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.

Ep 143 IVF, Part 1: Infertility

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Ep 143 IVF, Part 1: Infertility
1 h 26m

Special Episode: Dr. Noah Whiteman & Most Delicious Poison

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Special Episode: Dr. Noah Whiteman & Most Delicious Poison
1 h 1m

Ep 142 Leeches: It’s more powerful than magic, it’s nature

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Ep 142 Leeches: It’s more powerful than magic, it’s nature
50m

Special Episode: Dr. Paul Offit & Tell Me When It’s Over

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Special Episode: Dr. Paul Offit & Tell Me When It’s Over
52m

Ep 141 Maggots: Such noble work

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Ep 141 Maggots: Such noble work
49m

Ep 140 Nipah virus: Of Fruit and Bats

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Ep 140 Nipah virus: Of Fruit and Bats
1 h 29m

Special Episode: Dr. Sara Manning Peskin & A Molecule Away from Madness

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Special Episode: Dr. Sara Manning Peskin & A Molecule Away from Madness
55m

Ep 139 Supplements: “This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA”

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Ep 139 Supplements: “This statement has not been evaluated by the FDA”
1 h 26m

Ep 138 Fever: Take it to the limit

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Ep 138 Fever: Take it to the limit
1 h 18m

Special Episode: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens & Medical Bondage

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Special Episode: Dr. Deirdre Cooper Owens & Medical Bondage
1 h 6m

Ep 137 ME/CFS: What’s in a name? (A lot, actually)

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Ep 137 ME/CFS: What’s in a name? (A lot, actually)
1 h 38m

Ep 136 Long Covid: A long time coming

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Ep 136 Long Covid: A long time coming
1 h 33m

Ep 135 Menopause is whatever you want it to be

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Ep 135 Menopause is whatever you want it to be
2 h 4m

Ep 134 Tonsils: Underestimated and underappreciated

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Ep 134 Tonsils: Underestimated and underappreciated
1 h 28m

Ep 133 Parvoviruses: Who let the dogs (and their viruses) out?

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Ep 133 Parvoviruses: Who let the dogs (and their viruses) out?
1 h 48m

Ep 132 Osteogenesis Imperfecta: All bones about it

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Ep 132 Osteogenesis Imperfecta: All bones about it
1 h 25m

Ep 131 Parkinson’s Disease: Dopamine & discoveries

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Ep 131 Parkinson’s Disease: Dopamine & discoveries
1 h 42m

Ep 130 Cocoliztli: We do love a salty dish

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Ep 130 Cocoliztli: We do love a salty dish
1 h 52m

Ep 129 Lymphatic Filariasis: Hiding in plain sight

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Ep 129 Lymphatic Filariasis: Hiding in plain sight
1 h 20m

Ep 128 Skin Cancer: We love and fear the sun

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Ep 128 Skin Cancer: We love and fear the sun
1 h 37m

Ep 127 Bhopal: The 1984 Union Carbide Disaster

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Ep 127 Bhopal: The 1984 Union Carbide Disaster
1 h 25m

Ep 126 Migraine: A Cacophony in Four Movements

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Ep 126 Migraine: A Cacophony in Four Movements
1 h 42m

Ep 125 Blastomycosis: How fungus became amongus

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Ep 125 Blastomycosis: How fungus became amongus
1 h 18m

Ep 124 The full spectrum of color vision deficiency

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Ep 124 The full spectrum of color vision deficiency
1 h 25m

Ep 123 Hand, Foot, and Mouth (and Butt?) Disease

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Ep 123 Hand, Foot, and Mouth (and Butt?) Disease
1 h 30m

Ep 122 Asthma: A phlegmy episode

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Ep 122 Asthma: A phlegmy episode
1 h 32m

Special Episode: Ed Yong & An Immense World

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Special Episode: Ed Yong & An Immense World
56m

Ep 121 Tularemia: Hare today, gone tomorrow

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Ep 121 Tularemia: Hare today, gone tomorrow
1 h 21m

Special Episode: Deborah Blum & The Poison Squad

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Special Episode: Deborah Blum & The Poison Squad
1 h 5m

Ep 120 Acetaminophen/Paracetamol: Pain. Killer.

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Ep 120 Acetaminophen/Paracetamol: Pain. Killer.
1 h 29m