EvolutionMedicine
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- Website
- https://evolutionmedicine.com
- Description
- Joe Alcock and guests talk about evolution, adaptation, medical care, epidemics, emerging diseases, and the microbiome.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2021-08-29 07:43
- last episode published
- 2020-05-02 03:27
- publication frequency
- 29.72 days
- Contributors
- Dockercast
- Owner
- evolution and medicine by Joe Alcock MD
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 46
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Science & Medicine
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
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| 2020-05-02 | Joe Alcock talks about the Surviving Sepsis Campaign's recent recommendation to use acetaminophen in patients with COVID-19. Can we bring concept from evolutionary medicine to help us decide what to do in the pandemic? Spoiler alert: yes |
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| 2019-08-13 | This week, we get some background on co-host and polymath Coffee Brown. Coffee talks about his philosophy of teaching and a bit on evolution in education. |
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| 2019-07-04 | This episode introduces listeners of the Evolution Medicine podcast to a brand new podcast started by Athena Aktipis PhD, of the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. Download Zombified and give it a review. Athena interviewed me for th... |
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| 2019-07-03 | Coffee and Joe spend the day before the 4th of July talking about probiotics. Is there enough evidence to prescribe probiotics full time? Listen and find out. |
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| 2019-03-30 |
The Tesla Episode - can autonomous cars save us from an evolutionary mismatch? Cars kill a lot of people. We see the consequences every day in the Emergency Department. These accidental deaths result from a mismatch between our brains and the modern environment. We routinely pilot 3500 lb automobiles at speeds in excess of 75 mph... |
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| 2019-03-23 | This is a bonus podcast, a recording of a lecture from the 2019 Mountain and Emergency Medicine Conference March 22nd at Taos Ski Valley, new Mexico. At this high elevation location (10,200 feet) I discuss three high altitude people - Andeans, Himalaya... |
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| 2019-03-09 | Is self deception a bug or a feature? Coffee Brown shares his thoughts on the topic, focusing on a paper co-authored by evolutionary theorist Robert Trivers. Coffee dissects this topic in a memorable and incisive fashion, with a few epic rants in betwe... |
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| 2019-03-01 | In this Evo Med podcast #39, Coffee Brown and I discuss Mary Jane West Eberhard's paper on the evolutionary function of fat and a developmental explanation for the obesity epidemic. Her paper lays the groundwork for understanding why some early life ex... |
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| 2019-02-26 | Joe Alcock takes a time out for short podcast to talk about a paper published this month on fever. Paul Young's group looked for, and could not find, any group of patients who do better from aggressive fever control. This result fits with expectations ... |
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| 2019-02-14 | Coffee Brown and Joe Alcock talk about the recent paper by Mark P. Mattson, "An Evolutionary Perspective on Why Food Overconsumption Impairs Cognition" published in the journal Cell. Does overeating make us dumb as a culture? Can fasting make us smarte... |
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