Treating The Root Causes Of Our Suffering (w/Dr. Ron Sinha)

[@ZDoggMD]

Transcript, links to Dr. Sinha's podcast & resources, and ways to support our show: zdoggmd.com/ron-sinha-3 0:00 Intro 2:08 Working from home and chronic pandemic stress 6:23 Work and our identity crisis 9:27 Emotional suppression and the physical effects of stress (blood pressure, blood sugar, weight, etc) 14:21 Continuous glucose monitors and “white coat hyperglycemia” 17:19 Cortisol as stress hormone, shame, intermittent fasting hazards 25:18 The real roots of job dissatisfaction and the creative impulse 29:38 Stress effects on our children, poisonous parental pressure 31:19 Steve Jobs and the central importance of spiritual growth 40:52 The peril of reductionism in medicine, destigmatizing lifestyle medicine 45:07 The central role of “identity” in human suffering, burnout in healthcare 49:43 The role of vulnerability in medicine, the next generation’s challenges and how to better raise kids 56:02 The role of envy 59:28 Understanding and un-repressing emotion 1:03:00 The Pre/Trans Fallacy 1:07:19 Journaling as a tool, why writing is different than typing 1:12:30 Breathing and posture at work, “email apnea” 1:19:48 A different SOAP note 1:22:30 Dropping into “presence” 1:23:03 Men At Work’s greatest song 1:25:38 Doing exercise right 1:30:09 The role of laughter and breathing 1:32:39 Reconnected with the inner child, accepting emotion 1:38:07 Sleep & Anxiety, Yoga Nidra, Compassion, setting boundaries 1:48:38 The importance of Wonder and the transcendent

[@LaSmoocherina]

This is great! I’m going to watch it in pieces. So thanks for breaking it out. I’m very interested. I want to listen to is slower than 2X, so I’m going to break it out and think on each piece. 😃

[@joycephilips1892]

Poo a

[@530spackers]

Dr Z, can’t say enough about your ability to combine science/medicine with spirituality. Science supplying our answers to the questions we have, spirituality reminding us to let go of the need to answer those questions. The paradox being the more we let go of our egoic need to have all of the answers, the more science shows up to those who are ready for it. You are blessed, we are blessed. So grateful!

[@tinapabon6747]

I have kid who struggles with life, always has. People assume his behaviors and just his personality in general is due to bad parenting but its his mental health issues and issues created due to his learning disorders. I tell people, he will get where he needs to be because he is surrounded by a loving family who will go out of their way to support him. I want so much for him but mostly him to be happy.

[@erynlasgalen1949]

Different strokes for different folks, I guess. I have always thrived in solitude, especially in my home where I feel safe and relaxed. I can focus better without the stress of interacting with other Huan beings when it is not my choice to do so.

[@xXSentiasXx]

Same

[@katdunleavey]

Ditto

[@nolongerthere]

There is such a massive divide between solitude, which I cherish and rely upon for spiritual sustenance, and loneliness. The latter I feel fairly rarely, but it is a hole, a gap that it acutely felt with great sadness; solitude is a whole for which intrusions are disruptive.

[@stephenvankleeck4801]

I’d love to see a study in home work environments where people are comfortable and relaxed vs stressed. My theory is that there is deeper thought and structure amongst us who love being at home. There’s also likely some deep personality structure dynamics at play in that dynamic, as there always is…

[@happylistener4628]

Yes. Me too.

[@princessap9635]

Beautiful interview-finally western medicine publicly acknowledges that it can learn from Eastern philosophy and faith Amazing 😻 thank you Dr. Sinha -this is real, not token representation

[@joygernautm6641]

I am a nurse, and my daughter ponder going into nursing a couple of years ago, and silently I prayed that she would change her mind😑. She is now in her second year of computer engineering.

[@TheGibby13]

Good for her, made the right choice

[@anaisferrouge1401]

As a nurse, I 100% agree with this sentiment..Iive your life and don't martyr yourself to this system.

[@djp1234]

Good choice. Nursing is like being put into a meat grinder, with a toxic work culture, with toxic co-workers. Constant stress, just so the hospital CEO can make millions from your hard work.

[@hanskung3278]

Very wise mother and daughter.....my daughter is becoming a dental hygienist rather than getting into nursing.

[@hanskung3278]

@@djp1234 Florence Nightingale is rolling in her grave.

