I am so excited to speak with Dr. Colin Zhu, founder of The Chef Doc. He has created countless resources centered around infusing more wellness, happiness, and inspiration into our lives. He has an incredible way of connecting and empowering people to get the most out of busy lives. As active, hard-charging physicians, learn the specific skills to thrive in medicine.

In this episode of the Prosperous Doc, Dr. Zhu chats with our host Shane Tenny, CFP® about the ways that he incorporates his various medicines into his practice, and how culinary medicine can help people live more fulfilled and healthy lives. He also talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed gaps in the U.S. healthcare system, and how we as a society can work to improve it.

This year, you need more sleep. With the coronavirus dominating headlines and physicians always encouraging us to be physically active and eat healthy, it’s easy to forget the benefits of getting a good night’s sleep.

This is Episode 60 of The Changed Physician Podcast where hosts interview Dr. Colin Zhu who is a physician podcaster known as The Chef Doc.

Sarah Dokowicz speaks to Dr. Colin Zhu, primary care physician who is Board-Certified in family practice and lifestyle medicine. Passionate about the intersection of culinary medicine, food, and nutrition, Dr. Zhu trained as a chef and a health coach at the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health & Culinary Arts and the Institute for Integrative Nutrition following completion of his medical degree.

Ready to Thrive? Learn more about Dr. Zhu and his unique blend of medical knowledge on his online wellness and lifestyle platform: TheChefDoc website.

The Podcast Wellness Week event will be livestreamed on Podbean, featuring top speakers and podcasters from around the world.

Combining a plant based nutrition education on top of a primary care osteopath degree is what Dr. Colin Zhu has done and created a book and podcast to explore these important nutrition concepts to help treat disease.

More doctors than ever are creating side hustles or their own brand outside of the hospital and office. Dr. Colin Zhu, or The Chef Doc, is doing just that in such a great out-of-the-box way through his journey with lifestyle medicine.

To share his unique blend of medical knowledge with a wider audience, Dr. Zhu launched The Chef Doc website, an online wellness and lifestyle education platform which has been featured in several publications. Colin is also the author of "Thrive Medicine: How To Cultivate Your Desires and Elevate Your Life.“ Also is the current podcast host of Thrive Bites.

What covid-19 has unraveled for us is how unhealthy we are as a society. We are facing a health care crisis in this country and so many of the medical conditions we as a population are facing lead back to diet. The statistics are sobering.

Most, if not the whole world, have already experienced the horrific video capturing the death of George Floyd, the news of Rayshard Brooks, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others. Add to this the number of riots, peaceful protests gone bad, questionable leadership from the federal government, and police brutality. Oh yes, this is all taking place in the context of a COVID-19 pandemic and now a recession.

Yashoda Bhaskar and Colin Zhu discuss his interest in cooking, becoming a chef, working as a primary care physician, writing a book and his podcast

This current pandemic has proved to test our mental, emotional, and physical mettle. As a practicing family physician, I receive a lot of questions about how to improve immunity and what kinds of foods to eat or what kind of supplements I should take. What does it mean to be healthy? What does it mean to practice wellness? I would argue that health IS wealth.

It is always great to continue to nourish our minds with good books, am I right? Personally, even though I love the tangible element of a book in my hands, I actually read better with an audiobook at 1.5x while riding my bike or walking along the boardwalk, with a mask of course!

In celebration of Men’s Health Week 2020, six osteopathic physicians collaborated with the AOA to share activities, tips and exercises to stay physically and mentally healthy. Each of these Men’s Health Minutes is embedded below from YouTube, and can also be found on the AOA’s Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts.

With people encouraged to stay home during the COVID-19 outbreak, more people than ever are turning to their own kitchens for daily meals.

Join a brief interview with Dr. Colin Zhu, the ChefDoc. We talk about nutrition, cooking, thriving and more. How did he develop his passion for health and the kitchen? What can we learn and apply today for our well-being?

This current pandemic has proved to really test our mental, emotional, and physical mettle. As a practicing family doctor, I receive a lot of questions about how to improve immunity and what kinds of foods to eat or what kind of supplements I should take.

What do you think of when you hear those words? Gates, fences, borders, walls, things that are impenetrable. Emotional resilience comes to my mind, but why is this important? In a way, it is a test of how we go about our day to day. It is a measure of how we deal with our internal and our external world.