What Your GP Doesn’t Tell You

Finalist in the recent 2024 Independent Podcast Awards, this fortnightly podcast reveals the stories from the world of medicine that others don’t, won’t or only very partially report. Aimed at both doctors and the public, it’s hosted by award winning medical journalist and former BBC producer Liz Tucker, who reports not just on the science but on the finance and money that can impact it. Liz asks what does the medical data actually tell us and why is this often interpreted and presented very differently? How do we know what information to trust and when should we ask our GP, but what’s the evidence?Follow Liz on Twitter at @lizctuckerAnd on Substack on https://liztucker.substack.comPodcast Website: https://www.whatyourgpdoesnttellyou.com/

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Recent Episodes
  • Herbs & Spices: What's The Evidence They Might Benefit Our Health?
    Jun 10, 2025 – 49:45
  • Medication in Pregnancy: What You Need To Know
    May 27, 2025 – 46:17
  • Overdiagnosis: Has Modern Medicine Gone Too Far?
    May 13, 2025 – 01:07:22
  • Omega 3 (and 6): What You Need To Know
    Apr 29, 2025 – 51:38
  • Cancer: How New Breakthroughs Are Transforming Care
    Apr 15, 2025 – 01:02:45
  • Can We Use Neuroscience To Help Manage Our Stress?
    Feb 11, 2025 – 46:55
  • Why do SSRI drugs and the science behind them generate such fierce debate?
    Jan 28, 2025 – 45:53
  • Should You Take HRT?
    Jan 14, 2025 – 01:03:27
  • What You Need To Know Before You Take Any Generic Drug
    Dec 31, 2024 – 55:54
  • Could Heart Rate Variability Be A Key Tool in Improving Your Health?
    Dec 17, 2024 – 01:07:14
  • Who'd Be a Whistleblower?
    Nov 19, 2024 – 47:17
  • Could Dementia Be Preventable and Treatable?
    Nov 5, 2024 – 01:27:04
  • How To Reduce Your Risk of Heart Disease
    Sep 3, 2024 – 51:34
  • Personalised Nutrition: How It Is Transforming Our Understanding of Food
    Aug 20, 2024 – 01:05:37
  • Why Your Oral Microbiome Is Critical For Good Health
    Aug 6, 2024 – 47:19
  • Are High Cholesterol Levels Dangerous On A Keto Diet?
    Jul 23, 2024 – 50:58
  • How Diet Can Help In The Prevention and Treatment of Cancer
    Jul 9, 2024 – 47:18
  • Why is the Death Rate Higher for US Dialysis Patients Than Europeans?
    Jun 25, 2024 – 49:07
  • How Processed Food Is Engineered To Be Irresistible
    Jun 11, 2024 – 51:32
  • How Sugar - Like Drugs & Alcohol - Impacts Our Dopamine Levels
    May 28, 2024 – 46:11
  • Is Food Addiction Real?
    May 14, 2024 – 47:41
  • Allergies: What You Need To Know
    Apr 2, 2024 – 47:39
  • Why Hormones Not Calorie Counting May Be Key In Obesity
    Mar 19, 2024 – 45:44
  • The Secrets To A Successful Keto Diet
    Mar 5, 2024 – 53:49
  • Should You Take A Weight Loss Drug?
    Feb 20, 2024 – 50:02
  • Deprescribing from Psychiatric Drugs: The Problems and the Solutions
    Feb 6, 2024 – 55:46
  • Could Changing Your Diet Improve Your Mental Health?
