The Smartest Doctor in the Room

A combination of a lively, personal and in-depth interview with top healthcare specialists. The average listener may not have access to the expert medical advice athletes, actors and CEO’s have today, but on this show, they will learn the key facts to know about any health conditions that they or their family deal with. Hosted by Dr. Dean Mitchell. https://www.mitchellmedicalgroup.com/

The Smartest Doctor in the Room is a health podcast hosted by Dean Mitchell, with 249 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Dean Mitchell hosts The Smartest Doctor in the Room, a health show with 249 episodes published.

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  Ep. 243 - Dr. Richard Horowitz’s New Book on Ending Chronic Illness

  Sep 29, 202656 min

  Dr. Richard Horowitz reports the first published case of reversing P-tau 217, the most sensitive and specific Alzheimer's biomarker, in a live patient using a nine-week oral dapsone combination protocol, lowering it by 63% compared to the 23% reduction seen over six to seven years with anti-amyloid drugs like lecanemab. Author of the upcoming book Ending Chronic Illness, Dr. Horowitz breaks down his 16-point MSIDS model linking chronic Lyme disease, Bartonella, mold toxicity, and biofilm-persistent infections to Alzheimer's, long COVID, chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia, and autoimmune disease. He and Dr. Dean Mitchell also cover how to take a proper differential diagnosis history, why dapsone blocks the NLRP3 inflammasome pathway driving brain inflammation, and practical tick-bite prevention with picaridin and permethrin-treated clothing. Social Media: LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/richard-horowitz-b4634012 Facebook: facebook.com/drrichardhorowitz Instagram: @drrichardhorowitz Websites: Book (Ending Chronic Illness): cangetbetter.com/ending-chronic-illness Primary site: cangetbetter.com Resources / Book Links: Medical Detective Substack: medicaldetective.substack.com Dapsone documentary (2024): DrTalks: Discover Healing 18 - Dapsone Testimonials Contact Dr. Mitchell: Email: care@mitchellmedicalgroup.com Website Instagram YouTube Facebook LinkedIn Book: Conquering Candida ImmunoLytics - code SmartestDoc, 5% off Apollo Neuro - code SMARTMD

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  Ep. 242 - How Chronic Stress Turns Into Physical Illness, and What You Can Do About It

  Sep 22, 202647 min

  In this live, interactive Q&A webinar, Dr. Dean Mitchell draws on 25 years of holistic and functional medicine training to answer real time questions from patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals. He opens by explaining the physiology behind why chronic stress becomes physical illness, connecting the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems, heart rate variability, and the vagus nerve to conditions ranging from skin rashes to gastritis. Drawing on his training with Dr. Dean Ornish, Jon Kabat-Zinn, and Dr. Herbert Benson at Harvard, Dr. Mitchell walks through the Holmes-Rahe stress scale and a simple diaphragmatic breathing technique anyone can use to shift into a calmer, parasympathetic state. From there, the conversation moves into audience questions. Dr. Mitchell explains why chronic sinusitis is so often overtreated with antibiotics and steroids instead of addressed at the root, and how candida or fungal overgrowth, the subject of his book Conquering Candida, is frequently the real driver. He covers his approach to eczema and allergy testing, why he avoids skin testing in favor of blood work, and how sublingual immunotherapy drops can build tolerance for environmental allergies, dangerous food allergies, and candida overgrowth alike. He also addresses toxic mold exposure and the real time urine mycotoxin test he relies on for an accurate workup. One of the most personal moments comes when a caregiver who spent six years caring for her husband through Alzheimer's disease asks about a repeat esophageal dilation. Dr. Mitchell connects her story to the work of Dr. John Sarno, the mind-body medicine pioneer who also treated Dr. Mitchell's own chronic back pain, and the idea that caretakers and "do-gooders" often pay a physical price for holding everything together. Contact Dr. Mitchell: Email: care@mitchellmedicalgroup.com Website Instagram YouTube Facebook LinkedIn Book: Conquering Candida ImmunoLytics - code SmartestDoc, 5% off Apollo Neuro - code SMARTMD

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  Ep. 240 - Diagnosed With 12 Months to Live, He Reversed a Terminal Cancer Prognosis With an Alkaline Diet

