The ZDoggMD Show

By Dr. Zubin Damania

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Interviews and live rants on healthcare, depolarizing our divided society, and the non-dual nature of reality. Hosted by UCSF/Stanford-trained physician Dr. Zubin Damania (AKA ZDoggMD).

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See And Be Seen – For The F...

11.26.2023

Joined by Dr. Angelo DiLullo, your favorite ‘pair-o-docs’ dive into the paradox of self-emptying, where the journey to feeling truly recognized sparks a liberation beyond the boundaries of the ego. Plus a whole lotta taint talk

The ZDoggMD Show episodes:

11.26.2023 See And Be Seen – For The First Time (w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo) Joined by Dr. Angelo DiLullo, your favorite ‘pair-o-docs’ dive into the paradox of self-emptying, where the journey to feeling truly recognized sparks a liberation beyond the boundaries of the ego. Plus a whole lotta taint talk
11.15.2023 This Is A Dream, But Suffering Is REAL (LIVE) Waking up to your true nature is all about realizing there’s no separate “you” suffering. And knowing just that transforms how you show up in the world. Spoiler alert: Compassion just flows. Video originally streamed LIVE to YouTube, watch here. ...
11.04.2023 Integrating Trauma & Awakening The Heart (w/Simon Brown) There's an intricate relationship between past trauma, our bodies, and the spiritual journey of awakening. Realizing the non-dual nature of existence and the illusion of self doesn't allow us to simply bypass the echoes of past trauma that can linger ...
10.30.2023 Wanna End Suffering? Come Back To Your Senses (w/Eshwar Segobind) Strip away all the story and identity and spiritual mumbo-jumbo and you're left with what's right in front of your face, always here and only now. My guest Eshwar Segobind is an emergency electrical contractor and tradesman whose realization and ...
10.25.2023 Trauma Is In The Body, And You Were Never To Blame A deep dive into how the body stores trauma, surrendering to these hidden sensations and the paradox of free will - originally streamed LIVE to Instagram. And here's Tara Brach's video I mentioned. Join our Supporter Tribe to connect with ...
10.09.2023 This Can Feel Truly Terrible, And That's OK (LIVE) Think the awakening journey is all unicorns and rainbows? Think again. Reactivity, emotional volatility, and more, from Sunday Zen, LIVE. And here's Angelo's video I referred to Breaking the Chains of Suffering -- Fetters 4 & 5 with Kevin Schanilec ...
09.24.2023 Down The Reality Rabbit Hole (w/David Mc Donald) A deep dive into all things awakening including no-self realization, with David Mc Donald. Check out the video version and David's YouTube channel Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact ...
09.21.2023 Doc Vader: Who's Your Daddy? (From Facebook LIVE) Oh good (dark) lord, he's gone live again
09.17.2023 The Universe Holds You: Shadow Work & More (LIVE) From a recent Facebook live episode. I discuss the arising of strong emotions during the realization "journey" and the deep knowing that the Universe, (or God, or whatever descriptor we use to point to the ineffable) perfectly holds us as ...
08.27.2023 COVID Killed My Dog! (A Post-Pandemic Playbook) w/Dr. Monica Gandhi Dr. Monica Gandhi is BACK to unpack lessons learned from the COVID pandemic. From prolonged lockdowns, to the widening gap between the haves and have-nots, to finding genuine compassion in a time of so much division, this post-pandemic deep dive ...
08.20.2023 Faith, Doubt, and Determination (Sunday Zen, LIVE) Zen teaches us that faith isn't blind; it's the knowing of our innate nature. Doubt isn't negative; it's the engine of inquiry that propels us toward understanding. Determination isn't force; it's the steady resolve to persist, harmonizing these traits for ...
08.17.2023 Doc Vader: Q&A LIVE! What do Death Stars, CME conferences and powerful sphincters have in common? THIS PODCAST
08.14.2023 The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Human (Monday Zen, LIVE) Ever notice that being human seems kind of unbearable at times? What happens when you look for the one who's really running the show? Originally streamed LIVE to YouTube, a crazy discussion about the nature of reality, embodying duality within ...
07.11.2023 Using Lucid Dreaming To Wake Up (w/Andrew Holecek) This conversation originally aired in June 2022 and is definitely worth a second listen. Andrew Holecek is an author, teacher and renowned meditation expert who specializes in lucid dreaming and dream yoga. Basically, it's a meditation practice within a dream, ...
07.01.2023 No Fcks Friday, LIVE: RFK Jr., Sub Implosion, & More Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is hitting the media circuit big time, and after his Rogan appearance, I have a bit to say. We also talk about the Titan submersible and take YOUR comments LIVE (with zero fcks given, cuz it's ...
06.23.2023 Everything Is Mind (w/Dr. Bernardo Kastrup) A revisit to a classic early 2021 interview on the nature of reality that has prompted many to question, well, EVERYTHING. Here's the full video, transcript, and more. Bernardo Kastrup is the executive director of Essentia Foundation. His work has ...