[@hosseinjavidiniroomand]

Beautiful video. Many many thanks for sharing because inspiring for me as a composer. Thanks again🙏❤🌹🙏

[@rken563]

Thanks!

[@marksanders8095]

After I watch these videos on this channel I always feel a little smarter

[@HockMed2504]

Thank you ZDogg for bringing bright minds to your show and thank you Dr. Sinha for sharing your knowledge. I wish you were my doctor!

[@AngieLophile1]

Wow. Such a great discussion on great topics. I want to hear more about your retreat.

[@alantasbler4581]

Thanks Zuban. You've been my go to guy during the plague.

[@carlab7668]

So excited to watch this, he's been one of my (many) favorite guests 😊

[@rosinha3a]

Amazing talk. I learned so so much from this. I really think you three should do this things together more often. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, science based opinion, and humor, I had a great time watching the video.

[@teena4rl211]

Excellent. Always a double treat with Dr. Ron. Thank you.

[@anna7276]

This was an amazing and interesting conversation! Thank you to both of you for an enlightening and informative listen! Greetings from Western Australia x

[@anna7276]

Omg the big Z actually liked my comment! Fangirling right now! Lol. Thanks Z!

[@gallakochar4245]

I am consulting Dr. Ron as I live in Silicon Valley too. Highly recommend reading his awesome book and listening his very informative talks.

[@samephraimshaversjr8864]

Thanks for this amazing interview and discussion.

[@Chris_P_]

This was one of my favourite podcasts since you had Angelo DiLullo on! Zubin you are such a gift to those of us who are on the listening end. 💙

[@marywesterbeke1490]

I agree with the value of journalling. I have found that having to put pen to paper forces you to find the actual words to write down. This helps clarify feelings that were unclear.

[@adrianstaystrong]

I loved this conversation, thank you.

[@kelli130]

Thank you for bringing in the spiritual aspect of fasting. ❤️

[@laurasmith171]

I cannot wait to watch this one.

[@narrymanpina7889]

Thank you for this!!

[@victoriajohnson3034]

Allowing time daily for creative outlet really helps me with anxiety and keeps me centered

[@searipple91]

I've been watching your videos for the last couple of months and I would like to let you know that this episode really hit the nail for me, amongst Aha's and Ooh's wonder moments 😉, the majority of the topics discussed really resonated with me intuitively and I am considering taking some notes. Thank you for what you do and keep up the great work.👏

[@Piercingconsciousness]

I watched this video a few days ago and I just wanted to come back and say a huge thank you. You spoke about singing, and working the diaphragm. I've been really low lately and struggling to practise mindfulness and holding myself through it. After watching this I've been making a conscious effort to have less screen time and make time each morning to have a good sing song. The difference already is amazing and I just wanna thank you for all you do ❤❤❤

[@michaelamaestas4950]

Women , Mothers have dealt with " working " from home for 1000s of years . We know it well.

[@donnawillis2030]

I recently found your channel. I really enjoy you and your guest! I am curious what retreat you went to because it sounds like an incredible experience.

[@matthewragudo]

This was a great Show Zdogg. Thanks. Hit me on so many different levels! So much info, so much. Thanks ! I'll be subscribing to Don Sinha now! I'll be upping my contribution to the Health 3.0!

[@AtypicalPaul]

Love your nuance conversations

[@112jungle]

"The buddha said 'We suffer because we desire. If you can give up desire, you won't suffer.' But he didn't say that as the last word; he said that as the opening step of a dialogue. Because if you say that to someone, they're going to come back after a while and say 'Yes, but now I'm desiring not to desire.' And so the buddha will answer, 'Well at last you're beginning to understand the point.' Because you can't give up desire. Why would you try to do that? It's already desire. So in the same way you say 'You ought to be unselfish' or to give up you ego. Let go, relax. Why do you want to do that? Just because it's another way of beating the game, isn't it? The moment you hypothesize that you are different from the universe, you want to get one up on it. But if you try to get one up on the universe, and you're in competition with it, that means you don't understand you ARE it. You think there's a real difference between 'self' and 'other.' But 'self,' what you call yourself, and what you call 'other' are mutually necessary to each other like back and front. They're really one. But just as a magnet polarizes itself at north and south, but it's all one magnet, so experience polarizes itself as self and other, but it's all one. If you try to make the south pole defeat the north pole, or get the mastery of it, you show you don't know what's going on." -Alan Watts

[@ZDoggMD]

THIS.

