Recent Episodes
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How Nobel Prize Winners are Selected
When the Nobel winners are announced each October, a year's work is behind their selection. Selfishly, Norbert and I are partial to the Medicine and Physiology Prize and Chemistry Prize. The winners are usually chosen based on paradigm changing work and work that advances humankind.
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Does a Vegan Diet Slow Biological Aging?
It's hard not to cringe about this episode after I just ate brisket at my favorite BBQ joint. Could that be because we're about to talk about how vegan diets are better for you? That even eating a limited vegan diet can reduce your biological age.
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You Are What You Poop
Scientists have long studied waste, not the trash we throw out each week, but the waste that comes from our bodies and the bodies of animals. They're studying fecal matter to understand better the nutrition we and other animals consume. It could also improve how we control diseases such as diabetes.
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Another Reason to Avoid Raw Milk
The spread of bird flu in poultry across the US has cost farmers billions of dollars. Now the virus has spread in cattle herds across multiple states which raises the risk of widespread human infection.
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Reasons to Let Your Hair Go Natural
As research has sought to answer why Black women suffer more maternal health complications, one link has now become clear: the regular use of hair straighteners used by 90 percent of Black women, over generations, often starting at young ages.
