EvolutionMedicine
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
What Works in COVID-19
02 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Alcock talks about the Surviving Sepsis Campaign's recent recommendation to use acetaminophen in patients with COVID-19. Can we bring concept fro...
Coffee Brown's Education Philosophy
13 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we get some background on co-host and polymath Coffee Brown. Coffee talks about his philosophy of teaching and a bit on evolution in educat...
Zombified
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This episode introduces listeners of the Evolution Medicine podcast to a brand new podcast started by Athena Aktipis PhD, of the Department of Psychol...
Should I open a probiotic clinic?
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Coffee and Joe spend the day before the 4th of July talking about probiotics. Is there enough evidence to prescribe probiotics full time? Listen and f...
The Tesla Episode - can autonomous cars save us from an evolutionary mismatch?
30 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Cars kill a lot of people. We see the consequences every day in the Emergency Department. These accidental deaths result from a mismatch between our b...
Genes, Germs, and High Altitude
23 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This is a bonus podcast, a recording of a lecture from the 2019 Mountain and Emergency Medicine Conference March 22nd at Taos Ski Valley, new Mexico. ...
Was Evolution Right To Make Us Wrong?
09 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Is self deception a bug or a feature? Coffee Brown shares his thoughts on the topic, focusing on a paper co-authored by evolutionary theorist Robert T...
Fat Fights Back
01 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this Evo Med podcast #39, Coffee Brown and I discuss Mary Jane West Eberhard's paper on the evolutionary function of fat and a developmental explan...
#38 Treat Nobody's Fever?
26 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Alcock takes a time out for short podcast to talk about a paper published this month on fever. Paul Young's group looked for, and could not find, ...
#37 Does Fasting Make You Smarter
14 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Coffee Brown and Joe Alcock talk about the recent paper by Mark P. Mattson, "An Evolutionary Perspective on Why Food Overconsumption Impairs Cognition...
#36 The Naked Emperor
30 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Are our bodies the enemy in sepsis? I argue no. Decades of experiments in sepsis show that most interventions focused on the host have been either in...
#35 the Evolution of Sleep Part 2
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Why we sleep is not well understood. The study of sleep is one of the last frontiers in human biology. In addition to smoking and bad diet, we can add...
#34 The Evolution of Sleep Part 1
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Why do we sleep? Why did sleep evolve? How much is enough? Do we die if we don’t get enough? Kate Rusk, Joe Alcock, Coffee Brown and special guest G...
#33 Human Superpowers Part 2
30 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this age of Marvel comics, superheroes with superpowers have attained a high degree of cultural fascination. But some superpowers exist in real lif...
#32 Human Superpowers Part 1
30 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, originally livestreamed on Inertia TV, Kate Rusk and Coffee Brown and Joe Alcock discuss whether humans can have actual superpowers. ...
#31 Reproductive Conflicts
29 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Rusk and Joe Alcock discuss the evolutionary reasons why pregnancy is so dangerous, both for fetus and for mother. Genetic conflicts of interest ...
#30 Resistance Evolution
23 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Rusk and Joe Alcock recorded this for Inertia TV in March 2018. We talk about the reasons for resistance evolution, alternatives to antibiotics,...
#29 Evolution and Emergency Medicine
23 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Does evolution matter in the emergency department? Joe Alcock describes why it does. This episode was recorded for Joe Tomkins Darwinian Revolution cl...
#28 Depression - Feature or Bug? Part 2
23 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In part two Joe Alcock, Coffee Brown, Paul Watson talk about how evolution might guide the treatment of patients with mood disorders. We talk about th...
#27 Depression - Feature or a Bug? Part 1
23 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Coffee Brown and Joe Alcock are joined by evolutionary biologist and theorist Paul Watson to discuss whether depression is a feature or a bug. Paul Wa...
#26 Obesity Paradox
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Coffee Brown and Joe Alcock talk about the obesity paradox? Why do some obese patients live longer than normal weight patients? Why do we collect fat ...
#25 Food Evolution Part 2
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Rusk and I continue our discussion about food, vitamins, the iron supplements, and what happens to the microbiome of hibernating bears.
#24 Food Evolution with Kate Rusk Part 1
05 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Rusk and Joe Alcock discuss the evolutionary biology of food. This episode is part one, originally recorded by Inertia TV, a science channel on T...
