Welcome to paging Dr. Gupta. You ever found yourself thinking about a totally random health

question? This happens to me all the time. I suddenly start thinking about this question,

I start going down these rabbit holes, and I wonder, am I the only one in the world who's

thinking about this right now? Well, I can tell you the chances are

you are not. Why do I say this? Because we're getting all these questions about these

fascinating topics from people all over the world. And I love taking these real-life questions

and then digging into it, digging into the science, digging into the stories behind them.

And that's why we created this podcast.

Kira is back with us.

Who do we have first?

Hey, Sanjay.

So first of today, we have John from San Francisco.

And he wrote in his question, and he said,

I'm a total mosquito magnet in a group of friends, I'm getting a dozen bites,

my friends only one or two,

I'm using mosquito repellent,

it's only helping a little,

what else can I do besides staying inside?

Okay, John, I feel your pain.

I've been there too.

I think I'm a mosquito magnet.

Why are some people just more attractive to mosquitoes? Well, there are a few things that are within your control, and there are a few

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