This Podcast Will Kill You
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...
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Episodes (308)
Ep 220 Electroconvulsive Therapy Part 1: A charged history
Sep 1, 2026
Special Episode: Clayton Page Aldern & The Weight of Nature
Aug 25, 2026
Ep 219 The Brown Recluse: Fearsome foe or slandered spider?
Aug 18, 2026
Special Episode: Deborah Cohen & Bad Influence
Aug 11, 2026
Ep 218 The Lowdown on Statins
Aug 4, 2026
Ep 217 The High Stakes of Cholesterol
Jul 28, 2026
Ep 216 Cyclospora: Explosive Diarrhea Everywhere
Jul 21, 2026
Special Episode: Alev Scott & Cash Cow
Jul 14, 2026
Ep 215 The Hidden Depths of Earwax
Jul 7, 2026
Ep 214 Boogers: Digging for treasure
Jun 30, 2026
Special Episode: Dr. Carl Elliott & The Occasional Human Sacrifice
Jun 23, 2026
Ep 213 Burns Part 2: It’s like sci-fi but real
Jun 16, 2026
Ep 212 Burns Part 1: The first million or so years
Jun 9, 2026
Special Episode: Alexandra Sifferlin & The Elusive Body
Jun 2, 2026
Ep 211 Motion Sickness: It comes in waves
May 26, 2026
Ep 210 Histoplasmosis: Bats, birds, and budding yeast
May 19, 2026
Special Episode: Dr. Olivia Weisser & The Dreaded Pox
May 12, 2026
Ep 209 Dietary Guidelines Part 2: Why is there protein in everything?
May 5, 2026
Ep 208 Dietary Guidelines Part 1: Who’s behind these guidelines?
Apr 28, 2026
Special Episode: Adam Kucharski & Proof
Apr 21, 2026
Ep 207 Tear Gas: How can a chemical weapon be “humane”?
Apr 14, 2026
Ep 206 Oropouche Virus: More than a smidge worrisome
Apr 7, 2026
Ep 205 Cancer Part 4: Where do things stand today?
Mar 31, 2026
Ep 204 Cancer Part 3: How do we treat it?
Mar 24, 2026
Special Episode: Lawrence Ingrassia & A Fatal Inheritance
Mar 17, 2026
Ep 203 Cancer Part 2: Why does it happen?
Mar 10, 2026
Ep 202 Cancer Part 1: What is it?
Mar 3, 2026
Special Episode: Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden & Rat City
Feb 24, 2026
Ep 201 Poop Part 2: Flushed away
Feb 17, 2026
Ep 200 Poop Part 1: How the sausage gets made
Feb 10, 2026
Special Episode: Nicola Twilley & Frostbite
Feb 3, 2026
Ep 199 Sleep Part 2: Predictably unpredictable
Jan 27, 2026
Ep 198 Sleep Part 1: Sleeping with one eye open
Jan 20, 2026
Special Episode: Daniel Stone & American Poison
Jan 13, 2026
Ep 197 Detox: Enemas for everyone
Jan 6, 2026
From the Vault - Endometriosis: Menstrual Backwash (Ep 88)
Dec 30, 2025
From the Vault - Hepatitis B: Hepatiti, Take 2 (Ep 89)
Dec 23, 2025
Ep 196 Health Myths: Fact or fiction?
Dec 16, 2025
Special Episode: Dr. Homer Venters & Outbreak Behind Bars
Dec 9, 2025
Ep 195 Salt Part 2: The Substance
Dec 2, 2025
Ep 194 Salt Part 1: The Seasoning
Nov 25, 2025
Special Episode: Gabriel Weston & Alive
Nov 18, 2025
Ep 193 Necrotizing Fasciitis: A strange beast
Nov 11, 2025
Ep 192 New World Screwworm: Oh-oh here they come
Nov 4, 2025
Special Episode: Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris and Adrian Teal & Dead Ends!
Oct 28, 2025
Ep 191 Famine: More than starvation
Oct 21, 2025
Ep 190 Starvation: More than hunger
Oct 14, 2025
Special Episode: Antonia Hylton & Madness
Oct 7, 2025
Ep 189 Newborn screening: The future is here
Sep 30, 2025
Ep 188 Candida yeast: Here, there, and everywhere
Sep 23, 2025