In this encore episode, Drs. May and Tim Hindmarsh sit down with Dr. Annette Bosworth, the internist behind the Dr. Boz YouTube channel and bestselling author of Anyway You Can and ketoCONTINUUM. After decades of telling patients to eat low-fat and load up on "heart-healthy" grains, Dr. Boz hit a wall when her 71-year-old mother's cancer treatment failed. Out of options, she put her mom on a strict ketogenic diet—and watched her cancer markers drop without chemo, along with several other chronic conditions. That experience reshaped her entire practice, from managing symptoms to reversing disease at the metabolic root.

Topics include:

• The moment a patient's question about MD Anderson and ketones made Dr. Boz rethink everything
• Walking her mother through ketosis after 69 rounds of chemo
• Why inflammation is the common thread behind cancer, autoimmune disease, memory loss, and diabetes
• Ketones vs. glucose as fuel, and what that shift does to the brain
• Why she borrowed group-meeting accountability from addiction medicine to help patients stay keto
• Burnout, disillusionment with corporate medicine, and finding a better path
• The ketoCONTINUUM: a step-by-step framework for staying consistently keto for life

What You'll Learn

• How therapeutic ketosis differs from "keto for weight loss"
• Why the advice most physicians were trained on may be making chronic disease worse
• What a doctor does when the science she was taught fails someone she loves
• Practical ways to start and stick with a ketogenic lifestyle

Key Takeaway
Sometimes the most powerful medicine isn't a prescription. Dr. Boz's story is a case for questioning what we were taught, following the evidence, and giving the body what it needs to heal itself.

About the Guest
Dr. Annette Bosworth, MD, is an internal medicine physician, educator, and founder of Meaningful Medicine in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. She's been featured on CNN, TIME, U.S. News & World Report, and Fox News, and teaches ketogenic living to millions through her YouTube channel and online courses.

• Website: bozmd.com
• YouTube: youtube.com/@DoctorBoz
• Books: Anyway You Can and ketoCONTINUUM: Consistently Keto Diet For Life

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In this repurposed episode, originally recorded for Dr. Charmaine Gregory’s Fearless Freedom with Dr. G podcast, Drs. May and Tim Hindmarsh step into the guest seats for a candid conversation about medicine, marriage, burnout, courage, and the creation of BS Free MD.

May opens up about the personal challenges she faced during medical school, including depression, an eating disorder, and uncertainty about her future in medicine. Tim shares how his experiences with action sports and skydiving taught him to view fear differently—not simply as something to escape, but as a powerful tool for preparation, focus, and growth.

They also discuss their years in rural medicine, the transition from practicing physicians to podcasters, and the events that inspired them to create BS Free MD. The conversation explores physician autonomy, corporate influence in healthcare, medical innovation, informed consent, and the importance of confronting uncomfortable chapters of medical history.

• May’s challenges with depression and an eating disorder during medical school
• How May and Tim met, married, and built a life in medicine
• The realities of residency and rural medical practice
• Why courage does not require the absence of fear
• Using fear as fuel for preparation and personal growth
• Physician burnout and transitioning beyond traditional medicine
• How the events of 2020 helped launch BS Free MD
• Corporate influence and the loss of physician autonomy
• Balancing medical innovation with patient protection
• The importance of informed consent and medical accountability
• Why May and Tim are committed to honest, BS-free conversations

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What happens when the healthcare system built to treat illness leaves patients feeling unsupported, overwhelmed, and responsible for coordinating their own care?

At just 23 years old, Chloe Harrouche was diagnosed with breast cancer. Although she had specialists guiding each part of her treatment, no one was managing the complete picture. After treatment, she encountered another major gap: little meaningful guidance on prevention, nutrition, fertility, or long-term wellness.

That experience inspired Chloe to co-found The Lanby, a modern concierge medical practice designed to make primary care more proactive, coordinated, and patient-centered.

In this conversation, Chloe joins May and Tim to discuss how her experience as a patient shaped her vision for a different kind of healthcare. They explore the shortcomings of traditional fee-for-service medicine, the value of coordinated care, and why prevention and wellness should be central to primary care—not an afterthought.

