Dr. M's Women and Children First Podcast

Cholesterol Lipid Hypothesis Parts I,2,3 Is cholesterol really the problem? Or is cholesterol, at least in part, responding to inflammation, dysbiosis, infection, genetics, and the metabolic environment in which it finds itself? Why do we need cholesterol in the first place? Is the cholesterol we eat the issue, the cholesterol our bodies make, the number of lipoprotein particles carrying it or genetic differences in the receptors responsible for clearing those particles? The answer, unsurprising

Welcome to Dr. M’s Women and Children First Podcast, where we explore the science, stories, and ideas that are changing how we understand the health of women and children—with a particular focus on how the earliest environments of life can shape health for decades to come. Today we are going deep into one of those earliest environments: the immune conversation between a mother and her developing baby. My guest is Dr. Judy Van de Water, an internationally recognized immunologist whose work has he

Today’s guest is Dr. Doug Thompson, a 27 year veteran of dentistry since he graduated from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in 1996. Dr. Thompson is a teacher, researcher and trail blazer in the field of modern dentistry. Today we travel down paths that lead to explanations as to why oral health is so important to systemic and truly whole human health. We look back in time and follow a timeline to the present-day research that says that we have scientific knowledge through laborato

The Story We Cannot See For those that have not read Theo of Golden, do so. Quite an incredible read. There is a moment in Theo of Golden when Allen Levi introduces us more deeply to Ellen, a woman whose circumstances make it easy for the world to place her into a category. Homeless. Poor. Troubled. Someone living at the margins. But then we learn her story. And suddenly that category becomes inadequate. Worse, inappropriate. That is one of the quiet gifts of a beautifully told story. It forces

"Last week someone asked why I prefer books. My immediate answer was that I love their quiet, non-commercial nature. No ads. No hype. Just quiet wisdom with deep rewards for a focused mind. But today I realized something more profound: Each of my biggest life-changing moments came from a single sentence deep inside a book." (Sivers D. 2026) I still prefer to hold a book in my hands, the weight of it, the rough-hewn pages beneath my fingers, the quiet ritual of turning one page after another. Rea

My guest today is Nicholas Kelly, a registered dietitian, speaker, and someone who has spent essentially his entire life navigating medicine from the other side of the exam table. Nicholas was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis in infancy. That diagnosis meant growing up with a chronic disease that required constant attention: medications, treatments, nutrition, hospitalizations, and an intimate relationship with a healthcare system that most children never experience. But what makes Nicholas’s stor