Petri Dish

This episode is about peptic ulcers, the ulcers of your stomach and duodenum. For a long time they were considered to be linked to stress, but that idea fell a little out of favor when H. pylori bacte...

2 Nov 202042min

Prepare yourselves, dear listeners, for a spooky Halloween episode of Petri Dish! Sean and Nathan have become trapped in a laboratory in Heck! They can only escape by telling their ghastly imprisoner ...

26 Okt 202052min

2020... The Year of Stress... We're past the halfway point in spooky October everyone, hope you've been having a nice time! This episode is part three of our series on stress -- we covered stress horm...

19 Okt 202051min

This is a corrected version of the episode! The audio from the last release was all messed up! Sorry about the mistake! Are y'all done feeling stressed yet? No? Well neither are we! We continue our di...

12 Okt 202035min

WE'RE SO STRESSED 2020! But what is stress, in a biological level? And how does it related to "feeling stressed"? In this episode we dive into biological stress, both physiological and psychosocial, a...

5 Okt 202039min

Last episode introduced the blood brain barrier; it is a lot like a bouncer for the exclusive dance club that is your brain, keeping all the randos out. But this week we get into some of the details o...

28 Sep 20201h 3min

We did a twitter poll and the people have spoken! You folks want to hear about the "Blood Brain Barrier"! But what is it, besides great alliteration?! The blood brain barrier is a lot like a bouncer f...

21 Sep 202057min

We all know *about* vitamin C but... what actually IS vitamin C? And what does it even do in your body? How can being deficient in vitamin C make pirates bleed out of their gums and have their teeth f...

14 Sep 20201h 8min