5 Podcasts on Health & Wellness

Podcast recommendations sharing ideas and information from healthcare practitioners around the world

Podcast artwork for TED Health, On Nutrition from the Mayo Clinic, Hidden Brain, Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee, and hol+ by Dr. Taz

Curator:

👉🏽 Dr. Taz Bhatia (she/her)

Why this theme?

👉🏽There seems to be a resounding desire for a new medical experience nowadays — one that effectively utilizes comprehensive holistic, functional, and integrative health solutions.

As a veteran TV personality and double board certified physician (MD), nutritionist, and acupuncturist, my show is disrupting medicine through collaboration with esteemed clinicians, researchers, wellness experts, and celebrities who often give a glimpse of their healing journeys.

Podcast Picks

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Our healthcare system is broken, and we need to fix it.

This episode follows Joel Bervell, one of the only Black students in his medical school program, as he unpacks race misconceptions embedded in health care and the harmful impact of biases in medicine. For true healing, understanding the challenges in our healthcare systems will better help us navigate these biases, misconceptions, and health inequities.

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A sweet treat feels healing sometimes, but is it wreaking havoc on our health?

This episode dives into the benefits and consequences of sugar in our bodies and how we can adjust our relationship to it.

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Mental and physical health go hand in hand. And these days, we are often mentally and emotionally overwhelmed by the news, social media, and the changing political systems. So what can we do?

This episode helps listeners reclaim our sense of efficacy and provides some grounding for when it’s all too much.

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This episode explores the transformative power of awe, an emotion that arises from vast and mysterious experiences, whether found in nature, music, human kindness, or shared collective moments. Research reveals that awe not only enhances meaning in life but also promotes holistic healing by reducing stress, calming inflammation, and activating the vagus nerve, fostering overall well-being.

Through mindfulness practices like meditation and breath work, we can cultivate awe in our daily lives, supporting emotional and physical healing while deepening our connection to the world around us.

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Tending to our emotional health and mental well-being are essential for healing to be possible.

This episode dives into emotional literacy, brain health, trauma recovery, and the importance of community and connection in maintaining mental wellness.

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Community

🎙️Niche to Meet You is a show about niche subcultures and the meaning folks are finding in them.

🚶In Walkin’ About, host Allan McLeod and a special guest walk around together somewhere in Los Angeles county — anywhere from tourist hotspots and city streets to gardens and cemeteries.

⛰️What Happened in Skinner: In the fall of 2021, an obscure YouTube channel streamed what became the most talked-about mystery on the internet. But what really happened that night? And how much deeper does the story go?

💖In Podcast The Newsletter, Lauren Passell recommends Hollywood Gold. She writes: “[It] is the most underrated movie podcast and is one of the best movie podcasts, this is coming from a non-movie buff and someone who doesn’t really like interview shows.”

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Podcast news from Podnews

  • Michelle Obama and her brother Craig Robinson appeared on-stage at SXSW to record a live episode of their newly launched podcast, IMO. They appeared at the Austin Convention Center with Dr. Laurie Santos, psychology professor and host of The Happiness Lab. SXSW had a renewed focus on podcasting this year.

  • Pocket Casts has opened its web player to everyone. You don’t need an account to listen. You can also download Mac and Windows desktop apps, too - and if you sign in, you can rate shows and store your favorites, and keep tabs of what you’ve listened-to (which syncs to the app, too). Until now, it was behind a paywall, and only available to Pocket Casts Plus users.

  • JAR Audio has announced the third edition of the Emerging Women in Podcasting Pilot Competition. The winner gets a professionally produced audio podcast pilot episode, with full support from JAR’s talented team.

Spotlight

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Angelica Ojinnaka-Psillakis hails from Sydney, Australia. It's a city synonymous with Bondi Beach, picture-perfect coastlines, and Olympic swimmers. But Angelica never learned to swim as a child.

Her home in the suburbs of Western Sydney is landlocked. She loves it there but in recent summers, it's become one of the hottest places on earth. At 25 she decides to finally face her fear of the water and learn to swim.

In this three-part series, she talks to family and friends who encourage her — and climate experts that help us understand what it takes to stay cool on a planet heating up faster than predicted.

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