Sawbones: Can I Use My Own Tears as Saline?

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

Medical History, Health & Fitness, History, Medicine, Comedy, Sawbones

4.8 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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We're bringing the heat with listeners' weird medical questions! Are the hot parts of the body the only Sweaty parts? Is spicy food spicier some days more than others? Is there any benefits to extra things in glasses lenses? And if your stomach can expand, why not your bladder? Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/ Immigrant Defenders Law Center: https://www.immdef.org/

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0:00.0	Sawbones is a show about medical history, and nothing the hosts say should be taken as medical advice or opinion.
0:07.2	It's for fun.
0:08.7	Can't you just have fun for an hour and not try to diagnose your mystery boil?
0:14.2	We think you've earned it.
0:15.8	Just sit back, relax, and enjoy a moment of distraction from that weird growth.
0:22.6	You're worth it.
0:25.9	All right.
0:27.5	Tommy is about some books.
0:30.6	One, two, one, two, three, four. We came across a pharmacy with its windows blasted out
0:52.0	pushed on through the broken glass and had ourselves a look around the medicines, the
0:57.8	medicines that ask mell and macaw for the mouth.
1:04.7	Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones.
1:07.9	Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine.
1:10.1	I'm your co-host, Justin McElroy. And I'm Sydney McRoy. And I'm so excited to be back with you. Apologies for missing and not being with you last week. Hello, I'm here. He's back. As everybody, you know, people, honey, if they can't get their Justin fix for even a few days, they go absolutely gaga. I feel that way. Well, that's kind of you, sweetheart. Thank you. I'm very sad when we're apart. Me too, but not right now. We're happy. We're together, and we're answering your medical questions. It's one of my favorite kinds of episodes. So, Sidney, I have these questions. Our listeners have sent in. If you ever have a medical query that you'd like us to take a crack at in a non-binding way, in a for entertainment purposes only way. Yeah, this is just for fun. Infotainment. Infotainment. This is for fun. Pop-sci. It's just pop-side., I don't give medical advice and I try to stay away.
2:03.8	If it's like a very specific like diagnose me question, I probably won't tackle that because I, because I might do a bad job and that would be terrible for both of us.
2:12.4	All right. Here is a question from Mark. Good one. Good one to start out with. If you're only hot on one part
2:19.2	of your body, do you sweat only on that part of the body or do you sweat all over? Now, Mark,
2:24.9	I will say this. You probably could have gotten an answer to this with some testing and then
2:29.4	reported your findings to us. To save us the trouble, you could have conducted this science
2:33.9	on your own. But I will
2:35.9	ask Sidney what the community says. Well, I, well, I may have. We reward self-experimentation with
2:41.7	exposure on this show all the time, Cindy. Yeah, but no, I do it myself or you do it. I don't encourage.
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