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 to. Since 2017, Erin and Erin have explored chronic and infectious diseases, medications, poisons, viruses, bacteria and scientific discoveries. They’ve researched public health subjects including plague, Zika, COVID-19, lupus, asbestos, endometriosis and more. Each episode is accompanied by a creative quarantini cocktail recipe and a non-alcoholic placeborita. Erin Welsh, Ph.D. is a co-host of the This Podcast Will Kill You. She is a disease ecologist and epidemiologist and works full-time as a science communicator through her work on the podcast. Erin Allmann Updyke, MD, Ph.D. is a co-host of This Podcast Will Kill You. She’s an epidemiologist and disease ecologist currently in the final stretch of her family medicine residency program. This Podcast Will Kill You is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including science, true crime, comedic interviews, news, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, Buried Bones, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast and more.

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This Podcast Will Kill You

Episodios

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

Ep 221 Electroconvulsive Therapy Part 2: A current conversation

Ep 220 Electroconvulsive Therapy Part 1: A charged history

Special Episode: Clayton Page Aldern & The Weight of Nature

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

Special Episode: Deborah Cohen & Bad Influence

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