Help! Make it Make Sense with Dr. Toni and Dr. Aimee
Do you get overwhelmed by science? Does it mystify or scare you? Have you ever wondered if scientists are normal people and why they use so much freakin’ jargon when they talk? You’re not alone! In this podcast, you’ll enter the world of science through conversations between two friends who happen to be a med peds doctor (internist and pediatrician) and an immunology professor. They will talk through the most recent and crazy headlines and help you separate the nuggets of truth from the B. S.!Relax, pop in your ear buds, and listen to conversations about science that will surprise, delight, and inform you.Dr. Aimee Bernard is a PhD in immunology with expertise in science communication, community science outreach, and medical education. Dr. Toni Eyssallenne is an MD, PhD double boarded in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics with expertise in global and public health, health equity, and medical education. Both have been actively working in their fields for over 15 years and are dedicated to improving access and understanding to population level questions about science and medicine.
Episodes
42 episodes
Don't shake us down for antibiotics!!! Its allergy season
Dr. Toni and Dr. Aimee yuck it up about allergies after getting tons of questions that were really great! We discuss why allergies exist, how annoying they are, why antibiotics dont work, why immunotherapy might or might now work, why po...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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1:05:01
Dr. Aimee's Career Journey
Yay we get a chance to talk to Dr. Aimee about her career journey! She hilariously explains why she decided not to be a doctor, Dr. Toni is still laughing.She takes us through how she evolved into the amazing scientist-tea...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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53:38
Dr Toni's Career Journey
Due to some requests, we are dedicating the next two podcasts to our career journeys and Dr. Toni goes first.Shout out to Dr. Toni's mom who got her a subscription to some animal cards as a child to influence her learning.Shout ...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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1:03:03
DNA integration and vaccines: WHY IT CANNOT HAPPEN!!!!
Prompted by an advisory from a person in power in the south, Dr. Aimee and Dr. Toni chat about how that is literally not possible while we catch up since we hadn't talked in awhile.We review some pearls on how to decipher scary in...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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49:51
Its the remix! Measles Wipes the Hard Drive
Spurred by an outbreak in Philadelphia December 2023 and continuing into 2024 with some pockets of infection in Colorado we wanted to re-release our previous podcast on measles for those of you who are concerned!Breaking news! Measles o...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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1:02:02
Collective trauma and choices during the holidays
Today we have two amazing leaders in mental health discussing the issues of holiday anxiety after experiencing the collective trauma of Covid and other global and local tragedies. Do we gather? Do we stay in solitude? How can we be ...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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58:46
HPV--Its about myths and body parts!! With Dr. Pooja Mehta
We have the distinct pleasure of sitting down and chatting with the esteemed Dr. Pooja Mehta.Pooja K. Mehta, MD, MSHP, is a board-certified practicing obstetrician gynecologist, and head of women’s health at Cityblock Health, the first M...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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1:01:28
Risk tolerance and using your tools...whatcha gonna do??
Kicking off season 3 with updates on covid vaccinations (we only need one now yay!!) and what to do with masks.What is your risk tolerance? What is the timing of this new shot? Why did Dr. Aimee walk though a freshly coughed pocke...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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47:46
The remix! 1 dose, 2 doses, ....87 doses??!!
We bring back these episodes originally released in April 2022 about extra doses and the confusion of using the word booster. We talk about getting certain terms in the graveyard of tearing down terminology and making sure folks understan...
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1:03:54
Whats up with all these freaking colds??
Prompted by a question Dr. Aimee received this podcast tries to explain why we have so many colds and what the difference is between the mild symptoms of a cold and something more serious and why antibiotics don't work.We got profiled i...
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Season 2
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Episode 18
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40:17
The infodemic of misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories
Meet Evan "the bioethicist" Thornburg, an expert on misinformation, disinformation, and conspiracy theories, who has found notoriety on Tik Tok, sits down with us to talk about health literacy, scientism, the exclusionary elitism of the medical...
