Amy Alkon
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first heard Jun 2025
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He's got some great books also. So, you know, it is time for, I can tell you, you know, working in psychiatry all the years that I did, that generally speaking, any psychiatric syndrome is accounted for on the basis of biology at about 60%. 60% of the syndrome is accounted for on the basis of biology alone. And there's, of course, there are environmental inputs, like with every syndrome.
Even if you have a piano drop on your head, you have to have grown a head. There's always some biological elements in things that can look like strictly environmental inputs. And the biology has profound effects on everything. And the biology is shaped out of the evolutionary forces of millions and millions and hundreds of millions of years. And that's that. It's just that. It's just so.
Now, I think the evolution of psychology got itself in a little trouble by using, doing a lot of just so descriptions of sort of the traits and things that had evolved without helping people understand that there is. No, no, no, no, no. Hold on. Hold on. Let me finish. Without helping people understand that there's also good science behind it.
That's right. That's right.
We're Western-educated, industrialized.
Yeah. We used to just do them on Harvard and Yale students. That's that's the bottom line. And now we try to get a more diverse population. Well, listen, I am out of time. I really I've over I've overstayed my welcome. And I would love to talk to you some more of their topics that come up where you're fighting. The menopausal front, I'm a warrior with you on that one.
And I wanted to get that one on the record since we were talking about women's issues.
I'm just going to tell everybody. But if there are other things that come along on the evolutionary psychology front and male-female differences and things, I'd like to get back into that battle again. I used to fight those fights. And I got sidetracked by COVID.
And? And to build that resiliency and build that self-efficacy, you lean into stressful circumstances. You don't hide in safe spaces. You expose yourself to things. Exposure therapy is the main breakthrough in mental health in the first quarter of the 21st century. And guess what? Ordinary misery is good. And build resiliency and efficacy through leaning into unpleasant things. That's that.
Just like building your muscles, it hurts.
Yeah, and don't be afraid to talk to your doctor about these things. One piece of advice I would give you is don't approach it like, did you know? They know. They're just not paying attention. And they've been exposed to it. They just have gotten into groupthink. You can just go, look, I'm reading data, and I'm looking at this new data, and I'm convinced. And start like that.
That's how you talk to a doctor. I'm looking at that because they want you informed.
It's a great, great piece of data. That's good. Yes, learning how, that's very useful, learn how to bring the data in. And again, the doctor's concern is getting in and out quick. That's what he or she is concerned with. So if you come in informed with data, they're perfectly happy to hear that. All right, listen, Amy, thank you so much for joining us.
We'll get the book, we'll follow you on X, and hopefully we'll talk again soon about the evolutionary... Let's just do an evolutionary psychology thing because it needs to come back to the fore. It needs to come back into the forefront because it's this idea of... And theory, theory, as you mentioned, in humanities and social sciences is completely adulterated.
It is a misappropriation of the notion of scientific theory. It is disgusting. And we need to bring science back into the discourse and biology back into the discourse. So I'm ready to do it. All right. Thank you so much.
All right, and next up, tomorrow, speaking of biology, we're bringing Nicole Sapphire in here. She's got some, we're going to talk a little prostate cancer and other things. She's a radiation oncologist. Jordan Vaughn, who, what did Dr. Vaughn had some observations? I forget. Jeez, I'm only blocking what they were, but he's got some interesting ideas about COVID, was it?
Something happened to him during COVID that we need to kind of bring into the fore. Anouska DiGiorgio and Emily Hagen were going to talk a little. Epstein, she was in there. Mark Cianchesi, isn't Anouska? Somebody got lured. She was evicted. Yeah. She has some new data out.
She's an excellent Danish physician and researcher who really just really writes great, clear, good science and then of course can't get it published because it runs contrary to some of the quote priorities of some of the publishing organizations. Alright, we've got a lot to do. I'll be in here tomorrow at 2 o'clock. Please join us then. Ask Dr. Drew is produced by Caleb Nation and Susan Pinsky.
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