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Stuff You Should Know

Selects: Maggots: Good For Healing Wounds, Turns Out

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Cultures around the world over the years have been inspired by, then repulsed, then inspired by maggots' ability to heal persistent wounds. We are in an inspired-by phase right now. Learn more in this classic episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:31.0

Hello there, it's Josh and for this week's S.Y.S. Case Selects, I've chosen Magitz,

0:35.6

Colin. Good for healing wounds turns out.

0:38.9

And that is absolutely true.

0:41.3

I relisten to all of our selects episodes and I listen to this one and I'm clearly excited

0:47.2

in the episode but I was just as excited listening to it all these years later.

0:52.3

Five years after we released it.

0:54.7

So I hope it excites you.

0:56.4

It is grody but it's also pretty awesome.

0:58.8

So enjoy slash prepare to be grossed out.

1:06.8

Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.

1:11.2

Hey and welcome to The Podcast.

1:18.8

I'm Josh Clark, there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and no one.

1:23.8

No one else is in here with us yet again because we graduated to the point where we don't

1:28.4

even need a producer.

1:29.4

We need somebody who presses record and leaves.

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