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Special Episode: Lawrence Ingrassia & A Fatal Inheritance

3/17/2026 • 45 min

For centuries, physicians noticed that cancer sometimes ran in families, but until the 1960s, an answer to this mystery remained out of reach. Only then were scientists beginning to unlock the cellular dynamics underlying cancer, and what they found finally allowed grief-stricken families to put a name and explanation to their experience. It wasn’t simply bad lu… Play episode

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
Ep 189 Newborn screening: The future is here
Ep 188 Candida yeast: Here, there, and everywhere
Special Episode: Mary Roach & Replaceable You
Ep 187 Hypothermia Part 2: How it helps
Ep 186 Hypothermia Part 1: How it hurts
Special Episode: Lina Zeldovich & The Living Medicine
Ep 185 The Great Smog of London: “Thick, drab, yellow, disgusting”
Ep 184 The Gallbladder: Humor us
Special Episode: Carl Zimmer & Airborne
Ep 183 SSRIs Part 2: Action
Ep 182 SSRIs Part 1: Origin
Special Episode: Wendy Chin-Tanner & King of the Armadillos
Ep 181 PCOS: Beyond the cysts
Ep 180 Food Dyes: It’s all marketing
Special Episode: Professor Steven Mithen & The Language Puzzle
Ep 179 Fluoride 2: Fighting tooth and nail
Ep 178 Fluoride 1: The real tooth fairy
Special Episode: Dr. Wendy Kline & Exposed
Ep 177 Toxic Shock Syndrome: A shock to the system
Ep 176 Strychnine: The WD-40 of Victorian Medicine
Special Episode: Dr. Adam Ratner & Booster Shots
Ep 175 What’s the deal with raw milk: Part 2
Ep 174 What’s the deal with raw milk: Part 1
Special Episode: John Green & Everything Is Tuberculosis
Ep 173 Childhood Vaccine Schedule 2: Who’s making the call?
Ep 172 Childhood Vaccine Schedule 1: Let’s give it a shot

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