Luke O'Neill
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4,575 appearances
24 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Luke O'Neill’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And the most extreme case as I say is hypermesis.
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But there will also be like some women have a bit more nausea than others.
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So it's quite variable.
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And people have
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tried to pin down why that is and they can't.
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Uh is it the food you're eating?
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Maybe you should maybe exercise or whatever.
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Nothing really links in.
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To how severe it is.
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So that just shows you we don't really know exactly what's going on there.
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Now, very importantly, it's not a bad thing.
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Now, it's a bad thing if you're going through it, obviously, and it's unpleasant.
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But it looks like evolution built this in to the pregnancy process.
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Why would evolution do that?
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Well, it's to make sure the woman doesn't take in nasty stuff that might harm the fetus.
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Isn't that interesting?
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And in particular, because the woman's immune system is slightly
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Slightly down because our immune system, there's a risk of the immune system rejecting the fetus, remember, because the fetus is, you know, partly from the father.
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Women are immunosuppressed in pregnancy, which is why we've got to watch out for women during infectious diseases, like COVID, for instance, because they can get much more severe infections because they're immunosuppressed.
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And what that means is the chance they might eat something that has some germ in it.
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