• Chloe’s breast cancer diagnosis at age 23
• Navigating treatment without anyone coordinating the full picture
• Why traditional medicine often prioritizes treatment over prevention
• The lack of support patients receive after surviving a serious illness
• Chloe’s difficult fertility journey and path to motherhood
• Why women frequently place their own health last
• The problems created by rushed, fragmented medical care
• How membership-based medicine can better align patients and providers
• The role of nutrition, wellness, and care coordination in primary care
• How The Lanby is working to create a more supportive patient experience

Chloe Harrouche is the co-founder and CEO of The Lanby, a modern concierge medical practice in New York City that combines primary care, functional medicine, wellness, and care coordination.

Her experience as a young breast cancer survivor gave her firsthand insight into the gaps patients face when navigating complex medical care. Drawing on her background in bioengineering, healthcare strategy, and technology consulting, Chloe helped build The Lanby around a proactive, relationship-based approach to health.

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What happens when the Salad Mafia comes for Tim, cockroach milk enters the conversation, and KFC decides fried chicken should be a jelly bean flavor?

In this episode of Doc Tales with Cocktails, Drs. May and Tim Hindmarsh are back with another round of unfiltered conversation, questionable food choices, bizarre headlines, and plenty of rabbit holes.

They kick things off with the online debate sparked by Tim’s ongoing war with vegetables—and why conversations about carnivore, vegan, and other diets so quickly turn into an all-or-nothing battle over what everyone should eat.

From there, things get progressively stranger. May puts Tim through a round of true-or-false stories involving surprisingly nutrient-dense cockroach “milk,” an unbelievable plastic-surgery stalking story, and some seriously bizarre news.

They also dive into a serious discussion about an Idaho shooting, armed citizens, self-defense, and the details Tim believes were missing from early media coverage.

And then comes the taste test nobody asked for.

May somehow gets her hands on KFC-inspired jelly beans flavored like fried chicken, sweet corn, and gravy—and Tim's reaction is about what you'd expect. They follow those up with Carolina Pulled Pork Pringles and Fiesta Salsa Ritz Bits, complete with their usual ingredient-label commentary.
Along the way, they get into stalking and obsession, Fauci and congressional investigations, Substack rabbit holes, mast cell resources, and the drink of the day: locally made Siesta Key Toasted Coconut Rum.

It’s weird news, food experiments, cultural debates, medicine, politics, and the kind of completely unpredictable conversation that makes Doc Tales with Cocktails exactly what it is.

The “Salad Mafia” and why diet debates get so heated

Carnivore vs. vegan diet dogma

An Idaho shooting and the debate over armed self-defense

Is cockroach milk actually a thing?

Stalking, obsession, and bizarre relationship stories

Fauci, Congress, pardons, and legal rabbit holes

The KFC jelly bean taste test

Carolina Pulled Pork Pringles and Fiesta Salsa Ritz Bits

What’s really hiding on those ingredient labels

Siesta Key Toasted Coconut Rum

The endless world of Substack

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Are we treating mental illness—or increasingly medicalizing the normal struggles of being human?

In this BS Free MD Rewind, Drs. May and Tim revisit a powerful conversation with clinical psychologist Dr. Roger McFillin, host of the Radically Genuine Podcast and founder of the Conscious Clinician Collective.

Dr. McFillin challenges conventional approaches to mental health care, from the widespread use of psychiatric medications to the way anxiety, depression, trauma, and other emotional experiences are diagnosed and treated. He shares how his early work with children in psychiatric hospitals changed his perspective on the system and ultimately led him to question the "chemical imbalance" model and the growing reliance on medication.

The conversation also explores trauma, informed consent, psychiatric drug withdrawal, the importance of resilience, and whether our attempts to protect people from discomfort may actually make it harder for them to develop the tools needed to navigate life.

May also opens up about her own experience with childhood trauma, eating disorders, faith, forgiveness, and the growth that can emerge from suffering.

Why Dr. McFillin began questioning conventional psychiatric care

The medicalization of normal emotions and life struggles

Psychiatric medications, side effects, dependency, and informed consent

Why trauma doesn't always require immediate intervention

The difference between supporting healing and creating dependence

Resilience and the importance of learning to tolerate discomfort

How diet, exercise, sleep, relationships, and screen time affect mental health

May's personal experience with trauma, forgiveness, faith, and healing

Why Dr. McFillin believes clinicians need to rethink the way mental health care is delivered

The mission behind the Conscious Clinician Collective

Dr. Roger McFillin is a board-certified clinical psychologist, writer, speaker, and host of the Radically Genuine Podcast. He is the Executive Director of the Center for Integrated Behavioral Health and founder of the Conscious Clinician Collective, a nonprofit focused on informed consent, medical freedom, personal autonomy, and access to ethical healthcare professionals.

