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This Podcast Will Kill You

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This podcast might not actually kill you, but Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke cover so many things that can. In each episode, they tackle a different topic, teaching listeners about the biology, history, and epidemiology of a different disease or medical mystery. They do the scientific research, so you don’t have…

This Podcast Will Kill You

Ep 218 The Lowdown on Statins

Ep 217 The High Stakes of Cholesterol

Ep 216 Cyclospora: Explosive Diarrhea Everywhere

Special Episode: Alev Scott & Cash Cow

Ep 215 The Hidden Depths of Earwax

Ep 214 Boogers: Digging for treasure

Special Episode: Dr. Carl Elliott & The Occasional Human Sacrifice

Ep 213 Burns Part 2: It’s like sci-fi but real

Ep 212 Burns Part 1: The first million or so years

Special Episode: Alexandra Sifferlin & The Elusive Body

Ep 211 Motion Sickness: It comes in waves

Ep 210 Histoplasmosis: Bats, birds, and budding yeast

Special Episode: Dr. Olivia Weisser & The Dreaded Pox

Ep 209 Dietary Guidelines Part 2: Why is there protein in everything?

Ep 208 Dietary Guidelines Part 1: Who’s behind these guidelines?

Special Episode: Adam Kucharski & Proof

Ep 207 Tear Gas: How can a chemical weapon be “humane”?

Ep 206 Oropouche Virus: More than a smidge worrisome

Ep 205 Cancer Part 4: Where do things stand today?

Ep 204 Cancer Part 3: How do we treat it?

Special Episode: Lawrence Ingrassia & A Fatal Inheritance

Ep 203 Cancer Part 2: Why does it happen?

Ep 202 Cancer Part 1: What is it?

Special Episode: Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden & Rat City

Ep 201 Poop Part 2: Flushed away

Ep 200 Poop Part 1: How the sausage gets made

Special Episode: Nicola Twilley & Frostbite

Ep 199 Sleep Part 2: Predictably unpredictable

Ep 198 Sleep Part 1: Sleeping with one eye open

Special Episode: Daniel Stone & American Poison

Ep 197 Detox: Enemas for everyone

From the Vault - Endometriosis: Menstrual Backwash (Ep 88)

From the Vault - Hepatitis B: Hepatiti, Take 2 (Ep 89)

Ep 196 Health Myths: Fact or fiction?

Special Episode: Dr. Homer Venters & Outbreak Behind Bars

Ep 195 Salt Part 2: The Substance

Ep 194 Salt Part 1: The Seasoning

Special Episode: Gabriel Weston & Alive

Ep 193 Necrotizing Fasciitis: A strange beast

Ep 192 New World Screwworm: Oh-oh here they come

Special Episode: Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal & Dead Ends!

Ep 191 Famine: More than starvation

Ep 190 Starvation: More than hunger

Special Episode: Antonia Hylton & Madness

Ep 189 Newborn screening: The future is here

Ep 188 Candida yeast: Here, there, and everywhere

Special Episode: Mary Roach & Replaceable You

Ep 187 Hypothermia Part 2: How it helps

Ep 186 Hypothermia Part 1: How it hurts

Special Episode: Lina Zeldovich & The Living Medicine

Ep 185 The Great Smog of London: “Thick, drab, yellow, disgusting”

Ep 184 The Gallbladder: Humor us

Special Episode: Carl Zimmer & Airborne

Ep 183 SSRIs Part 2: Action

Ep 182 SSRIs Part 1: Origin

Special Episode: Wendy Chin-Tanner & King of the Armadillos

Ep 181 PCOS: Beyond the cysts

Ep 180 Food Dyes: It’s all marketing

Special Episode: Professor Steven Mithen & The Language Puzzle

Ep 179 Fluoride 2: Fighting tooth and nail

Ep 178 Fluoride 1: The real tooth fairy

Special Episode: Dr. Wendy Kline & Exposed

Ep 177 Toxic Shock Syndrome: A shock to the system

Ep 176 Strychnine: The WD-40 of Victorian Medicine

Special Episode: Dr. Adam Ratner & Booster Shots

Ep 175 What’s the deal with raw milk: Part 2

Ep 174 What’s the deal with raw milk: Part 1

Special Episode: John Green & Everything Is Tuberculosis

Ep 173 Childhood Vaccine Schedule 2: Who’s making the call?

Ep 172 Childhood Vaccine Schedule 1: Let’s give it a shot

Ep 171 Pregnancy: Act 4

Ep 170 Pregnancy: Act 3

Ep 169 Pregnancy: Act 2

Ep 168 Pregnancy: Act 1

Special Episode: Rachel Gross & Vagina Obscura

Ep 167 Viagra/Sildenafil: Raising the bar

Ep 166 Amanita poisoning: Death Cap-tivating

Ep 165 Fish Tongue Parasite: Parasite Appreciation Hour

Ep 164 Rift Valley Fever: Ruminating on ruminants