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Chasing Life — 624 episodes
Can You Have Your Cake and Drink Wine, Too?
How to Beat a Migraine
Your Summer Sunscreen Refresher
Melinda French Gates Is Taking on the Women’s Health Gap. Here’s How
Why No One Should Ever Use Air Dryers in Public Bathrooms
How to Help Your Parents Cut Down Their Screen Time
Should You Be Worried About Ebola?
Hope and Advice for Recent Grads
What You Should Know About Nighttime Leg Cramps
What Your Hair Knows About Your Health That You Don’t
What You Need to Know About Hantavirus
AI Is in Your Healthcare Now. Here’s What to Know
Will Mocktails Help Reduce Your Cancer Risk?
Why GLP-1s May or May Not Be for You
What You’ve Wanted to Know About Autism but Were Too Afraid to Ask
What Happens When Mom-To-Be Smokes Weed While Pregnant?
How Hypnosis May Be More Real, and Powerful, Than You Think
Do Astronauts Float Around While They Sleep?
Everybody Poops— So, Why Is It So Hard to Talk About?
Do You Still Need Your Beta Blocker? Here’s the Latest
Did the iPhone Change Everything... Including Us?
Want to Keep Your Eyes in Tip-Top Shape? Here’s How
Is Cortisol Hurting You or Helping You?
How Early Should You Check Your Cholesterol?
Why Allergies Are Getting Worse
Are Eggs as Bad for Your Cholesterol as People Think?
Believe Your Brain is Destined to Decline? Think Again.
Here’s Why You Should Take Your Shoes off at the Door...Please
Could Caring for Others Change Your Brain for the Better?
Denmark's Vaccine Lessons for America
The Miracle and Mystery of Consciousness
Are Showerhead Filters and LED Face Masks Worth It?
How Hibernation Could Redefine Space Travel and Medicine
Think You’re Too Young for Colorectal Cancer? Think Again.
The Science Behind a Broken Heart
Do Endurance Sports Damage Your Brain?
How You Can Stay Motivated to Exercise
What to Know Before Trying Cannabis for Arthritis Pain
Why You Should Brush Your Teeth Before Breakfast
Should You Eat Before or After Strength-Training?
What Matters to You? A New Way to Heal
Cold Plunges: What the Science Shows
How Far Would You Go to Replace Your Body? Mary Roach Has Thoughts
Why Does Everyone Have the Flu?
Why You're Breathing Wrong, and How to Fix It
Can Sense of Smell Be Recovered After Covid-19?
Pain is in the Brain
Pain Becomes Personal for Sanjay
The Year in News: Deepfakes, MAHA & AI
Sanjay’s Top 10 Health Stories of 2025
How Storytelling Shapes the Way You Remember the Holidays
Should We Be Drinking Cow’s Milk?
Why Haven't We Cured the Common Cold?
Why Everyone’s Talking About Mouth Taping
A New Understanding of Parkinson’s Disease
Can Collagen Supplements Make Me Look Younger?
How to Identify Medical Misinformation & Fake AI Ads
How to Safely Store Your Leftovers
What If Comfort Food Could Help You Live to 100?
What You Need to Know About Hormone Therapy
Anchoring Autism: How a Father’s Devotion Helped His Son Adapt to the World
Do Bluetooth Headphones Cause Cancer?
Can Your Smart Watch Actually Help You Live Longer?
Do Imported Organic Foods Live Up to their Labels?
Living with Incurable Cancer
Why Seeing Blood Makes People Faint
Why Teens Just Can't Quit Nicotine
What You Need to Know for Open Enrollment
Why It Costs So Much to Get Sick
Are the Plastic Straws in Water Bottles Safe?
Why Are So Many Young People Getting Cancer?
Can Tiger Balm Help With Aches and Pains?
Beyond the Headlines of MAHA With the FDA
What the Science Says About Tylenol and Autism
How To Use Technology and Not Lose Our Minds
Kissing Bug Disease Is Spreading; How To Stay Safe
Why You Should Care About Public Health
The Dirty Truth About Showering and Handwashing
What Ultra-Marathoner Rich Roll Learned From His Chronic Pain
Can You Eat or Meditate Your Way to Less Pain?