06.06.2023 Masks & Morality, Revisited This episode from way back in May 2020 bolstered my sense that I've already expressed pretty much everything I want to say about COVID
06.01.2023 Our World Is LITERALLY A Story (w/Johnny B. Truant) Author and storytelling expert Johnny B. Truant returns for a discussion on the nature of reality itself: is there an objective world out there that we can directly experience, or is everything we know to be "real" simply a construction...a ...
05.24.2023 Awakening: It Ain't What You "Think" – (LIVE From YouTube) How do you "wake up" when there's no you, it isn't an event, and everything needed is already here? Hmmm
05.15.2023 Light Your Meditation Practice On Fire (w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo) \| The Best Of The ZDoggMD Show It's pretty much impossible to change our systems without first changing ourselves. But what is our "self" anyways? Here's how to use a simple question to add rocket fuel to your meditation practice and wake up from the dream that ...
05.12.2023 Awakening Means Feeling EVERYTHING (w/Suzanne Chang) "The cave you most fear to enter holds the treasure you seek." -Joseph Campbell A conversation with Suzanne Chang (Suzanne Non-duality on YouTube) about awakening/realization and the dissolution of the sense of a separate self that could stand apart from ...
05.09.2023 The Deeper Truth Behind Netflix's "BEEF" Netflix's season finale of BEEF shines a light on the dark places we're most afraid to look...and that may just be the key to awakening from the dream of shame and separation. Check out the video version here. Video show ...
05.05.2023 Life Is But A Dream (Instagram LIVE Q+A) Originally streamed live on Instagram and reposted on YouTube, we talk Nurses' Week, system change, authenticity, and waking up from the dream that we are separate from each other and from life itself. And here's that Gobble meal prep offer ...
05.02.2023 Surrender To What IS (w/Suzanne Chang) Suzanne Non-Duality (AKA Suzanne Chang) helped change everything for my wife and me and here's how. SPOILER: that which you are most afraid to lose was never "yours" to begin with. Watch the video here. Follow Suzanne on YouTube at ...
04.17.2023 From Head to Heart: Awakening As A Couple (w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo) This is an interview with my friend Dr. Angelo DiLullo about some remarkable "events" that happened to my wife and me in the last couple weeks. Please listen to the intro for more info and for a "trigger warning"
03.22.2023 Being Here, Now: LIVE Q+A w/John Astin John Astin is a professor of psychology, author, teacher, and musician. He returns to do a deep dive into appreciating THIS moment as all there is. Originally streamed live with audience Q+A on YouTube. Watch the video here. Video show ...
03.20.2023 The Case Against Reality (w/Prof. Donald Hoffman) -- The Best Of The ZDoggMD Show One of our favorite interviews ever (originally posted in 2019): We have NO CLUE how consciousness emerges from 3 pounds of wet goo. Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman takes us deep into his research that makes a bold claim: we’ve been ...
03.14.2023 Doc Vader LIVE: Silicon Valley Bank, MD vs. NP, & More When Doc Vader goes live to YouTube for a q+a, you never know what Dark Side madness might emerge
03.10.2023 Friday Zen, LIVE Streamed LIVE to YouTube with Q+A 3/10/23. We talked about vaccines and the nature of belief, public health messaging challenges, moral foundation theory, dealing with anger and boundary violations, dropping into the body sense and out of the head, emotional ...
03.06.2023 Burnout, Identity, Left Brain Dominance, and More In this episode – originally streamed live to Instagram – I take viewer comments on the topics of healthcare transformation, burnout, identity, and more. We talk about left brain vs. right brain thinking, the absolute vs. the relative world as ...
02.28.2023 Awakening & The Realization Journey (w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo) Originally released in June of 2021, I recently revisited this amazing conversation with Dr. Angelo DiLullo, a physician, author, and teacher of non-dual realization (sometimes called spiritual awakening) and felt compelled to share it again for a newer audience who ...
02.17.2023 CDC Masking Nonsense, Prior Auths, Paxlovid Data (w/Dr. Vinay Prasad) Famous docs who can’t process evidence, prior authorization in healthcare and care variation, private equity and gray areas in medicine, the decline of academic medical centers, indoctrination in education, does Paxlovid actually work in populations that matter and the biases ...
02.14.2023 The Ugly Truth Behind Soaring Drug Prices (And How To Fix Them) w/Dr. Alex Oshmyansky Parasitic middlemen and others in the healthcare industry are gouging patients who can't afford live-saving medications. Dr. Alex Oshmyansky of Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drug Company teaches us who they are (oh yes, we name names) and how we can ...
