Dr. Xand van Tulleken
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1,476 appearances
9 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 5d ago
Dr. Xand van Tulleken’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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That rather poor outcome did not deter Louis XIII of France, or at least didn't deter his doctors.
1642, his doctors have tried enemas, bleeding, leeches, all the various things they can do.
And eventually they go, why don't we do the first ever blood transfusion and hook him up to a lamb and pump the lamb's blood directly into Louis' veins?
And how did this go?
He's here tonight.
It
Louis, welcome.
He actually died a few days after the procedure.
And the lamb?
Delicious.
But what about hormone supplements?
Because this feels like the most modern idea that we are all aggressively confronted with.
This idea is not new.
It goes back at least to 1889.
Brown Saccard, the great French physician, starts grinding up guinea pig and dog testicles and injecting extracts of them under his skin.
And he reports that he gets stronger, his bowels improve, his brain fog clears, all the things you see on the posters on the tube today.
And he urges other physicians to try it, and they do try it, and they kill a lot of people.
But nevertheless, the science of this has improved, and after the show, I will be selling my guinea pig, proprietary guinea pig testicle extract.
Zahn, this is the BBC.
Sorry, I should say other guinea pig testicle extracts are available, but mine are organic, and they're made from real long-haired Peruvian guinea pigs.
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