Podcast Episodes

Bruce Lanphear: Chronic Lead Exposure, a Risk Factor for Heart Disease

This is a hybrid heart disease risk factor post of a podcast with Prof Bruce Lanphear on lead and a piece I was asked to write for the Washington Post on risk factors for heart disease.

First, the pod…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Owen Tripp: Why Can't I Find and Get to the Right Doctor?

Eric Topol (00:06):

Hello, this is Eric Topol from Ground Truths, and I'm delighted to welcome Owen Tripp, who is a CEO of Included Health. And Owen, I'd like to start off if you would, with the story…

Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Priscilla Chan & Jennifer Doudna: New Center for Pediatric CRISPR Cures

Eric Topol (00:05):

Hello, it's Eric Topol from Ground Truths, and I've got some really exciting stuff to talk to you about today. And it's about the announcement for a new Center for pediatric CRISPR…

Published on 5 months ago

Adam Kucharski: The Uncertain Science of Certainty

“To navigate proof, we must reach into a thicket of errors and biases. We must confront monsters and embrace uncertainty, balancing — and rebalancing —our beliefs. We must seek out every useful fragm…

Published on 5 months, 1 week ago

Eric Topol With Devi Sridhar on her new book- How Not to Die (Too Soon)

Thanks to so many of you who joined our live conversation with Devi Sridhar!

Professor Devi Sridhar is the Chair of Global Public Health at the University of Edinburgh. Over the past 2 decades she ha…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Matthew Walker: Promoting Our Sleep Health

My conversation with Matthew Walker, PhD on faculty at UC Berkeley where he is a professor of neuroscience and psychology, the founder and director of the Center for Human Sleep Science, and has a lo…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Katie Couric and Eric Topol: On the State of US Life Science and Extending Healthspan

Thank you Richard DeWald, Michael Mann, Dr Avneesh Khare, Maud Pasturaud, Lower Dementia Risk, and many others for tuning into my live video with Katie Couric! Join me for my next live video in the a…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Sir John Bell: Transforming Life Science and Medicine's Future

Audio File

Ground Truths can also be found on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube.

The UK is the world leader in human genomics, and laid the foundation for advancing medicine with the UK Biobank, Geno…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Tyler Cowen: The Prototypic Polymath

Audio file, also on Apple and Spotify

Tyler Cowen, Ph.D, is the Holbert L. Harris Professor of Economics at George Mason University. He is the author of 17 books, most recently Talent.: How to Identi…

Published on 6 months, 4 weeks ago

Bob Bordone and Joel Salinas: How to Deal With Conflict

In our divided world we face or avoid conflicts on a frequent basis. I turned to Bob Bordone and Joel Salinas to find out the best strategies to deal with these, including having them take on a mock …

Published on 7 months ago