01.29.2023 Sunday Zen: Meditation & Retreat Q+A Meditation questions, what it's like on meditation retreat (virtual and in-person), thoughts on thoughts, emotion shadow work, reactivity, truth-realization, and more in this Q+A originally LIVE on Facebook. Watch the video here. Future retreats with Dr. Angelo DiLullo can be ...
01.20.2023 Breaking The Silence: Shame In Medicine (w/Dr. Emily Silverman) Can healing happen when we shine a light on the dark places in medicine? Dr. Emily Silverman is a UCSF hospital physician and host of the popular podcast The Nocturnists. We dive into shame and emotional repression in doctors, healthcare ...
01.09.2023 Doc Vader LIVE in 2023: AVA (Ask Vader ANYTHING) He's a Sith Lord and burned out physician, more machine than doc now. YOU asked him ANYTHING, LIVE! Full video version here. Topics covered: 00:00 Intro 00:09 Pronouns 01:40 Damar Hamlin 03:37 Vaccines 08:57 Fairness 11:44 Societal fails 16:37 Shame ...
12.14.2022 The Peril & Promise Of "Second Selfing" Avoid the pitfalls of your online "second self" by recognizing & navigating criticism, parasocial projections, audience capture, social media addiction, and creator burnout/metric obsession. Reference courtesy of The Stoa here. Watch the video here. Video show archive, audio podcasts, music ...
12.11.2022 A Better Pandemic Playbook (w/Dr. Monica Gandhi) The ever-amazing Dr. Monica Gandhi returns to talk Flu/RSV/COVID, viral interference, China's zero-COVID response, MPox, and public health lessons from HIV for the next pandemic—while searching for true meaning beyond our apparent divisions. Watch the video here. Here's the paper ...
12.04.2022 Sunday Zen LIVE: Who The Heck ARE You? Our entire conventional lives are based on a case of mistaken identity. Let's look for who we REALLY are, together (originally LIVE on YouTube)
11.30.2022 When In-Laws Are More Dangerous Than Chocolate Cake (w/Dr. Ron Sinha) Arguing over vaccines with your crazy relatives might raise your glucose more than dessert; continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) for insight into diet, exercise, sleep, emotional stress, and more with Dr. Ronesh Sinha. Check out Dr. Sinha's website, follow him on ...
10.31.2022 Seoul Tragedy, Vaccine Fatigue, Musk's Twitter (Live) Sunday Roundz, originally live on YouTube 10/30/22. Video: zdoggmd.com/seoul Gear: supportertribe4lyfe.com Video show archive, audio podcasts, music parodies, Supporter Tribe membership options, merch, social media, and email contact form: https://lnk.bio/zdoggmd Support us with a 1-time donation and get a personal ...
10.18.2022 A Billionaire, a Doc, & a Sorceress Walk Into a Closet (An Awakening Tale) w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo Dr. Angelo DiLullo (author of Awake, It's Your Turn) interviews ME
10.02.2022 Left Brain Vs. Right Brain & The Future Of Humanity Our collective shift towards left brain dominance may be the end of us all. A live discussion of the ramifications of increasing reductionism in healthcare, COVID, and beyond. Learn more about McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/left-right-brain/ Video ...
09.20.2022 The Miracle Of This Moment (w/John Astin) A deep dive down the rabbit hole of our astonishing, non-conceptual experience of what IS. John Astin is a health psychologist, meditation teacher, musician, and the author of four books on spiritual practice, including This Extraordinary Moment. His guided meditations ...
09.16.2022 Do We Need These Omicron-Specific Boosters? (w/Dr. Paul Offit) A must-watch deep dive into some science! Vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit is less than impressed with evidence to support the Omicron BA.4/5 "bivalent" booster shots now rolling out for everyone 12 and older. We also talk polio and monkeypox ...
09.14.2022 California's COVID Medical Misinformation Bill Should California discipline doctors who "disseminate misinformation or disinformation related to COVID-19?" Here's one California physician's take. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/misinfo-bill/ And here's the interview with Dr. Paul Offit I referenced. Read the full text of AB2098 here. Video show archive, audio ...
09.01.2022 Why A Public Health Mob Turned On Dr. Leana Wen Seriously y'all, you can't make this s**t up
08.23.2022 The Three Great Untruths Destroying Our Kids Three pervasive distortions are at the root of tremendous suffering for children AND adults. Video: https://zdoggmd.com/3-great-untruths/ Read Haidt & Lukianoff's book The Coddling of the American Mind. Watch my related video on The Social Dilemma. Watch my interview on existential ...
07.11.2022 Reality Is Not What You Think (w/John Astin) What happens if you drop the mental labels, constructs and THOUGHTS about reality, and just look directly at your immediate experience? Strap yourself in because psychologist John Astin helps us see what's right in front of us, now and always
07.06.2022 Omicron Boosters, Kids' Vaccine & More (w/Dr. Paul Offit) Why did Dr. Offit vote NO on Omicron-specific boosters at the FDA advisory meeting? What's up with vaccine for the youngest kids? AND MUCH MORE... All our videos with Dr. Paul Offit here. And check out Paul's recent op-ed on ...

