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Strange Health

Introducing Strange Health from The Conversation

Jan 6, 2026 · 2m

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Introducing Strange Health, a new podcast from The Conversation . Time and again, the health stories that go viral are the ones that make people recoil slightly before clicking anyway. Worms. Smells. Leaks. Stones. Toxins. The things you Google at midnight and hope nobody ever finds in your search history. Behind the gag reflex, there is usually a serious question. Is this normal? Is this dangerous? Has the internet just convinced me I am dying? That is why The Conversation has launched Strange Health, a new podcast series hosted by Katie Edwards, a health editor at The Conversation, and Dan Baumgardt , a practising GP and lecturer in health and life sciences at the University of Bristol.…