Radiolab Presents: Viscera - The Elixir of Life
From Radiolab
"Viscera - The Elixir of Life" delves into captivating stories about the human body, featuring ER doctor Avir Mitra as the main storyteller. The event combines engaging narratives with live musical scoring, offering a unique and immersive experience that explores the intricacies of our physical existence.
Key Takeaways
- In a world obsessed with diets, breast milk remains the original superfood—nature's secret recipe since mammalian times.
- Human milk oligosaccharides: the unsung hero of breast milk, dwarfing proteins in importance but rarely discussed.
- Breast milk: 87% water and a cocktail of nutrients, yet we often bypass its complexity for trendy diets.
- Lulu Miller shares the stage with an animated breast—proof that even science can embrace the absurd and beautiful.
- Audience interaction reveals knowledge gaps; if only we treated the contents of breast milk like dietary gold!
Mentioned in This Episode
- Avier Mitra (person)
- Bifidobacterium infantis (concept)
- Bruce German (person)
- HMOs (concept)
- Brian Scadalini (person)
- Shara Sheldon (person)
- UC-Davis (company)
- Gates Foundation (company)
- Ellen Horne (person)
- Iván Barenboim (person)