Ep 122 Asthma: A phlegmy episode

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Health & Fitness, Science

4.8 • 17.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2023

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Most of us are familiar with asthma. Maybe you have the disease yourself or maybe a friend, family member, or coworker has it. Or maybe you’ve just watched a tv show or movie featuring a character with asthma. However you learned about this disease, you probably still have some lingering questions about it, like “how do inhalers work?”, “what are the different types of asthma?”, “where does the word asthma come from?”, “can other animals get asthma?”, and “can Erin and Erin tell me everything they possibly can about asthma?” The answer to that last question is a resounding yes, and the answers to the others you’ll find in today’s episode, where we take you through the complicated but somehow also straightforward biology of this disease, the long history of asthma peppered with firsthand accounts, and the promising research that may transform the way we live with this disease.

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0:00.0	Many put their hope in Dr. Serhat.
0:02.6	His company was worth half a billion dollars.
0:05.2	His research promised groundbreaking treatments for HIV and cancer.
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0:19.0	in the Wundry app.
0:20.2	Hi, my name is Lindsay, and I wasn't officially diagnosed with asthma until I was a teenager,
0:25.2	but I do remember when I was a kid having exercise-induced asthma, but just not knowing how to describe it.
0:35.0	My asthma was very well-mannered. but just your standard preventative and albuterel until my early 30s.
0:38.0	Until my early 30s, something changed, not sure what it was, and then March of 2020 I had my first really bad exacerbation.
0:50.9	Beforehand it was just like I could maybe have one, maybe two exacerbation. Beforehand it was just like I could maybe have one, maybe two exacerbations,
0:55.2	if any in a year. So I got an oral steroids in March of 2020 and it cleared up pretty fast.
1:01.0	Usually that's how it happens with asthma exacerbations and I finished the
1:06.7	course of steroids and then about a week later I started having asthma
1:10.7	symptoms again and again I had to go back to my doctor and get back
1:14.7	on steroids and this happened pretty much every six weeks I would I would get on
1:20.9	steroids and then finish my course of steroids and then gradually
1:24.9	the symptoms would return and then with my first pomonologist that I had we were
1:32.0	kind of in a struggle between p
1:33.4	that I had we were kind of in a struggle between
1:35.7	testing my blood levels for the eosinophil levels that they thought would be the
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