Wellness Connection MD

About Wellness Connection MD

Welcome to the Wellness Connection MD podcast, where Dr. McMinn and Coach Lindsey become your partners on a quest for optimal wellness. Simply stated, our goal is to bring to you up-to-date, honest, vetted, unbiased, evidence-based information about health and wellness, along with practical solutions, in order to empower you to overcome your healthcare challenges, and to optimize your health in mind, body, and spirit. As our population ages, and we are faced with an alarming epidemic of chronic diseases. Clearly, the current drug-based sick-care model of healthcare is simply not working. The cost of healthcare is skyrocketing for patients, and for our society at large, and legions of patients with chronic diseases are falling through the cracks of modern medicine. These people are often desperate to be heard, to be taken seriously, and to have their concerns adequately addressed. On the Wellness Connection MD podcast we will focus more on a preventive, lifestyle-based, functional, and integrative approach to optimal wellness. We challenge the medical community to "think different," while remaining evidence-based, while opening our minds to other viable therapies beyond drugs and surgery. We also advocate that this shift in thinking be accompanied by a renaissance of "loving kindness" in healthcare. Providers and patients would all benefit. We are hopeful for the future of health care. Patients are demanding a new approach, and big medicine is beginning to listen. Fifteen years ago when we embarked on this journey integrative and functional medicine were hardly on the radar screen. However we now see that many of our most esteemed healthcare institutions have dedicated integrative or functional programs, such as Harvard, Duke, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Vanderbilt, UCSF and many others. Integrative and functional medicine are gaining credibility across the nation and around the world. We will all be better off for the change. We hope that you will join us on this journey to optimal wellness on Wellness Connection MD. Take care and be well.

Publisher

James McMinn, MD

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness · health & fitness

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Jan 2018

Latest episode

21 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

25 of 113 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   21 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Living With Chronic Illness: The Emotional and Psychological Journey

   Host Dr. Jim McMinn interviews Dr. Diane Tucker about navigating the emotional and psychological challenges of living with chronic illness.

2. 

   28 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Smoking Is Trying to Kill You: How to Quit Smoking for Good

   Emergency physician Dr. Jim McMinn and Coach Lindsay Mathews share an evidence-based guide to overcoming nicotine addiction and quitting smoking for good in this interview.

3. 

   3 Jul 2026

   The #1 Killer of American Kids: A Public Health Crisis of Gun Violence

   Dr. Jim McMinn, an ER physician, discusses the public health crisis of firearm injuries as the leading cause of death for American children.

Inside a recent episode

Living With Chronic Illness: The Emotional and Psychological Journey

Published 21 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Sometimes the need to get things rolling means that they might be informed over the phone and that will be probably especially difficult to cope with. How does this reaction play out over time? I think it's important that we not prejudge how we expect people to be responding. There will be a mix of grief, anxiety, fear, and just a confusion about how to move forward. And the important thing is for the patient and the people around supporting them to just be willing to listen and understand what the reactions are rather than having a program that one expects to play out. Someone receiving this news would typically have some emotions about it. […]

Who has been a guest on Wellness Connection MD

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

• Diane Tucker
• Dr Jim McMinn
• Tyler Mathews
• Dr Jerry Kitchens
• Shannon Davis

Reach and audience

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

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

68 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

21 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100

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

Quality

81

Social presence

91

YouTube

0

Engagement

51

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Books guests

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