[@nikkivella5019]

Much love for this 🙏.

[@wellwisher7778]

I love Working from Home 👏

[@TheEvaluna1975]

Wow! If I have to use three words to summarize this conversation I'd say "Love, Awakening and Hope" Man! Big kudos to Ron for what's he's doing! This will have profound positive repercussions not only in healthcare but for humanity's well-being and the nature around us! I know it may sound like wishful thinking but huge changes start at the individual level... and then it replicates and multiplies on its own... we just need to work on ourselves, connecting with our deepest nature, and trusting the universe to act upon us, and everything will fall into place... It's the only way! Thanks again Zubin, for being a facilitator of this process! 🤗❤🙏

[@billmiller9253]

Identity... so central to our being. I was used to being physically powerful and smarter than average through the first 48 years. Then endocrine syndrome with cardiac issues, diabetes, strokes, etc. So hard to re-invent a meaningful persona. Off to Chiang Mai next month.

[@mandyj5222]

I totally agree that the stressers in our life have measurable effects on our health! I've been watching my resting heart rate through my fitbit Versa 2 and its amazing to see that when I am very stressed my heart rate goes up a ton. But once the stress passes and the crisis is over, my resting heart rate drops like a rock 😳 It is so important for us to really look inside ourselves to see what our inner dialogue is like. To make sure we are giving ourselves the attention for our inner lives that we do for our physical outer conditions. Our inside voice is the one we hear most often, its important to take control and keep it. 🙏 Thank you Dr. Z. Thank you for your contributions to the medical community and to those of us that study health but are not in the field (not a fan of blood 😅) Have a wonderful holiday season! Love and light to you and yours 😊💕

[@AshleyStuart]

Starting watching this before I went to work this morning and now finishing it tonight. I really liked the talk about stress and weight loss in the beginning of this. I actually wonder a lot now if the reason why it took me so long to start seeing results at the beginning of my weight loss was because I had too high of stress. I was doing everything I could think of and nothing was working including tracking calories. I really like the description of envy and spelling it envi instead of envy. That part was so interesting. I've experienced a lot of envy myself particularly with family because I am on such a different trajectory in my life compared to pretty much everyone in my family and a lot of that being because of having chronic illnesses so I haven't had the chance to do the things that I've wanted to do in the order I've wanted to do them or those in my family who are younger than me reaching life milestones I thought I'd be at by now. I don't have siblings but I feel this with my younger cousins. It's taken a lot of time for me to work on this and now I really feel like although I may not reach certain milestones at certain times, I'm exactly where I am supposed to be at the exact time I am supposed to be there.

[@sharchall]

I once journaled out doors in darkness - 3:00 a.m. It was dark and i did not care what my writing would look like. I kept at it until the sun came up. It was powerful! I heard the hummingbirds before i could see them!

[@judeblake2534]

What a great show! Thank you!

[@cerecoichetti3973]

Did you ever post a link to where you took your silent retreat?

[@RVC0902]

Aw I love that ZDogg was a fat little kid. So cute! My goodness this episode resonates. I fast way too much

[@carolswearingen7173]

What was said about not needing to be a virtuoso...all my life I have been willing to try anything and have been happy to be a "C" student. Nothing ventured, nothing gained!

[@112jungle]

“There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires.

[@FJBtV-os2pv]

Hey can you talk about all the athletes who are Mysteriously dying now ??? Some say it's the JAB .

[@nissahauer4309]

The thing also with kids and why they didn't do well during lock downs is because parents tend to try and problem solve everything for them and fix everything so that the kid is comfortable. But lock downs were something they could not fix and stove kids didn't have mass play dates that their parents fixed for them they couldn't be social and many kids didn't know how to cope alone. This is not just a covid issue is a society issue

[@carolswearingen7173]

I have parrots that make me laugh all the time...and they are quite entertained by my constant singing...so they are my feathered therapists. Their faves are Baby Shark and Elvis' Little Sister.

[@CrisusAttucks]

WHAT??? every single super fit, active, clean dieting person I know is super happy and content. nothing feeds the mind more than exercise.