Can AI Hear Cancer in Your Voice?
Is Your Immune System Ready for Fall? Here’s How to Support It
The Lessons of Katrina: Coping With the Next Crisis
The Belly Fat You Actually Need to Worry About
Exploring the Brain with 10-Year-Old ‘Sean the Science Kid’
The New Healthy Blood Pressure Rules
Parenting Has Changed. Here’s What You Need To Know
Sanjay: No, That’s Not Me Hawking Cures
Beyond Smiley Faces: A New Way to Diagnose Pain
Can You Lower Your Risk for Dementia?
It's Not Your Metabolism's Fault
Here's Why You May Be a Mosquito Magnet
How to Avoid Mosquito Bites and the Diseases They Carry
Is Frozen Produce Healthier Than Fresh?
Should You ‘Lean Into’ Your Chronic Pain to Relieve It?
When to Blame Aging—and When Not To
Did you take your vitamins today? Maybe you don’t have to
Do We All Have a ‘Cancer Gene’?
How Surgeons Balance Hope with Honesty
A Doctor-Approved Guide to the Sun This Summer
The Man with the Pig Kidney
How Far Are We from Animal Organs Saving Lives?
The Organ Transplant Revolution Starts Here
How AI Might Be Helping Your Doctor Treat You
The Answer to Pain May Lie in Your Brain
Does Your “Filtered” Water Still Have Fluoride?
What Your Sweat Could Reveal About Your Health
Billy Joel’s Brain Condition, Explained
Unlock Your Memory by Memorizing Less
Worried About Prostate Cancer? Here’s What to Know.
How to Become a Super Ager
Wait…Is Whole Milk Actually Good for You Now?
How Pregnancy Reshapes the Brain
Lead Poisoning: What We Learned on the Ground in Milwaukee
Making Sense of Menopause
Can You Get Too Many Vaccines?
How Samantha Bee Is Surviving Menopause
What You Need to Know About Food Dyes
How 'The Pitt' Isn't Just Another ER Drama
Is There a Natural Equivalent to Ozempic?
Go Outside, Doctor's Orders
Is Fluoride in Our Drinking Water Safe?
The Power (and Pitfalls) of a High-Protein Diet
Is Organic Food Really Healthier?
The Secret to Longevity: Keep Moving
Why Your Brain Loves an Organized Space
Why We Need to Embrace Stress
Which Cooking Oils Should You Be Using?
Puberty Is Starting Earlier. Should Parents Worry?
Five Years Later: What We Know About Long Covid
Are You Falling for Health Misinformation?
Pneumonia Affects Millions Each Year—Here’s How to Stay Safe
A Doctor. His Brain Tumor. A New Perspective.
How Safe Are Your Food Storage Habits?
Measles is Back. How Worried Should We Be?
What People Should Know About Measles
Ultraprocessed Foods: How Bad Could They Be?
A Breakthrough in Pain Management Without Opioids
Relax, Jealousy is Normal
Fasting and Fighting Cruise Ship Viruses: What You Need to Know
How to Hack Your Brain’s Reward System
Want a Healthier Mocktail? Here’s How
What If Healing Your Mind Starts in Your Body?
One Doctor's Decision to Stop Showering
Feeling Bored? That May Actually Motivate You
Letting Go of the Pressure To Be Perfect
Can Weight Loss Drugs Impact Your Joy of Food?
How Ozempic Transformed the Way We Look at Obesity
Can Science and God Coexist?
Your Shame-Free Guide to Cutting Back on Booze
Can We Protect Ourselves from Microplastics?
Debunking Conspiracies This Thanksgiving? Let AI Help.
Our Food Keeps Getting Recalled. Here’s What to Do.
What it’s Like to Take an Alzheimer’s Test
Why There’s More Hope for Alzheimer’s
How to Have Difficult Conversations in a Polarized World
The Bittersweet Truth About Sugar
Self-Exams Matter: Why These TV Powerhouses Say Don’t Skip Them
Stressed Parents? Dr. Becky Wants to Help.
The Secret Lives of Neurosurgeons
A New Era for Cannabis and What It Could Mean for You
Superbugs Could Kill Millions. Here’s How We Stop Them.
Can Safety and Excitement Coexist in the NFL?
