Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker
Episodes
Sugar - A Chronic Toxin?
14 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second of two repeated podcasts that were aired a while ago, which are being re-released. This one with Dr Robert Lustig was particularl...
Why Blood Sugar Levels Matter
30 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Over the holiday season, I'm releasing a couple of previous podcasts that were particularly popular with listeners. This first one is an interview I d...
How Can We Make Prescribing Medicines Safer?
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Tony Avery, National Clinical Director for Prescribing for NHS England, discusses safer prescribing of medicines. He highlights the change...
Are we overdiagnosing Mental Health Conditions?
02 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Neuropsychiatrist Dr Alastair Santhouse discusses his concerns that the huge increase we are seeing in mental health diagnoses across the western wo...
The Vagus Nerve - How Medicine is Harnessing Its Benefits
18 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Kevin J. Tracey reveals the extraordinary impact the vagus nerve, which connects every organ in the body to the brain, has on our health. Kevin has...
Mistletoe Injections - Could these be a valuable supplement to standard oncological care?
04 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Nina Fuller-Shavel discusses the use of injectable mistletoe as a cancer treatment in conjunction with the standard treatments such as chemotherapy...
Ketogenic Diets: New Research Suggests They Might Help in Anorexia Treatment
22 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Guido Frank discusses his research in the use of ketogenic diets to treat anorexia nervosa. Although, his research is at an early stage his results...
Diagnosed as a Bipolar Teenager: A Patient's Story and Redemption
08 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Delano, was diagnosed as having bipolar disorder when she was a teenager and would go on to spent 13 years receiving psychiatric care, both as i...
Alzheimer's Disease Research Fraud: What Are the Implications for Treatment?
24 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Investigative journalist Charles Piller explains the remarkable story of fraud he has uncovered in Alzheimer’s Disease research, which he discusses ...
Herbs & Spices: What's The Evidence They Might Benefit Our Health?
10 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Kerry Bone, a herbalist who has spent 40 years working in the field, joins the podcast to discuss just what the evidence is that certain herbs and s...
Medication in Pregnancy: What You Need To Know
27 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Obstetrician and gynaecologist, Dr Adam Urato, explains why he is concerned about the huge increase in medications now taken by pregnant women. A figu...
Overdiagnosis: Has Modern Medicine Gone Too Far?
13 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
NHS consultant neurologist Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan argues that a range of medical conditions from autism to ADHD are now overdiagnosed, which is compl...
Omega 3 (and 6): What You Need To Know
29 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Bill Harris discusses the critical impact the Omega 3 fatty acids have - not just on our heart health - but on a myriad of other medical conditions...
Cancer: How New Breakthroughs Are Transforming Care
15 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In the very first episode of the new season of Medical Evidence Matters with Lizt Tucker formerly known as What Your GP Doesn't Tell you, Liz Tucker t...
Can We Use Neuroscience To Help Manage Our Stress?
11 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
GP Dr Safia Debar discusses how we can leverage emerging knowledge of neuroscience to help us more effectively manage our stress. This is something, s...
Why do SSRI drugs and the science behind them generate such fierce debate?
28 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Psychiatrist Professor Joanna Moncrieff discusses her new book Chemical Imbalance: The Making and the Unmaking of the Serotonin Myth. I first spoke to...
Should You Take HRT?
14 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Louise Newson, who runs a menopause clinic, discusses many of the myths about Hormone Replacement Therapy for women - or HRT for short. What are th...
What You Need To Know Before You Take Any Generic Drug
31 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Katherine Eban's investigation over more than ten years has uncovered one of the most shocking medical scandals imaginable, which affects m...
Could Heart Rate Variability Be A Key Tool in Improving Your Health?
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Norwegian GP Dr Torkil Færø argues wearable devices that measure our heart rate and other health metrics, if used in the right way can be transforma...
Who'd Be a Whistleblower?
19 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whistleblower Dr Carl Elliott's life changed for ever, when he tried to alert his university about the running of a drug trial which had resulted in t...
Could Dementia Be Preventable and Treatable?
05 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The idea of developing dementia is probably one of our greatest health fears. We tend to think of it as an irreversible disease that gradually robs us...
How To Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease
03 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Cardiologist Dr Scott Murray discusses what we can all do to reduce our risk of heart disease. I think many of us are familiar with the idea that elev...
Personalised Nutrition: How It Is Transforming Our Understanding of Food
20 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Sarah Berry discusses her research in personalised nutrition, which is uncovering the hugely varied effects different foods may have on one ...
