HouseCall with Dr. Mac

HouseCall with Dr. Mac


Latest Episodes

Episode-098 Vitamin D--It's not just for your bones.
October 02, 2018

What if I told you that Vit. D wasn't just a vitamin? What if I told you it's a hormone. Wait...What? I can hear you saying....shut your mouth! Shhhhh! Don't you know hormone is a bad word? Well today I'm going to challenge you to open your mind...

Episode-097: When your child/children are born in your heart--foster and adoptive parents Ben and Jenni Milton
September 25, 2018

Trigger Warning: This episode contains stories of sexual and phyiscal abuse. What do you do when you have thought about your child/children's names and what they would look like for years? You have utilized the help of modern medicine through fertiliti...

Episode - 096 They'll get it in health class---STIs, are we talking about them?
September 18, 2018

How is it that the rate of HPV is decreasing and the rates of Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, and Syphilis are increasing? Are people using condoms anymore? Does AIDS mean anything to anyone anymore? As your young people are going away to school for the first...

Episode - 095 "I have cancer, cancer does not have me!" with David Waits
September 11, 2018

It's known as "the cancer of a thousand faces". The reason it gets this name is because it presents different in different individuals and getting a definative diagnosis can be difficult. And for David Waits, what he thought was a pulled abdominal mu...

Bonus--Where Have We Been?
September 04, 2018

Life has a way of knocking you down at times and making you slow down. It's in those times you can learn, and grow. Where have we been? We've been learning and growing. So let's sit down, let's have some conversations, let's connect these dot's, le...

Episode - 094: "Sitting is the new smoking" with Josh Craddock
October 17, 2017

“Sitting is the new smoking!” Sounds shocking, but in this episode, Josh Craddock connects the dots between our health, quality of life, and how much we move. Craddock is an expert in movement and kinesiology and has earned many exercise certificatio...

Episode - 093: "Her Brush with Death" with CC Pean
October 06, 2017

A health scare, job loss, and emergency surgery. For Chef Cynthia Pean, who was recently featured on the Today show, these events marked a turning point in her life story and started her exploration of the connection between diet and health. In this ...

Episode - 092: Does that Type of Medicine Really Work?--with Dr. Denise Tyson and Dr. Cindy Tran of AIHG
September 26, 2017

Here we go again talking about integrative medicine. You know why we keep talking about it? Because it works! Join the conversation we are having with Dr. Denise Tyson and Dr. Cindy Tran of Advanced Integrative Health Group in Gambrills, MD. Thei...

Episode - 091: Cupcakes and Cardiology with Simran Frontain
September 19, 2017

When we talk about needing to have control it can manifest itself in so many different ways. It can even show up in the form of an eating disorder. What if your eating disorder gave you a heart attack? Simran Frontain blogger at Cupcakes and Cariolo...

Episode - 090: "The Mom You are is Amazing!" with Jen Schwartz of the Medicated Mommy
September 12, 2017

We have to release ourselves of the fairy tale, Leave It To Beaver, yes even Clair Huxtable images of the perfect mom. Mothering, parenting, it is hard stuff! When, at times, being a mom takes its toll on you, give yourself permission to admit you ne...