This Podcast Will Kill You

Weekly episodes on the biology and history of diseases and medical mysteries AI summary

Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts Visit website › Science · EN · 311 episodes · latest 2026-11-10

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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.

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Ep 227 Carbon Monoxide: Haunted houses & coal mine canaries

2026-11-10 · 1 hr 0 min

There is something uniquely tragic and terrifying about carbon monoxide poisoning. The way it comes on quietly, without warning. How it alters your reality and changes your behavior. The fact that without a carbon…
Ep 226 Glanders: Straight from the horse’s mouth

2026-11-03 · 58 min

It’s got all the ingredients for a classic TPWKY episode: Deadly zoonotic bacterium (Burkholderia mallei). Tier 1 Select Agent role in war (greatest risk from a bioterrorism perspective). Historically caused devastating…
Special Episode: Dr. Lindsey Fitzharris & The Sleuth-Hound

2026-10-27 · 49 min

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Ep 225 Peptides: What your peptide dealer doesn’t want you to know

2026-10-20 · 1 hr 5 min

Looking to get swole (do people still say that)? Want to rewind the clock and smooth those bothersome wrinkles? Trying to lose weight rapidly and without a prescription? If you’ve spent any time on social media lately,…
Ep 224 Snake Oil: The Great American Fraud

2026-10-13 · 57 min

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Special Episode: Robert Kolker & The Vanishing Family

2026-10-06 · 48 min

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Ep 223 ALS: Unraveling the mystery

2026-09-29 · 1 hr 21 min

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, has long mystified the medical community and brought tremendous sorrow to those impacted by the condition. But to tell the story of ALS as one…
Ep 222 Vitamin K: Calling the shots

2026-09-22 · 1 hr 7 min

Shortly after birth, many newborns are given vitamin K to help their blood clot properly and reduce the chances of hemorrhage. Increasingly, especially here in the US, parents are refusing this life-saving intervention,…
Special Episode: Dr. Alanna Skuse & The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack

2026-09-15 · 52 min

Imagine yourself as a 17th century English peasant or merchant or noble. Let’s say you’re dealing with some intense stomach pain or a cut on your leg that won’t heal. Where do you turn to for help? Today’s book club…
Ep 221 Electroconvulsive Therapy Part 2: A current conversation

2026-09-08 · 58 min

This week, we’re picking up where we left off last episode in our exploration of ECT by examining how this therapy is administered, which conditions it’s used for, and what we know about why it works. To start off, we…

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Owner: iHeartPodcasts
Oldest episode in feed: 10/2017 · over 9 years
Typical length: 1 hr 15 min
Format: Episodic Newest first, episodes stand alone

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