Hidden Brain

How to Combat Pain

Physicians themselves have had to grapple with the nature of pain. For much of medical history, pain was seen as a symptom — a signal from the body that something had gone wrong. But researchers have come to see that pain is more than a warning system. It is, in some ways, a construction of the mind.

TED

Why I’m Obsessed with Health Wearables (and You Should Be Too) | Michael Snyder | TED

We practice sick care rather than health care. And even when we practice health care, if you think about it, it's a pretty archaic process. You will travel to a physician's office that really hasn't changed much in the last 40 years.

TED

How to Google Your Symptoms Without Freaking Out | John Whyte | TED

The feeds on Instagram are often driven by algorithms and what you search. So here I am, I've been a physician for 20-plus years, I know the data on statins, and I'm starting to think maybe I don't need a statin. And then I'm getting more doctors' feeds that are saying you don't need to be on a statin.

Radiolab

Your Friendly Neighborhood Hookworms

For most of human history, hookworms and their parasitic kin were ubiquitous companions to our species, and the immune system evolved in their presence. The provocative idea at the heart of helminth therapy is that without these old enemies to fight, our immune systems grow restless and turn on us instead.

Radiolab

Your Friendly Neighborhood Hookworms

For most of human history, people were infected with helminths — parasitic worms — as a matter of course. It's only in the past century or so, in wealthy industrialized nations, that we've largely eliminated them. And it's in those same places that allergies, asthma, and autoimmune diseases have skyrocketed.

It's Been a Minute

What if the ‘biological clock’ is a scam? | It's Been A Minute

I think that we've enshrined a lot of cultural assumptions about women and their reproductive capacity in the terms for their organs and terms for things happening in pregnancy and their reproductive decisions, I guess. It's like a really messed up form of metonymy where the organ, like the incompetent cervix, the hostile or geriatric uterus, is standing in for how our culture is stereotyping women.

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Alex Karnal - The Trillion-Dollar Health Revolution - [Invest Like the Best, EP.467]

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