    Jan 23, 2024 – 58:17
  • Treating Long Covid
    Jan 9, 2024 – 43:06
  • What Doctors Don’t Get Taught
    Dec 12, 2023 – 57:32
  • Thalidomide - The Story You Don’t Know (Part Two)
    Nov 28, 2023 – 48:39
  • Thalidomide - The Story You Don’t Know (Part One)
    Nov 14, 2023 – 50:03
  • The Accidental Drug Advocate
    Sep 19, 2023 – 51:05
  • Why Knowing Your Blood Sugar Level Matters
    Sep 5, 2023 – 56:02
  • How To Keep Your Brain Healthy Into Old Age
    Aug 22, 2023 – 46:25
  • Anorexia: A Patient’s Story
    Aug 8, 2023 – 40:10
  • Pain: Why We Need to Revolutionise Our Thinking
    Jul 25, 2023 – 53:16
  • Why Having a Healthy Microbiome Is Critically Important
    Jul 11, 2023 – 53:24
  • Using Low Carb Diets To Treat Epilepsy And Other Neurological Diseases
    Jun 27, 2023 – 43:17
  • Your 24 Hour Body Clock: How It Controls Everything from Sleep To When You Should Take Medication
    Jun 13, 2023 – 53:37
  • Can Longevity Drugs and Lifestyle Extend Our Lifespan?
    May 30, 2023 – 46:15
  • Should You Take A Statin?
    Apr 11, 2023 – 49:43
  • What You Need to Check Before Taking Any Prescription Drug
    Mar 28, 2023 – 47:21
  • Sugar, Refined Carbs and Polyunsaturated Fats: The Perfect Storm?
    Mar 14, 2023 – 48:32
  • Could Stem Cell Transplants Play a Critical Role in MS and Other Auto-Immune Diseases?
    Feb 28, 2023 – 55:42
  • Could Inflammation, Diet and Disease Be Linked?
    Feb 14, 2023 – 40:27
  • Dr David Healy Discusses SSRI Drugs, Suicide and Sexual Dysfunction
    Feb 2, 2023 – 43:32
  • How to Keep Your Gut Healthy - Season Two
    Jan 17, 2023 – 44:52
  • Should You Take A Vitamin D Supplement? - Season Two
    Dec 20, 2022 – 44:03
  • Could Low-Carb Diets Help Treat Mental Illness? - Season Two
    Dec 6, 2022 – 01:05:25
  • Sugar - A Chronic Toxin? - Season Two
    Nov 8, 2022 – 53:49
Recent Reviews
  • kayyyyyy1
    Thanks for knowledge to get better
    Good educational podcast
  • laurad1413
    The best podcast I didn’t know I needed
    This podcast is incredible. Liz Tucker is not only incredibly smart, she is well researched and asks intelligent, insightful, and honest questions. The experts seem carefully chosen for both their niche expertise and also for things that should be better known! I don’t know how she is able to wade through the noise of the internet to zero in on the most important and least discussed topics of our health but I am incredibly grateful. Thank you for all your hard work Liz, I know that I tell all the people in my life to listen to you!
  • DWade506
    Always enlightening
    Ms. Tucker is a consummate interviewer. She takes the time to formulate relevant and insightful questions about the topic she’s covering, and never fails to elucidate. The characteristic of her program that I appreciate most is how the conversation never falls into “ELI5” territory, because you know what? I’m not 5. I’m an adult who appreciates a conversation with other adults.
  • S/S/C
    What your GP doesn’t tell you
    Essential listening for anyone interested in an alternative opinion from the status quo by those revered in the medical world..
  • SheilaWojo
    Such important topics
    These are must listen podcasts, discussing critically important issues. Thank you for your hard work in getting this info out there!
  • leapingheart
    Pioneering and informed
    Most of the media has been way behind the curve in criticizing medicine. Host Liz Tucker steps into the breach by holding conversations with prominent critics of medicine. The first episode with guest Joanna Moncrieff is timely, adding color to her much-discussed review of the serotonin hypothesis. Hoping that this launches many more conversations among the public, in other media, and among physicians themselves. If medicine will come off its pedestal and become more open to criticism, it could lead to greater trust in physicians and fewer scandals.
  • mrasian2u
    Eye opening, thank you
    I’ve been on and off gabapentin for nerve pain associated with ruptured and/or herniated discs and if it’s helped, it’s been nominal…but am trying it again in search of relief. (And to avoid long term opioid usage.) This was fascinating and disturbing. The lack of governance and transparency in off label drug prescriptions is unbelievable.
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