Is There a College Mental Health Crisis?
The Wild West of Ketamine Treatment
‘A Silent Killer’: Extreme Heat and Your Health
What You Need to Know About Sunscreen
Living Your Happiest Life
Mind of a Medalist
Does Money Buy Happiness?
The Habits of Happy People
Want to be Happier? Confidence Can Help
Your Trauma May Be Making You Sick
How Exercise Can Make Us Happier
A Conversation with Dr. Anthony Fauci
Are We Prepared for Bird Flu?
Should Everyone Consider Therapy to Be Happier?
Can Anxiety Be A Good Thing?
Is There A Science To Happiness?
The Benefits of Gratitude
How Worried Should You Be About Ultraprocessed Foods?
What You Need to Know About Bird Flu
What Camels Teach Us About the Future
The Joy of Food
Body Neutrality with Jameela Jamil
Do Diets Really Work?
Do These Quick Weight Loss Hacks Work?
Lindy West on what we’re getting wrong about weight
Is Obesity Really a Disease?
The Truth About Menopause and Weight Gain
Paging Dr. Gupta: What You Need to Know about the Alabama IVF Ruling
What You Need to know about Kids and High Body Weight
WeightWatchers CEO Explains Why ‘We Got It Wrong’
The Big Business Behind Weight Loss Drugs
Is Ozempic Really A Miracle Drug?
Why Our Bodies Fight Us on Losing Weight
What Weight Tells Us about Our Health
Chasing Life presents All There Is With Anderson Cooper
Making Resolutions with Chasing Life
Answering Your Burning Questions About The Brain
The Forgiving Brain
Is There Such a Thing as the Organized Brain?
The Dating Brain in the Digital Age
Treating the Depressed Brain
The Long Journey to Treat the Long Covid Brain
Stephen King on Fiction and the Frightened Brain
The Recipe for a Nourished Brain
Paging Dr. Gupta: How to Cope with The Current News Cycle
Kids, Sports & the Concussed Brain
The Good, the Bad and the Unknown of the Menopausal Brain
Michael Pollan Spills the Beans on the Caffeinated Brain
The Rested Brain
The Distracted Brain
Chasing Life with the Gupta Family
Sanjay Investigates “Weed 7: A Senior Moment" Pt. 2
Sanjay Investigates “Weed 7: A Senior Moment” Pt. 1
Lessons in Longevity
The Promise of Cannabis as We Age
Biohacking...or BS?
Justine Bateman on Why She Won’t Try To Look Younger
The Myth of the Midlife Crisis
A Little Help From My Friends
Chasing Life presents The Prince Mixtape
Making the Most of the Bodies We Have
Is Age Really Just a Number?
Season Seven: Making the Most of Your Age
Inside the Surgeon General’s Dire Social Media Warning
Sanjay Investigates “The CBD Craze” Pt. 2
Sanjay Investigates “The CBD Craze” Pt. 1
Sanjay investigates "Weed" Pt. 2
Sanjay investigates "Weed" Pt. 1
Chasing Life presents The Assignment with Audie Cornish
The Guptas on Parenting in the Social Media Era
Inside a Lab Studying Toddlers and Touchscreens
Will Banning TikTok Help Kids?
The Selfie Effect on Your Brain
Hank Green on the Future of the Internet
Breaking Up (and Making Up) with Your Phone
How Much Screen Time is Too Much?
How to Raise Kids in the Digital Age
Season Six: A Personal Journey for Sanjay
The Mystery of the Teenage Brain
Sanjay investigates “Havana Syndrome” Pt. 2
Sanjay investigates “Havana Syndrome” Pt. 1
What Promise Do Psychedelics Hold As Therapeutics?
When You Hear Colors and Taste Shapes
The Power of Sound
Smelling Your Way To Love
The Science Behind a Good Night's Sleep
Food for Thought, Literally
What Promise Do Psychedelics Hold As Therapeutics?
Living a Sensory-Informed Life
Expanding Your Senses
Finding Your Quiet Space
How Do You Recognize a Face?
