If you’re wondering about the personalized vitamin packets advertised on Instagram, herbal supplements, and “immune-boosting” pills & powders, then this is the lab for you! We talked to Dr. Alice Lichtenstein about vitamins, supplements, and the nutritional benefits of a balanced diet!
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We’re back with part two of our exploration of sleep. Last week we covered the benefits of good, quality sleep, and we highlighted who is (and who isn’t) getting it. We talked about the the stages of sleep, and what how it affects your health when you’re not getting enough. This week, we’re unpacking the environmental and psychosocial factors associated with poor sleep, sleep disorders, and treatments for sleep - like medicines and meditations.
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It’s a new year so we are doing a wellness series to figure out how we can start and maintain some healthy habits. We are starting with sleep. We all have to do it, but most of us are not getting enough of it. In Part one we are finding out what constitutes a good nights sleep, the stages of sleep, and what is happening during each stage.
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It’s the end of the year, and we have a recap for you! Listen to this lab to hear our top picks for 2021 across tech, health & wellness, music, and politics. We share our favorite scientific advances for the year too!
Read MoreIn Part 2 of our Understanding HIV series we are shifting our focus to the people and the cultural context that has impacted how the HIV epidemic was handled.
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December is HIV Awareness month, and 2021 is the 40th anniversary of AIDS. We talked to Dr. Christine Daniels about HIV, available drugs, potential vaccines, and what we’ve learned in the past 40 years.
Read MoreReproductive health has been in the news a lot lately, most recently with the Supreme Court hearing Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization last week. So in this Lab, we talk to Dr. Elizabeth Ruzzo, the founder of Adyn Health, all about birth control. It’s proven very effective at preventing pregnancy, as well as treatment for symptoms of some reproductive health issues like uterine fibroids and PMDD, but can come with some pretty nasty side effects. Birth control has not changed much since the 60's so we're talking about how scientists are using endocrinology and genetics to make more personalized medicine for individuals.
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The holiday season is upon us and that means more online shopping but this doesn't mean that we have to put our accounts in the negative right away. In this lab, we talk to Natalia Brzezinski, Head of Strategy at Klarna, about how fintech can provide additional flexibility to our pockets.
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Are you taking advantage of all the Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, adding everything to your cart? Well, take a break and learn about what happens between check out and package delivery with Wall Stree Journal technology columnist and author, Christopher Mims.
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This week we talked to neuroscientist, Dr. Wendy Suzuki, about anxiety, why we have it, and what we can do to channel that energy into something positive.
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This week Dope Labs Podcast is back, and we're tackling Science Denial with Drs. Gale Sinatra and Barbara Hofer. Listen wherever you get your podcasts and check out the show notes and cheat sheet!
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This episode is all about the sociology of celebration. We explore the work of Mihai Stelian Rusu and Ismo Kantola and their three coordinates of celebration: temporality, spatiality, and sociality.
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The Lovecraft Country finale has us reeling, and we’re having a hard time explaining all the elements of the show to our friends who didn’t watch. We talked Afrofuturism, science fiction, and horror with Dr. Kinitra Brooks.
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We want to understand our food system in the United States. Our interview with Dr. Marie Spiker helps us understand the process from farm to fork to flush. Dope Labs Podcasts listeners share what was missing from their local grocery stores, and we talk about the various ways the food industry has to adjust when the demand changes.
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This episode is all about burnout. We’re in a slump and we’re not alone. Our friends and family have been talking to us about it too. Dr. Anne Helen Petersen, author of Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation, helps us unpack the burnout we’re experiencing and what we should do to combat it.
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