It's the Barbel Medicine podcast where we bring Modern Medicine to Strength and

Strength and Conditioning to Modern Medicine. I'm your host Dr. George Bigenbaum.

This is episode 280. Great debates in fitness and in health. Number four. It's our fourth debate. Dr. Barocke is on the other end of the line, the second most handsome doctor in North America. What's up, Austin?

How you doing, man?

I'm doing okay.

I just wrapped up another two weeks in the hospital

and had a lot of good cases.

And interestingly, I was talking to one of my learners, one of my interns who's working on my team this this month and

We're talking about strategies for him to improve and and ways to learn and we talked about

Podcast as a useful medical education resource. I was like you listen to any podcast? He's like actually in the medicine world I really only listen to three curbsideers

Core I am which is another internal medicine podcast, and Barboke Medicine.

I was like, oh God, nice.

Well, you know, I think if you're, yeah, if you're a medical professional,

I think there's some utility to our podcast.

If you're listening to it for like the sort of intersection between fitness and medicine, right?

Or like, like, maybe practical questions you might have in primary care risk with relationship to sports medicine, something like that.

But if you're looking for like a boards review type podcast, this is probably not it.

Yeah, I agree.

We're not covering decompensated cirrhosis here but we're we're talking about

how to lift among other things so do you do you think our listenership would be higher or lower if we just

full medicine all gas no breaks just like really keeping up with stuff. I think it would be much lower but I don't know.

We could really niche down to that. I do think it would be a lot lower. The demographic would shift

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