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Neurologist, author and science communicator Dr Sarah Holper explores the fascinating science behind the human body's strangest features, flaws and quirks.
Using medicine, history and curious case studies, she explains why we work the way we do, one wonderfully weird question at a time. From sweating blood to voice transplants, each episode explores a curious corner of medicine and biology.
Learn more at drsarahholper.com.
Using medicine, history and curious case studies, she explains why we work the way we do, one wonderfully weird question at a time. From sweating blood to voice transplants, each episode explores a curious corner of medicine and biology.
Learn more at drsarahholper.com.
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This episode explores how drugs, foods, poisons, cosmetics and assorted bodily malfunctions can produce human skin in all 7 colours of the rainbow (and how Isaac Newton is to blame for us thinking a rainbow has 7 colours in the first place).
Dehydration. Too much water. Too much exercise. Not enough exercise. Apparently almost anything can cause a muscle cramp. This episode explores why your muscles occasionally seize without permission, what your nervous system has to do with it, and whether magnesium actually helps.
How can the hunk of meat in your mouth ‘know’ what the food smeared over it tastes like? This episode explores what actually makes something sweet, sour, salty, bitter or umami, and what maggot-infested cheese, antifreeze and a poisoned Roman emperor have to do with it.
Spoiler alert: yes. A nosebleed may have finished off one of history's most feared warlords. This episode explores why noses bleed so dramatically, the ingenious anatomy hidden inside your nostrils, exactly what to do the next time your nose starts gushing... and one of the strangest nosebleed case reports ever published.
Your blood is always red. So why the bruise rainbow? This episode explores the colourful chemistry of bruises, from love bites and cupping to creatures with blue, green and yellow blood - and what Tiffany & Co.'s famous turquoise packaging has to do with it.
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