The COVID-19 vaccine prompts a lot of questions. How effective should we expect it to be? How long will its protection last? Will it be safe? Has Canada secured enough doses and from the right pharmaceutical companies? And perhaps the single biggest issue: When will a vaccine actually arrive for Canadians? In a wide-ranging interview with executive producer Christopher Shulgan, Medcan's Dr. Jason Abrams explains how vaccines work, and provides answers on the race to solve the global pandemic.

Eat Move Think with Shaun Francis

When Will The Vaccine Actually Arrive?

In the movies, few people seemed healthier than Black Panther—which is what made the recent death of the actor who played the superhero, Chadwick Boseman, so surprising. Boseman was only 43. What can you do to prevent colon cancer? What’s the future of colon cancer treatment? Guest host Dr. Peter Nord, Medcan’s chief medical officer, interviews gastroenterologist Dr. Jeff Axler to get the answers.

Chadwick Boseman and Colon Cancer Prevention

How should parents prepare children for back to school? How to speak to anxieties about masks and social distancing? What do you say to a child who is worried about catching the coronavirus? Or passing it on to grandparents or immunocompromised parents? Child psychologist Dr. Naomi Slonim provides her tips for moms and dads looking to prepare schoolchildren of all ages.   Eat Move Think is produced by Ghost Bureau. Executive producer is Chris Shulgan. Senior producer is Russell Gragg. Remember to rate and subscribe to Eat Move Think on your favorite podcast platform. Follow host Shaun Francis on Twitter and Instagram, and Medcan on Twitter and Instagram.

Back to School with a Child Psychologist

How much protein do you need if you’re trying to lose weight but also build muscle? What’s better—plant- or animal-based protein? Why is protein so key in preventing sarcopenia, or age-related decline in strength? And, is it possible to consume too much protein? In a special feature interview with protein expert Stuart Phillips of McMaster University, guest host Leslie Beck, Medcan’s director of food and nutrition and the Globe and Mail’s nutrition columnist, tackles these questions and more.  Leslie Beck on Twitter @LeslieBeckRD Stuart Phillips on Twitter @mackinprof Some of Prof. Stuart Phillips best-known authored or co-authored papers: IOC Consensus Statement: Dietary Supplements and the High-Performance Athlete Ingestion of whey hydrolysate, casein, or soy protein isolate: effects on mixed muscle protein synthesis at rest and following resistance exercise in young men The New York Times's Well Blog write-up of Phillips’ “boot camp” study that demonstrated the role of high-protein intake in gaining muscle mass while still losing weight  Prof. Phillips’ latest coauthored paper: Of sound mind and body: Exploring the diet-strength interaction in healthy aging Eat Move Think is produced by Ghost Bureau. Executive producer is Chris Shulgan. Senior producer is Russell Gragg. Remember to rate and subscribe to Eat Move Think on your favorite podcast platform. Follow host Shaun Francis on Twitter and Instagram, and Medcan on Twitter and Instagram.

The Best-Ever Protein Explainer with Prof. Stuart Phillips

Strength and conditioning training is key to long-term wellness—but fitness culture has been profoundly affected by the pandemic’s social-distancing requirements. So how should we work out in future? How should gyms change—and how should we equip at-home workout facilities? To find out, guest host Stephen Salzmann, Medcan’s director of fitness, consulted with legendary strength and conditioning training expert Mike Boyle of strengthcoach.com, formerly of the Boston Red Sox, Boston Bruins and the author of Functional Training for Sports.

The Future of Fitness with Legendary Strength Coach Mike Boyle

The pandemic forced many couples to spend more time together than ever before—and anecdotal evidence suggests some relationships are suffering as a result. Guest host Dr. Gina Di Giulio, Medcan’s Director of Mental Health, spoke with sexologist Jessica O’Reilly of “Sex with Dr. Jess” fame, for some fresh, easy-to-follow tips on how to renew intimacy and return some romance to your relationship. For complete show notes, visit eatmovethinkpodcast.com.   Eat Move Think is produced by Ghost Bureau.  Follow Shaun Francis on Twitter and Instagram, and Medcan @medcanlivewell.

Relationship Tips from Jessica O’Reilly of “Sex with Dr. Jess”

Find yourself with an aching lower back because your work-from-home arrangement sees you typing away on your bed or a bar stool? Turns out many people are feeling lower back pain these days. So we arranged an interview with the world authority on the causal mechanisms of disc and spine issues: Dr. Stuart McGill, the author of Back Mechanic and the founder of Backfitpro. McGill fixed back issues without surgery for NFL superstars, PGA Tour golf coaches and world-record breaking powerlifters. In this episode, he provides easy-to-follow advice on how to address some of the more common pandemic-wrought back problems. Stuart McGill is interviewed by guest host Stephen Salzmann, Medcan's director of fitness. For complete show notes, visit eatmovethinkpodcast.com.  Eat Move Think is produced by Ghost Bureau.  Follow Shaun Francis on Twitter and Instagram, and Medcan @medcanlivewell.

