Doctor Mike (Mike Varshavski) is a primary care physician and content creator on YouTube with over 5.9M subscribers and 600M views. His content focuses on educating the mainstream audience with common health advice using entertainment.

On this episode of Growth Minds, Doctor Mike and Sean discuss the story of how he rose to fame by documenting his journey in medical school, the pressing issue of lack of transparency in medicine, debunking the most common health myths, and more.

Subscribe to Doctor Mike's channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0QHWhjbe5fGJEPz3sVb6nw

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SHOW NOTES:

[02:20] Doctor Mike's immigrant story from Russia

[15:54] Discrimination in STEM fields

[19:27] The story of how Doctor Mike saved someone's life on a plane ride

[23:30] Why Doctor Mike still practices medicine to this day

[31:52] The lack of transparency coming from online medical gurus

[37:45] How Doctor Mike was able to go from shy introvert to confidence speaker

[40:20] Focusing on Intrinsic Happiness versus Extrinsic

[54:30] Doctor Mike shares his opinion on supplements

Links mentioned in the episode:

1) Feeling good: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B009UW5X4C/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

2) Divided mind: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000SEHJOI/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1#ace-g25456946