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Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Life’s Lightning-Bolt Moments (Lucy Kalanithi, MD)

Pulling The Thread with Elise Loehnen

Lemonada Media

Education, Self-improvement

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Lucy Kalanithi, MD, continues to instill hope in me. Today, she shares lessons from her life and her work as a primary care physician (she’s also Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at Stanford University)—along with reflections on the legacy of her husband Paul Kalanithi, MD, who wrote the now canonical memoir When Breath Becomes Air before his death in 2015.    For the show notes, head to my Substack. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:05.7

Hi, it's Elise Luna and host of Pulling the Thread.

0:08.8

Today I'm talking to Dr. Lucy Klonathy.

0:12.7

Hiya, Julia Louis Dreyfus here from the Wiser Than Me podcast, among other things.

0:17.9

And I've got a bit of a hot take.

0:20.2

Our relationship to our food can feel

0:23.1

disconnected. We don't always know how or where our food is grown. And if we throw food scraps

0:32.4

in the garbage, we don't think about where it's going, or at least we try not to. One way that I get back a little

0:39.3

of that connection is by using my Mill food recycler. Sure, Mill has totally changed my home

0:46.1

life in a lot of practical ways. It works automatically. You can fill it for weeks. It never,

0:52.4

ever smells. But this is also really important. When I use mill,

0:57.5

I'm participating in a circular system. All the food I don't eat is helping to grow the food

1:03.3

that I do. It makes me feel like I'm part of something bigger, and that feels really, really good.

1:10.4

And it's all so ridiculously easy. I just drop my

1:13.5

scraps in my mill, and it transforms them into nutrient-rich grounds overnight. I have mine

1:19.6

sent to a small farm, but if I wanted to, I could use them in my garden or for my backyard

1:24.0

chickens, if I wanted backyard chickens. And I don't know, maybe I do now. Maybe I don't.

1:30.3

Anyway, maybe Mill is transforming me, too, just a little. If you want to feel more connected or you

1:36.4

just want your kitchen to feel less gross, try Mills risk-free trial and just live with it for a while.

1:42.8

Go to mill.com slash wiser for an exclusive offer.

1:50.9

Hey there, it's Julia Louis Dreyfuss. I'm back with a new season of Wiser Than Me, the show where I sit down with remarkable older women and soak up their stories, their humor,

2:03.6

and their hard-earned wisdom. Every conversation leaves me a little smarter and definitely more

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