Why Your Oral Microbiome Is Critical For Good Health
06 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dentist Dr Victoria Sampson argues that while the gut microbiome gets a huge amount of attention, funding and publicity, the oral microbiome gets almo...
Are High Cholesterol Levels Dangerous On A Keto Diet?
23 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This week's guest is Dave Feldman, who unusually for this podcast is not a doctor or a medical researcher, but actually a software engineer. For a lon...
How Diet Can Help In The Prevention and Treatment of Cancer
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Oncologist Professor Robert Thomas, argues along with standard conventional cancer treatments - all of which he uses - that exercise and diet can play...
Why is the Death Rate Higher for US Dialysis Patients Than Europeans?
25 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Author and journalist Tom Mueller, after meeting whistleblowers working in the US dialysis industry seven years ago, decided to investigate further....
How Processed Food Is Engineered To Be Irresistible
11 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Investigative reporter Michael Moss has spent many years uncovering just what it is about processed and fast food that makes it so hard for many of us...
How Sugar - Like Drugs & Alcohol - Impacts Our Dopamine Levels
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Psychiatrist Dr. Anna Lembke discusses how addictive substances like alcohol and drugs cause our dopamine levels to rocket, and reveals - perhaps surp...
Is Food Addiction Real?
14 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Rob Lustig discusses whether it’s really possible to become addicted to food, and if it is, does that change how we view those who struggle in th...
Allergies: What You Need To Know
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the last few decades, there has been a huge increase in allergy and allergic reactions, but why? Just what has changed in our health and environmen...
Why Hormones Not Calorie Counting May Be Key In Obesity
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jason Fung argues that much of what we think we know about weight loss is simply wrong. Jason says that the critical factor in losing weight is hor...
The Secrets To A Successful Keto Diet
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Beth Zupec–Kania is a dietician and nutritionist, who has spent over 30 years developing very low carb - otherwise known as ketogenic diets - to t...
Should You Take A Weight Loss Drug?
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Barbara Mintzes and Dr Joel Lexchin, have recently published a review paper on the weight loss drug Wegovy (generic name semaglutide). They discuss...
Deprescribing from Psychiatric Drugs: The Problems and the Solutions
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Mark Horowitz discusses why psychiatric medication has turned out to be far harder to stop than any one expected. For Mark, this is as much a pers...
Could Changing Your Diet Improve Your Mental Health?
23 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Psychiatrist Dr Georgia Ede argues that the medical profession has completely underestimated the huge impact of diet on our mental health. In her new ...
Treating Long Covid
09 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Lisa Sanders, writes a column called Diagnosis in the New York Times magazine, which was the inspiration for the Fox medical drama House, M.D. .The...
What Doctors Don’t Get Taught
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Robert Lufkin argues that modern medicine hasn’t paid nearly enough attention to the underlying causes of diseases, and has tended to treat sympt...
Thalidomide - The Story You Don’t Know (Part Two)
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is the second episode of a two parter about a new investigation into the drug thalidomide, so if you haven’t listened to part one, please d...
Thalidomide - The Story You Don’t Know (Part One)
14 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It was one of the greatest medical tragedies of the 20th century. In 1957, a new wonder drug was launched in Germany. It was marketed as an astonishin...
The Accidental Drug Advocate
19 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Witczak's life was changed for ever one tragic day in 2003 when her husband Woody killed himself. Several weeks earlier, Woody, who did not have a...
Why Knowing Your Blood Sugar Level Matters
05 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
GP Dr David Unwin has been a pioneer in the UK developing and promoting a low-carb approach for treating type 2 diabetes. In 2016, he won the NHS inno...
How To Keep Your Brain Healthy Into Old Age
22 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Neuroscientist Dr Sabina Brennan argues that while we may be increasingly aware of the importance of physical health, we neglect the value of brain he...
Anorexia: A Patient’s Story
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As a teenager, journalist Hadley Freeman spent over two and half years in hospital being treated for anorexia. In this interview, she gives a brutally...
Pain: Why We Need to Revolutionise Our Thinking
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Deepak Ravindran, a NHS consultant in pain medicine, reveals how we need to completely rethink our views about pain. Pain, particularly long term i...
Why Having a Healthy Microbiome Is Critically Important
11 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Colorectal surgeon Mr James Kinross reveals the remarkable impact that our microbiomes have on every aspect of health from the moment we are born. He ...
