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4 weeks ago

Are they natty, or are they taking steroids to get buff?

ABC

Tegan Taylor: Norman, I know you're a gym junkie, and I love that about you. Tegan Taylor: But first, Norman, it's time for us to discuss health news, and there was a really unsettling release from the World Health Organisation this past week or so, saying 'undiagnosed disease that we're worried about', and you and me, with our pandemic trauma …

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1 month ago

What's the lowdown on energy drinks?

ABC

Tegan Taylor: So I know you're a coffee lover, Norman, because we've talked about the fact that you smash four espresso shots one after the other in the morning and then get onto tea. Tegan Taylor: Well, that's like those carbohydrate gels that endurance athletes do use, especially cyclists, they have those, and those are simple carbs and caffeine, which …

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1 month ago

The link between depression and heart disease in women

ABC

Tegan Taylor: Have you got a little drink of water next to you there, Norman? Tegan Taylor: And Norman, another big piece of research that's come out in the last week that relates to depression and heart disease, which are two conditions that we know can be linked, and for women a real caution around their risk. So that doesn't …

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1 month ago

Is a chemical used in plastic affecting female fertility?

ABC

Tegan Taylor: So I don't know if you've bought a drink bottle recently, Norman, but one of the things that's proudly displayed on so many drink bottles that I can see when they're being marketed is that they're BPA free, which is bisphenol A, it's a type of chemical that's in a lot of plastics. Emmalee Ford: Walking through the …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Is sitting the new smoking?

ABC

Tegan Taylor: So Norman, this is usually a time when I would ask you a question about your personal life, but I want to instead ask you a work-related question. Norman Swan: Okay… Tegan Taylor: I want to know how many times in the last decade you reckon you've done a story on sitting being the new smoking? Tegan Taylor: …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Can collagen supplements keep your skin supple?

ABC

Tegan Taylor: I know that you only make evidence-based decisions about your own health, because that's what you ask the rest of Australia to do. Tegan Taylor: You can't see what I'm doing right now, like one of those roller kind of like apparatus… Norman Swan: Yes, where you're forcing yourself down. Norman Swan: Well, it's not holding our skin …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

What to do when your child has a food allergy

ABC

Tegan Taylor: You might not know this, but Australia is actually the food allergy capital of the world. Fleur Connick: Maria Said is the CEO of Allergy and Anaphylaxis Australia and a director of the National Allergy Council. Fleur Connick: The surge in the number of Australians with a food allergy has meant those affected face along a waiting list …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Are mobile phones giving us cancer?

ABC

Tegan Taylor: Tell me about your first mobile phone. Tegan Taylor: Tell me if this is a good analogy or not; if I'm saying something in this tone or this note… Norman Swan: You're giving me cancer, yeah. Although people say, well, you're using your phones for maybe an hour or two a day, we now know how much our …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Should you be avoiding nightshades?

ABC

Tegan Taylor: So, Norman, I just finished eating my lunch. Tegan Taylor: Yeah, and all of the other related foods that we think of as just being staples among European cuisines, potatoes, and then also, like I was saying before, chilies and things like that, all of which belong to one particular group of vegetables or fruits… Norman Swan: The …

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2 months ago

Is NAD+ a miracle anti-ageing supplement?

ABC

Tegan Taylor: So Norman, it's time for me to test your Australianness once more. And they can say that it's grounded in science, because in a sense it kind of is Norman Swan: Well, that's right, and it's very powerful, this idea here, because the NAD+, these biochemical cycles affect how DNA repairs itself, it affects what's called cellular senescence, …

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2 months, 1 week ago

How medical mysteries fed monster myths

ABC

Tegan Taylor: Hey, Norman, why is it called a randomised placebo controlled clinical trial, and not a trick or treatment? Norman Swan: Well, let's just follow through on the blood sucking thing from young people and whether or not you are acquiring a sense of everlasting youth from the transfusion. Tegan Taylor: So what I'm hearing is there's more than …

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2 months, 1 week ago

The Ozempic era

ABC

Lauren: I tried exercising, going to the gym, joining different classes, doing aerobics, all of that and it never worked for me unfortunately. Amy: And she's like, look, your bloods are really high and I'm really worried that you're basically borderline type 2 diabetic. Yumi: Even though Amy's doctor wanted her to take Ozempic, she, like heaps of other people, …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Tegan and Sara got catfished. The gripping documentary ‘Fanatical’ explains how

LA Times

Tegan and Sara, as far as anyone could tell, were living the dream. “I was like, ‘well, this turns out to suck.’” The harrowing tale gets a detailed accounting in “Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara,” a gripping new documentary from director Erin Lee Carr that premiered last week on Hulu. “I wanted to see what it would be …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Can't stop sneezing? What to do when hay fever hits

ABC

Tegan Taylor: So, Norman, you and me both took holidays around the middle of the year this year. Tegan Taylor: I mean, given the time, the obvious one; bleeding and purging… Norman Swan: Didn't do any good? Norman Swan: Don't get on a plane to Heathrow late May… Tegan Taylor: I got that one wrong. Tegan Taylor: Yeah, so this …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Tegan and Sara catfishing: Hulu doc Fanatical is a gripping detective story.

