How Doctors Think — with Dmitry Sokolov, MD
How Doctors Think explores health, performance, and longevity through clear, evidence-based conversations with clinicians, researchers, and other domain experts.
Hosted by Dmitry Sokolov, MD, the podcast examines how physiology, habits, and judgement shape real-world outcomes — especially in high-stakes areas such as productivity, surgery, recovery, metabolic health, and long-term performance.
It also explores uncertainty and the real-life problems faced by highly successful professionals in a rapidly changing world, shaped by accelerating AI and wider social and economic instability.
Episodes
9 episodes
Your Coffee Stopped Working Years Ago
Your morning coffee stopped working years ago. You adjusted so gradually that you never noticed the moment it stopped giving you something and started preventing you from losing something. That distinction – between a substance that enhances pe...
GLP-1 and GIP Agonists: The Panacea or The Curse
These drugs work. That needs to be said first, because what follows is going to be nuanced, and nuance is easily mistaken for scepticism. Semaglutide and tirzepatide produce weight loss at a scale no behavioural intervention has ever matched in...
Living Longer is Not the Point
Average life expectancy in the UK has risen from roughly 50 years to over 80 in the last century. That is not a small thing. But the average person will spend their final 8 to 12 years living with significant functional limitation – unable to g...
You Can Only Buy The Beginning
There is a pattern I see in patients who have just committed to changing their health. They arrive at the first consultation having already bought the coaching package, the wearable, the twelve-week programme. And they are relieved. That relief...
Cancer Screening: What It Actually Catches – and What It Misses
Around 70% of cancer deaths come from cancers with no routine screening programme. The NHS-Galleri trial - 142,000 participants, the largest randomised trial of multi-cancer early detection ever conducted - recently reported its results. The he...
Physician's Perspective: AI Doesn't Think. But do we?
A practising physician reflects on what a conversation with a language model revealed about the nature of professional expertise — and what remains when pattern recognition is no longer uniquely human.
Why Success Suddenly Stops Feeling Meaningful
Many adults expect life to become psychologically stable after success. Yet a recurring experience appears in high-functioning professionals: achievement occurs, but meaning does not follow.The result is not classic burnout, depression, ...
Why Your Doctor Says You’re Fine — But You Don’t Feel Fine
Many adults notice a subtle change in midlife: energy, recovery, and focus shift, yet medical tests remain normal.In this essay I explain why a competent physician may say “everything looks fine,” and why that statement can be technicall...
Minimize Surgery Downtime: Prehab | Rebecca Knackstedt, MD PhD
In Episode 1 of the Sokolov MD Podcast, plastic and reconstructive surgeon Rebecca Knackstedt, MD PhD, explains how prehabilitation improves surgical outcomes. We discuss protein dosing, immunonutrition, GLP-1 agonists, exercise, microbiome hea...