This week, Emily and Perry dig into dry needling and cupping, the wellness equivalent to pain equals gain (maybe?). What are the therapeutic properties, and the risks, of yanking at or poking holes in your skin? Warning: this episode is not for the faint of heart.

Plus: extraordinary developments in pancreatic cancer treatment, Google wants to fill the air with millions of sterile mosquitoes, and also farts.

Past episodes referenced:

What's the deal with creatine?

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This week, Emily and Perry dig into dry needling and cupping, the wellness equivalent to pain equals gain (maybe?). What are the therapeutic properties, and the risks, of yanking at or poking holes in your skin? Warning: this episode is not for the faint of heart.
Plus: extraordinary developments in pancreatic cancer treatment, Google wants to fill the air with millions of sterile mosquitoes, and also farts.
Past episodes referenced:
<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wellness-actually-with-emily-oster-perry-wilson-md/id1633515294?i=1000758810283">What's the deal with creatine?</a>
Submit a question for our weekly mailbag at wellnessactually.fm.

A staggering amount of health and wellness news and information is bombarding us everywhere we look – and who’s got time to parse it out, to verify it, and then to actually do the work of improving our health?

We do! We are Emily Oster, best-selling author and data expert, and Perry Wilson, a medical doctor. And unlike the influencers, we actually know how to read a medical paper. This podcast separates fact from fiction, causality from correlation, so that you can stay informed without being overwhelmed. Every episode, we cover the health news of the week, take listener questions, and do a deep dive into a buzzy and misunderstood wellness topic so that you can actually make the best decisions for your own health.

A staggering amount of health and wellness news and information is bombarding us everywhere we look &ndash; and who&rsquo;s got time to parse it out, to verify it, and then to actually do the work of improving our health?
We do! We are Emily Oster, best-selling author and data expert, and Perry Wilson, a medical doctor. And unlike the influencers, we actually know how to read a medical paper. This podcast separates fact from fiction, causality from correlation, so that you can stay informed without being overwhelmed. Every episode, we cover the health news of the week, take listener questions, and do a deep dive into a buzzy and misunderstood wellness topic so that you can actually make the best decisions for your own health.

Wellness, Actually with Emily Oster & Perry Wilson, MD

What's the deal with cupping and dry needling?

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/cdbd8acb-6abc-4ecd-a46b-b45e010a0c7a/transcript

This week, Emily and Perry tackle the weirdest, most wonderful thing all living things do: sleep. If evolution has forced us to be completely vulnerable for eight hours at a stretch, there must be a darn good reason. So what is actually happening to our brains when we sleep? What disrupts it, and how do we optimize for quality and quantity? And what are the risks of getting too little sleep...and enlisting chemical help to get more?

Plus: screwworm is (appropriately) nightmare fuel, a cure for Ozempic butt, and hard seltzer vs. your kidneys.

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ParentData episode on the placenta.

This week, Emily and Perry tackle the weirdest, most wonderful thing all living things do: sleep. If evolution has forced us to be completely vulnerable for eight hours at a stretch, there must be a darn good reason. So what is actually happening to our brains when we sleep? What disrupts it, and how do we optimize for quality and quantity? And what are the risks of getting too little sleep...and enlisting chemical help to get more?
Plus: screwworm is (appropriately) nightmare fuel, a cure for Ozempic butt, and hard seltzer vs. your kidneys.
Submit a question for our weekly mailbag at wellnessactually.fm.
<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wellness-actually-with-emily-oster-perry-wilson-md/id1633515294?i=1000676926958">ParentData episode on the placenta.</a>

What's the deal with sleep?

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/2f71f61c-f241-49dc-a02f-b46d00147ae3/transcript

This week, Emily and Perry are coming in hot to discuss the existence of sex, specifically whether or not women have a DSM-5-designated disorder when they don't want it, or if that's a pathology designed to sell women meds. Turns out the data of sexual desire is a complicated and noisy thing to study, but fortunately that's a turn-on for our intrepid hosts.