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The ZDoggMD Show episodes:

See And Be Seen – For The First Time (w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo)

This Is A Dream, But Suffering Is REAL (LIVE)

Integrating Trauma & Awakening The Heart (w/Simon Brown)

Wanna End Suffering? Come Back To Your Senses (w/Eshwar Segobind)

Trauma Is In The Body, And You Were Never To Blame

This Can Feel Truly Terrible, And That's OK (LIVE)

Down The Reality Rabbit Hole (w/David Mc Donald)

Doc Vader: Who's Your Daddy? (From Facebook LIVE)

The Universe Holds You: Shadow Work & More (LIVE)

COVID Killed My Dog! (A Post-Pandemic Playbook) w/Dr. Monica Gandhi

Faith, Doubt, and Determination (Sunday Zen, LIVE)

Doc Vader: Q&A LIVE!

The Unbearable Heaviness of Being Human (Monday Zen, LIVE)

Using Lucid Dreaming To Wake Up (w/Andrew Holecek)

No F*cks Friday, LIVE: RFK Jr., Sub Implosion, & More

Everything Is Mind (w/Dr. Bernardo Kastrup)

Masks & Morality, Revisited

Our World Is LITERALLY A Story (w/Johnny B. Truant)

Awakening: It Ain't What You "Think" – (LIVE From YouTube)

Light Your Meditation Practice On Fire (w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo) | The Best Of The ZDoggMD Show

Awakening Means Feeling EVERYTHING (w/Suzanne Chang)

The Deeper Truth Behind Netflix's "BEEF"

Life Is But A Dream (Instagram LIVE Q+A)

Surrender To What IS (w/Suzanne Chang)

From Head to Heart: Awakening As A Couple (w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo)

Being Here, Now: LIVE Q+A w/John Astin

The Case Against Reality (w/Prof. Donald Hoffman) -- The Best Of The ZDoggMD Show

Doc Vader LIVE: Silicon Valley Bank, MD vs. NP, & More

Friday Zen, LIVE

Burnout, Identity, Left Brain Dominance, and More

Awakening & The Realization Journey (w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo)

CDC Masking Nonsense, Prior Auths, Paxlovid Data (w/Dr. Vinay Prasad)

The Ugly Truth Behind Soaring Drug Prices (And How To Fix Them) w/Dr. Alex Oshmyansky

Sunday Zen: Meditation & Retreat Q+A

Breaking The Silence: Shame In Medicine (w/Dr. Emily Silverman)

Doc Vader LIVE in 2023: AVA (Ask Vader ANYTHING)

The Peril & Promise Of "Second Selfing"

A Better Pandemic Playbook (w/Dr. Monica Gandhi)

Sunday Zen LIVE: Who The Heck ARE You?

When In-Laws Are More Dangerous Than Chocolate Cake (w/Dr. Ron Sinha)

Seoul Tragedy, Vaccine Fatigue, Musk's Twitter (Live)

A Billionaire, a Doc, & a Sorceress Walk Into a Closet (An Awakening Tale) w/Dr. Angelo DiLullo

Left Brain Vs. Right Brain & The Future Of Humanity

The Miracle Of This Moment (w/John Astin)

Do We Need These Omicron-Specific Boosters? (w/Dr. Paul Offit)

California's COVID Medical Misinformation Bill

Why A Public Health Mob Turned On Dr. Leana Wen

The Three Great Untruths Destroying Our Kids

Reality Is Not What You Think (w/John Astin)

Omicron Boosters, Kids' Vaccine & More (w/Dr. Paul Offit)

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