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#5983: Inside the Barcelona Breathing Cure for APD

Four versions of one treatment for abdominophrenic dyssynergia — and almost nobody outside Barcelona offers it.

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#5921: Israel's Urgent Care Safety Net: What Broke

A Jerusalem family's two terrifying nights expose the layer beneath the ER — and the doctor shortage behind it.

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#5920: The Psychiatrist in Those 1950s Patient Films

A drug salesman's papers, a bathtub, and the 1950s interviews with Dr. Heinz Edgar Lehmann that still pull millions of views.

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#5916: Grey Rocking Meets OPSEC: A Family Firewall

Grey rocking has no clinical trials—just a 2012 blog post. What happens when you rebuild it on need-to-know and OPSEC?

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#5879: Why Experts Don't Follow Their Own Advice

Doctors eat worse, dentists drink more soda, and physicians skip the screenings they prescribe. The data behind the "do as I say" gap.

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#5863: What Shabbat Does to Your Brain That Sleep Can't

Shabbat's real power isn't sleep — it's psychological detachment. And the data says a vacation day doesn't do the same thing.

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#5856: ADHD Is Not One Thing: What the Data Says

Same diagnosis, same medication, completely different struggles. What the research says about why adult ADHD varies so much.

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#5854: Why Quiet Weekends Make the Jackhammer Worse

Daniel's Jerusalem construction site goes silent on Saturdays — and that's exactly why Sunday's jackhammer hits so hard. The neuroscience of habitu...

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#5833: When GLP-1s Silence Hunger Cues

GLP-1s switch off hunger at the brainstem. For people with anorexia, that's not a side effect — it's the thing they came for.

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#5763: 500 Days in a Cave: How We Lose Track of Time

Beatriz Flamini spent 500 days underground and thought less time had passed. What isolation science reveals about how we perceive time.

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#5762: Why 8 PM Bedtime Feels Wrong for Night Owls

A night-owl dad asks if 8 PM bedtime is "for old people" — and the circadian science on wake maintenance zones says his instinct is right.

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#5751: Designing Rooms for ADHD Brains

UK standard PAS 6463 and EEG studies reveal how ADHD brains respond to light, noise, and layout — and what that means for home design.

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#5727: Do We Still Need This Memorial?

Three years after October 7, a quiet question — "do we still need this?" — collides with shame, stigma, and a coming election.

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#5719: When Bile Burns Your Stomach Lining

Bile gastritis after gallbladder removal: why fasting makes it worse, what the evidence says about supplements, and how to eat.

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#5702: Psychosis Isn't One Thing: The 5 Domains Explained

The formal definition of psychosis is narrower than the slang — and the severity label built on top of it misses the disorder that kills the most p...

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#5701: When Kids Hear Their Name in an Empty Room

Hallucinations peak in childhood and fade with age — one meta-analysis found 17% prevalence in kids aged 9–12. So what separates a benign blip from...

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#5695: Gut-Brain Drugs: Why Old Antidepressants Help Bloating

A listener with post-cholecystectomy bloating asks why an old antidepressant might help — and whether anything better is coming.

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#5694: Prokinetics When the Emptying Test Is Normal

A negative gastric emptying study doesn't close the door on prokinetics — because the drugs may not work the way we assumed.

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#5693: Head-of-Bed Elevation for Nighttime Reflux

Five trials, 228 patients, and a wedge pillow that was never actually studied. What the evidence really says about sleeping on an incline.

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#5692: When Bile Reflux and Bloating Collide After Gallbladder Surgery

Two separate problems hiding behind three diagnoses: bile reflux after gallbladder removal, and abdominophrenic dyssynergia — where bloating isn't ...

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