Slate

Erin Lee Carr’s documentary Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara is a gripping internet detective story, recounting and, by its end, proposing a plausible solution to a mystery that has haunted the indie-pop star Tegan Quin for 16 years. But she By the time suspicious fans began to approach the real Tegan’s management, this had been going on for …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

What today’s ‘SNL’ could learn from the show’s very first episode

LA Times

Welcome to Screen Gab, the newsletter for everyone who wants to make “Saturday Night Live” weird again. — Robert Lloyd Guest spot A weekly chat with actors, writers, directors and more about what they’re working on — and what they’re watching “Eatertainment” venue Casa Bonita, the setting and subject of the documentary “Casa Bonita Mi Amor!” Those of us from …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

"Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara": Five bombshells from catfishing to incest fanfiction

Salon

If one Canadian indie band dominated the '00s — it was Tegan and Sara. But in Erin Lee Carr’s Hulu whodunnit documentary, "Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara," their fans' closeness began creepily bordering on something else. However, Tegan and Sara's online fandom would never be the same after a fake version of Tegan or "Fegan" began reaching out …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Teenager's brave heart inspires other kids born with congenital disease

ABC

Seth McMaster was just hours old when doctors discovered something was wrong with his tiny heart. "He was turning blue and our initial reaction was pure shock and worry," Seth's mother Tegan Brown said. "Seth was on the next flight to Brisbane that day and when he got there doctors discovered he had pulmonary atresia," Ms Brown said. Heart Kids …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

What on earth is grounding?!

ABC

Norman Swan: So, Tegan, you always struck me as a pretty grounded sort of person. Norman Swan: Who belongs to an institute devoted to earthing, and I'm not sure whether or not related to the products that are being sold here, but all roads lead to the same group of authors promoting this, and they are tiny studies where you …

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3 months ago

MSG's messy myths and racist tropes

ABC

Tegan Taylor: Norman, have you heard of Cucumbertok? Norman Swan: But maybe we should talk a little bit about something that's pejoratively called 'Chinese restaurant syndrome', to give a sense of what people believe they're feeling when they eat monosodium glutamate. So this is a story with so many twists and turns, I don't even know what to believe, but… …

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4 months, 2 weeks ago

Can you zap yourself buff with electrical muscle stimulation?

ABC

Norman Swan: So Tegan, do you watch Frankenstein movies? Tegan Taylor: Send your donations to That Rash… Norman Swan: That's right, but I don't get that many electrical storms going overhead, I've got to move to Transylvania for that. Norman Swan: Well, don't go away because we've had a question about electrical stimulation, one of the many health questions that …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

10-year-old’s curiosity leads to discovery of ancient dinosaur footprints on a beach

Hindustan Times

When roaming on the beach, many of us have a habit of picking up shells and stones. However, her curiosity actually led to the discovery of five huge footprints that experts believe belonged to a Camelotia dinosaur that lived there more than 200 million years ago. The massive footprints Tegan found are thought to have been formed 200 million years …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Small steps to boost teen mental health

ABC

Tegan Taylor: Tell me about a typical day for you in high school. Tegan Taylor: They're not claiming that alcohol is good for you, because I think there's pretty decent evidence that it's not, but it does sort of give a virtuous halo to these products… Shelby Traynor: A health halo. Shelby Traynor: Yeah, it's really intuitive, and I think …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

COVID vaccines during pregnancy

ABC

Tegan Taylor: Tell me about a typical day for you in high school. It's you describing a medical case study about sneezing, Tegan Taylor: Two medical case studies about sneezing and the damage that those people did to their anatomy. Tegan Taylor: And it's not the first time that Joe Biden's had covid either, he's actually tested positive twice before. …

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Are they natty, or are they taking steroids to get buff?

What's the lowdown on energy drinks?

The link between depression and heart disease in women

Is a chemical used in plastic affecting female fertility?

Is sitting the new smoking?

Can collagen supplements keep your skin supple?

What to do when your child has a food allergy

Are mobile phones giving us cancer?

Should you be avoiding nightshades?

Is NAD+ a miracle anti-ageing supplement?

How medical mysteries fed monster myths

The Ozempic era

Tegan and Sara got catfished. The gripping documentary ‘Fanatical’ explains how

Can't stop sneezing? What to do when hay fever hits

Tegan and Sara catfishing: Hulu doc Fanatical is a gripping detective story.

What today’s ‘SNL’ could learn from the show’s very first episode

"Fanatical: The Catfishing of Tegan and Sara": Five bombshells from catfishing to incest fanfiction

Teenager's brave heart inspires other kids born with congenital disease

What on earth is grounding?!

MSG's messy myths and racist tropes

Can you zap yourself buff with electrical muscle stimulation?

10-year-old’s curiosity leads to discovery of ancient dinosaur footprints on a beach

Small steps to boost teen mental health

COVID vaccines during pregnancy