45. Debunking Most Common Health Myths｜Doctor Mike

Doctor Mike (Mike Varshavski) is a primary care physician and
content creator on YouTube with over 5.9M subscribers and 600M
views. His content focuses on educating the mainstream audience
with common health advice using entertainment.   

On this episode of Growth Minds, Doctor Mike and Sean discuss the
story of how he rose to fame by documenting his journey in
medical school, the pressing issue of lack of transparency in
medicine, debunking the most common health myths, and more.
 

Subscribe to Doctor Mike's channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0QHWhjbe5fGJEPz3sVb6nw
 

SHOW NOTES:
[02:20] Doctor Mike's immigrant story from Russia  
[15:54] Discrimination in STEM fields
[19:27] The story of how Doctor Mike saved someone's life on a
plane ride
[23:30] Why Doctor Mike still practices medicine to this
day
[31:52] The lack of transparency coming from online medical
gurus
[37:45] How Doctor Mike was able to go from shy introvert to
confidence speaker
[40:20] Focusing on Intrinsic Happiness versus Extrinsic
[54:30] Doctor Mike shares his opinion on supplements
 

Links mentioned in the episode:
1) Feeling good:
 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009UW5X4C/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

2) Divided mind:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEHJOI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1#ace-g25456946 








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Poor Dad), Steve Aoki, Robert Greene, Dr. Jason Fung, Dr. Steven
Gundry, Neil deGrasse Tyson (StarTalk),  Dennis Rodman, Wim
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Dr. William Davis, Doctor Mike, Lewis Howes (School of
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Conti, Charles Hoskinson (Ethereum), Dr. Drew (After Dark), Jo
Koy, Jordan Belfort (Wolf of Wall Street), Gad Saad, Adam
Carolla, Louis the Child, Vishen Lakhiani (Mindvalley), Bret
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