Gordon Medical Forum

About Gordon Medical Forum

Drs Gordon and Parpia have a unique and proven approach to healing chronic conditions with over 50 years of clinical experience combined; they created the Gordon Medical Forum Podcast to introduce some of the most overlooked and important factors for overcoming chronic illness. Eric Gordon, MD, is the Medical Director of Gordon Medical Associates, and Nafysa Parpia, ND, is the Director of Naturopathic Medicine. Gordon Medical Associates is the premier tick-borne illness, Lyme disease, and environmentally acquired illness clinic on the West Coast. To learn more about the team at Gordon Medical Associates, go to gordonmedical.com.

Publisher

Gordon Medical Associates

Category

education · health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

18 Mar 2024

Latest episode

20 May 2026

Latest episodes

6 of 54 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   20 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   What We’ve Missed About the Vagus Nerve

   Dr. Eric Gordon interviews Dr. Navaz Habib, exploring the vagus nerve's crucial role beyond "rest and digest" for chronic illness management.

2. 

   6 May 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The Septet Model for ME/CFS and Long COVID

   ME/CFS and Long COVID don't fit the medical model of one problem, one organ, one treatment and that's exactly why so many patients stay sick. Dr. David Kaufman joins Dr. Eric Gordon to make the case that these illnesses are better understood as seven overlapping, constantly interacting pathologies: connective tissue disorders (hEDS), POTS/dysautonomia, gut dysmotility and SIBO, mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), autoimmunity, chronic and reactivated infections, and cranial cervical instabi...

3. 

   22 Apr 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Understanding Bioregulators: Epigenetic Switches for Healing and Recovery

   Dr. Nafysa Parpia interviews Nathalie Niddam about bioregulators, exploring how these epigenetic switches promote cellular rejuvenation and healing for enhanced resilience.

Inside a recent episode

What We’ve Missed About the Vagus Nerve

Published 20 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And the brain is acting like the CEO of the body. So it's taking in all of this important information and it's executing its cognitive processes, some subconscious, some conscious, and it's sending information down to the rest of the body via the vagus nerve, via the sympathetic chain, via the HPA, HPT, and HPG axes through the hormonal pathways. And it's relaying all this information out, dictating whether we want to enter more of a sympathetic fight or flight state, or if we want to enter more of a parasympathetic rest, digest, and recover state. And so getting that information up is very, very important. […]

Who has been a guest on Gordon Medical Forum

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Dr Navaz Habib
• Dr Pejman Katiraei
• Dr Isaac Eliaz
• Dr. Nafysa Parpia

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

40 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

17 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 24 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

20

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

71

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