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🗓️ 19 May 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Should you do a juice cleanse? Is it actually possible to "boost" your immune system? You're constantly bombarded with ads, news stories and social media posts telling you how to optimize your health -- but a lot of these sources that pretend to be backed by science actually have another agenda. Dr. Jen Gunter is here to bust the lies you're told -- and sold -- about your health, debunking some of the stickiest myths out there while helping you to understand how your body really works. Episode 1 is out now, and answers the question: Do I really need eight glasses of water a day? To listen, find and follow Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, it's Elise Hugh, your TED Talks Daily host with some big news.
0:08.1	You can now listen to Ted's new original podcast, Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter.
0:13.5	The show will bust lies you're told and sold about your personal health.
0:18.4	The trailer is coming up next.
0:20.0	And if you're hooked, head to the new Body Stuff feed to find episode one,
0:23.3	where you can get to the bottom of how much water you really need to drink every day.
0:27.0	This is something I really need to know.
0:28.5	And where that myth about water actually came from.
0:31.8	You can find and follow Body Stuff with Dr. Jen Gunter,
0:35.5	wherever you're listening to this.
0:40.0	I'm Dr. Jen Gunter, wherever you're listening to this. I'm Dr. Jen Gunter. I'm an OB-GYN. And as a doctor, I do my best to keep people healthy
0:46.5	and informed about their bodies. And I do this with science. Science helps us understand our
0:53.0	bodies and how to take care of them. It's also our greatest
0:57.1	weapon in the battle against medical misinformation, and there's a lot of misinformation out there.
1:04.4	In Body Stuff, my new podcast from the TED Audio Collective, I'm going to use the power of
1:09.8	science to take down the
1:11.4	stickiest medical myths and explain how our bodies really work.
1:16.1	The only thing these cleanses and detox removed from your body is your money.
1:19.9	There aren't superfoods. There's just foods.
1:22.5	And medical myths? Well, they're sneaky villains.
1:25.4	They take science and twist it to make their marketing sound
1:29.7	science-ish. If you tell people that it's all about the science, then people are more likely
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