Too Curious MDs
Curiosity fuels discovery, and in medicine, it’s the key to transformation. Too Curious MDs explores the frontiers of healing through narrative medicine, integrative therapies, psychedelics, and patient-centered care. Hosted by Dr. Alya Ahmad and Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman, this podcast challenges the boundaries of traditional medicine, uncovering the untold stories, ethical dilemmas, and groundbreaking research shaping the future of healthcare. Join the journey—because medicine is more than science; it’s a story.
Episodes
Trauma is not just personal. It lives in families, communities, world events, and the body. In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Dr. Suraiya Rahman and Dr. Alya Ahmad reflect on ancestral healing, generational trauma, and the emotional weight of living through a time shaped by conflict, uncertainty, and collective distress. She explores how psychedelic healing, especially in group settings, may help people process what they are carr...
In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Dr. Phil Wolfson unpacks the mystery of phantom limb pain—a condition where the brain continues to project sensation, position, and intense discomfort from a body part that no longer exists. He explains how the brain can become 'stuck,' replaying the trauma as if it's still happening, creating a loop of pain that can last for years.
The conversation also introduces a new, free clinical...
What if the biggest limitation in modern psychiatry isn't lack of tools… but lack of perspective?
In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Dr. Scott Shannon reflects on his journey through conventional and integrative psychiatry, challenging the narrow focus on diagnosis and medication.
The conversation explores a broader, systems-based approach to mental health—one that includes lifestyle, relationships, spirituality, and community. ...
What if staying healthy today requires more than just avoiding disease and asks us to rethink how we live, eat, connect, and heal? In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Dr. Russell Jaffe shares a wide-ranging conversation on toxicity, trauma, integrative medicine, and the human healing response.
Our conversation explores environmental toxins, emotional burden, chronic stress, detoxification, alkaline living, and the role of love, safe...
What if relief from end-of-life suffering already exists… but patients can't legally access it?
In this episode of Too Curious MDs, lawyer and end-of-life care advocate Kathryn L. Tucker explores the legal barriers surrounding psychedelic-assisted therapy, particularly for patients facing serious and terminal illness. Drawing from decades of advocacy in end-of-life care, she explains how federal scheduling laws, regulatory delay...
What actually changes when transformation happens? In Part 2 of this Too Curious MDs conversation, Jonathan Mozenter goes deeper into ego, metacognition, habit loops, and the practical mechanics of human flourishing. From neuroscience and psychedelic states to archetypes, trauma integration, and conflict resolution, this episode bridges mystical awareness with grounded, real-world change.
What’s one unasked or curious question from ...
Transformation isn't about adding something new, but remembering what you already are. In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Jonathan Mozenter shares how identity, ego, discernment, and conscious awareness shape personal evolution, and why upgrading your 'operating system' may be the real path to human flourishing.
What's one unasked or curious question from your own story, your healing journey, or your exploration of ...
Are we sick because modern life no longer matches human biology? In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Dr. Daniel Chille breaks down how microbial depletion, modern toxins, and timing-driven metabolism shifts can quietly shape everything from anxiety and insulin resistance to autoimmunity and resilience.
What's one unasked or curious question from your own story, your healing journey, or your exploration of the science of anxiety,...
Anxiety isn’t a character flaw. It’s often a biochemical signal that your body isn’t getting what it needs. In this episode of Too Curious MDs, functional nutritional therapist Laurie Hammer explains how targeted amino acid therapy restores neurotransmitter balance, reduces cravings, and supports calm, clarity, and nervous system regulation at the foundation.
What’s one unasked or curious question from your own story, your healing j...
Healing starts with telling yourself the truth. In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Maria Kang shares how writing ‘Sacred Becoming' during a stage 4 colorectal cancer journey became a process of release, alignment, and self-trust.
What’s one unasked or curious question from your own story, your healing journey, or your exploration of the science of anxiety, ketamine, or psychedelics?
Post it in the comments! Your curiosity might just...
What if the thing you were ashamed of was never a character flaw at all? In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Ryan Thom shares how a late ADHD diagnosis transformed his understanding of himself, reshaped his healing, and ultimately led him into the work of therapy.
What’s one unasked or curious question from your own story, your healing journey, or your exploration of the science of anxiety, ketamine, or psychedelics?
Post it in the c...
What if the part of you that feels broken is actually the doorway to transformation? In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Jared ‘Rudrananda’ Turner shares how trauma, ritual, community, and embodied awareness can help us come back into the body, build a container for healing, and remember who we truly are.
What’s one unasked or curious question from your own story, your healing journey, or your exploration of the science of anxiety, ...
In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Phil Sarpong explains walk-and-talk therapy, how movement and nature lower psychological barriers, and why integrating lifestyle, mental health, and medical care can create lasting change.
What’s one unasked or curious question from your own story, your healing journey, or your exploration of the science of anxiety, ketamine, or psychedelics?
Post it in the comments—your curiosity might just spark ...
What if autism isn’t a deficit, but a different way of experiencing the world? In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Dr. Julia Mirer joins us to explore masking, missed diagnoses in adults, and how shifting from a deficit lens to a difference-based understanding can transform mental health, family dynamics, and self-identity.
What’s one unasked or curious question from your own story, your healing journey, or your exploration of the s...
Mental illness may look like a brain problem, but it can start as a body-and-energy problem.
In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Dr. Matthew Bernstein and Sophie Kwass join us to talk about metabolic psychiatry: how insulin resistance, mitochondrial function, and brain energy can shape conditions like depression, bipolar disorder, and psychosis, and why a ketogenic approach can change outcomes when traditional care only stabilizes.
Anxiety isn’t caused by broken thinking. It’s driven by a nervous system stuck in alarm. In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Dr. Russell Kennedy explains how early life stress wires the body for survival, why the mind creates endless worry in response, and what restores real safety from the inside out.
Learn more about Dr. Kennedy’s work at https://www.theanxietymd.com
What’s one unasked or curious question from your own story, your ...
Anxiety may not be a thinking problem at all. In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Dr. Russell Kennedy, known as The Anxiety MD, joins us to explain why anxiety is often a mind-story layered over a deeper bodily signal and how early experiences shape adult symptoms. We also explore inner child work, spirituality, psychedelics, physician burnout, and how curiosity can pull us out of fear and back into connection—with ourselves and o...
In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Dr. Thomas Brod joins us to explore ketamine as a new kind of dreaming,’ ego dissolution, unitive experiences, and how safety, love, and loosening rigid defenses can open us back up to ourselves and the world.
Dr. Thomas Brod is a psychoanalyst and ketamine clinician who weaves together neuroscience, depth psychology, and poetics in his work with patients. An English major who always knew he w...
In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Lindsey joins us to share her experience with the ketamine-assisted psychotherapy program at ShaMynds. Tune in as she talks about how childhood and relationship trauma shaped her life, how ketamine-assisted psychotherapy and equine therapy helped her reclaim safety, trust, and self, and how that healing journey led her to become a therapist-in-training who now helps others find their own path for...
Your pet feels your stress more than you think. In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Dr. Nadine Encarnacion joins us to explore the connection between our mental health and the physical and emotional wellness of our pets. Tune in as we dive into how animals often mirror their humans’ stress, illness, and environment, and how caring for ourselves can also help heal our furry family members.
Dr. Nadine Encarnacion is a licensed vet...
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