4.6 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Primates have been found to be three times faster than humans at healing, so what's up with that? Plus, there's a mouse out there who can regrow ears and survive 60% of its skin being ripped off—turns out, it's a feature, not a bug! I'm joined by (medical) Dr. Kaveh Hoda to discuss why we're the best (at being the worst) at wound healing!
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1:04.2 | I'm your host of Many Parasites Katie Golden. |
1:13.4 | I studied psychology and evolutionary biology, and today on the show, humans are the best at being the worst at healing ourselves. |
1:20.7 | That's right. Research now confirms it. We are the suckiest at wound healing. And we're going to get into it. Why are humans so bad at healing? Why is it not that big of a deal? And we will look at an animal that is one of the most |
1:30.3 | Deadpool-esque critters out there with incredible healing skills that are borders on the grotesque. |
1:39.4 | So joining me today is I found one, a medical professional, host of the House of Pod medical podcast, Dr. Cave Hoda. Welcome. |
1:51.3 | We're number one at being the worst. |
1:54.8 | Exactly. Human pride at sucking. I just love it when a study comes out just to confirm what we've all |
2:04.3 | already expected that we're not in basically every way except our ability to cooperate and |
2:11.6 | pound one rock against another rock. We're really not great animals. We're great at rock pounding, though. |
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