Bird Pinkerton

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1,078 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 5d ago

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Unexplainable · The cells we share · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

Sorry.

Sorry I've been such a disappointment to you.

You have not been a disappointment.

This feels like a perfect transition to the next thing here, which is that...

Sometimes the parent-fetus-cell relationship becomes strained in certain ways.

Like any communication between parent and child.

It's not all sort of heart healing and scar knitting.

Sometimes the cells from the kid can be somewhat obnoxious.

So up next, how these cells might actually play a role in a whole range of pretty serious diseases.

So, Mama, when I was in your womb, I gave you a bunch of my cells.

This happens whenever there's a fetus inside a pregnant person for a while.

And in this exchange, Amy Boddy says that...

There are trade-offs.

And one of the main complications that researchers have been exploring is related to autoimmune disease.

Wow.

So like...

To be really clear from the get-go, right, like this is all very much theoretical, right?

It's something researchers are still trying to figure out.

So I would not want anyone with sort of an autoimmune disease to immediately assume that it comes from microchimera or this like exchange of cells, right?

But basically, the way that Amy explained it to me is that

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