[@djp1234]

The core problem is working at a crappy job, being stuck at that job because your health insurance is tied to that job. Also having barely any vacation time and going crazy because you're always stuck at your crappy job.

[@patmiller9236]

Dr. Z I very much enjoy your conversations. Much of what you are exploring and questions you raise have been addressed over the centuries in profound ways by 3 great mystical contemplative Carmelite Doctors of the Church. St. Teresa of Avila (The Way of Perfection, The Interior Castle), St. John of the Cross (The Dark Night, The Ascent of Mt. Carmel) and St. Therese of Lisieux (The Little Way). Check them out sometime.

[@DennisBolanos]

ZDoggMD, would you consider interviewing Dr. Datis Kharrazian?

[@gregzaks6649]

Envy? It is alien to me. When someone is doing better than I on any subject, I just strive to get better and that is where I spend on my energy, because envy is totally unproductive and it does not get you anywhere. Just know that you can achieve anything you truly want, and go for it😗😗😄😄

[@TheRomanPilgriminPerson]

Alternate Breathing, if you can't sleep, doing Alternate Breathing every day throughout the day will heal you. It may take some days to build up at first before it works at night, but just keep doing it as much as you possibly can in the daytime and it will work to put you to sleep all through the night, night after night. It is cumulative to where after awhile you can skip some days if you absolutely can't get any practice in, but then you have to go back to doing it. It's on the internet. I learned it 40 years ago from a Yogi from India.

[@112jungle]

Desire is the root cause of suffering.

[@currentriver4951]

Get out of here, give good advice dude

[@chito127]

I know so many people that 'take life as it comes'. Sounds good, doesn't work out that well.

[@hanskung3278]

Sennacott?

[@karinewines2579]

Dr. Gabor Mate, "When the Body Says 'No'"

[@amber4027]

Absolutely, great book suggestion

[@Avatar2024-j2j]

I’m healthy and I don’t have covid or need these shots.

[@112jungle]

“There is no fear for one whose mind is not filled with desires. “Buddha”

[@currentriver4951]

That doesn't apply to Marines.....nothing wrong with healthy desire

[@jaqbab]

Check out Rene Girard. He writes about how people envy those who are most alike themselves

[@onawal931]

Lol. I've done that. "Ohhhhh, need to get away from the screen." :lies down, pulls out phone:

[@heatherredden6642]

Funny… when I was younger I always thought the Commandment of “Thou shall not covet/ENVY …”. was not that destructive… but oh my … it REALLY IS… the Lord knows what destroys us

[@nickwoo2]

I think you need more precise language. Vibration is way too vague and people can interpret or impose any meaning they want to with this kinda of language.

[@myinternetmovie]

I have never liked corporate wellness such as Kabat-Zinn. Why would it fall on the employee to alleviate insanely stressful working conditions ? This is a systemic problem.

[@chely452]

This was good but honestly it made me a bit anxious with how disorganized the conversation was lol it was kind of all over the place. They would bring up a great topic and then get side tracked.

[@GeorgeOu]

Losing weight when stopping exercise is very normal because a person can drop a lot of water weight. We need to get over the obsession over WEIGHT and focus on waste size which is a far better proxy for fat loss. You can also lose muscle weight which is horrible for health.

[@victoriajohnson3034]

Brain balance therapy. The Zing Method by wynford dore. Legit or hoax? Could it really be a therapy for dementia, adhd, autism, dyslexia, and if so possibly a future therapy for covid long term issues? Seems to make sense, could use insight.

[@grillmeisterkush6396]

here's another helpful one: next time you find yourself in a "wow i can't believe i just did that moment", laugh out loud at yourself. It's the greatest change of potential regret/shame into: lol i'm such an idiot, that could have been a lot worse.

[@margarettorossian5927]

Please take note of the latest book by Robert F Kennedy Jr about public health..."The Real Anthony Fauci"

[@hanskung3278]

No, the job will not fulfill you but it does pay the mortgage.

[@victoriajohnson3034]

It's like keto diet with only unhealthy fats and processed keto foods

[@Alenasnow07]

National fragility brought to surface.

[@carolswearingen7173]

Oh wait now I envy his Oura ring.....

[@heatherredden6642]

I get great fulfillment in nursing BUT without a PURPOSE … of loving Jesus … and getting to know Him… well… it’s all just smoke and mirrors😫