Sniffing Out the Cause of Smell Loss
Making Sense of Our World
Introducing All There Is with Anderson Cooper
Our Top Takeaways: Managing Social Anxiety
Chasing Life presents In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
You’re Never Too Old to Play
Climate Anxiety is Real
Living in a Dream World
Learning to Live After Loss
The Video Game Treatment
How to Win the Waiting Game
Living to 100 and Beyond with Norman Lear
What Drives Your Road Rage?
Why Sanjay Almost Changed His Name to Steve
Conversation is More Than Nodding Your Head
Sometimes it's Healthy to Break the Rules
Go to the Beach, Doctor’s Orders
The Healing Power of Poop
Practicing Gratitude Pays Off
Bursting the Bath Time Bubble
Fighting That "Meh" Feeling
The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Medicine
Why Are Doctors Prescribing Nature?
How Language Lights Up the Brain
The Power of Music
Escaping the Grip of Social Anxiety
It’s Time to Stop Doom Scrolling
11 Months in Space
Your Work is Not Your Life
The Health Benefits of Pets
You're Not Alone
The Mystery of the Teenage Brain
This Is Your Brain on Love
What Memories Are Made Of
In Search of Lost Time
Resetting Expectations
Our Top Takeaways: Worth the Wait
Small Steps. Big Rewards
Our Top Takeaways: Managing Anger
The Science of Grit
(Don’t) Call Me, Maybe
In the Blink of an Eye
Pain is a Four-Letter Word
Recipe for a Happy (and Healthy) Thanksgiving
Food as Medicine
Giving Kids a Shot
Breaking Up with Your Bad Habits
Facing Your Fears
What Are You Waiting For?
The Power of Nudges
Trust Me
Why Am I So Angry?
Preparing for the Next Pandemic
Feeling the Heat
Chasing a Cure
Presenting Hidden Brain: Unlocking Your Purpose
Presenting NPR's Life Kit: How To Deal With Burnout
Helping Grandma and Grandpa Get Back in the Groove
Olympians Go For Gold — Without Fans
Let’s Talk About Making Babies (Or Deciding Not To)
Tig Notaro on the Healing Power of Laughter
The Science Behind a Good Night's Sleep
Raising Resilient Kids
Life Is Like a Game of Poker
Matters of the Heart
The Body That Got Me Through
That's What Friends Are For
The Change We Need
Introducing Chasing Life
It's Not Goodbye
Dr. Fauci's Long Year
Vaccines Behind Bars
India in Crisis
When Truth is Stranger Than Fiction
Tyler Perry’s Pandemic Response
What on Earth Happens Next?
An Immunologist Challenges the Status Quo
An American Success Story
I Got Vaccinated, But My Family Can’t
The Race Between Variants and Vaccines
Brazil's Covid Crisis
Hitting Pause on the J&J Vaccine
Vaccine Passports
More Than Just a Hospital
What About Vaccinating Kids?
The Songs of Spring
What If the Vaccine Came to You?
Old Drugs, New Disease
Most Schools Closed in 1918. What Happened?
Pfizer's Moonshot
Play Ball!
Balancing Faith and Safety
What Went Wrong at the CDC
Inside the White House with Dr. Deborah Birx
The Debate Over Vaccine Mandates
Should I Stay or Go?
Jumping the Vaccine Line
How to Vaccinate the Entire World
An Update on Airborne Transmission
Reducing Loneliness by Lending a Hand
Me, Myself and BMI
The Perfect Storm
In Sickness and in Health
Atlanta Returns to School
Saying Goodbye
One Year Later
Vaccine Hesitancy in Flint, Michigan
So You’re Vaccinated ... Now What?
Instagramming the Pandemic
The Art of Caring
The New 9 to 5
Should the Games Go On?
Olympic Dreams Postponed
The Bumpy Road to Herd Immunity
Good News from Indian Country
Not So Sweet Dreams
The Latest from Wuhan
Covid’s Long Haulers
Honoring a Forgotten Medical Pioneer
Asian Americans are Americans, Too
Are We Still Uncomfortably Numb?
When Will Schools Truly Be Safe?