  Sep 8, 202657 min

  Johann Ilgenfritz was a fashion photographer with no background in healthcare when he was first diagnosed with melanoma in 2011. After two rounds of radiotherapy appeared to clear it, a follow up screening in 2012 found the cancer had metastasized to his eye, lungs, and spleen, and he was given roughly 12 months to live. Ilgenfritz, now the founder of UK Health Radio, joins Dr. Dean Mitchell to share how he approached that second diagnosis differently, starting his own research the same day he got the news. Seven months in, a single sentence from German biochemist Otto Warburg, that cancer cannot survive in an oxygenated, alkaline cellular environment, changed his outlook overnight. Ilgenfritz explains how he became a vegan within weeks, adopted an alkaline diet built around potatoes, leafy greens, and Himalayan salt, added intermittent fasting, and began daily meditation and long distance running, in part because movement is the only way the body's lymphatic system detoxes without a pump. He and Dr. Mitchell also discuss the pH science behind the alkaline approach, why he avoided extreme raw food and juicing protocols in favor of real meals, and how his energy and later his scans began to turn around within months. The conversation closes with how Ilgenfritz's own healing journey led him to found UK Health Radio in 2012, now reaching 1.7 million listeners, and his advice for anyone newly facing a cancer diagnosis: stay open to every tool available, and use them alongside, not instead of, the treatment you and your doctor agree on. Guest Contact Platform: UK Health Radio (founded by Johann Ilgenfritz) Book: Reversing Cancer UK Health Radio (UKHR) website: https://ukhealthradio.com/ UKHR Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKHealthRadio/ UKHR X: https://x.com/ukhealthradio UKHR Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ukhealthradio/ UKHR YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ukhealthradio Alkaline Collective Mastermind website: https://alkaline-collective.com/ Contact Dr. Mitchell: Email: care@mitchellmedicalgroup.com Website Instagram YouTube Facebook LinkedIn Book: Conquering Candida ImmunoLytics - code SmartestDoc, 5% off Apollo Neuro - code SMARTMD

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  Ep. 239 - What Is POTS and Why Are Cases Exploding After COVID and MCAS?

  Sep 1, 202637 min

  Cardiologist Dr. Alexis Cutchins joins Dr. Dean Mitchell to break down POTS, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, a condition defined by a heart rate increase of more than 30 beats per minute when moving from lying down to standing, without a drop in blood pressure. Dr. Cutchins explains that POTS is not a single diagnosis but one symptom within a larger picture that frequently overlaps with mast cell activation syndrome, hypermobility, and Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The conversation covers what may be driving the condition, including an autoimmune component, small fiber neuropathy, and vascular compression syndromes such as jugular vein compression and pelvic venous congestion. Dr. Cutchins shares findings from her own published research showing that 83% of her POTS patients had iliac vein compression on imaging, and that stenting the iliac vein helped 70% of patients with orthostatic intolerance. She and Dr. Mitchell also discuss why COVID-19 and long COVID have driven a sharp rise in cases, alongside other triggers like viral infections, Lyme disease, bariatric surgery, and major life stressors. Dr. Cutchins walks through how she evaluates patients, including holter monitoring, echocardiograms, and a 10 minute stand test rather than the tilt table test, which she says can worsen symptoms. She outlines her treatment approach, starting with antihistamines, salt, fluids, and compression, then medications like nadolol, propranolol, ivabradine, calcium channel blockers, fludrocortisone, desmopressin, midodrine, and droxidopa depending on the patient. She also covers which forms of exercise, like swimming, recumbent biking, and strength training, tend to be best tolerated. Guest Contact Social Media: LinkedIn X (Twitter) Instagram Website: Cutchins Cardiovascular Medicine Contact Dr. Mitchell: Email: care@mitchellmedicalgroup.com Website Instagram YouTube Facebook LinkedIn Book: Conquering Candida ImmunoLytics - code SmartestDoc, 5% off Apollo Neuro - code SMARTMD

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  Ep. 238 - Why Feeling Safe Is the First Step to Healing Chronic Stress

  Aug 25, 202648 min

  Psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Dave Rabin returns to the podcast to discuss his new book, A Simple Guide to Being Alive, and why he believes healing from chronic stress and illness is simpler than most people are taught. Dr. Rabin explains that the autonomic nervous system, specifically the balance between the fight or flight sympathetic response and the rest and digest vagus nerve system, sits at the core of how the body handles stress, illness, and recovery, and that most patients are never taught the basics of how these systems work. Dr. Rabin and Dr. Mitchell talk through why techniques like deep breathing, meditation, and mindfulness work, tracing the idea back to teachings from Jon Kabat-Zinn. Dr. Rabin describes how breathing at five to seven breaths per minute helps the body access a calm, present state, and how his company Apollo Neuroscience developed a wearable device that uses touch based vibration, rather than sound, to raise heart rate variability and vagal tone within two to three minutes, based on research conducted at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. The conversation turns to why Gen Z is showing declines on standardized cognitive testing, and how chronic nervous system stress, screen time, and a lack of in person mentorship may be contributing factors. Dr. Rabin also shares his approach to helping children work through tantrums and difficult emotions, why parents model stress responses for their kids whether they realize it or not, and why physical touch and safe human connection remain central to healing, even as modern medicine has grown more cautious about it. Guest Contact Facebook T witter/X Instagram LinkedIn Websites: Book: asimpleguidetobeingalive.com Personal/Clinic: drdave.io Apollo Neuroscience: apolloneuro.com The Board of Medicine: boardofmedicine.org Contact Dr. Mitchell: Email: care@mitchellmedicalgroup.com Website Instagram YouTube Facebook LinkedIn Book: Conquering Candida ImmunoLytics - code SmartestDoc, 5% off Apollo Neuro - code SMARTMD

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