# This Podcast Will Kill You Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711.md RSS feed: https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/e0709a39-232b-4483-8e4f-b24c0111ae2c/64b4c224-562e-4b2f-9f31-b24c0111ae53/podcast.rss Official site: https://www.exactlyrightmedia.com/ Author: Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts Episodes: 288 ## Resource 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… ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711.md ## Episodes - [Special Episode: Alexandra Sifferlin & The Elusive Body](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/special-episode-alexandra-sifferlin-the-elusive-body) — 2026-06-02T07:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 211 Motion Sickness: It comes in waves](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-211-motion-sickness-it-comes-in-waves) — 2026-05-26T07:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 210 Histoplasmosis: Bats, birds, and budding yeast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-210-histoplasmosis-bats-birds-and-budding-yeast) — 2026-05-19T07:01:00+00:00 - [Special Episode: Dr. Olivia Weisser & The Dreaded Pox](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/special-episode-dr-olivia-weisser-the-dreaded-pox) — 2026-05-12T07:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 209 Dietary Guidelines Part 2: Why is there protein in everything?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-209-dietary-guidelines-part-2-why-is-there-protein-in-everything) — 2026-05-05T07:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 208 Dietary Guidelines Part 1: Who’s behind these guidelines?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-208-dietary-guidelines-part-1-who-s-behind-these-guidelines) — 2026-04-28T07:01:00+00:00 - [Special Episode: Adam Kucharski & Proof](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/special-episode-adam-kucharski-proof) — 2026-04-21T07:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 207 Tear Gas: How can a chemical weapon be “humane”?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-207-tear-gas-how-can-a-chemical-weapon-be-humane) — 2026-04-14T07:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 206 Oropouche Virus: More than a smidge worrisome](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-206-oropouche-virus-more-than-a-smidge-worrisome) — 2026-04-07T07:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 205 Cancer Part 4: Where do things stand today?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-205-cancer-part-4-where-do-things-stand-today) — 2026-03-31T07:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 204 Cancer Part 3: How do we treat it?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-204-cancer-part-3-how-do-we-treat-it) — 2026-03-24T07:01:00+00:00 - [Special Episode: Lawrence Ingrassia & A Fatal Inheritance](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/special-episode-lawrence-ingrassia-a-fatal-inheritance) — 2026-03-17T07:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 203 Cancer Part 2: Why does it happen?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-203-cancer-part-2-why-does-it-happen) — 2026-03-10T07:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 202 Cancer Part 1: What is it?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-202-cancer-part-1-what-is-it) — 2026-03-03T08:01:00+00:00 - [Special Episode: Jon Adams and Edmund Ramsden & Rat City](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/special-episode-jon-adams-and-edmund-ramsden-rat-city) — 2026-02-24T08:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 201 Poop Part 2: Flushed away](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-201-poop-part-2-flushed-away) — 2026-02-17T08:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 200 Poop Part 1: How the sausage gets made](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-200-poop-part-1-how-the-sausage-gets-made) — 2026-02-10T08:01:00+00:00 - [Special Episode: Nicola Twilley & Frostbite](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/special-episode-nicola-twilley-frostbite) — 2026-02-03T08:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 199 Sleep Part 2: Predictably unpredictable](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-199-sleep-part-2-predictably-unpredictable) — 2026-01-27T08:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 198 Sleep Part 1: Sleeping with one eye open](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-198-sleep-part-1-sleeping-with-one-eye-open) — 2026-01-20T08:01:00+00:00 - [Special Episode: Daniel Stone & American Poison](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/special-episode-daniel-stone-american-poison) — 2026-01-13T08:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 197 Detox: Enemas for everyone](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-197-detox-enemas-for-everyone) — 2026-01-06T08:01:00+00:00 - [From the Vault - Endometriosis: Menstrual Backwash (Ep 88)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/from-the-vault-endometriosis-menstrual-backwash-ep-88) — 2025-12-30T08:01:00+00:00 - [From the Vault - Hepatitis B: Hepatiti, Take 2 (Ep 89)](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/from-the-vault-hepatitis-b-hepatiti-take-2-ep-89) — 2025-12-23T08:01:00+00:00 - [Ep 196 Health Myths: Fact or fiction?](https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/ep-196-health-myths-fact-or-fiction) — 2025-12-16T08:01:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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