Strange Health
- Health & Fitness · Medicine, Nutrition
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Strange Health from The Conversation dives into the science behind the most bizarre, viral, and sometimes questionable health trends dominating social media from period scooping and menstrual masking to stroboscopic light therapy, demodex mites, vagus nerve hacks and liver detox myths. Expect honest, engaging, and sometimes stomach-turning discussions. Hosted by Katie Edwards from The Conversation and Dan Baumgardt, a GP and lecturer at the University of Bristol.
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- Trailer: Strange Health is back for a new season
- What is period scooping? And other menstrual hacks you should think twice about
- Does light therapy work? The science of stroboscopic stimulation
- What your body odour says about you
- Meet the mites that live on you: from demodex to dust mites and scabies
- What is the vagus nerve and can you really reset it?
- Is cracking my neck and knuckles bad?
- Tonsils, kidneys and gall: why your body makes stones