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Your Checkup: Patient Education Health Podcast
Ever leave the doctor’s office more confused than when you walked in? Your Checkup: Health Conversations for Motivated Patients is your health ally in a world full of fast appointments and even faster Google searches. Each week, a board certified family medicine physician and a pediatric nurse sit down to answer the questions your doctor didn’t have time to.
From understanding diabetes and depression to navigating obesity, high blood pressure, and everyday wellness—we make complex health topics simple, human, and actually useful. Whether you’re managing a condition, supporting a loved one, or just curious about your body, this podcast helps you get smart about your health without needing a medical degree.
Because better understanding leads to better care—and you deserve both.
Episodes
121 episodes
120: Can Lifting Weights Help Prevent a Heart Attack?
Cardio has been the default prescription for heart health for decades, but a growing body of evidence suggests we’ve been overlooking a major protective tool: strength training. We dig into a large, long-running research dataset that followed m...
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119: Can Medicare Finally Cover Weight Loss Meds? Understanding the New GLP-1 Bridge Program
We break down Medicare’s brand-new GLP-1 Bridge Program and explain why headlines are both true and incomplete. We lay out the real eligibility rules, the $50 copay promise, and the smarter questions to ask so you and your clinician can find th...
118: When Should You Consider an Antidepressant?
The hardest part about antidepressants is often not the pill, it is the question you ask yourself before you ever bring it up: “Is this serious enough?” We think that question keeps too many people stuck. We are Ed Delesky (family medicine doct...
117: Migraine Explained: Triggers, Treatment, and When to Worry for Patients
We break down migraines as a neurologic condition with a real brain-based chain reaction, not a character flaw or a one-off “bad headache.” We share practical prevention habits, how to track triggers, and how acute and preventive migraine medic...
116: Can Weight Loss Medications (GLP1s) Reduce Breast Cancer Risk?
A headline like “weight loss drugs may reduce breast cancer risk” grabs attention fast, but the real story lives in the fine print. We take you through a new Penn Medicine study that observed lower breast cancer rates among women with overweigh...
115: Are Food Preservatives Raising Your Blood Pressure? A New Study Explained
That scary nutrition headline about preservatives and high blood pressure is everywhere right now and it’s easy to jump straight from “linked” to “proven.” We slow it down and do what we’d do in an exam room: look at what the study actually say...
114: COPD Explained Clearly for Patients
Breathing out shouldn’t feel like pushing air through a straw, but for millions of people that’s the daily reality of COPD. We sit down and translate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease into plain English, starting with what the name really m...
113: Health Trends Everywhere Right Now: Hype vs Reality
Cortisol is getting blamed for basically everything online, and we get why it’s tempting: it gives a neat explanation for feeling tired, stressed, bloated, or “off.” But as a family medicine doctor and a nurse, we want to bring the conversation...
112: Hantavirus Explained: Why Experts Are Watching This Rare Virus
“Rare, deadly virus” is a phrase that can hijack your nervous system, especially after the last few years. We slow the whole story down and walk through what hantavirus is, why it’s trending again, and how to tell the difference between a serio...
111: What To Expect When You Begin a GLP-1
GLP-1 medications can feel like a Rorschach test online: one person calls Ozempic or Wegovy a miracle, another calls it miserable, and almost nobody explains what the “normal middle” looks like. We wanted to fix that with a practical walkthroug...
110: When To Consider Starting a GLP-1 (Wegovy, Zepbound): Honest Guide for Patients
A medication that can support weight loss, lower diabetes risk, and protect your heart sounds almost too good to be true. So we get practical about the real decision: not “Do I want a GLP-1?” but “What problem am I trying to solve?” If the goal...
109: Why Your Weight Is Creeping Up (And What To Do About It)
Ten extra calories a day. That’s it. That’s the kind of razor-thin margin that can quietly add a pound a year and it’s why so many people swear they “didn’t change anything” while the scale slowly drifted upward. We unpack the simple math behin...
108: What Actually Happens During a Heart Attack
Your heart doesn’t “randomly” decide to have a heart attack, and that one idea can change how you react to symptoms. We sit down and explain, in plain language, what’s happening inside the body when a coronary artery suddenly gets blocked and w...
107: A New GLP1 Weight Loss Pill? What You Need to Know About Orforglipron (Foundayo)
A GLP-1 that comes as a simple daily pill and can be taken with or without food sounds like a small change, until you think about real life. We’re celebrating two years of Your Checkup and sharing what’s surprised us most, from listeners across...
106: Fatigue: Practical Approach and Ideas for Patients
You wake up tired, push through the day tired, and somehow still feel tired after sleeping. That frustrating loop is one of the most common concerns we hear in primary care, and it usually has a pattern. We walk through a simple, clinician-styl...
105: New Cholesterol Guidelines 2026: What Your Numbers Mean & What to Do
Cholesterol advice has been stuck in “it depends” for years, and we wanted something more concrete you can actually use. So we dig into the 2026 American Heart Association cholesterol guidelines and translate them into plain language: the new L...
104: How Smartphones Affect Mental Health: Anxiety, Depression, and Screen Time Explained
Your phone might be doing more than stealing time. It may be quietly taxing your mood, your attention, and the basic habits that keep you well. We found a fascinating research study that tested a simple but radical idea: block mobile internet a...
103: What They Say You Should Actually Eat Everyday
Headlines argue. We read the document. This week we unpack the newest dietary guidelines with a clear, practical lens: what the recommendations actually say, why they still look a lot like Mediterranean and DASH patterns, and how to turn them i...
102: 3 Surprising Health Risks You Might Be Ignoring
Three ordinary habits—puzzling, pouring, and brushing—carry extraordinary power over long-term health. We unpack new and notable research on cognitive health, colorectal cancer risk, and cardiovascular disease, then turn it into simple actions ...
101: The New (and confusing) Food Pyramid
Ever wondered who really decides what America should eat—and how those choices land on your tray at school, your hospital menu, or your family’s grocery list? We take you behind the scenes of the U.S. dietary guidelines, charting the history fr...
100: Does Intermittent Fasting Actually Work in 2026?
This week on Tasty Tip, we break down three new health stories: • What new research says about intermittent fasting and metabolic health • Why early-onset colon cancer rates are rising • Whether caffeine intake ...
99: Understanding Your Body Composition: Why the Scale Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story
We swap small talk for a deep dive on body composition and why muscle and visceral fat tell a truer health story than the scale. Practical tools like DEXA, bioelectrical impedance, and a simple tape measure help you track what matters and take ...
98: Menopause, Hormones, & GLP Weight Loss Shots
In this episode of Your Checkup, we explore a new study from the Mayo Clinic examining whether menopause hormone therapy enhances weight loss outcomes in postmenopausal women taking tirzepatide. Menopause is a major metabolic tur...
97: The Motivation Checkup: Episode 6: From Motivation to Momentum, How to Turn Insight Into Action
This is the final episode of our Motivation Checkup mini-series, and it’s all about turning everything you’ve learned into real, sustainable change. Over the last five episodes, we explored why motivation fades, why willpower isn’t eno...
96: The Motivation Checkup: Episode 5: Motivation vs Habits vs Discipline, What Creates Change
In this episode, we break down the difference between motivation, habits, and discipline — three tools people often confuse when trying to change their health. You’ll learn why motivation is great for starting but unreliable for consisten...