{"podcast":{"title":"This Podcast Will Kill You","slug":"this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711","podcast_index_feed_id":226711,"rss_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/e0709a39-232b-4483-8e4f-b24c0111ae2c/64b4c224-562e-4b2f-9f31-b24c0111ae53/podcast.rss","website_url":"https://www.exactlyrightmedia.com/","image_url":"https://www.omnycontent.com/d/playlist/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/e0709a39-232b-4483-8e4f-b24c0111ae2c/64b4c224-562e-4b2f-9f31-b24c0111ae53/image.jpg?t=1738340415&size=Large","author":"Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts","episode_count":288,"summary":"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…","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711"},"episode":{"title":"Special Episode: Lawrence Ingrassia & A Fatal Inheritance","slug":"special-episode-lawrence-ingrassia-a-fatal-inheritance","published_at":"2026-03-17T07:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/special-episode-lawrence-ingrassia-a-fatal-inheritance","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711","url":"https://omny.fm/shows/this-podcast-will-kill-you/special-episode-lawrence-ingrassia-a-fatal-inheritance","audio_url":"https://podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/e0709a39-232b-4483-8e4f-b24c0111ae2c/cec9a3bc-c0ad-410b-af39-b40501728576/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=64b4c224-562e-4b2f-9f31-b24c0111ae53","summary":"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 luck. It was genetics: a heritable mutation in a key tumor suppressor gene that greatly increases the risk of developing cancer in your lifetime, a condition known as Li-Fraumeni Syndrome. Journalist Lawrence Ingrassia belongs to one of those families; he has lost his mother, three siblings, and a nephew to cancer. In this TPWKY book club episode, Ingrassia joins me to discuss his book A Fatal Inheritance: How a Family Misfortune Revealed a Deadly Medical Mystery , where he weaves together his family’s story with that of the scientists who sought to uncover the cellular drivers of cancer. Tune in for a heartbreaking and inspiring journey. Support this podcast by shopping our latest sponsor deals and promotions at this link: https://bit.ly/3WwtIAu See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.","meta_description":"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 w…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2730,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/episodes/special-episode-lawrence-ingrassia-a-fatal-inheritance/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-podcast-will-kill-you-226711/special-episode-lawrence-ingrassia-a-fatal-inheritance.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}