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Season 2
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Episode 17
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1:01:19
Tapping into our littles, our spidey sense and turning up our love meter with Kathy Rivera
Trigger warning: Discussion includes suicide and substance useLate mother's day edition!How can you tell if your child is depressed? Anxious? How do we manage our fears about getting "it" wrong or sitting with silence? How...
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Season 2
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Episode 16
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59:13
Pediatrics, passion, and how to take care of ourselves to take care of our community with Dr. Ingrid
Today we get the awesome opportunity to interview Dr. Ingrid Walker-Descartes, Pediatrician and Child Abuse expert, who works in almost all the spaces, clinical and direct patient care, medical education, administrative and leadership who talks...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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49:11
The Ending of the US State of Emergency...what the heck does this mean??
In this episode, we define public health emergency and the end of the State of Emergency and what does that mean for the rest of us in the country. We talk about what that means for vaccines, medications, masks, the Emergency Use Authoriz...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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46:33
Moving the mountain of healthcare one pebble at a time with Dr. NanaEfua Afoh-Manin!!!!
We are excited to be joined on the podcast today with Dr. NanEfua Baidoo Afoh-Manin in a University of Rochester reunion!!! She is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician, with a masters in global public health and disaster ...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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51:19
It's all about Balance!!
In this episode we talk about natural remedies, vitamins and immune boosters which should not be called that. We answer questions from friends and families about Vitamin C, Zinc, honey, elderberry and Dr.Aimee and Dr. Toni battle it out a...
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Season 2
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Episode 12
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1:15:54
Making public health sexy with Julissa Soto!!
We are so excited to introduce you to Julissa Soto, an independent health equity and vaccine advocate advocate in Colorado who developed a program called Vaccine Sundays where she immunizes community members in various churches around the the s...
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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43:05
Click bait! it's not ending any time soon
In this episode, we chat about the relentless click bait that is out there confusing the masses about sudden deaths, vaccines and hospitalizations. We remind you to stay the course, ask good questions, if its scary or invokes emotion that...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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32:49
We can do this all day! With Dr. Stella Safo
We are thrilled to have our first guest on the podcast, the incredible Dr. Stella Safo!!We talk about masks, covid and vaccine fatigue, provider fatigue, mis- and dis-information, how we repair trust in our communities, and learn from a...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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48:10
Measles wipes the hard drive! Part 2
How did we get here???! We go through the exact moments that caused the targeting of MMR vaccine, the vaccine that includes measles, fraudulently as a cause of autism.The study was fraud.Tools to identify autism, a spectru...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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24:20
Measles wipes the hard drive! Part 1
Breaking news! Measles outbreak in Ohio has prompted us to talk a little bit about this.Measles is highly contagious and requires 95% of eligible human beings in the community to be vaccinated. 25% in this Ohio community are unvac...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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34:49
Why on Earth are there so many vaccines??! Its overwhelming!
Pediatric Vaccines overall are losing popularity in the age of misinformation and disinformation and we decided to address it! We answer the most popular question that Dr. Aimee gets as a vaccine advocate and that Dr. Toni gets as a pedia...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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38:27
How to tell if your little is struggling to breathe and the annoying and vaccine-less RSV
In this episode, we address a negative review and invite conversation.We will go over the signs and symptoms of respiratory distress in your little ones, all the things RSV, how we treat it and discuss why this serious illness doesn't h...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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38:44
Bandaids and freshly coughed air
In this episode we give you the low down on the flu...how you get it, how vaccines can help protect you and your loved ones and we shop a shark tank idea for an immunoninja bandaid...its trademarked y'all as of this episode!Jeff Jeudy's...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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37:24
Ewww...Oral fecal!!! Putting scared mamas and papas at ease about polio
Well, we talk about the resurgence of polio, and answer your questions about the why behind it, how it is transmitted and how to protect yourselves and your littles. We were so close to eliminating this one! Dr. Aimee cannot contain...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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39:45