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Special Episode: Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris & The Sleuth-Hound

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Ep 225 Peptides: What your peptide dealer doesn’t want you to know

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Ep 224 Snake Oil: The Great American Fraud

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Special Episode: Robert Kolker & The Vanishing Family

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Ep 223 ALS: Unraveling the mystery

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Ep 222 Vitamin K: Calling the shots

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Special Episode: Dr. Alanna Skuse & The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack

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Ep 221 Electroconvulsive Therapy Part 2: A current conversation

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Ep 220 Electroconvulsive Therapy Part 1: A charged history

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Special Episode: Clayton Page Aldern & The Weight of Nature

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Ep 219 The Brown Recluse: Fearsome foe or slandered spider?

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Special Episode: Deborah Cohen & Bad Influence

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Ep 218 The Lowdown on Statins

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Ep 217 The High Stakes of Cholesterol

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Ep 216 Cyclospora: Explosive Diarrhea Everywhere

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Special Episode: Alev Scott & Cash Cow

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Ep 215 The Hidden Depths of Earwax

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Ep 214 Boogers: Digging for treasure

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

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

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

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Special Episode: Alexandra Sifferlin & The Elusive Body

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Ep 211 Motion Sickness: It comes in waves

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Ep 210 Histoplasmosis: Bats, birds, and budding yeast

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Special Episode: Dr. Olivia Weisser & The Dreaded Pox

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

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

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Special Episode: Adam Kucharski & Proof

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

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Ep 206 Oropouche Virus: More than a smidge worrisome

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

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

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Special Episode: Lawrence Ingrassia & A Fatal Inheritance

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Ep 203 Cancer Part 2: Why does it happen?

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Ep 202 Cancer Part 1: What is it?

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Special Episode: Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden & Rat City

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Ep 201 Poop Part 2: Flushed away

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Ep 200 Poop Part 1: How the sausage gets made

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Special Episode: Nicola Twilley & Frostbite

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Ep 199 Sleep Part 2: Predictably unpredictable

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Ep 198 Sleep Part 1: Sleeping with one eye open

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Special Episode: Daniel Stone & American Poison

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Ep 197 Detox: Enemas for everyone

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

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

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Ep 196 Health Myths: Fact or fiction?

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Special Episode: Dr. Homer Venters & Outbreak Behind Bars

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Ep 195 Salt Part 2: The Substance

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Ep 194 Salt Part 1: The Seasoning

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Special Episode: Gabriel Weston & Alive

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Ep 193 Necrotizing Fasciitis: A strange beast

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

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

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Ep 191 Famine: More than starvation

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Ep 190 Starvation: More than hunger

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Special Episode: Antonia Hylton & Madness

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Ep 189 Newborn screening: The future is here

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Ep 188 Candida yeast: Here, there, and everywhere

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Special Episode: Mary Roach & Replaceable You

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Ep 187 Hypothermia Part 2: How it helps

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Ep 186 Hypothermia Part 1: How it hurts

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Special Episode: Lina Zeldovich & The Living Medicine

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

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Ep 184 The Gallbladder: Humor us

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Special Episode: Carl Zimmer & Airborne

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Ep 183 SSRIs Part 2: Action

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Ep 182 SSRIs Part 1: Origin

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

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Ep 181 PCOS: Beyond the cysts

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Ep 180 Food Dyes: It’s all marketing

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Special Episode: Professor Steven Mithen & The Language Puzzle

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Ep 179 Fluoride 2: Fighting tooth and nail

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Ep 178 Fluoride 1: The real tooth fairy

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Special Episode: Dr. Wendy Kline & Exposed

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Ep 177 Toxic Shock Syndrome: A shock to the system

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Ep 176 Strychnine: The WD-40 of Victorian Medicine

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Special Episode: Dr. Adam Ratner & Booster Shots

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

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

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Special Episode: John Green & Everything Is Tuberculosis

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

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

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Ep 171 Pregnancy: Act 4

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Ep 170 Pregnancy: Act 3

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Ep 169 Pregnancy: Act 2

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Ep 168 Pregnancy: Act 1

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Special Episode: Rachel Gross & Vagina Obscura

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Ep 167 Viagra/Sildenafil: Raising the bar

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Ep 166 Amanita poisoning: Death Cap-tivating

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Ep 165 Fish Tongue Parasite: Parasite Appreciation Hour

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Ep 164 Rift Valley Fever: Ruminating on ruminants

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Ep 163 Circadian Rhythm: Live from Perth, Australia

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Special Episode: Robert Alpert, Merle Eisenberg, Lee Mordechai & Diseased Cinema

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Ep 162 Allergies Part 2: Shots, pills, & pens

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Ep 161 Allergies Part 1: Pollens, nuts, & bugs

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Special Episode: Philip Eil & Prescription for Pain

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Ep 160 Appendicitis: Don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone?

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Ep 159 Scabies: Tiny but Mite-y

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Ep 158 Scarlet Fever: You’ve changed

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Special Episode: Dr. Emily Monosson & Blight