Vaccine FAQs
Death Can Wait
Why I'm Optimistic
When Cupid Met Corona
No, You Can’t Buy a Vaccine Online
Pregnancy And Vaccines
Why Some Black People Aren't Ready to Get the Vaccine
A Pandemic Super Bowl
Predictions for Post-Pandemic Life
Redressing Racism in US Health Care
The Vaccine Hustle
Double Masking, N95s, and the Latest Mask Guidance
Presenting Science Vs.: Hunting A Killer Virus
Biden’s New Covid Team
A Tale of Two States
Restoring Trust in the CDC
How Does Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 Vaccine Work?
An Update on Isolation and the Brain
The Year That Changed Everything
Biden’s Pandemic Playbook
Where are the Rapid Tests?
On the Razor's Edge
The Hunt for Disease X
What Kids Want and Need Right Now
Covid-19’s Mental Health Toll on Healthcare Workers
This Is Your Brain on Stress
Your Vaccine Questions Answered
The Long Way Home
When the Virus Mutates
Pharmacy Deserts
The Covid-19 Eviction Crisis
Teen Scientist Discovers Potential Covid-19 Treatment
New Year's Hopes and Dreams
Sanjay and Anderson Cooper Say Goodbye to 2020
The Power of Touch
Covid Christmas Tale
Dr. Gupta Gets Vaccinated
A Spoonful of Hope
The NFL's Covid Crisis
Anti-Vaxxers and Worries About Vaccine Hesitancy
Delivering the Vaccine
FDA Authorizes First Covid-19 Vaccine
A Sisterhood of Nurses and a Universe of Grief
Vaccine Warrior Kizzmekia Corbett
A Conversation with FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn
What it’s like to be part of a Covid-19 Trial
Q&A on Vaccines with Dr. Anthony Fauci
Broadway Revival
A Weird School Year So Far
The mRNA Breakthrough
Fighting Hunger and Shame in a Pandemic
Holiday Shopping is a Mixed Bag
Thanksgiving with the Guptas
Holiday Air Travel
One Handshake Away From Heaven
Emergency Use Authorization Explained
Who Gets the Vaccine First?
Mice Lie and Monkeys Exaggerate
Infection Rates and Questions On the Rise
We’re in a Humanitarian Crisis
A Surge in South Dakota
The Mystery of the Viral Dose
The President-Elect's Pandemic Plan
Flushing Out the Virus
Singing in the Silent Spring
The Scalpel and the Sledgehammer
Your Stress is Showing
Breathe In, Breathe Out
When Will Life Return to Normal?
Dr. Craig Spencer's Long Haul
The Coronavirus Campaign
Talking Turkey
Back at the Ball Game
Halloween Isn't Canceled!
A Dilemma on a Dark Road in Georgia
Avoiding the Virus and the Doctor
The Mixed Messages on Masks
Europe’s Second Wave
Fact Checking Immunity, Travel & Masks
Basketball Practice With A Mask On
Uncomfortably Numb
The Secretive and Essential Work to Find a Vaccine
How Climate Change Affects Covid-19
Former CDC Directors Speak Out
What a Grocery Manager Won’t Say to Anti-Maskers
Taking Attendance in a Virtual School Year
Super Spreading at the White House
The First Patient
Trump Joins Coronavirus-Positive World Leaders
The President Tests Positive
Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott Makes a Play
The Big Ten's Big Decision
Get a Flu Shot!
When Wildfire Season Collides with the Pandemic
A Tragic Milestone
Inside WHO’s Battle Against the Pandemic
Checking in with Dr. Anthony Fauci
Safe Voting 101
Safety Questions for Reopening
Mental Health and Coping During Covid
3M CEO Mike Roman
We’re in a She-cession
Isolation and the Brain
Safety vs Speed in the Race for a Vaccine
The Pandemic Will Be Televised
The Swedish Strategy
A Conversation With a Covid-19 Vaccine Scientist
Obituaries in the Age of the Coronavirus
A Frontline Worker at the Breaking Point
Nursing Home Heroes
The Last Time Schools Opened in a Pandemic
Covid on Campus
Leading through a Pandemic
Testing 1, 2, 3
A Fall Without Tailgates
Vaccine Trials and Tribulations
Addressing Vaccine Skepticism
The State of Contact Tracing
Covid-19 and the Brain
Pandemic Pregnancy Answers
Open the Window: Talking about Airborne Transmission
The Long Haulers
Why I'm Not Sending My Kids Back to School
Inside the NBA Bubble with Coach Popovich
‘On the Edge of the Abyss’: Covid-19 in Beirut
Tyler Perry's Camp Quarantine
Childhood, Interrupted
Reality Check with Dr. Anthony Fauci
Class in a Church Graveyard
Digital Divide: Making the Connection in Schools
"This Is A War": Reopening Colleges
A Tale of Two Teachers
“Year of Flexibility”: The Great Education Experiment
Back to School Jitters
Inside the World’s Longest Lockdown
Hopeful News About Antibodies
Ask Me Anything
Kickoff: Football's Big Test
‘The Perfect Storm’: Covid-19 and the Latino Population
The Child Care Centers That Never Closed
Realist or Alarmist? Q&A with Dr. Fauci
Demystifying the Vaccine
Mixed Messages
Are the Kids All Right?