# 23 The Placebo Effect Part 2
02 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is part two of a recording that originally appeared on Inertia TV https://www.twitch.tv/inertiatv_ Kate Rusk, Coffee Brown and I discuss why back...
# 22 The Placebo Effect Part 1
02 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Kate Rusk of Inertia TV, along with Joe Alcock and Coffee Brown of the EvolutionMedicine podcast do a deep dive on the placebo effect. Why did this ca...
#21 Intro to EvMed on Inertia TV
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This year, evolutionary anthropologist Kate Rusk began a streaming video science channel, called Inertia TV, that streams great science programming, i...
#20 Too Much Oxygen?
31 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Coffee Brown and Joe Alcock discuss the perils and pitfalls of too much oxygen. We discuss the recent IOTA study - a metaanalysis done by Paul Young's...
#19 Cognitive Biases
11 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Alcock and Coffee Brown have a discussion about evolution, medical decision making, and cognitive biases. We focus on a few major cognitive biases...
#18 Lessons from the ADRENAL trial
29 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week Joe Alcock and Coffee Brown get into the weeds of the ADRENAL trial - a huge study designed to answer the question - does giving steroids to...
#17 No Love for evolution in medical school
12 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Alcock and Coffee Brown discuss evolution, creationism, race and plenty of other hot topics while trying to explain why evolution gets no love in ...
# 16 Hypress Trial And Japan
05 Jan 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is a previously episode first recorded in early 2017. It is timely, though, because a major trial on the effects of corticosteroids - the ADRENAL...
#15 Drowning in good intentions - with Kate Rusk of InertiaTV
18 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Alcock is joined by evolutionary anthropologist Kate Rusk of InertiaTV and Science Happy Hour to talk about a recent JAMA article studying fluids ...
#14 Epigenetics with Coffee
18 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Coffee Brown and Joe Alcock return to talk about epigenetics. Does it pose a challenge to Darwinian evolution? Does epigenetics vindicate Lamarkism, t...
Too Sweet Or Just Right
25 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
In this 13th episode of the EvolutionMedicine 'cast Joe Alcock discusses the recent New England Journal of Medicine article about intensive insulin tr...
#12 A Vitamin For Sepsis
02 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Can a little vitamin C given IV help cure sepsis. Recently this idea got a lot of press, and a trial of hydrocortisone and vitamin C was published in ...
#11 High anxiety with Coffee Brown - a discussion about stress
14 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Coffee Brown MD joins Joe Alcock to discuss whether stress is good or bad for us. We also discuss the election and the idea that stress hormones play ...
#10 Evolution Of Dietary Inflammation With Melissa Franklin
05 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Alcock and Melissa Franklin PhD explain why some diets cause inflammation and others don't. The answer, as usual, involves the microbiome, and in ...
#9 Extreme Environment Encephalopathy and Zombies
23 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Joe Alcock is joined by guest Darryl Macias who describes his recent expedition to Shishapangma to help with a body recovery at high altitude. We also...
#8 Altitude Adaptation And Maladaptation
02 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Native people of the Andes can cope with high altitude better than the rest of us genetic lowlanders. How is this so? We cover the evolutionary biolog...
# 7 Teaching Evolutionary Medicine
02 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How evolution can teach students healthy skepticism in medicine. Will robots replace doctors?
# 6 The Holobiont
02 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Are we a mammal-microbial collective? Is our interaction with our resident microbes as a harmonious, mutually helpful partnership, or a relationship g...
#5 Amish Asthma
02 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Does poop from farm animals protect Amish kids from asthma? Apparently so. Too much hygiene is a bad thing
#4 Evolution Meets Evidence-Based Medicine
02 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Can an evolutionary approach save us from the the epidemic of opioid overuse? Evolutionary medicine dovetails with evidence based medicine to provide ...
#3 The New Normal
02 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For doctors and nurses taking care of sick patients: can evolution inform the question: “when to intervene, and when to leave alone?”
#2 The Evolutionary Lesson of Xigris
02 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Eli Lilly had a blockbuster drug for sepsis that would save millions of lives. 10 years later, the FDA recommended that Xigris be withdrawn from the m...
#1 EvolutionMedicine, the podcast
02 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Here is the inaugural EvolutionMedicine ‘cast: The State of the Science of Evolutionary Medicine. Many more to come.