BRODIE RAMIN

Addiction Medicine, Exercise and Health, Prevention and Risk Management

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THE AGE OF FENTANYL

Shortlisted for the 2020 Donner Prize
Shortlisted for the Speaker's Book Award
Finalist for the Ottawa Book Prize
One of the 100 Best Books of 2020 (The Hill Times)

"A fascinating, wise, and humane analysis of one of the most pressing health challenges of the 21st century."
― Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and author of Enlightenment Now.

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Dr. Ramin can be contacted for speaking events at conferences and meetings.

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THE PERFECT MEDICINE

Shortlisted for Ottawa Book Award 2022

Take a deep dive into running - its history, its science and its power to change you for the better. Running really does make us healthier and happier.

"The Perfect Medicine is a wonderful gem of a book."

-Adharanand Finn, best-selling author of Running with the Kenyans and host of The Way of the Runner

"Part biography, part history, part scientific inquiry, The Perfect Medicine compels you to keep turning the page as Ramin explores wide-ranging aspects of the sport of running from the perspective of a traveler, scholar, physician, and always, avid runner."

-Jonathan Beverly, author and Editor-in-Chief of PodiumRunner"

"Fresh, lyrical, and deeply personal, The Perfect Medicine is a stirring celebration of running -- not just the how, but the many levels of why."

-Alex Hutchinson, best-selling author of Endure

Review in the Literary Review of Canada here

WRITING ABOUT RUNNING

Brodie's discussion of the joys of writing about running...

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EXERCISE IS MEDICINE YOUTUBE TALK

Learn about how exercise improves mental health and substance use with Brodie.

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REVIEWS OF THE PERFECT MEDICINE

"For anyone who may need motivation to get out the door for the first time and especially those who are needing to improve their own physical and or mental health, The Perfect Medicine is perfect medicine."

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Brodie Ramin

Some thoughts on Prevention

Every day is filled with a very large number of things that don’t occur. And that’s a good thing because so many of life’s random and...

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Ask Tim: Why Tim Harford is the cure for what ails our world

Tim Harford has had a good pandemic: dozens of massively popular podcasts and radio shows, articles, blog posts, a new book and another...

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My thoughts on The Tennis Partner, a memoir by Abraham Verghese

When Abraham Verghese, a physician and a professor of medicine at Stanford, moves to El Paso at the opening of The Tennis Partner, he...

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ABOUT

Brodie Ramin is a medical doctor and Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa. He is the author of The Age of Fentanyl and The Perfect Medicine. Brodie lives in Ottawa with his family.

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