Mini-Episode: Cool Facts Friday #11

This week's stories: *Mud Playgrounds Double Kids' Bacterial Diversity and Spike Immune Genes 30% Finland swapped rubber playground surfaces for natural soil and mud across eight kindergartens — and after just one month, kids in dirt had twice the bacterial species diversity on t ... Show More

Your cells are starving for oxygen, and it's silently driving inflammation, fatigue, brain fog, and accelerated aging. This episode reveals how pairing Exercise with Oxygen Therapy (EWOT) and red light therapy supercharges your mitochondria, reverses pseudo-hypoxia, and unlocks a ... Show More

If you're a woman in your 30s, 40s, or 50s feeling like your body is betraying you, this episode reveals the hormonal, gut, and environmental triggers behind perimenopause that most doctors never address, and exactly what you can do about it. -Watch this episode on YouTube for th ... Show More

<p>Neglected and ignored by the medical establishment throughout most of its history, sickle cell disease remains one of the most common (and commonly misunderstood) genetic conditions in the world. In this episode, we break down the myriad effects that one nucleotide substitutio ... Show More

This episode is so good that we’re putting it out a full day early. Pour yourself a quarantini and cozy up with us as we tell you a story of a bacterium that slowly strangles children to death, a scientific quest that helped shape the understanding of infectious diseases, and a g ... Show More

Today we explore how scientists are trying to find a way to make an “aging clock” that can determine your age and health by looking at your DNA, how looking at our gut could help us treat mental health disorders, and how there may be a new treatment option in the form of a vaccin ... Show More

This week we pay tribute to one of the gnarliest diseases of all time, and the only human disease that's ever been eradicated (thus far). That's right, people- we're talking smallpox! It's gonna get grody. Smallpox has a depressing history, a fascinating biology, a moderately upl ... Show More

<p>Welcome to This Podcast Will Kill You, your new favorite way to learn about disease biology, history, and stuff to gross out your dinner party guests. Join us October 31st for Episode 1 of Season 1- "The Plagues You Know"!</p><p> </p><p>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/list ... Show More

<p>Every summer, when the warm weather rolls around and the local ponds and lakes heat up enough for a tempting dip, remember that there may be something else lurking in those waters besides the people looking to cool off. <em>Naegleria fowleri</em>, the topic of today’s episode, ... Show More

In this episode:00:45 Why losing the Y chromosome makes bladder cancer more aggressiveLoss of the Y chromosome in bladder cancer cells is associated with increased severity of disease, but the reasons behind this have been unclear. Now researchers show that the loss of this chrom ... Show More

<p>In today’s episode, you’ll learn 6 simple mind and body hacks that play a huge role in your success, happiness, and health. </p><p>One of the top psychology experts and professors in the world, Dr. Adam Alter, is here to reveal the simple things in your day to day life that in ... Show More

Today you’ll learn about a potential new treatment for those suffering from brain fog after Covid, how freemium models of mental health apps might cause you to be more stressed out, and how developments in creating a vaccine for fungal infections might make them a thing of the pa ... Show More

A scientist assesses the potential of stem cell therapies for treating such brain disorders as stroke, Alzheimer’s disease, and Parkinson’s disease. Stem cell therapies are the subject of enormous hype, endowed by the media with almost magical qualities and imagined by the public ... Show More