Wellness, Actually with Emily Oster & Perry Wilson, MD

This week, we're rebroadcasting our episode on red meat. Is it as bad for you as people say? Is there value to a (fiberless) carnivore diet? What makes it red, anyway? And how does nutritional science let us down when we're just trying to fuel our bodies efficiently?
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This week, just in time for spooky season, Emily and Perry take on the one certainty in this life: death. How have human beings historically (and unsuccessfully) tried to cheat it? How are the tech bros in the longevity space trying to today? What's the point? And what actually happens to your body, and curiously overactive brain, when you die?
Plus: the curse of Wellness, Actually comes for Calley Means, whether the Dengue Fever break-out worth a freak-out, and TB in strip clubs.
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This week, Emily and Perry are going classy with a close look at eating organic. We all know it's more expensive, but is it worth the sticker (shock)? Do organic foods actually taste better, are they healthier, and, most importantly, are they safer? Safer for you, better for the environment? The answer, like your grocery bill, might surprise you.
Plus: what doctors really think about you, according to your chart, testosterone in the military (again), and gentlemen, don't worry about, erm, holding off before trying to impregnate someone.
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What's the deal with declining sperm counts?
What's the deal with Botox?
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This week, Emily and Perry discuss the highly disciplined world of intermittent fasting: all the different ways you can not eat and all of their purported health effects. Will it make you lose weight, reset your metabolism, live longer? Only if you're a mouse, alas. And they've got problems of their own.
Plus: RFK Jr. institutes billing codes for vaccine injuries, an experimental new medicine will kill your fat cells dead, and do not - we repeat, DO NOT - get your herpes treatment from Amazon.
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This week, Emily and Perry explore Botox, literally the most toxic substance in the universe, so why not inject it into our faces? From its discovery to its biomechanics to its myriad uses, it might just turn out that smooth foreheads are the least interesting part of this cunning little spore.
Plus: it's Nobel Prize week! Also, the plague is back, baby, and GLP-1s might make your fingernails fall off.
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