This Podcast Will Kill You
Science

This Podcast Will Kill You

by Exactly Right and iHeartPodcasts

This podcast might not actually kill you, but Erin Welsh and Erin Allmann Updyke cover so many things that can. In each episode, they tackle a different topic, teaching listeners about the biology, history, and epidemiology of a different disease or medical mystery. They do the scientific research, so you don’t have to.
 
Since 2017, Erin and Erin have explored chronic and infectious diseases, medications, poisons, viruses, bacteria and scientific discoveries. They’ve researched public health subjects including plague, Zika, COVID-19, lupus, asbestos, endometriosis and more.
Each episode is accompanied by a creative quarantini cocktail recipe and a non-alcoholic placeborita.
Erin Welsh, Ph.D. is a co-host of the This Podcast Will Kill You. She is a disease ecologist and epidemiologist and works full-time as a science communicator through her work on the podcast. Erin Allmann Updyke, MD, Ph.D. is a co-host of This Podcast Will Kill You. She’s an epidemiologist and disease ecologist currently in the final stretch of her family medicine residency program.
This Podcast Will Kill You is part of the Exactly Right podcast network that provides a platform for bold, creative voices to bring to life provocative, entertaining and relatable stories for audiences everywhere. The Exactly Right roster of podcasts covers a variety of topics including science, true crime, comedic interviews, news, pop culture and more. Podcasts on the network include My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark, Buried Bones, That's Messed Up: An SVU Podcast and more.

100 episodes
EN language
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Ep 202 Cancer Part 1: What is it?
1:36:20 Mar 3, 2026
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Ep 201 Poop Part 2: Flushed away
1:21:54 Feb 17, 2026
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Ep 197 Detox: Enemas for everyone
1:16:24 Jan 6, 2026
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Ep 184 The Gallbladder: Humor us
1:22:41 Aug 12, 2025
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Ep 183 SSRIs Part 2: Action
1:10:26 Jul 29, 2025
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Ep 182 SSRIs Part 1: Origin
1:02:00 Jul 22, 2025
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Ep 181 PCOS: Beyond the cysts
1:26:36 Jul 8, 2025
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