airline strategy improve healthcare (& your own […]

  Danny Heinsohn was  23 years old, had just graduated from college and was leaving for Europe in two days. Then he heard news no one wants to hear… “Most people with your disease only live five years.” 10 years later, he started his foundation My Hometown Heroes. His story of struggle, survival and the […]

Kyra Bussanich, the three-time winner of the Food Network’s “Cupcake Wars,” is our guest today. She’s the owner and chief baker at Kyra’s Bake Shop in Lake Oswego (listed as one of the “Top 10 Reasons To Visit Portland”) and author of “Sweet Cravings:  50 Seductive Desserts for a Gluten-Free Lifestyle.” She was also diagnosed with Crohn’s disease while […]

Katie of WellnessMama.com joins us today. We talk about her experiences with health and why she started her blog. The focus of this interview is how Katie educated herself about health and took control of her lifestyle. Good stuff and always enjoyable talking with her. Things discussed in this episode… Hank Green on Epigenetics  <–This […]

Links to points discussed: Institute of Medicine, Conflict of Interest, & their report  Relieving Pain in America, A Blueprint for Transforming Prevention, Care, Education, and Research. The original Institute of Medicine report “Relieving Pain…” and it’s number of “100 million Americans” with chronic pain is widely quoted and the data is bad.  I pulled the […]

In a world with too much information… where do you start? Here’s a simple 3 step solution to figuring out how to make your healthy choices. Some of what we talk about in today’s episode: School of Fish (and a fascinating Wikipedia entry on shoaling & schooling fish behavior) White Bears & Thought Suppression:   Dr. […]

I ask every person who subscribes at StraightShotHealth.com what their health fears or frustrations are. I read every response. Today’s episode was based on questions from Katrina and Curt. Some of the studies and articles mentioned in the episode are below (all should be clickable links): Sitting linked to certain cancers. Sitting too much is […]

Annual physicals are supposed to keep us “healthy” but do they really? Here’s how what you think you’re supposed to do for your health may actually harm you. Links: The $50,000 Physical (JAMA) Overscreening for Prostate Cancer Overscreening for Colon Cancer The Danger For Hunting For Cancer (Time article) Overtreatment is Taking A Harmful Toll […]

In 2014 it’s estimated the United States will spend $3,800,000,000,000 on healthcare. That amount of money is greater than the GDP of Germany ($3.4 Trillion and also the world’s 4th largest economy). Yet what do we get? We’re 42nd in the world in life expectancy and our health outcomes are worse than most other countries–including less […]