The View from Africa
Behind the N95 Mask
Trouble in the Sunshine State
Clearing Up Some Covid Confusion
Delta CEO Ed Bastian on the Future of Flying
Immune System 101
Classroom Chaos
Protect Yourself Against Contact Tracing Scams
Dr. Elmer Huerta on Coronavirus in Latin America
Happy Birthday, America. Get Well Soon.
This Is Going to Be a House on Fire for a Long Time
Anxiety and Depression on the Rise
Bill Gates on the Search for a Vaccine
Learning from the AIDS Epidemic
Bob Costas on the Future of Sports
When Can I See My Grandkids?
Lessons from South Korea
Work-From-Home Burnout
The U.S. Wasn’t Prepared for COVID-19
The First Wave Is Not Over
Super Spreaders
“It’s a Little Bit Like Living on Mars”: Inside a Covid-19 ICU
Asymptomatic Infection: Clearing up Confusion
Covid-19 in the World's Largest Refugee Camp
Quarantine Fatigue
Disease Detectives
Road to Recovery
Dr. Gupta Answers Your Covid-19 Questions
The Future of Higher Education
Two Viruses
Social Distancing in Summer
The Future of Work
“It Broke Me”: A Conversation with Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms
Like Riding a Roller Coaster in the Dark
Avoiding a Bummer Summer
Together, We Grieve
How to Fly Safely
Why Small Decisions Feel So Difficult
Covering a Crisis: Wolf Blitzer & Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Dr. Gupta’s Special Message to the Class of 2020
When Staying Home Isn’t Safe
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children
Listener Questions Answered
BONUS: Need a Break? Take a Stretch
Staying Fit, Staying Safe
The Future of Surveillance
The Future of Restaurants
The Future of Travel
The Future of Education
Rethinking Normal with Fareed Zakaria
Thank You, Teacher
The Psychological Toll of Working on the Front Lines
The Doctor Will See You Now...Online
The Latest on Testing
Sorting Fact from Fiction
In Your Dreams
From Farm to Table: Is the Food Supply Chain Breaking?
The Race for a Vaccine
Reopening Georgia: First Steps
Kids Q&A with Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Carl Azuz
Chris Cuomo on Covid-19 Recovery
Sports on the Sidelines
Every Day is Earth Day
Addiction in Isolation
Reopening the Country
How to Help
Global Town Hall: Facts & Fears, April 16
Dating at a Distance
Analyzing Antibodies
A Crisis in Our Prisons
Money Matters
Keeping Faith in a Pandemic
Race and Risk
Profiting from a Pandemic
Doctors' Difficult Decisions
New Guidance on Masks
Astronaut Scott Kelly on How to Survive Isolation
Without a Home: A Crisis Within a Crisis
Checking in with Dr. Fauci
Covid-19 FAQs
Pregnant During a Pandemic
Bill Gates Sounded the Alarm
A Virus Doesn't Discriminate
Saving Lives or Saving the Economy?
Searching for Treatments
Talking to Our Kids about Covid-19
Listener FAQs
The Home Front
Lessons from China
Pandemic Panic
Living with Coronavirus
Myth-Busting
Inside the Containment Zone
Eyes on the Virus: The View from the CDC
History Matters
Pandemic
Virus Hunters
Facts & Fears
Flight Risks
Test Anxiety
Mask Confusion
What Is the Coronavirus?
Introducing Coronavirus: Fact vs. Fiction