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The Salad Mafia has spoken—and apparently Tim’s anti-salad rant struck a nerve.

This week, Drs. Tim and May Hindmarsh turn the studio into a highly questionable test kitchen as they taste their way through some of the strangest processed foods currently sitting on grocery store shelves. Dill pickle baked beans? Kansas City barbecue ramen? Dye-free Flamin’ Hot Cheetos? Unfortunately, yes.

But underneath the chaos is a bigger conversation about what’s actually in the food we eat every day. From ultra-processed ingredients and sky-high sodium to artificial dyes, high-fructose corn syrup, and the seed oils hiding in everything from snack foods to cooking sprays, Tim and May take a closer look at how far modern food has drifted from, well…food.

They also break down the so-called “Hateful Eight” seed oils, discuss alternatives like extra virgin olive oil, ghee, beef tallow, avocado oil, and butter, and question whether removing a few questionable ingredients really makes processed junk food “healthy.”
And because this is BS Free MD, there’s also a baseball injury story that will make every man listening instinctively cross his legs.

• The fallout from Tim’s now-infamous anti-salad rant
• A wild taste test featuring dill pickle baked beans, ranch-flavored fries, barbecue ramen, and dye-free Cheetos
• What ingredient labels reveal about ultra-processed foods
• Why “healthier” junk food may still just be junk food
• The surprising amount of sodium, oils, additives, and artificial ingredients hiding in common snacks
• The “Hateful Eight” seed oils and where they show up in the food supply
• Olive oil, ghee, beef tallow, avocado oil, butter, and other alternatives discussed by Tim and May
• How portion sizes can turn occasional treats into everyday staples
• Why Tim and May argue that the real problem with processed food is the processing itself
• The grocery-store reality: aisles of packaged foods versus comparatively small sections of whole foods
• One absolutely brutal baseball injury—and the player who somehow kept playing

Tim and May aren’t arguing that one bag of Cheetos is going to ruin your life. Their point is much simpler: foods designed as occasional treats have increasingly become everyday staples. As Tim puts it, the problem isn’t necessarily having an unhealthy treat once in a while—it’s when “garbage like this” becomes a regular part of the diet.

Sometimes the simplest approach is the best one: stop obsessing over which version of processed food is marginally “healthier” and start eating more actual food.

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What happens when the lessons learned in combat follow you into the exam room?

In this repurposed episode of BS Free MD, Drs. May and Tim Hindmarsh sit down with Dr. Mike Simpson, whose path to medicine was anything but conventional. Before becoming a physician, Dr. Simpson spent years in military Special Operations, working in environments where decisions had to be made quickly, resources could be limited, and the stakes were very real.

Dr. Simpson shares how those experiences shaped the way he approaches medicine today—from staying calm under pressure and making difficult decisions to understanding leadership, teamwork, resilience, and the human being behind the patient.

But transitioning from the battlefield to civilian medicine wasn't simply a career change. It meant navigating a major shift in identity and learning how to translate skills developed in extreme circumstances into an entirely different world.

This conversation explores what medicine can learn from Special Operations—and why some of the experiences that challenge us the most can ultimately make us better physicians, leaders, and people.

• Dr. Simpson's unconventional path from Special Operations to medicine
• What practicing medicine in high-stakes environments teaches you about decision-making
• How battlefield experience changed his approach to patient care
• Staying calm and effective when circumstances become chaotic
• Leadership, teamwork, and accountability under pressure
• The transition from military service into civilian life and medicine
• Navigating identity after leaving an intense, mission-driven career
• Why technical ability alone doesn't make someone a great physician
• The role of empathy and human connection in medicine
• How difficult experiences can become strengths in the next chapter of your life

Dr. Mike Simpson is a physician and former U.S. Army Special Operations medic whose career has taken him from austere and high-risk environments to the practice of civilian medicine.

His experiences across military operations, medicine, leadership, and major career transitions give him a unique perspective on performing under pressure, caring for people during their most vulnerable moments, and adapting when one chapter of life ends and another begins.

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