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Gut-Brain Drugs: Why Old Antidepressants Help Bloating
Episode 5695
A listener wrote in after being prescribed low-dose amitriptyline for bloating and fullness that have followed him since his gallbladder came out sev…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Prokinetics When the Emptying Test Is Normal
Episode 5694
Daniel had his gallbladder out seven years ago and has had digestive trouble ever since — visible distension, a sense that food isn't moving, and a g…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Head-of-Bed Elevation for Nighttime Reflux
Episode 5693
Waking up with acid in your throat is miserable, and the advice you'll hear first — elevate the head of the bed — has been in every gastroenterology …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
When Bile Reflux and Bloating Collide After Gallbladder Surgery
Episode 5692
Daniel had his gallbladder out years ago and has been carrying bile reflux, bloating, and a stack of diagnoses ever since. After a holiday dinner of …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
When the System Feels Rigged: A 180-Year Pattern
Episode 5691
The feeling that the game is rigged isn't new, and it isn't just a vibe — it shows up in national life tables. Public-health research finds life-expe…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Kaizen and the Cult of Productivity
Episode 5690
Productivity tops the priority list for roughly two-thirds of Brits, Americans, and Australians — ahead of health, money, and happiness. But the stan…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
What Actually Makes People Stick With Things
Episode 5689
Most perseverance advice is inspirational noise. The actual research says grit is perseverance AND passion, that willpower isn't what keeps people go…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Can We Normalize Breaking Into Song in Public?
Episode 5688
Daniel wrote in with a genuinely strange question: could a person be the vanguard for normalizing spontaneous singing in public — starting with the d…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
The Speech Scientist Behind Teletubbies
Episode 5687
What if the strangest preschool show ever made was actually the most rigorously researched? Teletubbies turns out to be the work of Andrew Davenport …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
What Arab Israelis Actually Say About Identity
Episode 5686
Ask what Arab Israelis think about their own identity and you'll get two completely different headlines from the same polling data. This episode digs…
2 weeks, 2 days ago