Sawbones: Leucovorin

Sawbones: A Marital Tour of Misguided Medicine

Justin McElroy

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

4.8 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Justin and Dr. Sydnee continue to bring news from the forefront of history with the second part of the announcement about autism – a possible treatment. It's leucovorin: also known as vitamin B-9. It can't possibly be that simple, can it? (No). Dr. Sydnee explains where this idea came from and what leucovorin is actually currently used for in medicine. Music: "Medicines" by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/ Border Angels: https://www.borderangels.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 medicines that I scall let McComb for the mouth.
1:04.0	Hello everybody and welcome to Sawbones, a miracle tour of misguided medicine. I'm your co-host, Justin McRoy. And I'm Sydney McRoy.
1:12.4	We're continuing to bring you updates from the front lines of history.
1:17.8	That is happening.
1:19.6	Look around.
1:20.6	Look around.
1:21.7	How something we are.
1:24.1	How lucky we are.
1:25.0	Yeah.
1:25.4	Well, so we talked about last week the, uh, the first part of
1:30.2	RFK's promised autism announcement. We knew this was coming, right? We knew what we told us.
1:37.0	He's going to announce autism. Couldn't wait. We were excited. We're stoked. He didn't tell us.
1:40.1	He was also going to announce that maybe he has found a cure. Like, because don't, don't take Tylenon pregnancy was the first part of their announcement. And that's like, you can't go back and change that. That's a future looking thing. But he also announced the other part of it is that there is a medication that looks promising in the treatment of autism spectrum disorder.
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