Nagging Lower Back Pain—and How to Fix It

Is the COVID-19 virus really able to waft about on tiny aerosol droplets for tens of metres through HVAC systems? How possible is it to catch the virus from an elevator button or a playground slide? Lots of people have lots of worries about catching COVID — but how is it really transmitted? To find out, guest host Dr. Peter Nord, chief medical officer of Medcan, interviews two experts: Queen’s University medical school infectious disease chair Dr. Gerald Evans, and Rutgers University virologist Dr. Emanuel Goldman. For complete show notes, visit eatmovethinkpodcast.com.     Eat Move Think is produced by Ghost Bureau.  Follow Shaun Francis on Twitter and Instagram, and Medcan @medcanlivewell.

COVID-19 Transmission Myths

Travel restrictions are easing for some countries, and some of us are considering air travel. So what special considerations should you take the next time you find yourself on a plane? How can you mitigate infection risk when flying? To investigate, guest host Dr. Aisha Khatib, the clinical director of travel medicine at Medcan, interviews Dr. Vincent Poirier, a medical advisor to both Air Canada and Air Transat and an assistant professor at the McGill University medical school. For complete show notes, visit eatmovethinkpodcast.com.   Eat Move Think is produced by Ghost Bureau. Follow Shaun Francis on Twitter and Instagram, and Medcan @medcanlivewell.

How to Fly During COVID-19

Do you find yourself exercising and eating well but it doesn’t seem to make any difference? In this episode, the registered dietitian Leslie Beck, Medcan’s director of food and nutrition and a columnist at the Globe and Mail newspaper, steps in as a guest host to describe eight common calorie blunders that could be keeping you from losing weight—and provides tips on how to solve them. For complete show notes, visit eatmovethinkpodcast.com.   Visit Leslie’s website at lesliebeck.com. Follow her on Twitter @lesliebeckrd.  See Leslie’s Globe and Mail columns. Leslie Beck also did a webinar on Common Calorie Blunders for Medcan which is archived on YouTube. Here’s the link.  Eat Move Think is produced by Ghost Bureau. Follow Shaun Francis on Twitter and Instagram, and Medcan @medcanlivewell.

How to Beat Common Calorie Blunders

Maybe you haven't been on a sports team for years. Maybe you've never even played a sport. But as we embark on this pandemic-inspired societal reboot, maybe you’re thinking of taking something up. So which sport should you pursue? What's the best sport for long-term health and fitness? Host Shaun Francis investigates with triathlon historian Bob Babbitt, football-is-medicine pioneer Peter Krustrup and hockey evangelist Lawrence Spriet, among others. For complete show notes, visit eatmovethinkpodcast.com.

What’s The Best Sport For Your Health?

There’s a national effort underway to get people to download what’s known as a contact tracing app. To help listeners understand why they’re so important, Eat Move Think host Shaun Francis talks to the University of Waterloo math PhD candidate who pioneered the “decentralized Bluetooth exposure notification” technology that started it all—James Petrie, the director of research at Covid Watch. Also featuring an interview with Florian Kerschbaum, the director of the University of Waterloo’s Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute. Visit eatmovethinkpodcast.com for complete show notes.    Mentioned in this episode: James Petrie’s co-founder in Covid Watch is Tina White. Here’s her profile at Stanford.

The Contact Tracing App Explainer

At 55, Deedee Moscoe looked around one day and realized her life needed a reboot. Caring for her aging parents left her without any time for her career—or herself. Deedee’s journey to remake her life is chronicled in a documentary called Hack Your Age, airing on Zoomer Media’s Vision TV. It’s also emblematic of the moment we’re in, as society returns to the next normal. With host Shaun Francis, Deedee explores a typically human dilemma with extraordinary honesty and humour.

The Woman Who Changed Her Life

By devoting so much of our attention to stopping the spread of COVID-19, with lockdowns, with physical distancing measures, by closing borders and many businesses, are we ignoring the possibility we could be harming population health in other ways? That’s what host Shaun Francis explores with Dr. Vivek Goel, member of the federal government’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force and vice-president of research and innovation, and strategic initiatives, at the University of Toronto. Mentioned in this episode: Vivek Goel’s podcast is What’s Next and it’s produced by the University of Toronto. He’s on the federal government’s COVID-19 Immunity Task Force.   Find the POST Promise here and here’s the federal government press release.

Is The Lockdown Doing More Harm Than Good?

What’s the objective for COVID-19 management? Is the model to eradicate the virus altogether? To contain it until we have a vaccine? And how does that objective affect our U.S. border strategy? Irfan Dhalla is a physician and a vice-president at Unity Health Toronto who is challenging policy makers to think about such issues. In this episode, he and host Shaun Francis engage in a fulsome debate about the future. For complete show notes visit eatmovethinkpodcast.com.   Follow Irfan Dhalla on Twitter @irfandhalla and Shaun Francis @shauncfrancis.

The Pandemic Endgame

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