Ep 196 Health Myths: Fact or fiction?
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4.8 • 17.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2025
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Did your grandma ever warn you against going out in the cold with wet hair because “you’ll catch your death”? Or have you ever tossed a few more carrots into your shopping basket in the hope that they’ll improve your vision? There are countless health myths about how to prevent or treat disease, what food will give you superhuman powers or turn your kid into a whirlwind of energy. But is there any truth to them? Let’s find out. In this episode, we review a handful of the most popular health myths, exploring their origins and scouring them for any scrap of truth. Tune in to learn whether these myths are fact, fiction, or somewhere in between!
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| 1:31.7 | Welcome. |
| 1:32.7 | Welcome. |
| 1:33.3 | It feels so weird. |
| 1:34.7 | I know that if you're watching this on YouTube, the first hand of cat usually comes later. |
| 1:40.3 | Spoilers, there won't be one. |
| 1:42.2 | No, yeah. |
| 1:42.5 | We didn't have one. |
| 1:43.8 | We're not having one. It feels weird. It feels weird to just start out being like, here we go. Yeah. But we're doing it because we want to. Yeah. Well, also, this episode is a little bit different. It's weird. Yeah. It's weird. It's going to be so much fun. |
| 2:06.4 | This week, we are exploring just a handful of health myths. |
| 2:07.5 | Or are they myths? |
| 2:08.7 | Or are they? |
| 2:09.5 | Let's find out. |
| 2:11.7 | Old Wives Tales, if you may. |
| 2:14.7 | If we, you may, if you would so. If you, please. |
| 2:17.1 | Well, it was really, because I was like, okay, well, what should we do? What about health myths? And then literally it was like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. Right, we came up with such a long list. Yeah. So I think this will be a repeating episode segment maybe format. Unless you all hate it and then let us know but if you like it |
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