Plus: a diabetes conference gets politicized, losing sleep over getting sleep, and preventative HIV drugs in South Africa.

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ParentData survey on sex after kids

ParentData episode with Emily Nagoski

Buy her book!

Previous episodes referenced:

What's the deal with testosterone?

What's the deal with HRT?

What's the deal with peptides?

This week, Emily and Perry are coming in hot to discuss the existence of sex, specifically whether or not women have a DSM-5-designated disorder when they don't want it, or if that's a pathology designed to sell women meds. Turns out the data of sexual desire is a complicated and noisy thing to study, but fortunately that's a turn-on for our intrepid hosts.
Plus: a diabetes conference gets politicized, losing sleep over getting sleep, and preventative HIV drugs in South Africa.
Submit a question for our weekly mailbag at wellnessactually.fm.
<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wellness-actually-with-emily-oster-perry-wilson-md/id1633515294?i=1000643774667"></a><a href="https://parentdata.org/grown-ups/your-sex-lives-after-kids/">ParentData survey on sex after kids</a><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wellness-actually-with-emily-oster-perry-wilson-md/id1633515294?i=1000643774667"></a>
<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wellness-actually-with-emily-oster-perry-wilson-md/id1633515294?i=1000643774667">ParentData episode with Emily Nagoski</a>
<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Come-Together-Science-Creating-Connections/dp/0593500822?crid=IOGIZL34V5JE&amp;keywords=come+together&amp;qid=1706632617&amp;sprefix=come+toget,aps,128&amp;sr=8-1&amp;linkCode=sl1&amp;tag=parentdata0d-20&amp;linkId=b48fc818866fb5ed16b1363282c03ab6&amp;language=en_US&amp;ref_=as_li_ss_tl">Buy her book!</a>
Previous episodes referenced:
<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wellness-actually-with-emily-oster-perry-wilson-md/id1633515294?i=1000764651615">What's the deal with testosterone?</a>
<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wellness-actually-with-emily-oster-perry-wilson-md/id1633515294?i=1000763215281">What's the deal with HRT?</a>
<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wellness-actually-with-emily-oster-perry-wilson-md/id1633515294?i=1000750459632">What's the deal with peptides?</a>

What's the deal with hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD)?

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/5fb90037-431b-4c9e-98e3-b4660006df07/transcript

This week, Emily and Perry pull out their steak knives to cut through both the hypers, and the detractors, of red meat. Is it as bad for you as people say? Is there value to a (fiberless) carnivore diet? What makes it red, anyway? And why is nutritional science such a heap of hot, correlation-is-not-causation garbage?

Plus: a peptide scandal in the running world, myths around mitochondria, and more Ebola, unfortunately.

Past episodes discussed:

What's the deal with peptides?

What's the deal with protein?

Submit a question for our weekly mailbag at wellnessactually.fm.

This week, Emily and Perry pull out their steak knives to cut through both the hypers, and the detractors, of red meat. Is it as bad for you as people say? Is there value to a (fiberless) carnivore diet? What makes it red, anyway? And why is nutritional science such a heap of hot, correlation-is-not-causation garbage?
Plus: a peptide scandal in the running world, myths around mitochondria, and more Ebola, unfortunately.
Past episodes discussed:
<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wellness-actually-with-emily-oster-perry-wilson-md/id1633515294?i=1000750459632">What's the deal with peptides?</a>
<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wellness-actually-with-emily-oster-perry-wilson-md/id1633515294?i=1000760425904">What's the deal with protein?</a>
Submit a question for our weekly mailbag at wellnessactually.fm.

What's the deal with red meat?

https://api.omny.fm/orgs/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/clips/cf7e29aa-71be-4fb6-a4cc-b4570136f15a/transcript

What's the deal with cupping and dry needling?

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