TED Radio Hour

Tracking what your body needs

When we exercise, it rewets the sponge. But eventually, that sponge dries out if you get little to no movement the rest of your day.

Fresh Air

The “bullies of the tick world” are on the hunt

And all the way to some people I spoke to in Missouri and in Virginia, if they just walked by someone frying bacon in a pan, the fumes from that, they said, made their throats seize up.

Fresh Air

Tennis rivals Chris Evert & Martina Navratilova team up against cancer

And she ignored the symptoms because, like most women who are nurturers, they're caring about their kids and their husband and their family. They forget about themselves. And that's probably one of the messages I want to get out there. If you feel anything different at all slightly, you know, go get it tested.

Radiolab

Your Friendly Neighborhood Hookworms

For most of human history, people were infected with intestinal worms. The worms, in turn, evolved to modulate their hosts' immune responses — keeping inflammation in check so the host could survive and the worms could keep living inside them. The modern, wormy-free immune system, the hypothesis goes, never got that memo and remains primed to overreact.

Radiolab

Your Friendly Neighborhood Hookworms

For most of human history, people went about their daily lives with a worm or two (or fifty) in their guts. Only in the past century, with pharmaceuticals and sanitation practices, have we made significant strides towards deworming the whole of humanity. And that's typically been thought of as a good thing, because having too many worms in your body can–quite literally–suck the life out of you. But is it possible to have… too few worms?

Fresh Air

Humorist Annabelle Gurwitch faces stage 4 cancer, finds ‘unexpected joys’

I felt like it was a story I could understand. And it was a way I could feel kind towards myself. The language of battling and fighting made me also feel at war with my own body, which I don't find helpful.

Fresh Air

Comic Jeff Ross on roasting, loss and his epic bar mitzvah

I think we might be finding a direct connection from the kosher catering business to me getting colon cancer.

Prof G Markets

The Next Inflation Wave Is Already Here | Prof G Markets

People think old people need less sleep. We don't. We just don't sleep well and just walk around slightly tired all the time.

The Tim Ferriss Show

#856: Jim Collins — What to Make of a Life and How to Maximize Your Return on Luck

I really do feel that I have more energy. I had a lot of energy at 37. I had a lot of energy at 17. I have more energy at 67 when I wrote that, 68 now. I need less sleep. My clarity, if anything, I think is higher.