Using Low Carb Diets To Treat Epilepsy And Other Neurological Diseases
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Tanya JW McDonald discusses the use of low carb (otherwise known as ketogenic) diets for patients with epilepsy, Alzheimer’s Disease, malignant g...
Your 24 Hour Body Clock: How It Controls Everything from Sleep To When You Should Take Medication
13 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at Oxford University, reveals the key role our body clock plays not just in controlling how and ...
Can Longevity Drugs and Lifestyle Extend Our Lifespan?
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The idea of staying fit, young and healthy for longer, is something many of us would love to achieve, but just how possible is it? Dr Robert Lufkin, w...
Should You Take A Statin?
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr John Abramson, who has published several peer reviewed papers examining the data behind statins, discusses the facts you need to know before decidi...
What You Need to Check Before Taking Any Prescription Drug
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Former Canadian politician Terence Young became a safety advocate, starting the non-profit group Drug Safety Canada, following the tragic death of his...
Sugar, Refined Carbs and Polyunsaturated Fats: The Perfect Storm?
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Orthopaedic Surgeon Dr Gary Fettke frustrated by the increasing number of diabetic patients' limbs he was having to amputate, started prescibing low...
Could Stem Cell Transplants Play a Critical Role in MS and Other Auto-Immune Diseases?
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Richard K. Burt, a world leading pioneer who performed America’s first hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) to treat multiple sclerosis, d...
Could Inflammation, Diet and Disease Be Linked?
14 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Shilpa Ravella, a transplant gastroenterologist, argues that inflammation may be a common factor in many of the diseases we face today from heart d...
Dr David Healy Discusses SSRI Drugs, Suicide and Sexual Dysfunction
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr David Healy was one of the first psychiatrists to suggest that while in some cases the antidepressant drugs, the SSRIs may help prevent suicide, in...
How to Keep Your Gut Healthy - Season Two
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Tim Spector reveals how developing research about our gut biome – the microbes in our gut – is revolutionising our understanding of di...
Should You Take A Vitamin D Supplement? - Season Two
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Michael Holick is a pioneer in vitamin D science and has spent a lifetime researching and exploring what he believes are its potentially life-chang...
Could Low-Carb Diets Help Treat Mental Illness? - Season Two
06 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Harvard trained psychiatrist Dr Georgia Ede is pioneering the use of low carb - otherwise known as ketogenic - diets to help treat a range of mental...
Sugar - A Chronic Toxin? - Season Two
08 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Robert Lustig argues sugar is fuelling an epidemic of chronic and metabolic disease, from diabetes and strokes, to cancer and heart disease costi...
The Whistleblower Who Inspired A John Le Carré Novel - Season Two
25 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Season Two of Medical Evidence Matters with Liz Tucker This week’s story is so extraordinary that the best selling spy writer John Le C...
How the Smartphone Could Revolutionise Healthcare
06 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Eric Topol, one of the world’s leading cardiologists, reveals how the smartphone has the potential to revolutionise healthcare and create far mor...
First Drug Company to Be Accused of Racketeering in a US Court- The Neurontin(Gabapentin) Story
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This week’s podcast is about one of the world’s top selling drugs, Neurontin (generic name Gabapentin). And it centres on an extraordinary court...
What Happens When the Doctor Becomes The Patient?
22 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Neurosurgeon and author, Mr Henry Marsh, pioneer of the awake craniotomy, a brain surgery performed while the patient is still awake, discusses the et...
Has Medicine Been Too Slow to Explore the Benefits of Fasting?
15 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Jason Fung, a kidney specialist, and one of the world's leading pioneers in low carb diets and intermittent fasting, reveals why modern medicine ha...
Why The UK Does Poorly For Some Cancers & The Devastating Impact of Covid on the UK’s Cancer Services
08 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the final part of his interview, Professor Karol Sikora, one of the world's leading cancer experts and a past director of the WHO Cancer Programm...
How To Be A Savvy Cancer Patient
01 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Karol Sikora, one of the world's leading cancer experts - an oncologist for 44 years and a past director of the WHO Cancer Programme - talks...
Why Does Medical Science Know So Little About The Female Body?
24 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Journalist Gabrielle Jackson reveals how the research for her book Pain and Prejudice uncovered just how little medical science understands the fema...
SSRIs - Serotonin Hypothesis, Drug Effectiveness & Emerging Data About Sexual Side Effects
17 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Professor Joanna Moncrieff discusses the serotonin hypothesis, the evidence for the effectiveness of SSRIs, and the emerging data about SSRI sexual si...